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1. The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds (theglobeandmail.com)
759 points by mmayberry on Jan 8, 2018 | 463 comments
2. Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away (nytimes.com)
469 points by camtarn on Jan 8, 2018 | 270 comments
3. Apple shareholders push for study of phone addiction in children (bloomberg.com)
439 points by anigbrowl on Jan 8, 2018 | 256 comments
4. Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (randomascii.wordpress.com)
606 points by nikbackm on Jan 8, 2018 | 76 comments
5. Products Over Projects (martinfowler.com)
256 points by kawera on Jan 5, 2018 | 39 comments
6. Beginner's guide to longevity research (ldeming.com)
361 points by sajid on Jan 8, 2018 | 84 comments
7. Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of housing in San Francisco (curbed.com)
295 points by nwsm on Jan 8, 2018 | 304 comments
8. Casting a $20M Mirror for the World’s Largest Telescope [video] (ieee.org)
236 points by sohkamyung on Jan 8, 2018 | 54 comments
9. Go’s hidden pragmas (cheney.net)
221 points by spacey on Jan 8, 2018 | 115 comments
10. Google Pay (blog.google)
303 points by dfabulich on Jan 8, 2018 | 326 comments
11. Albert Hofmann discovers the effects of LSD (1943) (laphamsquarterly.org)
250 points by benbreen on Jan 8, 2018 | 96 comments
12. Exercise Alters Our Microbiome (nytimes.com)
295 points by fillskills on Jan 8, 2018 | 309 comments
13. As of today, no US passenger airlines operate the Boeing 747 (arstechnica.com)
266 points by rcarmo on Jan 7, 2018 | 243 comments
14. The Banana As We Know It Is Dying Again (discovermagazine.com)
196 points by DrScump on Jan 7, 2018 | 110 comments
15. Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep (beyondgrep.com)
244 points by infodroid on Jan 8, 2018 | 100 comments
16. The Great Attention Heist (lareviewofbooks.org)
206 points by lxm on Jan 7, 2018 | 86 comments
17. The art of the error message (thestyleofelements.org)
167 points by kawera on Jan 5, 2018 | 56 comments
18. Beijing bets on facial recognition in a big drive for total surveillance (washingtonpost.com)
172 points by apta on Jan 8, 2018 | 125 comments
19. Flowsheets Visualizations (tinyletter.com)
82 points by mpweiher on Jan 8, 2018 | 10 comments
20. DeepTriage: Exploring the Effectiveness of Deep Learning for Bug Triaging (mybluemix.net)
94 points by lainon on Jan 8, 2018 | 7 comments
21. Psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid (nih.gov)
185 points by jgalvez on Jan 8, 2018 | 46 comments
22. “Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 (newyorker.com)
99 points by diodorus on Jan 8, 2018 | 91 comments
23. Typesafe Neural Networks in Haskell with Dependent Types (jle.im)
140 points by KirinDave on Jan 7, 2018 | 18 comments
24. Quantum 'spooky action at a distance' becoming practical? (phys.org)
94 points by dnetesn on Jan 5, 2018 | 41 comments
25. A Neuroscientist Explores the “Sanskrit Effect” (scientificamerican.com)
168 points by triplesec on Jan 7, 2018 | 88 comments
26. ROP Emporium: Learn return-oriented programming through a series of challenges (ropemporium.com)
140 points by entelechy on Jan 7, 2018 | 16 comments
27. Ambit: In-Memory Accelerator for Bulk Bitwise Operations Using Commodity DRAM [pdf] (ethz.ch)
66 points by espeed on Jan 6, 2018 | 13 comments
28. Show HN: Pushup alarm – A React app that uses your webcam to count pushups (pushupalarm.com)
134 points by faris-ssj on Jan 8, 2018 | 45 comments
29. Azure Functions vs. AWS Lambda – Scaling Face Off (azurefromthetrenches.com)
179 points by deegles on Jan 8, 2018 | 58 comments
30. Moonlight Sonata Visualized (2012) [video] (youtube.com)
89 points by netgusto on Jan 7, 2018 | 30 comments

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