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1.Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911 (seattletimes.com)
1105 points by throwaway413 on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 659 comments [ext]
2.WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO (wsj.com)
728 points by mudil on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 533 comments [ext]
3.OSSU: A path to a free self-taught education in computer science (github.com/ossu)
474 points by paulygarcia on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 172 comments [ext]
4. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
4.Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ (scottaaronson.com)
603 points by xmmrm on Sept 23, 2019 [ext] | 208 comments [ext]
5.V8 adds support for top-level await (googlesource.com)
391 points by hayd on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 295 comments [ext]
6.Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non SIP Macs causing k-panic (mrmacintosh.com)
462 points by frandroid on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 300 comments [ext]
7. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
7.Comparing Database Types (prisma.io)
521 points by ironcutter on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 170 comments [ext]
8.Tmux Tutorial (leimao.github.io)
459 points by keyboardman on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 164 comments [ext]
9.The Saudis Are Lying About Their Oil Production? (oilprice.com)
329 points by olivermarks on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 280 comments [ext]
10. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
10.iPadOS (apple.com)
500 points by plg on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 380 comments [ext]
11.Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Overflow CEO (stackoverflow.blog)
333 points by matrixunloaded on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 167 comments [ext]
12.How to Cold Email Investors [video] (blog.ycombinator.com)
309 points by sahin on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
13. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
13.Facebook to acquire CTRL-Labs, a startup for controlling computers with the mind (bloomberg.com)
267 points by Bostonian on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 132 comments [ext]
14.To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight (quantamagazine.org)
285 points by theafh on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
15.Simple words that save lives: lessons from “expert talkers” (bbc.com)
270 points by bookofjoe on Sept 23, 2019 [ext] | 165 comments [ext]
16. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
16.Pi-Hole 4.3.2 (pi-hole.net)
338 points by bjoko on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 217 comments [ext]
17.Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood (variety.com)
242 points by lnguyen on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 200 comments [ext]
18.America’s New Sex Bureaucracy (tabletmag.com)
271 points by hooboy on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 369 comments [ext]
19. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
19.Podcast sponsorship revenue continues to fuel NPR’s financial growth (current.org)
173 points by smollett on Sept 23, 2019 [ext] | 137 comments [ext]
20.Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts (github.com/adblockradio)
471 points by albertzeyer on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 269 comments [ext]
21.A guide to set up your own round-robin DNS-over-HTTPS proxy for privacy (dohproxy.com)
157 points by jkingsman on Sept 23, 2019 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
22. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
22.Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2007) (gnu.org)
277 points by fouc on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 399 comments [ext]
23.Four Years in Startups (newyorker.com)
191 points by pdog on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
24.In Russia’s Space Graveyard, Locals Scavenge Fallen Spacecraft (2018) (discovermagazine.com)
109 points by justincormack on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
25. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
25.Launch HN: Quilt (YC W16) – A versioned data portal for S3 [ext]
177 points by akarve on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
26.Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media (wsj.com)
233 points by bookofjoe on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 186 comments [ext]
27.Understanding Foreign Interference [pdf] (dhs.gov)
104 points by physicsgraph on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
28. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.“Did You Eat the Whole Cake?” On Learning Estonian (deepbaltic.com)
170 points by collate on Sept 23, 2019 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
29.Voidcall – Making of 13kb JavaScript RTS Game (phoboslab.org)
236 points by ash on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
30.“China's Tesla” NIO slashes thousands of jobs as losses mount (nikkei.com)
171 points by partingshots on Sept 24, 2019 [ext] | 177 comments [ext]
31. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments

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