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1051.

The beauty of mixed-radix bases (firefly.nu)

104 points by bkudria on Feb 2, 2017 | 13 comments

1052.

Californians are paying billions for power they don't need (latimes.com)

103 points by blondie9x on Feb 6, 2017 | 74 comments

1053.

Multiplying and dividing with Hindu-Arabic numerals and with Roman ones (thonyc.wordpress.com)

103 points by Hooke on Feb 13, 2017 | 74 comments

1054.

Republicans move to sell off 3.3m acres of national land, sparking rallies (theguardian.com)

103 points by tim_sw on Feb 1, 2017 | 72 comments

1055.

5G Network end-to-end demonstration by Ericsson (ericsson.com)

103 points by MaurizioP on Feb 16, 2017 | 71 comments

1056.

Show HN: MovieChat.org – Archive and Replacement for IMDb Message Boards (MovieChat.org)

103 points by JimSmith84 on Feb 15, 2017 | 69 comments

1057.

Personal thoughts about Pyston's outcome (blog.kevmod.com)

103 points by open-source-ux on Feb 19, 2017 | 67 comments

1058.

Why I replaced MIT with copyleft license for Nodemailer (blog.nodemailer.com)

103 points by andris9 on Feb 2, 2017 | 58 comments

1059.

Submarine cable map (submarinecablemap.com)

103 points by altstar on Feb 10, 2017 | 35 comments

1060.

Show HN: Everything you need to build your own Turn Touch smart home remote (medium.com)

103 points by conesus on Feb 27, 2017 | 13 comments

1061.

IBM Data Science Experience: Whole-Cluster Privilege Escalation Disclosure (wycd.net)

103 points by wyc on Feb 21, 2017 | 10 comments

1062.

Valve’s Gabe Newell: VR could “turn out to be a complete failure” (arstechnica.com)

102 points by shawndumas on Feb 16, 2017 | 121 comments

1063.

Whither Swift? (lapcatsoftware.com)

102 points by tambourine_man on Feb 15, 2017 | 117 comments

1064.

Mkfile(8) is severely syscall limited on OS X (blog.metaobject.com)

102 points by mpweiher on Feb 12, 2017 | 88 comments

1065.

Stop using 'short' for line and allocation sizes (2013) (git.kernel.org)

102 points by vs2 on Feb 16, 2017 | 46 comments

1066.

Sleep Debt (howsleepworks.com)

102 points by brett40324 on Feb 19, 2017 | 40 comments

1067.

50 Bytes of Code That Took 4 GB to Compile (2013) (randomascii.wordpress.com)

102 points by dotnetnews on Feb 13, 2017 | 33 comments

1068.

How MooTools was built (betweenthewires.org)

102 points by hulkaad on Feb 8, 2017 | 23 comments

1069.

Salt Lake Screaming Eagles, a football team controlled by fans with smartphones (slate.com)

102 points by evo_9 on Feb 18, 2017 | 22 comments

1070.

Intro to graph compression techniques for in-memory graph computation (2015) [pdf] (cs.umd.edu)

102 points by usgroup on Feb 26, 2017 | 7 comments

1071.

The clock is ticking for Spotify (bbc.co.uk)

101 points by open-source-ux on Feb 12, 2017 | 110 comments

1072.

SpaceX Dragon Rendezvous and Docking Waved Off for Today (blogs.nasa.gov)

101 points by joss82 on Feb 22, 2017 | 36 comments

1073.

Testing out snapshots in Apple’s next-generation APFS file system (arstechnica.com)

101 points by Garbage on Feb 12, 2017 | 16 comments

1074.

The prototype that was banned from Halfbrick (2013) [video] (youtube.com)

101 points by yumaikas on Feb 4, 2017 | 12 comments

1075.

Misophonia: Scientists crack why eating sounds can make people angry (bbc.com)

100 points by daegloe on Feb 3, 2017 | 83 comments

1076.

New polymer additive could revolutionize plastics recycling (sciencedaily.com)

100 points by chmaynard on Feb 27, 2017 | 38 comments

1077.

WireGuard Presentation at FOSDEM17 [video] (wireguard.io)

100 points by zx2c4 on Feb 8, 2017 | 36 comments

1078.

Show HN: Unplugg: An automated Forecasting API for timeseries data (unplu.gg)

100 points by mgontav on Feb 27, 2017 | 34 comments

1079.

The Making Of “Homer At The Bat,” The Episode That Conquered Prime Time (2012) (deadspin.com)

100 points by brudgers on Feb 21, 2017 | 27 comments

1080.

Show HN: Bdash – A simple business intelligence application (github.com)

100 points by barlog on Feb 8, 2017 | 26 comments