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1.The Sci-Hub Effect: Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations (arxiv.org)
754 points by lnyan on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
2.Abstract Wikipedia (wikimedia.org)
798 points by infodocket on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 227 comments [ext]
3.LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke (twitter.com/doncubed)
928 points by dondonleroy on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 360 comments [ext]
4. Metsera's bold antitrust hack: let Novo Nordisk buy us twice (archive.ph)
377 points by psx3247 84 days ago | hide | 153 comments
4.DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers (github.com/duckduckgo)
824 points by commotionfever on July 1, 2020 [ext] | 488 comments [ext]
5.Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive (spacejam.com)
707 points by olingern on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 266 comments [ext]
6.A researcher on how to live a happy life (ox.ac.uk)
365 points by neoplatonian on July 1, 2020 [ext] | 199 comments [ext]
7. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
7.Boeing quietly pulls plug on the 747, closing era of jumbo jets (bloomberg.com)
302 points by burnaboy on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 210 comments [ext]
8.Json-Base – Database built as JSON files (github.com/devs-garden)
144 points by davidbarker on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 177 comments [ext]
9.Estonian Electronic Identity Card: Security Flaws in Key Management (usenix.org)
222 points by dcbadacd on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
10. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
10.LFortran: Modern interactive LLVM-based Fortran compiler (lfortran.org)
151 points by kergonath on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
11.Crooked to the Millimetre (ethz.ch)
228 points by montalbano on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
12.What is the core of the Python programming language? (snarky.ca)
232 points by BerislavLopac on July 1, 2020 [ext] | 128 comments [ext]
13. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
13.The BEAM Book (2017) (stenmans.org)
232 points by hazbo on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
14.Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked (bbc.com)
334 points by bogle on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 365 comments [ext]
15.Algolia introduces pay-as-you-go pricing for search (blog.algolia.com)
155 points by jlemoine on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
16. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
16.RCE on Telia Routers (full-disclosure.eu)
199 points by theshrike79 on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
17.RedHat Mandrel Makes Java Native (infoq.com)
176 points by shortlived on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 139 comments [ext]
18.HotSpot compiler: Stack allocation prototype for C2 (java.net)
137 points by The_rationalist on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
19. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
19.Urban Gilgamesh: What the earliest epic tells us about living in an ancient city (laphamsquarterly.org)
137 points by Vigier on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
20.GShard: Scaling giant models with conditional computation and automatic sharding (arxiv.org)
112 points by MrUssek on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
21.The caretakers of Sealand, the most stubborn micronation (atlasobscura.com)
155 points by stevekemp on July 1, 2020 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
22. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
22.Hazard pay in focus as essential workers earn less than the jobless (npr.org)
296 points by coronadisaster on July 1, 2020 [ext] | 339 comments [ext]
23.New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears (wired.com)
134 points by fortran77 on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
24.Web Dark Ages (pavellaptev.github.io)
230 points by jslakro on July 1, 2020 [ext] | 147 comments [ext]
25. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments
25.Synthetic Data for Deep Learning (2019) (arxiv.org)
95 points by arseny-n on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
26.Robin Williams, an acid trip, and moral panic: “Blame Canada” at the Oscars (theringer.com)
200 points by AndrewBissell on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
27.The Reformer – Pushing the limits of language modeling (colab.research.google.com)
62 points by datashrimp on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
28. Actor-critic loops and lean tools: field notes from agent builders (app.build)
357 points by foz4677 265 days ago | hide | 148 comments
28.Fixing critical vulnerabilities in Apache's remote desktop (checkpoint.com)
75 points by miles on July 2, 2020 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
29.OpenNMT: Open-Source Neural Machine Translation with Torch Mathematical Toolkit (github.com/opennmt)
59 points by dragonsh on July 1, 2020 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
30.A man who saved a generation of premature babies (2016) (bbc.co.uk)
91 points by EndXA on July 1, 2020 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
31. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 373 days ago | hide | 13 comments

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