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1.Scientists rise up against statistical significance (nature.com)
618 points by bookofjoe on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 249 comments [ext]
2.Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising (bbc.com)
540 points by okket on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 400 comments [ext]
3.8-Year-Old Refugee Wins New York State Championship (chess.com)
409 points by MKais on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 177 comments [ext]
4. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
4.Rules for Autocomplete (jeremymikkola.com)
473 points by piinbinary on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 141 comments [ext]
5.China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric cars do (bloomberg.com)
339 points by jseliger on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 257 comments [ext]
6.Why Hashbrown Does a Double Lookup (gankro.github.io)
356 points by mbrubeck on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 112 comments [ext]
7. 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
7.AirPods with Wireless Charging Case (apple.com)
331 points by smoser on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 415 comments [ext]
8.Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 on the Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com)
327 points by erict15 on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 260 comments [ext]
9.Gall's Law (wikipedia.org)
329 points by mpweiher on March 19, 2019 [ext] | 101 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.Oculus Rift S (oculus.com)
278 points by Stefan-H on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 261 comments [ext]
11.Volk Fi: Distributed network smartphone (volkfi.com)
298 points by 4d66ba06 on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 120 comments [ext]
12.U.S. Firms Are Helping Build China’s Orwellian State (foreignpolicy.com)
280 points by malloryerik on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 139 comments [ext]
13. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments
13.Cockpit voice recorder of Lion Air jet depicts pilots' frantic search for fix (reuters.com)
304 points by petethomas on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 262 comments [ext]
14.Wall Street’s Latest Love Affair with Risky Repackaged Debt (nytimes.com)
226 points by cow9 on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 178 comments [ext]
15.Flashing Light, Sound Restore Memory in Alzheimer's Mice (laboratoryequipment.com)
118 points by obeone on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
16. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
16.Producing industrial hydrogen from biomass (charmindustrial.com)
247 points by grantlmiller on March 19, 2019 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
17. [dupe] Commento: Open-Source Disqus Alternative (256kilobytes.com)
313 points by August-Garcia on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
18.When pigs fly: optimising bytecode interpreters (badoo.com)
190 points by lelf on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
19. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
19.After 6 months of working fine, Tesla software update drives at barriers again (reddit.com)
339 points by SamuelAdams on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 330 comments [ext]
20.Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013) (idontgetoutmuch.wordpress.com)
122 points by adamnemecek on March 18, 2019 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
21.ARM and Intel have different performance characteristics: a case study (lemire.me)
117 points by zdw on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
22. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
22.Using Go Modules (golang.org)
302 points by spacey on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
23.Gmail confidential mode (googleblog.com)
260 points by brajesh on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 202 comments [ext]
24.Docli – A declarative language for command-line interfaces in Go [ext]
131 points by _vs3m on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
25. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
25.Terminal latency (2017) (danluu.com)
181 points by andyjpb on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 109 comments [ext]
26.A Journey to the Disappointment Islands (bbc.com)
120 points by tin7in on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
27.Cloud Management with Prolog (dev.to)
97 points by zdw on March 17, 2019 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
28. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
28.Lisp Macros, Delayed Evaluation and the Evolution of Smalltalk (metaobject.com)
136 points by mpweiher on March 19, 2019 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
29.Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education (2018) (theatlantic.com)
268 points by laurex on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 257 comments [ext]
30.AWS DeepRacer League (amazon.com)
145 points by jeffbarr on March 20, 2019 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
31. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments

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