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17551.

How RCA Lost the LCD (2012) (spectrum.ieee.org)

71 points by centerorbit on Feb 26, 2017 | 13 comments

17552.

Canadian Parliament approves bill barring forced genetic testing for insurance (thestar.com)

71 points by eigenvector on Mar 12, 2017 | 13 comments

17553.

The psychology of restaurant menu design (wired.co.uk)

71 points by sea6ear on Apr 15, 2017 | 13 comments

17554.

Forcing Someone to Unlock and Decrypt Their Phone Violates the Constitution (eff.org)

71 points by DiabloD3 on Mar 6, 2017 | 12 comments

17555.

Harry Huskey has died (nytimes.com)

71 points by snake117 on Apr 20, 2017 | 12 comments

17556.

Google acquires AIMatter, maker of the Fabby computer vision app (techcrunch.com)

71 points by coloneltcb on Aug 16, 2017 | 12 comments

17557.

Hubble discovers first known binary asteroid also classified as a comet (phys.org)

71 points by dnetesn on Sep 21, 2017 | 12 comments

17558.

8 Rejected Papers That Won the Nobel Prize (authorea.com)

71 points by jmnicholson on Oct 4, 2017 | 12 comments

17559.

Staedtler and Faber-Castell's productive pencil rivalry (2011) (bbc.com)

71 points by Tomte on Jul 28, 2017 | 11 comments

17560.

Remote code execution in Apache Tomcat 7.0 (nvd.nist.gov)

71 points by holograham on Sep 21, 2017 | 11 comments

17561.

Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance (idlewords.com)

71 points by maxerickson on Apr 19, 2017 | 10 comments

17562.

WebL – A Programming Language for the Web (1997) [pdf] (hpl.hp.com)

71 points by mjbellantoni on Apr 21, 2017 | 10 comments

17563.

A Call to Adventure (overcomingbias.com)

71 points by r721 on Jun 24, 2017 | 10 comments

17564.

Experiments in NES JIT Compilation (bheisler.github.io)

71 points by david_parrott on Aug 21, 2017 | 10 comments

17565.

While you pay into your 401k, CEOs collect $250k in monthly pension payments (latimes.com)

71 points by qsymmachus on Oct 3, 2017 | 10 comments

17566.

Sade’s Quiet Storm of Cool (nytimes.com)

71 points by devy on Oct 28, 2017 | 10 comments

17567.

Dictionary of dead language complete after 90 years (2011) (bbc.com)

71 points by smollett on Feb 5, 2017 | 9 comments

17568.

Why I won’t be reviewing ‘The Last Jedi,’ or any other Disney movie, in advance (washingtonpost.com)

71 points by smacktoward on Nov 6, 2017 | 9 comments

17569.

Historic NASA Project Files and Software Appear in Amiga 2500 EBay Listing (hothardware.com)

71 points by mmastrac on Dec 6, 2017 | 9 comments

17570.

How we built Tagger News: machine learning on a tight schedule (varianceexplained.org)

71 points by var_explained on May 22, 2017 | 8 comments

17571.

Some Thoughts About Concurrency by Ivan Sutherland (2010) [video] (youtube.com)

71 points by dang on Nov 6, 2017 | 8 comments

17572.

A Forth to Scratch compiler (scratch.mit.edu)

71 points by CarolineW on Feb 4, 2017 | 7 comments

17573.

Building Realtime APIs in Rust (lord.io)

71 points by squiguy7 on Mar 30, 2017 | 6 comments

17574.

Linkarchiver, a new bot to back up tweeted links (parkerhiggins.net)

71 points by luu on Jul 18, 2017 | 6 comments

17575.

Iran 1953 Covert History Quietly Released (fas.org)

71 points by nabla9 on Jun 16, 2017 | 5 comments

17576.

A Serf on Google’s Farm (talkingpointsmemo.com)

71 points by Doubleguitars on Sep 1, 2017 | 5 comments

17577.

Finding Waldo Using Semantic Segmentation and Tiramisu (hackernoon.com)

71 points by carlosgg on Oct 7, 2017 | 5 comments

17578.

Digital Ocean Load Balancers – Simplifying High Availability (digitalocean.com)

71 points by ariestiyansyah on Feb 14, 2017 | 4 comments

17579.

Transit and Peering: How your requests reach GitHub (githubengineering.com)

71 points by smudgymcscmudge on Oct 12, 2017 | 4 comments

17580.

An All-in-One DAG Toolkit: The strongly-connected components algorithm (vaibhavsagar.com)

71 points by how-about-this on Jun 10, 2017 | 3 comments