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1981.

Teaching a Catapult to Shoot Down a Missile: First Impressions of Unity's AI SDK (adamashwal.com)

42 points by interwound on Sep 28, 2017 | 6 comments

1982.

2.5 hours per week of exercise of any kind could help you live longer (vox.com)

42 points by ALee on Sep 25, 2017 | 5 comments

1983.

Equifax Breach Response Turns Dumpster Fire (krebsonsecurity.com)

42 points by troydavis on Sep 8, 2017 | 2 comments

1984.

China to Ban Sale of Fossil Fuel Cars in Electric Vehicle Push (bloomberg.com)

42 points by prostoalex on Sep 10, 2017 | 2 comments

1985.

The VCF-MW 6502 40th Anniversary Badge (sunrise-ev.com)

42 points by DiabloD3 on Sep 8, 2017 | 0 comments

1986.

South Park trolled Amazon Echo owners in the best way possible – TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

42 points by leephillips on Sep 16, 2017 | 0 comments

1987.

Pushing the trend of intermittent fasting for weight loss (theguardian.com)

41 points by eplanit on Sep 4, 2017 | 66 comments

1988.

Kaspersky: The Russian Company That Is a Danger to Our Security (mobile.nytimes.com)

41 points by scdoshi on Sep 5, 2017 | 63 comments

1989.

The true cost of an Uber ride is higher than it seems (motherboard.vice.com)

41 points by aaronbrethorst on Sep 23, 2017 | 55 comments

1990.

New AI can guess a person's sexual orientation from a photograph (theguardian.com)

41 points by kawera on Sep 8, 2017 | 41 comments

1991.

Hurricane Harvey was not a catastrophe (houstonchronicle.com)

41 points by angersock on Sep 11, 2017 | 38 comments

1992.

Lscpu for OpenBSD/FreeBSD (github.com)

41 points by nanxiao on Sep 16, 2017 | 37 comments

1993.

The middle class doesn’t want a tax cut. It wants better government (washingtonpost.com)

41 points by mbgaxyz on Sep 27, 2017 | 33 comments

1994.

Seriously, Equifax? This Is a Breach No One Should Get Away With (nytimes.com)

41 points by SREinSF on Sep 9, 2017 | 18 comments

1995.

Object Oriented Programming in Python: Encapsulation and Inheritance (medium.com)

41 points by leandrotk on Sep 24, 2017 | 17 comments

1996.

We’re Drowning in Tech Debt. Why Isn’t Anyone Listening? (hackernoon.com)

41 points by dsr12 on Sep 12, 2017 | 10 comments

1997.

A Letter to Einstein from the Future (nautil.us)

41 points by dnetesn on Sep 15, 2017 | 8 comments

1998.

It’s Okay to Store Data in Apache Kafka (confluent.io)

41 points by boredandroid on Sep 15, 2017 | 5 comments

1999.

Verizon Cancels Cell Phone Service for 19,000 Rural Americans (stopthecap.com)

41 points by PaulHoule on Sep 14, 2017 | 4 comments

2000.

The more things change (2015) (bitquabit.com)

41 points by neil_s on Sep 24, 2017 | 3 comments

2001.

‘I Smell Cash’: How the A.T.F. Spent Millions Unchecked (nytimes.com)

41 points by okket on Sep 8, 2017 | 1 comments

2002.

My Neural Network isn't working! What should I do? (theorangeduck.com)

41 points by dmit on Sep 3, 2017 | 0 comments

2003.

MongoDB: A Policy of Censorship More Extreme Than Google (quillette.com)

41 points by gamad on Sep 13, 2017 | 0 comments

2004.

Why Kim Jong-Un would not be irrational to use a nuclear bomb first (washingtonpost.com)

40 points by lisper on Sep 8, 2017 | 81 comments

2005.

Acid Attacks on the Rise in the U.K (npr.org)

40 points by zeristor on Sep 21, 2017 | 69 comments

2006.

Nothing Is Too Strange for Cities Wooing Amazon to Build There (nytimes.com)

40 points by dwynings on Sep 25, 2017 | 68 comments

2007.

Windows is doomed (theweek.com)

40 points by mcone on Sep 1, 2017 | 62 comments

2008.

Machine learning predictions for QM eMini Crude Oil (dutchess.ai)

40 points by madchops1 on Sep 26, 2017 | 61 comments

2009.

Ask HN: Which scifi authors to interview about immortality?

40 points by kieckerjan on Sep 25, 2017 | 60 comments

2010.

Companies are once again storing data on tape, just in case (wsj.com)

40 points by fraqed on Sep 27, 2017 | 52 comments