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LimeSDR Mini – An open, full-duplex, USB stick radio for femtocells and more (hackaday.com)

171 points by smokielad on Sep 23, 2017 | 46 comments

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Tanzania becomes the latest country to use Zipline drones for medical deliveries (iafrikan.com)

171 points by maged on Sep 1, 2017 | 40 comments

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Unearthed near Hadrian’s Wall: lost secrets of first Roman soldiers (theguardian.com)

171 points by Shivetya on Sep 10, 2017 | 37 comments

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The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons (nextplatform.com)

170 points by Katydid on Sep 1, 2017 | 149 comments

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Safari no longer supported by Spotify (community.spotify.com)

170 points by diegolo on Sep 17, 2017 | 148 comments

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S&P Cuts China’s Credit Rating, Citing Risk from Debt Growth (bloomberg.com)

170 points by rayuela on Sep 21, 2017 | 125 comments

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BOOM v2: an open-source out-of-order RISC-V core (www2.eecs.berkeley.edu)

170 points by ingve on Sep 26, 2017 | 93 comments

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The Struggle with Where the Sidewalks Won't Go (bittersoutherner.com)

169 points by samsolomon on Sep 20, 2017 | 299 comments

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Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation (bloomberg.com)

169 points by rayuela on Sep 18, 2017 | 193 comments

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How Big Banks Became Our Masters (nytimes.com)

169 points by eevilspock on Sep 27, 2017 | 135 comments

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The bad new politics of big tech (buzzfeed.com)

169 points by bhouston on Sep 13, 2017 | 119 comments

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MongoDB has filed to go public (techcrunch.com)

168 points by mfiguiere on Sep 21, 2017 | 201 comments

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iPhone 8 Plus: The best smartphone camera we’ve ever tested (dxomark.com)

168 points by uptown on Sep 22, 2017 | 178 comments

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Western Digital Ships 12 TB WD Gold HDD: 8 Platters and Helium (anandtech.com)

168 points by el_duderino on Sep 16, 2017 | 108 comments

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Why we started CoreOS (coreos.com)

168 points by philips on Sep 18, 2017 | 60 comments

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APFS – A Backup Software Developer’s Perspective (macdaddy.io)

168 points by 01001 on Sep 23, 2017 | 53 comments

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Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Women Less Than Men (nytimes.com)

167 points by lmcnish14 on Sep 15, 2017 | 272 comments

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What should follow the web? (blog.plan99.net)

167 points by telotortium on Sep 27, 2017 | 168 comments

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Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly (blog.acolyer.org)

167 points by yugoja on Sep 22, 2017 | 166 comments

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The Man Behind Windows PowerShell (heavybit.com)

167 points by sbrown12 on Sep 14, 2017 | 128 comments

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Microsoft R&D grows to 8k people in massive bet on artificial intelligence (geekwire.com)

167 points by kawera on Sep 24, 2017 | 78 comments

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New oscillator system in Zenith mechanical watches (hodinkee.com)

167 points by nichodges on Sep 16, 2017 | 63 comments

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Z3 – The Zork CPU (opencores.org)

167 points by mnem on Sep 4, 2017 | 11 comments

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Bitcoin Tumbles as PBOC Declares Initial Coin Offerings Illegal (bloomberg.com)

166 points by qu4ntumturk on Sep 4, 2017 | 104 comments

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Cost goals met, the DoE is moving on to address grid reliability in solar (arstechnica.com)

166 points by vasili111 on Sep 14, 2017 | 90 comments

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Some Were Meant for C: The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language [pdf] (cl.cam.ac.uk)

165 points by ingve on Sep 5, 2017 | 240 comments

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Snapchat’s Influencers Are Fleeing to Instagram for Money (bloomberg.com)

165 points by allenleein on Sep 13, 2017 | 147 comments

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How Python does Unicode (b-list.org)

165 points by scw on Sep 6, 2017 | 136 comments

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Redesigning Python's named tuples (lwn.net)

165 points by signa11 on Sep 1, 2017 | 128 comments

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Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership (papers.ssrn.com)

165 points by ph0rque on Sep 22, 2017 | 118 comments