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1.It seems that Google is forgetting the old web (zona-m.net)
1102 points by barry-cotter on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 302 comments [ext]
2.Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display (digital.gov)
1310 points by thinkalone on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 237 comments [ext]
3.58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere (jrl.ninja)
797 points by JoshuaRLi on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 225 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.US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums (peoplespolicyproject.org)
434 points by viburnum on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 498 comments [ext]
5.A majority of consumers do not expect Google to track their activities (niemanlab.org)
336 points by jeremiahlee on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 154 comments [ext]
6.VPN – Very Precarious Narrative (schub.io)
462 points by denschub on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 274 comments [ext]
7. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 92 days ago | hide | 70 comments
7.No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug in a strange USB stick (techcrunch.com)
388 points by MagicPropmaker on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 213 comments [ext]
8.Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil (bloomberg.com)
373 points by pseudolus on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 285 comments [ext]
9.Bleve: Full-text search and indexing for Go (blevesearch.com)
297 points by homarp on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
10. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
10.Paint Is Colored Glue (delanceyplace.com)
273 points by pshaw on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
11.Zig 0.4.0 Released (ziglang.org)
277 points by AndyKelley on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 138 comments [ext]
12.Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's privacy commissioner (theguardian.com)
419 points by oska on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 328 comments [ext]
13. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
13.Busy Person Patterns (2006) [pdf] (hillside.net)
350 points by mpweiher on April 7, 2019 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
14.Aroma: Using machine learning for code recommendation (facebook.com)
254 points by moneil971 on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
15.How to increase your chances of finding a hidden camera (sixfortwelve.wordpress.com)
423 points by rurban on April 7, 2019 [ext] | 181 comments [ext]
16. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
16.Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains (scientificamerican.com)
210 points by hourislate on April 7, 2019 [ext] | 131 comments [ext]
17.Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old today (righto.com)
204 points by matt_d on April 7, 2019 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
18.A gentle introduction to symbolic execution (monic.co)
190 points by joelburget on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
19. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 57 days ago | hide | 155 comments
19.Notarizing Your App Before Distribution (developer.apple.com)
252 points by tambourine_man on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 257 comments [ext]
20.Let's Talk About Capacitor Failure (bytecellar.com)
154 points by blakespot on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 109 comments [ext]
21.Permanent Magnetic Materials Without Rare Earth Metals (diva-portal.org)
82 points by Breadmaker on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
22. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 610 days ago | hide | 15 comments
22.Does the LHC collide protons at twice the speed of light? (backreaction.blogspot.com)
128 points by jacobedawson on April 7, 2019 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
23.One night of telescope time rules out black hole/dark matter idea (arstechnica.com)
155 points by Tomte on April 7, 2019 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
24.Characterizing secret leakage in public GitHub repositories (acolyer.org)
117 points by feross on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 36 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.Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (1994) (simply-logical.space)
104 points by pplonski86 on April 7, 2019 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
26.On Startup Capital Efficiency (stevecheney.com)
155 points by lxm on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
27.Chrome to get lazy load below-the-fold images and iframes (groups.google.com)
114 points by rbanffy on April 7, 2019 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
28. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 253 days ago | hide | 150 comments
28.Fortnite and the Good Life (tinyletter.com)
109 points by bradstreet on April 8, 2019 [ext] | 178 comments [ext]
29.Robert A. Caro on the means and ends of power (nytimes.com)
107 points by jger15 on April 7, 2019 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
30.Dogs that protect little penguins (2015) (bbc.com)
70 points by happy-go-lucky on April 7, 2019 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
31. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments

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