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1. They Used To Last 50 Years (recraigslist.com)
1359 points by teslacar on March 19, 2017 | 860 comments
2. Distill: a modern machine learning journal (distill.pub)
930 points by jasikpark on March 20, 2017 | 105 comments
3. The last patent on AC-3 (Dolby Digital) expires at midnight (ac3freedomday.org)
578 points by robbiet480 on March 20, 2017 | 222 comments
4. The Document Which Used to Be Called the MIT Lockpicking Guide (1992) (blurofinsanity.com)
355 points by Tomte on March 20, 2017 | 114 comments
5. Tears (meltingasphalt.com)
417 points by urs on March 20, 2017 | 115 comments
6. I've decided to move on to Distill (colah.github.io)
353 points by apsec112 on March 20, 2017 | 46 comments
7. SHA-1 Collision Detection on GitHub.com (github.com/blog)
374 points by samlambert on March 20, 2017 | 90 comments
8. A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise (theconversation.com)
298 points by walterbell on March 20, 2017 | 226 comments
9. Show HN: How to write a recursive descent parser (craftinginterpreters.com)
347 points by munificent on March 20, 2017 | 148 comments
10. It's Better To Animate a Film Alone, Even If It Takes Years (vice.com)
227 points by curtis on March 19, 2017 | 104 comments
11. Bloaty McBloatface: a size profiler for binaries (reverberate.org)
202 points by haberman on March 20, 2017 | 43 comments
12. Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures (nytimes.com)
354 points by flyingramen on March 20, 2017 | 250 comments
13. How to Learn New Things as an Adult (theatlantic.com)
296 points by pmcpinto on March 19, 2017 | 113 comments
14. What makes gambling wrong but insurance right? (bbc.com)
294 points by sohkamyung on March 20, 2017 | 255 comments
15. The Antidesktop (2002) (archive.org)
196 points by yankcrime on March 20, 2017 | 121 comments
16. Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD [pdf] (bsdfrog.org)
170 points by oherrala on March 20, 2017 | 74 comments
17. Hash indexes are faster than btree indexes? (amitkapila16.blogspot.com)
200 points by dhd415 on March 20, 2017 | 54 comments
18. Whiteboard problems in pure Lambda Calculus (jtolds.com)
200 points by jtolds on March 20, 2017 | 41 comments
19. Has Li-battery genius John Goodenough done it again? Colleagues are skeptical (qz.com)
170 points by M_Grey on March 20, 2017 | 154 comments
20. TreeMaker: Origami Design Software (langorigami.com)
155 points by poppingtonic on March 19, 2017 | 12 comments
21. The D Garbage Collector (dlang.org)
139 points by sconxu on March 20, 2017 | 87 comments
22. The Intel Edison: Linux Maker Machine in a Matchbox (linux.com)
87 points by JoshTriplett on March 20, 2017 | 53 comments
23. Why I Dissented (medium.com/neelkashkari)
129 points by Mz on March 19, 2017 | 61 comments
24. Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO
255 points by throwmesomeseo on March 20, 2017 | 102 comments
25. DeepMind in “very early stage” talks with National Grid to reduce UK energy use (arstechnica.co.uk)
254 points by rbanffy on March 20, 2017 | 110 comments
26. SimplCommerce: Simple, cross-platform, modularized ecommerce system on .NET Core (github.com/simplcommerce)
86 points by maherjend on March 20, 2017 | 20 comments
27. YC W17 Launch: Wifi.com.ng – Uncapped ISP for Africa (blog.ycombinator.com)
143 points by craigcannon on March 20, 2017 | 75 comments
28. Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Neural Networks (rylanschaeffer.github.io)
123 points by RSchaeffer on March 19, 2017 | 11 comments
29. Epoll is broken – part 2/2 (popcount.org)
108 points by protomyth on March 20, 2017 | 39 comments
30. Most Electronics Being Banned on Certain US-Bound Flights (bloomberg.com)
249 points by BWStearns on March 20, 2017 | 450 comments

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