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1.Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (jarredsumner.com)
1516 points by firloop on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 588 comments [ext]
2.Ending our Medium integration (write.as)
936 points by thebaer on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 367 comments [ext]
3.Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door (techcrunch.com)
640 points by minimaxir on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 258 comments [ext]
4. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
4.Statistics Done Wrong (statisticsdonewrong.com)
547 points by lawlorino on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
5.Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch (npr.org)
559 points by drewvolpe on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 174 comments [ext]
6.Boeing 787 Suffers Rare Dual Engine Failure on Landing (thepointsguy.com)
406 points by georgecmu on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 350 comments [ext]
7. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
7.Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (arxiv.org)
419 points by postit on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
8.Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach (techcrunch.com)
293 points by deanmoriarty on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 211 comments [ext]
9.Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018) (spreadprivacy.com)
362 points by rbjorklin on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 173 comments [ext]
10. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 84 days ago | hide | 14 comments
10.Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin (nytimes.com)
230 points by mikek on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 224 comments [ext]
11.'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes (reuters.com)
423 points by MrMetlHed on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 224 comments [ext]
12.Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug last week (theverge.com)
361 points by josu on Jan 29, 2019 [ext] | 131 comments [ext]
13. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 367 days ago | hide | 168 comments
13.Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL (wired.com)
417 points by glassworm on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 257 comments [ext]
14.Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript (stef.be)
385 points by baldfat on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
15.Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps (theverge.com)
735 points by epaga on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 310 comments [ext]
16. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
16.Ask HN: Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t in my contact list? [ext]
319 points by tones411 on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 324 comments [ext]
17.Lock-Free Rust: Crossbeam in 2019 (stjepang.github.io)
322 points by g0xA52A2A on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
18.India’s largest bank SBI leaked account data on millions of customers (techcrunch.com)
226 points by mandliya on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
19. The two-phrase playbook behind China's industrial dominance (high-capacity.com)
177 points by fix6357 475 days ago | hide | 135 comments
19.Scripting in Common Lisp (ebzzry.io)
130 points by mr_tyzik on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
20.How I ended up writing a new real-time kernel (2015) (dmitryfrank.com)
194 points by travisgriggs on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
21.8bit Workshop (8bitworkshop.com)
281 points by tekromancr on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
22. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
22.The heroes of the Thai cave rescue (macleans.ca)
164 points by colinprince on Jan 29, 2019 [ext] | 130 comments [ext]
23.A Primer on Type Systems (uaf.edu)
192 points by hacknrk on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
24.What is the space overhead of Base64 encoding? (lemire.me)
85 points by ingve on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
25. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 84 days ago | hide | 122 comments
25.Show HN: Deep Learning GUI to Create, Train and Visualize Models in a Browser (aifiddle.io)
216 points by 0mbre on Jan 29, 2019 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
26.Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS (theverge.com)
261 points by flylib on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 218 comments [ext]
27.The Kubernetes Kustomize KEP Kerfuffle (gravitational.com)
91 points by gk1 on Jan 29, 2019 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
28. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
28.San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in the city (theverge.com)
194 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 29, 2019 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
29.Down the Rabbit Hole – Part I: A Journey into the UEFI Land (erfur.github.io)
102 points by zdw on Jan 29, 2019 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
30.Benchmarks of Cache-Friendly Data Structures in C++ (tylerayoung.com)
126 points by s3cur3 on Jan 30, 2019 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
31. When Peak AI Capability Arrives at Impractical Prices, Deployment Lags (tobyord.com)
290 points by oox1230 1 day ago | hide | 120 comments

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