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1.Why Bother with What Three Words? (shkspr.mobi)
948 points by Tangiest on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 323 comments [ext]
2.Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent (twitter.com/redteampt)
734 points by pjf on March 27, 2019 [ext] | 310 comments [ext]
3.I Miss Rails (chanind.github.io)
664 points by chanind on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 505 comments [ext]
4. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
4.Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime (fastly.com)
387 points by kickdaddy on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
5.Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved (bbc.com)
320 points by fpoling on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 122 comments [ext]
6.Common statistical tests are linear models (lindeloev.github.io)
331 points by homarp on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
7. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
7.IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Millennial Corps: lawsuit (mercurynews.com)
401 points by hanging on March 27, 2019 [ext] | 300 comments [ext]
8.An amphibian fungus has become “the most deadly pathogen known” (nytimes.com)
306 points by jchanimal on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 161 comments [ext]
9.Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair (vice.com)
246 points by kaboro on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 147 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.I Built a Lisp Compiler (timmorgan.org)
354 points by kristianp on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
11.Lyft prices IPO at top of range (techcrunch.com)
287 points by jkw on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 329 comments [ext]
12.Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few (economist.com)
363 points by tysone on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
13. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
13.Office Depot computer scans gave fake results (ftc.gov)
281 points by minimaxir on March 27, 2019 [ext] | 135 comments [ext]
14.Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe (eetimes.com)
412 points by farseer on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 401 comments [ext]
15.The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper (bloomberg.com)
211 points by pseudolus on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 197 comments [ext]
16. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.F-35: What The Pilots Say (airspacemag.com)
242 points by ChuckMcM on March 27, 2019 [ext] | 349 comments [ext]
17.YC Interviews in India (blog.ycombinator.com)
258 points by katm on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
18.Oil traders are watching workers’ phones to spot problems at refineries (bloomberg.com)
180 points by yarapavan on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 138 comments [ext]
19. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
19.Amazon Aurora: Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, Membership (acolyer.org)
212 points by bookofjoe on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
20.The Unexpected Philosophical Depths of the Clicker Game Universal Paperclips (newyorker.com)
158 points by undo on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
21.Developing for Android is like being a demonetized YouTuber (gbl08ma.com)
282 points by gbl08ma on March 27, 2019 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
22. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
22.How to open a microchip and see what’s inside (zeptobars.com)
193 points by Cieplak on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
23.Observables, Side-Effects, and Subscriptions: Some Reactive Best Practices (eyas.sh)
79 points by Eyas on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
24.Gödel Machine (wikipedia.org)
118 points by jonbaer on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
25. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments
25.Lockheed’s D-21 Tagboard Supersonic Spy Drone (thedrive.com)
92 points by vt240 on March 28, 2019 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
26.Build an Air Quality Monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana and Docker on a Raspberry Pi (balena.io)
189 points by alexandros on March 27, 2019 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
27.Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982) (web.mit.edu)
131 points by lelf on March 27, 2019 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
28. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
28.Duke University research fraud settlement: $112M payment to U.S. government (dukechronicle.com)
88 points by danso on March 25, 2019 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
29.False hope for autism in the stem-cell underground (spectrumnews.org)
37 points by chc2149 on March 27, 2019 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
30.UC Browser for Android, Desktop Exposes 500M Users to MiTM Attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)
120 points by cpeterso on March 26, 2019 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
31. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments

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