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1.DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts (github.com/weskerfoot)
1067 points by anaphor on May 20, 2019 | 265 comments
2.WebGL Fluid Simulation (paveldogreat.github.io)
868 points by joshdance on May 20, 2019 | 102 comments
3.Geoff Ralston taking over as President of YC (blog.ycombinator.com)
410 points by lainon on May 20, 2019 | 77 comments
4.Employing QUIC Protocol to Optimize Uberโ€™s App Performance (uber.com)
363 points by nhf on May 20, 2019 | 57 comments
5.Leaving Google Fi (jasonatwood.io)
813 points by daigoba66 on May 19, 2019 | 277 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Fake Cancer Doctor Insider Trading (archive.ph)
13 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 41 days ago | archive
6.Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data scraped and exposed (techcrunch.com)
244 points by idlewords on May 20, 2019 | 152 comments
7.MicroG โ€“ Re-implementation of proprietary Android apps and libraries (microg.org)
484 points by xvilka on May 20, 2019 | 147 comments
8.Underground network of microbes that connects trees mapped for first time (sciencemag.org)
199 points by rbanffy on May 20, 2019 | 17 comments
9.A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017) (biologicperformance.com)
412 points by hairytrog on May 20, 2019 | 164 comments
10.3D interfaces are usually worse than 2D interfaces (facebook.com)
287 points by ingve on May 20, 2019 | 110 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Thinking Machines (archive.ph)
17 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 41 days ago | archive
11.Bluetooth's Complexity Has Become a Security Risk (wired.com)
229 points by Elof on May 20, 2019 | 124 comments
12.One whole-body MRI could replace multiple cancer scans (pharmatimes.com)
195 points by howard941 on May 20, 2019 | 232 comments
13.Rust Koans (2015) (rust-lang.org)
255 points by wst_ on May 20, 2019 | 50 comments
14.Glass Enterprise Edition 2 (blog.google)
223 points by daegloe on May 20, 2019 | 113 comments
15.Three geeks rescue a 50-year-old IBM 360 mainframe from an abandoned building (ibms360.co.uk)
361 points by MilnerRoute on May 20, 2019 | 84 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Everybody Wants Some AI Debt (archive.ph)
17 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 41 days ago | archive
16.Mystery meat OpenJDK builds strike again (java.net)
261 points by hocuspocus on May 19, 2019 | 49 comments
17.The Case for Rooms (citylab.com)
269 points by joeyespo on May 20, 2019 | 161 comments
18.Show HN: Link Drop โ€“ Daily newsletter of your bookmarks (linkdrop.co)
188 points by frindo on May 20, 2019 | 55 comments
19.Nasaโ€™s New UAV Is 80% 3D-Printed (aerodefensetech.com)
143 points by rbanffy on May 20, 2019 | 75 comments
20.โ€œItโ€™s hard to take risks if you donโ€™t have a safety netโ€ (twitter.com/eastdakota)
548 points by boramalper on May 20, 2019 | 372 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Why Europe doesnโ€™t have a Tesla (worksinprogress.co)
18 min read | by worksinprogress.co | saved 7 days ago | archive
21.Depression-Gene Studies Were Built on Shaky Foundations (theatlantic.com)
138 points by wyclif on May 20, 2019 | 88 comments
22.Sony's Deal with Microsoft Blindsided Its Own PlayStation Team (bloomberg.com)
143 points by pseudolus on May 20, 2019 | 98 comments
23.Jumping Back and Forth (craftinginterpreters.com)
145 points by pplonski86 on May 20, 2019 | 10 comments
24.Fly over a reconstruction of 4th century Rome [video] (smarthistory.org)
143 points by gruseom on May 19, 2019 | 30 comments
25.The Next Wave of Immuno-Oncology (scientificamerican.com)
114 points by pseudolus on May 20, 2019 | 15 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Strategy Letter II: Chicken and Egg Problems (joelonsoftware.com)
11 min read | by Joel Spolsky | saved 159 days ago | archive
26.Mimetic Traps (briantimar.github.io)
119 points by leroy_masochist on May 20, 2019 | 26 comments
27.WebAssembly in Redex (asumu.xyz)
60 points by tonyg on May 19, 2019 | 1 comment
28.This Old House: The Rare Home-Improvement Show That Spotlights Skilled Workers (theatlantic.com)
304 points by pseudolus on May 20, 2019 | 128 comments
29.Linux distros without systemd (ungleich.ch)
318 points by telmich on May 20, 2019 | 435 comments
30.The Man Who Built the Bauhaus (newyorker.com)
60 points by matt4077 on May 20, 2019 | 7 comments
๐Ÿ“š. AI Will Not Make You Rich (joincolossus.com)
22 min read | by Jerry Neumann | saved 174 days ago | 89% read | archive

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