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1.Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage (tesla.com)
601 points by jjallen on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 262 comments [ext]
2.India tiger census shows rapid population growth (bbc.com)
359 points by hhs on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
3.YouTube faces creator backlash (axios.com)
441 points by hhs on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 466 comments [ext]
4. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
4.Uber Lays Off 400 (nytimes.com)
515 points by moltensodium on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 298 comments [ext]
5.Capital One Says Breach Hit 100M Individuals in U.S (bloomberg.com)
491 points by pseudolus on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 285 comments [ext]
6.Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs (puri.sm)
419 points by thepete2 on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 269 comments [ext]
7. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 71 days ago | hide | 174 comments
7.Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (geoffreylitt.com)
320 points by gklitt on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 186 comments [ext]
8.Lambda School fined $75k by CA for operating without state approval [pdf] (ca.gov)
338 points by lanrh1836 on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 337 comments [ext]
9.Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted (smithsonianmag.com)
272 points by pseudolus on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 190 comments [ext]
10. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
10.Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining (privacycompany.eu)
318 points by GordonS on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 112 comments [ext]
11.Levels of code in Forth programming (2002) (ultratechnology.com)
163 points by pointfree on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
12.Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills (theguardian.com)
342 points by srameshc on July 28, 2019 [ext] | 282 comments [ext]
13. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
13.Drones will fly for days with new photovoltaic engine (techxplore.com)
256 points by dnetesn on July 27, 2019 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
14.Some things that might help you make better software (2016) (drmaciver.com)
170 points by henrik_w on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
15.Deeper well drilling an unsustainable stopgap to groundwater depletion (nature.com)
136 points by jseliger on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
16. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
16.OpenBitTorrent – An Open Tracker Project (openbittorrent.com)
200 points by antonkozlov on July 27, 2019 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
17.The Lithium Mine Buildup Is Outpacing the Electric-Car Boom (bloomberg.com)
148 points by situational87 on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 235 comments [ext]
18.Comparisons in C++20 (brevzin.github.io)
183 points by ingve on July 28, 2019 [ext] | 130 comments [ext]
19. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
19.B-threads: programming in a way that allows for easier changes (medium.com/lmatteis)
167 points by sktrdie on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
20.The Internet's Old Guard (reading.supply)
212 points by dsr12 on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
21.The human body is already close to thermal limits in many regions (theconversation.com)
462 points by anigbrowl on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 485 comments [ext]
22. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
22.How SAML 2.0 Authentication Works (gravitational.com)
214 points by gk1 on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
23.Show HN: Memorize Terminal Commands (memorize-terminal-commands.com)
166 points by maherdeeb on July 28, 2019 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
24.The Washington Post's bestseller lists have been wrong (washingtonpost.com)
160 points by gruseom on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 88 comments [ext]
25. 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
25.Liftbridge: Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams (github.com/liftbridge-io)
149 points by tepidandroid on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
26.Go Contracts – Draft Design (googlesource.com)
249 points by dkarbayev on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 199 comments [ext]
27.The Elite Club That Rules the Diamond World Is Starting to Crack (bloomberg.com)
163 points by howard941 on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 200 comments [ext]
28. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
28.Scaling Static Analyses at Facebook (acm.org)
126 points by dons on July 27, 2019 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
29.What Happened with West Virginia’s Blockchain Voting Experiment? (slate.com)
155 points by randomwalker on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 193 comments [ext]
30.On Writing a C++ Book (lospi.net)
126 points by jalospinoso on July 28, 2019 [ext] | 42 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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