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1861.

GitHub Classroom report predicts positive student learning outcomes (blog.github.com)

53 points by guessmyname on Aug 15, 2018 | 14 comments

1862.

The Usefulness of Abstracting Over Time (maxhallinan.com)

53 points by maxhallinan on Aug 18, 2018 | 13 comments

1863.

Survival in the first hours of the Cenozoic (2004) [pdf] (uahost.uantwerpen.be)

53 points by mr_toad on Aug 13, 2018 | 11 comments

1864.

Introducing a new version of Steam Play (steamcommunity.com)

53 points by dag11 on Aug 21, 2018 | 9 comments

1865.

APL Quotations and Anecdotes (jsoftware.com)

53 points by srpeck on Aug 20, 2018 | 5 comments

1866.

End of Greek Aid Package as Country Faces Demographic Crisis (spiegel.de)

52 points by mpweiher on Aug 17, 2018 | 112 comments

1867.

What the grieving mother orca tells us about how animals experience death (theconversation.com)

52 points by pseudolus on Aug 26, 2018 | 81 comments

1868.

Why Mistranslation Matters (nytimes.com)

52 points by akakievich on Aug 1, 2018 | 70 comments

1869.

Confirmation Bias – Why nobody is allowed to be successful on the internet (expatsoftware.com)

52 points by jasonkester on Aug 26, 2018 | 66 comments

1870.

Beyond fiction (scottaaronson.com)

52 points by ingve on Aug 8, 2018 | 63 comments

1871.

Punctuation that failed to make its mark (bbc.com)

52 points by ZeljkoS on Aug 13, 2018 | 54 comments

1872.

When China Rules the Web (foreignaffairs.com)

52 points by tareqak on Aug 18, 2018 | 39 comments

1873.

The islands with a flourishing 'third gender' (bbc.com)

52 points by MiriamWeiner on Aug 14, 2018 | 37 comments

1874.

How the U.S. Saved the World from Financial Ruin (barrons.com)

52 points by chollida1 on Aug 6, 2018 | 27 comments

1875.

Wall Street analysts were blown away by Model 3's next-gen, military-grade tech (markets.businessinsider.com)

52 points by evo_9 on Aug 18, 2018 | 25 comments

1876.

In ‘Small Fry,’ Steve Jobs Comes Across as a Jerk. His Daughter Forgives Him (nytimes.com)

52 points by marklabedz on Aug 23, 2018 | 25 comments

1877.

String.hashCode() is plenty unique (sigpwned.com)

52 points by jxub on Aug 10, 2018 | 22 comments

1878.

Tech's most egregious violations of user privacy (axios.com)

52 points by octosphere on Aug 18, 2018 | 22 comments

1879.

Textual Strategies in Infographics: Observing Minard Observing Napoléon (masswerk.at)

52 points by masswerk on Aug 21, 2018 | 8 comments

1880.

Code Inflation (2015) [pdf] (computer.org)

52 points by _ieq6 on Aug 18, 2018 | 5 comments

1881.

Schrödinger’s cat among biology’s pigeons: 75 years of What Is Life? (nature.com)

52 points by Vigier on Aug 31, 2018 | 3 comments

1882.

Anatomy of a Random Number Generator (masswerk.at)

52 points by sohkamyung on Aug 3, 2018 | 1 comments

1883.

My_basic: Lighweight BASIC interpreter written in standard C (paladin-t.github.io)

52 points by tomcam on Aug 27, 2018 | 0 comments

1884.

Young people don’t want construction jobs (wsj.com)

51 points by mozumder on Aug 2, 2018 | 99 comments

1885.

Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study (thelancet.com)

51 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Aug 18, 2018 | 91 comments

1886.

Ask: How do you apply “programmer’s” efficiency in everyday life things?

51 points by 5_minutes on Aug 5, 2018 | 79 comments

1887.

Those Who Can Do, Can’t Teach (nytimes.com)

51 points by pseudolus on Aug 26, 2018 | 48 comments

1888.

GPU Headaches: Notes on Installing CUDA, CuDNN and Tensorflow on Manjaro (leblancfg.com)