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1.Leukemia Has Won (alex.blog)
1012 points by yagodragon on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 184 comments [ext]
2.Could 'Oumuamua be an icy fractal aggregate ejected from a protoplanetary disk? (syfy.com)
509 points by Santosh83 on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 225 comments [ext]
3.Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output (theguardian.com)
635 points by uxhacker on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 221 comments [ext]
4. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
4.Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader (babluboy.github.io)
524 points by Jerry2 on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 265 comments [ext]
5.Code Shelter: A Maintainer Community for Abandoned FOSS Projects (codeshelter.co)
342 points by rantanplan on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
6.Why a Grape Turns into a Fireball in the Microwave (wired.com)
307 points by ChuckMcM on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
7. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
7.Redis Labs Raises a $60M Series E Round (techcrunch.com)
188 points by moritzplassnig on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
8.Show HN: Chrome Extension to See IMDB Ratings Directly on Netflix (chrome.google.com)
234 points by pawannitj on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
9.Uncleftish Beholding (wikipedia.org)
188 points by BerislavLopac on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
10. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
10.Researchers Find Further Evidence That Schizophrenia Is Connected to Our Guts (discovermagazine.com)
274 points by lxm on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 169 comments [ext]
11.Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug (cdm.link)
318 points by mortenjorck on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 329 comments [ext]
12.“Reverse location” search warrants identify all cellphones near a crime scene (mprnews.org)
314 points by Jerry2 on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 247 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.Underactuated Robotics (csail.mit.edu)
242 points by jeffreyrogers on Feb 18, 2019 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
14.Discovering a New Form of Communication in the Brain (case.edu)
155 points by oikos on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
15.Boeing 787 Reaches 801 MPH as a Jet Stream Packs Record-Breaking Speeds (latimes.com)
207 points by ilamont on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 180 comments [ext]
16. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
16.An Honest Living (stevesalaita.com)
312 points by severine on Feb 17, 2019 [ext] | 199 comments [ext]
17.Dear OpenAI: Please Open Source Your Language Model (thegradient.pub)
289 points by hughzhang on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 124 comments [ext]
18.Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning (ualberta.ca)
161 points by tzhenghao on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
19. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 20 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
19.As McKinsey Sells Advice, Its Hedge Fund May Have a Stake in the Outcome (nytimes.com)
207 points by JaakkoP on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 103 comments [ext]
20.Battlesnake – Competitive Snake Games over HTTP (battlesnake.io)
181 points by bvanvugt on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
21.Metamath (metamath.org)
167 points by lainon on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
22. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
22.China Unveils Plan to Tie Hong Kong, Macau Closer to Mainland (bloomberg.com)
151 points by virtualwhys on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
23.Neuroscientists Say They've Found an Entirely New Form of Neural Communication (sciencealert.com)
137 points by quakeguy on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
24.Ledger's Advanced Side Channel Analysis Repository (github.com/ledger-donjon)
142 points by JBBP2 on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
25. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
25.A Newly-Generated Create-React-App 2.1.5 App Has 1,568 Dependencies (twitter.com/garybernhardt)
276 points by _0nac on Feb 18, 2019 [ext] | 126 comments [ext]
26.Show HN: Inlets – Expose your local endpoints to the Internet (github.com/alexellis)
146 points by alexellisuk on Feb 18, 2019 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
27.Jasper Johns, American Legend (nytimes.com)
45 points by pseudolus on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
28. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.3264 conics tangent to five conics (juliahomotopycontinuation.org)
79 points by s_tim on Feb 15, 2019 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
29.Show HN: Summarized Finance / Tech Newsletter Using Natural Language Processing (getthecrypt.com)
93 points by chidog12 on Feb 19, 2019 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
30.Oodi, Helsinki’s new flagship library (economist.com)
174 points by sohkamyung on Feb 18, 2019 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
31. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 19 hours ago | hide | 150 comments

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