LANGLEY, VA – The largest collection of declassified CIA records is now accessible online. The documents were previously only available to the public at the National Archives in Maryland. Approximately 930,000 documents, totaling more than 12 million pages, are now available in the CIA’s Electronic Reading Room on CIA's website.
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/2017-press-releases-statements/cia-posts-more-than-12-million-pages-of-crest-records-online.html

John Robb on Trump
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2017/01/the-rollback-of-neoliberalism.html

Yeah, I love monorepos too.
http://danluu.com/monorepo/

Rip Rowan/Steve Yegge on Platforms and Accessibility [2011]
https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX

I'm not a fan of Linux kernel in general, but handling page faults in userspace [2015] is a really cool feature.
https://lwn.net/Articles/636226/

and speaking of userland, raw character streams without any schemas are NOT an API
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/02/cryptkeeper_bug.html

really, why havent this been done earlier?
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8174901

Understanding Deep Learning requires rethinking generalization

Very entertaining article which could be viewed either as philosophical discoveries, or as "machine learning specialists rediscover information theory" :)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03530

cyberpunk is already there. also, cryptocoins are slowly but steadily expanding the market for formal verification methods, which is a good thing.
https://zcoin.io/language/en/important-announcement-zerocoin-implementation-bug/

Limits of psychology, specified in machine learning terms
https://jsteinhardt.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/model-mis-specification-and-inverse-reinforcement-learning/

Interpreters are cool, but interpreters need parsers
http://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2013/03/interpreter.html

Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete
http://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/index.html

A Theory of Memory Models [concurrency, not ML]
http://saraswat.org/raofull.pdf

The Origin of Time In Conscious Agents [Donald Hoffman, 2014]
http://cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/HoffmanTime.pdf

Curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in.
https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

#fail CloudBleed: CloudFlare proxies leak your traffic into random HTTP responses, into search engines and so on
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718752

Both Julia and Scala people are trying to generalize numeric types. Julia approach can be found in the docs and issues on the compiler itself, and Scala approach is a library:
https://github.com/non/spire