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1.Show HN: A browser extension which blocks chat/helpdesk widgets (hellogoodbye.app)
510 points by bcye on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 226 comments [ext]
2.How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013) (propublica.org)
462 points by danso on March 14, 2019 [ext] | 253 comments [ext]
3.Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study (reuters.com)
310 points by onetimemanytime on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 231 comments [ext]
4. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
4.A solar-powered, self-hosted version of Low-Tech Magazine (lowtechmagazine.com)
235 points by hemmert on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
5.As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com)
284 points by mykowebhn on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 284 comments [ext]
6.Wolfenstein: Ray Tracing on Using WebGL1 (reindernijhoff.net)
235 points by leeoniya on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
7. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
7.Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their privacy (malwarebytes.com)
242 points by johnisgood on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 113 comments [ext]
8.Lem: A Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility (github.com/cxxxr)
159 points by lelf on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
9.Marcel Duchamp Interview on Art and Dada (1956) [video] (youtube.com)
56 points by brudgers on March 15, 2019 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
10. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments
10.How I Learned to Love Algebraic Geometry (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
243 points by chmaynard on March 15, 2019 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
11.The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ (theguardian.com)
355 points by wallflower on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 217 comments [ext]
12.Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has begun (reddit.com)
170 points by danso on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
13. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
13.YUML – Easy Embeddable Diagrams (yuml.me)
178 points by etaioinshrdlu on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
14.Formula 1: The secret aerodynamicist reveals design concepts (bbc.com)
175 points by clouddrover on March 15, 2019 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
15.Transcatheter aortic valve replacement effective in younger, healthier patients (nytimes.com)
137 points by matt4077 on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
16. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.School is all about signaling, not skill-building (latimes.com)
315 points by kermittd on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 216 comments [ext]
17.Invent More, Toil Less (2016) [pdf] (usenix.org)
128 points by DyslexicAtheist on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
18.Seven Commandments for Event-Driven Architectures (rjzaworski.com)
142 points by n1bble on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
19. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
19.Facebook announces next-generation Open Rack frame (fb.com)
125 points by el_duderino on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
20.Show HN: A simple Prolog Interpreter written in a few lines of Python 3 (github.com/photonlines)
149 points by photon_lines on March 15, 2019 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
21.How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games (2017) (nautil.us)
141 points by bookofjoe on March 15, 2019 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
22. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
22.Why Operators Are Useful (neopythonic.blogspot.com)
178 points by s16h on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 167 comments [ext]
23.Falling in love with OpenBSD again (functionallyparanoid.com)
146 points by lelf on March 15, 2019 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
24.Facebook’s algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated News Feed (niemanlab.org)
237 points by sethbannon on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 131 comments [ext]
25. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments
25.Worstsort (byorgey.wordpress.com)
73 points by pplonski86 on March 15, 2019 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
26.Launch HN: Nabis (YC W19) – Cannabis Shipping and Logistics [ext]
83 points by vning93 on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
27.Wikipedia and the Wisdom of Polarized Crowds (nautil.us)
84 points by dnetesn on March 15, 2019 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
28. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
28.Before the Internet (2017) (newyorker.com)
74 points by eodafbaloo on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
29.Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry (slatestarcodex.com)
117 points by gbear605 on March 15, 2019 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
30.Knoppix 8.5.0 Released (knopper.net)
135 points by bjoko on March 16, 2019 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
31. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments

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