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1.EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers from Google and others (theregister.co.uk)
694 points by snaky on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 309 comments [ext]
2.Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, Killed in Christchurch (dailyesports.gg)
871 points by twistedlogicx on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 215 comments [ext]
3.What Working at Stripe Has Been Like (kalzumeus.com)
685 points by troydavis on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 178 comments [ext]
4. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
4.The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
284 points by imran3740 on March 17, 2019 [ext] | 157 comments [ext]
5.Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version (techcrunch.com)
329 points by bookofjoe on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 169 comments [ext]
6.How we do Vue: one year later (2017) (about.gitlab.com)
309 points by NicoJuicy on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 157 comments [ext]
7. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Eliminating Robocalls (twilio.com)
280 points by johns on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 262 comments [ext]
8.Simple script to analyse your PostgreSQL database config, give tuning advice (github.com/jfcoz)
276 points by Bender on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
9.New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception (cloudflare.com)
213 points by grittygrease on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
10. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
10.Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 (boingboing.net)
343 points by pmoriarty on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 182 comments [ext]
11.Open-sourcing Sandboxed API (googleblog.com)
158 points by gynvael on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
12.Atlas observes light scattering off light (atlas.cern)
182 points by ars on March 17, 2019 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
13. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
13.Higher-Order Type-Level Programming in Haskell [pdf] (microsoft.com)
155 points by justinhj on March 17, 2019 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
14.Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures generated in Python (github.com/wookai)
183 points by Wookai on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
15.Introduction to Datalog (x775.net)
203 points by x775 on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
16. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
16.K7 Tutorial (nyu.edu)
198 points by chrispsn on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
17.The rise and fall of scientific authority, and how to bring it back (nature.com)
197 points by bookofjoe on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 392 comments [ext]
18.Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you? [ext]
440 points by bradhoffman on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 197 comments [ext]
19. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
19.First Recorded Usage of β€œHacker” (2008) (manybutfinite.com)
73 points by dang on March 17, 2019 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
20.How MSG Got a Bad Rap (2016) (fivethirtyeight.com)
124 points by matt4077 on March 17, 2019 [ext] | 173 comments [ext]
21.Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Their Futures (onezero.medium.com)
156 points by bookofjoe on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
22. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
22.Air-breathing rocket engine set for key tests (bbc.co.uk)
192 points by sambeau on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 109 comments [ext]
23.How rats became an inescapable part of city living (nationalgeographic.com)
87 points by orcul on March 17, 2019 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
24.Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight (frontiersin.org)
108 points by daegloe on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
25. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
25.To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars (nationalgeographic.com)
297 points by jseliger on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 330 comments [ext]
26.Atlassian Acquires AgileCraft for $166M (techcrunch.com)
121 points by zhuxuefeng1994 on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
27.Documenting architecture: Wireshark, PlantUML and a REPL to glue them all (2017) (danlebrero.com)
141 points by walterbell on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
28. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
28.Show HN: Applying Machine Learning to March Madness (github.com/adeshpande3)
97 points by adeshpande3 on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
29.Construct-JS – A library for creating byte level data structures (github.com/francisrstokes)
163 points by FrancisStokes on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
30.How Boeing, FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system (seattletimes.com)
228 points by dtagames on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 190 comments [ext]
31. Why you care for your dog better than yourself β€” and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments

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