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1.The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (newyorker.com)
1663 points by lordnacho on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 777 comments [ext]
2.AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip (reuters.com)
837 points by jonbaer on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 255 comments [ext]
3.Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone (forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster)
773 points by tareqak on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 282 comments [ext]
4. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
4.Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye (linuxjournal.com)
838 points by akulbe on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 356 comments [ext]
5.Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning (uspto.gov)
650 points by smsm42 on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 244 comments [ext]
6.GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories (github.blog)
680 points by dstaheli on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 231 comments [ext]
7. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
7.NY State alleges ExxonMobil knew risks of climate change and defrauded investors (esquire.com)
321 points by colinprince on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 116 comments [ext]
8.Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate (nytimes.com)
425 points by jumelles on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 501 comments [ext]
9.One job, many roles: The different skills needed to be a successful CTO (madewithlove.be)
346 points by andreascreten on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
10. When Peak AI Capability Arrives at Impractical Prices, Deployment Lags (tobyord.com)
290 points by oox1230 1 day ago | hide | 120 comments
10.Racket: Lisp for Learning (lwn.net)
221 points by chmaynard on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 148 comments [ext]
11.Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do (krebsonsecurity.com)
204 points by hsnewman on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
12.The Death of Social Reciprocity in the Era of Digital Distraction (scientificamerican.com)
242 points by headalgorithm on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
13. Why Hitchhiking Taught Kevin Kelly a Theory of Grace (kk.org)
312 points by oan7422 99 days ago | hide | 83 comments
13.What has to happen with Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space (utcc.utoronto.ca)
214 points by stargrave on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 88 comments [ext]
14.Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair (ifixit.com)
361 points by miles on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 252 comments [ext]
15.Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open borders (thenation.com)
177 points by daddy_drank on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 253 comments [ext]
16. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be (figma.com)
213 points by twog on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
17.Living Off the Land in Linux (gtfobins.github.io)
163 points by DyslexicAtheist on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
18.How to Get into Farming with No Money (1980) (smallfarmersjournal.com)
123 points by docbrown on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
19. Why fully automated AI cedes a more valuable design space (readwise.io)
73 points by nan9853 265 days ago | hide | 77 comments
19.Old Paris Is No More (laphamsquarterly.org)
167 points by collapse on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 101 comments [ext]
20.Sentient: Classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence (theverge.com)
129 points by ajay-d on Aug 7, 2019 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
21.Computer Science Illustrated (2014) (csillustrated.berkeley.edu)
184 points by signa11 on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
22. Why Getting Funded Stopped Meaning Your Idea Was Good ()
70 points by kol7770 98 days ago | hide | 139 comments
22.Launch HN: Quirk (YC S19) – Open-Source Cognitive Behavioral Therapy [ext]
196 points by flaque on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
23.We may not be running out of helium after all (2015) (newatlas.com)
87 points by welder on Aug 7, 2019 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
24.Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn (lambdaisland.com)
231 points by galfarragem on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 209 comments [ext]
25. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
25.Better Encrypted Group Chat (trailofbits.com)
156 points by UkiahSmith on Aug 7, 2019 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
26.Air Force Reveals Tests of Supposed Record-Setting Scramjet from N. Grumman (thedrive.com)
70 points by nwrk on Aug 7, 2019 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
27.On the Road in 1980 (standpointmag.co.uk)
52 points by mstats on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
28. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments
28.Suburb in the sky: how Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall (theguardian.com)
101 points by charlysl on Aug 6, 2019 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
29.Circulating in China’s Financial System: More Than $200B in I.O.U.s (nytimes.com)
101 points by nafizh on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
30.TV detector van (wikipedia.org)
151 points by rishabhd on Aug 8, 2019 [ext] | 327 comments [ext]
31. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments

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