| 1. | | Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (2008) (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 393 points by diziet on Sept 11, 2016 | 227 comments |
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| 2. | | Rolls-Royce’s single-crystal turbine blade casting foundry (theengineer.co.uk) |
| 339 points by pcl on Sept 11, 2016 | 73 comments |
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| 3. | | Upgrading Autopilot: Seeing the World in Radar (tesla.com) |
| 396 points by _miqu on Sept 11, 2016 | 247 comments |
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| 4. | | Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014) (aadrake.com) |
| 362 points by 0xmohit on Sept 11, 2016 | 171 comments |
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| 5. | | Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States? (priceonomics.com) |
| 292 points by ryan_j_naughton on Sept 11, 2016 | 274 comments |
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| 6. | | Machine Learning in a Year (medium.com/learning-new-stuff) |
| 359 points by ingve on Sept 11, 2016 | 65 comments |
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| 7. | | Time crystals might exist after all (phys.org) |
| 143 points by dnetesn on Sept 11, 2016 | 53 comments |
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| 8. | | Show HN: Colors Used by Popular Sites (paulhebertdesigns.com) |
| 179 points by paulhebert on Sept 11, 2016 | 38 comments |
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| 9. | | Startup employees don't earn more (80000hours.org) |
| 255 points by z0a on Sept 11, 2016 | 153 comments |
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| 10. | | The Falling Man (esquire.com) |
| 170 points by kareemm on Sept 11, 2016 | 79 comments |
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| 11. | | The careless errors of credit reporting agencies (washingtonpost.com) |
| 247 points by jackgavigan on Sept 11, 2016 | 301 comments |
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| 12. | | How to teach computational thinking (backchannel.com) |
| 130 points by deepakkarki on Sept 11, 2016 | 44 comments |
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| 13. | | China Will Resurrect the World's Largest Plane (popsci.com) |
| 171 points by lxm on Sept 11, 2016 | 112 comments |
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| 14. | | Can computers read through a book page by page without opening it? (media.mit.edu) |
| 192 points by triplesec on Sept 11, 2016 | 47 comments |
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| 15. | | Let's Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 1 (2015) (ruslanspivak.com) |
| 142 points by rspivak on Sept 11, 2016 | 25 comments |
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| 16. | | The MI6 Spy Who Perfected the Art of the 'Honey Trap' (atlasobscura.com) |
| 127 points by lermontov on Sept 9, 2016 | 40 comments |
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| 17. | | 22nd Century C (procedural.github.io) |
| 130 points by Procedural on Sept 11, 2016 | 101 comments |
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| 18. | | Why I’m dropping Rust (medium.com/kingoipo) |
| 276 points by posthoctorate on Sept 11, 2016 | 158 comments |
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| 19. | | Videos of Evolution in Action (theatlantic.com) |
| 128 points by tim_sw on Sept 10, 2016 | 34 comments |
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| 20. | | When Will New York City Sink? (nymag.com) |
| 92 points by lxm on Sept 11, 2016 | 50 comments |
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| 21. | | The biggest surprises from living in a simulated Martian habitat for a full year (newatlas.com) |
| 103 points by curtis on Sept 10, 2016 | 59 comments |
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| 22. | | New report examines how AI might affect urban life (news.harvard.edu) |
| 59 points by ozdave on Sept 11, 2016 | 14 comments |
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| 23. | | Przybylski's Star (wikipedia.org) |
| 96 points by sgt101 on Sept 10, 2016 | 27 comments |
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| 24. | | Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (justice.gov) |
| 75 points by cinquemb on Sept 11, 2016 | 31 comments |
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| 25. | | Getting Stuck While Doing TDD, Part 3: Triangulation to the Rescue (tddfellow.com) |
| 62 points by waterlink on Sept 11, 2016 | 40 comments |
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| 26. | | The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money (fastcodesign.com) |
| 78 points by lnguyen on Sept 10, 2016 | 27 comments |
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| 27. | | Early evidence on “predictive policing” and civil rights (teamupturn.com) |
| 78 points by miraj on Sept 9, 2016 | 76 comments |
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| 28. | | How Pittsburgh Became Uber’s Driverless Testing Ground (nytimes.com) |
| 70 points by sethbannon on Sept 11, 2016 | 41 comments |
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| 29. | | The study of acoustic signals and the supposed spoken language of the dolphins (sciencedirect.com) |
| 79 points by darrhiggs on Sept 11, 2016 | 11 comments |
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| 30. | | The GNU Privacy Handbook (1999) (gnupg.org) |
| 90 points by wieczorek1990 on Sept 11, 2016 | 15 comments |
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