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1.Better World Books and the Internet Archive Unite to Preserve Millions of Books (against-the-grain.com)
389 points by l1n on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
2.What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising? (thecorrespondent.com)
500 points by anielsen on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 358 comments [ext]
3.In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas (nytimes.com)
540 points by grzm on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 327 comments [ext]
4. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 14 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
4.Congolese doctor discovered Ebola, but didn't get credit until now (npr.org)
370 points by respinal on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
5.TypeScript 3.7 (typescriptlang.org)
415 points by nerdkid93 on Nov 5, 2019 [ext] | 162 comments [ext]
6.Start before you think you’re ready (austinkleon.com)
299 points by ingve on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
7. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
7.Is Inequality Inevitable? (scientificamerican.com)
238 points by viburnum on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 598 comments [ext]
8.Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system (bbc.com)
431 points by osivertsson on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 216 comments [ext]
9.A Study of Meditation Under the Influence of Psilocybin (nature.com)
278 points by say_it_as_it_is on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 154 comments [ext]
10. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
10.“Is your startup idea taken?” and why we love X for Y startups (andrewchen.co)
317 points by motiw on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 223 comments [ext]
11.Intel publishes misleading benchmarks against AMD (servethehome.com)
618 points by PaulHoule on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 202 comments [ext]
12.Biometric YubiKey (yubico.com)
264 points by JoachimS on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 199 comments [ext]
13. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
13.First New HIV Strain in 19 Years Identified (scientificamerican.com)
213 points by mrburton on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
14.Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outside of a crosswalk (theregister.co.uk)
457 points by notlukesky on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 563 comments [ext]
15.DNA database that found Golden State Killer is potential national security leak (technologyreview.com)
233 points by mhb on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 190 comments [ext]
16. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
16.CRDT: Conflict-free replicated data type (wikipedia.org)
229 points by tosh on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
17.Ask HN: How do you make sure your servers are up as a single founder? [ext]
448 points by thr0waway998877 on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 223 comments [ext]
18.Self Sabotage: The Swiss History of Rigging Vital Infrastructure to Explode (99percentinvisible.org)
209 points by ubac on Nov 5, 2019 [ext] | 129 comments [ext]
19. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments
19.Postgres Health Check and SQL Performance Analysis (gitlab.com/postgres-ai)
169 points by torvald on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
20.Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed of a memory copy (arxiv.org)
344 points by beefhash on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
21.Mark Text: Simple and Elegant Markdown Editor Focused on Speed and Usability (marktext.app)
206 points by severine on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 141 comments [ext]
22. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 496 days ago | hide | 50 comments
22.Airbnb Plans to Verify Every Listing (nytimes.com)
175 points by ilamont on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 183 comments [ext]
23.File systems unfit as distributed storage back ends: lessons from Ceph evolution (acolyer.org)
264 points by r4um on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
24.South Koreans fake their funerals for life lessons (reuters.com)
170 points by spking on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
25. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 431 days ago | hide | 93 comments
25.The Emergent Features of JuliaLang: Part II – Traits (invenia.github.io)
107 points by eperim on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
26.Ogre 1.12.3 (ogre3d.org)
108 points by bbmario on Nov 5, 2019 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
27.One Tether Trader Didn't Cause the Bitcoin Bubble (bloomberg.com)
157 points by felixbraun on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 127 comments [ext]
28. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
28.Facebook says one hundred API users may have improperly accessed user data (nbcnews.com)
209 points by happy-go-lucky on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
29.For Sale: Sat-Takers’ Names. Colleges Buy Student Data and Boost Exclusivity (wsj.com)
152 points by andygcook on Nov 6, 2019 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
30.Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done” (2016) (hbr.org)
83 points by tosh on Nov 5, 2019 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
31. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments

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