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Notes for the New Year (blog.ycombinator.com)

172 points by craigcannon on Jan 4, 2017 | 78 comments

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Show HN: Mastodon, a federated microblogging network (mastodon.social)

172 points by gargron on Jan 2, 2017 | 61 comments

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Tesla – Lithium-ion storage is ready to power the grid (bloomberg.com)

172 points by djrogers on Jan 31, 2017 | 51 comments

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How a robot got Super Mario 64 and Portal “running” on an SNES (arstechnica.com)

172 points by minimaxir on Jan 16, 2017 | 36 comments

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Spanish scientists create a 3D bioprinter to print human skin (sciencebulletin.org)

172 points by devinp on Jan 24, 2017 | 18 comments

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Quantum computers ready to leap out of the lab in 2017 (nature.com)

171 points by seycombi on Jan 4, 2017 | 115 comments

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New CIA Chief to Gladly Spy on Americans, Even If Using Info Hacked by Russians (techdirt.com)

171 points by type0 on Jan 24, 2017 | 111 comments

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Ask HN: Is there really a market for deep learning skills without a Ph.D?

171 points by meow_mix on Jan 24, 2017 | 58 comments

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Fark NotNewsletter: Google farked us over (fark.com)

171 points by ccarter84 on Jan 10, 2017 | 54 comments

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Bitcoin slides as China's central bank launches checks on exchanges (reuters.com)

170 points by stevewilhelm on Jan 11, 2017 | 185 comments

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Study: carpooling apps could reduce traffic 3x in NYC (csail.mit.edu)

170 points by belltaco on Jan 3, 2017 | 178 comments

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Robots Are Taking Over Oil Rigs (bloomberg.com)

170 points by nradov on Jan 24, 2017 | 174 comments

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Headphone inline controls – how they differ on Apple iOS vs. Android/Nokia (head-fi.org)

170 points by sengork on Jan 4, 2017 | 77 comments

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How Designers Engineer Luck into Video Games (nautil.us)

169 points by elorant on Jan 12, 2017 | 86 comments

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Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X – Part 2 (bitcannon.net)

168 points by wezm on Jan 29, 2017 | 223 comments

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Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)

168 points by MikusR on Jan 5, 2017 | 194 comments

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Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs (technologyreview.com)

168 points by t23 on Jan 4, 2017 | 153 comments

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First China-U.K. Freight Train Departs as Xi Seeks to Lift Trade (bloomberg.com)

168 points by caf on Jan 4, 2017 | 131 comments

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Being a Data Scientist: My Experience and Toolset (jeffersonheard.github.io)

168 points by jeffheard on Jan 17, 2017 | 48 comments

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Apollo 1 (arstechnica.com)

168 points by NaOH on Jan 25, 2017 | 41 comments

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2D game art for programmers (2dgameartguru.com)

168 points by jstrieb on Jan 21, 2017 | 30 comments

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Artificial intelligence predicts when heart will fail (bbc.com)

167 points by happy-go-lucky on Jan 17, 2017 | 55 comments

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Female shark learns to reproduce without males after years alone (newscientist.com)

167 points by perseusprime11 on Jan 17, 2017 | 50 comments

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Buffalo – MVC Web Framework for Go (gobuffalo.io)

167 points by sjellis on Jan 12, 2017 | 43 comments

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Security Through Transparency (security.googleblog.com)

167 points by maxerickson on Jan 12, 2017 | 38 comments

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Our three year saga to release 13M pages of CIA secrets (muckrock.com)

167 points by danso on Jan 21, 2017 | 33 comments

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Go vs. Swift [pdf] (github.com)

166 points by jakerockland on Jan 18, 2017 | 126 comments

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Launch HN: Voodoo Manufacturing (YC W17) – AWS for Manufacturing (voodoomfg.com)