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1.How to Find Hidden Cameras and Spy Gear (senteltechsecurity.com)
749 points by loteck on Jan 16, 2019 [ext] | 182 comments [ext]
2.Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over (mastercard.com)
716 points by hbcondo714 on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 339 comments [ext]
3.Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals (github.com/schollz)
492 points by captn3m0 on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 146 comments [ext]
4. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
4.Dbeaver – Multi-platform database tool (dbeaver.io)
483 points by vbv on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 203 comments [ext]
5.Rust 1.32 released (rust-lang.org)
430 points by steveklabnik on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 161 comments [ext]
6.ScyllaDB Open Source 3.0 (scylladb.com)
210 points by manigandham on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
7. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 19 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
7.DNS Flag Day on February 1, 2019: check your domains (dnsflagday.net)
375 points by el_duderino on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
8.Microsoft pledges $500M for affordable housing in Seattle area (nytimes.com)
338 points by pgodzin on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 178 comments [ext]
9.Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M (techcrunch.com)
246 points by toufiqbarhamov on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 173 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.Adding new DNA letters makes novel proteins possible (economist.com)
161 points by pseudolus on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
11.Preparing for Prison (2016) (prisonuk.blogspot.com)
160 points by Tomte on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
12.The 773M Record “Collection #1” Data Breach (troyhunt.com)
325 points by shritesh on Jan 16, 2019 [ext] | 120 comments [ext]
13. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
13.Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email (chaddickerson.com)
269 points by wrench4916 on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 145 comments [ext]
14.HeidiSQL – GUI client for MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL (heidisql.com)
250 points by pqb on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
15.Lego collecting delivers huge and uncorrelated market returns (bloomberg.com)
229 points by pseudolus on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 207 comments [ext]
16. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16.My PHP Development Setup (johnmackenzie.co.uk)
340 points by lxm on Jan 16, 2019 [ext] | 163 comments [ext]
17.Oklahoma Department of Securities Leaked Millions of Files (upguard.com)
127 points by wglb on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
18.Screen time: how much is too much? (nature.com)
190 points by pseudolus on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 266 comments [ext]
19. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
19.Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway (medium.com/s)
388 points by kjhughes on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 244 comments [ext]
20.600 days of postmarketOS (postmarketos.org)
226 points by ollieparanoid on Jan 16, 2019 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
21.More than you really wanted to know about Patch (landley.net)
139 points by signa11 on Jan 16, 2019 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
22. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
22.Spectrum – Image transcoding library for Android or iOS (libspectrum.io)
130 points by markoa on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
23.A Stroke Turned a 63-Year-Old into a Rap Legend (theatlantic.com)
209 points by mtg on Jan 16, 2019 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
24.What’s Causing the Rise of Hoarding Disorder? (jstor.org)
135 points by toufiqbarhamov on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 193 comments [ext]
25. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
25.Automating Datacenter Operations at Dropbox (dropbox.com)
94 points by dmicher on Jan 16, 2019 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
26.A bot for Starcraft in Rust, C or any other language (habr.com)
140 points by hokkos on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
27.Raylib: a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy game programming (raylib.com)
153 points by njn on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
28. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
28.Coinbase Acqui-Hires Blockspring (techcrunch.com)
65 points by wslh on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
29.Show HN: Json2graphql – From a JSON file to Postgres-backed realtime GraphQL (github.com/hasura)
120 points by wawhal on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
30.The creeping IT apocalypse (forrestbrazeal.com)
324 points by forrestbrazeal on Jan 17, 2019 [ext] | 277 comments [ext]
31. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments

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