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1.
We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won (cloudflare.com)
1675 points by eastdakota on Nov 4, 2019 | 246 comments
2.
Stripe CLI (stripe.com)
706 points by askytb on Nov 5, 2019 | 144 comments
3.
Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Infinite Leverage’ (bloomberg.com)
583 points by galeos on Nov 5, 2019 | 324 comments
4.
Backcountry.com sues anyone who uses its namesake (coloradosun.com)
492 points by NorthOf33rd on Nov 5, 2019 | 350 comments
5.
Super-precise new CRISPR tool could tackle a plethora of genetic diseases (nature.com)
185 points by undefined1 on Nov 5, 2019 | 53 comments
6.
OpenAI Releases Largest GPT-2 Text Generation Model (openai.com)
266 points by epoch_100 on Nov 5, 2019 | 158 comments
7.
C++ 20: The Core Language (modernescpp.com)
282 points by juice_bus on Nov 5, 2019 | 272 comments
8.
When George Soros Broke the British Pound (2014) (priceonomics.com)
325 points by JackFr on Nov 5, 2019 | 259 comments
9.
Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement (hechingerreport.org)
324 points by 2arrs2ells on Nov 4, 2019 | 372 comments
10.
The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP (winhistory.de)
344 points by pionerkotik on Nov 5, 2019 | 250 comments
11.
Tech and Liberty (stratechery.com)
199 points by feross on Nov 5, 2019 | 162 comments
12.
Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, so they need competition instead (economist.com)
316 points by dredmorbius on Nov 4, 2019 | 191 comments
13.
Facebook Libra Is Architecturally Unsound (stephendiehl.com)
631 points by nuriaion on Nov 5, 2019 | 349 comments
14.
OpenSSH's Support for U2F/Fido Security (github.com/openssh)
233 points by prennert on Nov 5, 2019 | 49 comments
15.
The IRS has granted nonprofit status to a daily newspaper (niemanlab.org)
175 points by cpeterso on Nov 4, 2019 | 115 comments
16.
Static Types in SwiftUI (objc.io)
142 points by gok on Nov 5, 2019 | 67 comments
17.
Few-Shot Video-to-Video Synthesis (nvlabs.github.io)
178 points by ArtWomb on Nov 5, 2019 | 40 comments
18.
There are many small orbital launch vehicles proposed or under development (orbitalindex.com)
90 points by tectonic on Nov 5, 2019 | 39 comments
19.
What does the Laplace Transform tell us? A visual explanation [video] (youtube.com)
293 points by peter_d_sherman on Nov 5, 2019 | 61 comments
20.
Lego Launches Braille Bricks for Children to Learn Braille (design-milk.com)
208 points by tosh on Nov 5, 2019 | 40 comments
21.
Farm country feeds America, but try buying groceries there (nytimes.com)
188 points by hrldcpr on Nov 5, 2019 | 320 comments
22.
Building a Large-Scale Distributed Storage System Based on Raft (cncf.io)
163 points by jinqueeny on Nov 4, 2019 | 5 comments
23.
The young centre of the Earth (2016) (arxiv.org)
121 points by ungerik on Nov 5, 2019 | 71 comments
24.
How to Buy Drugs (lrb.co.uk)
294 points by QuesnayJr on Nov 5, 2019 | 250 comments
25.
Free Online Courses from Top Universities (openculture.com)
392 points by happy-go-lucky on Nov 5, 2019 | 46 comments
26.
Laser-Based Audio Injection on Voice-Controllable Systems (lightcommands.com)
168 points by close04 on Nov 4, 2019 | 19 comments
27.
How to Turn Physics into an Optimization Problem (medium.com/marksaroufim)
115 points by formalsystem on Nov 5, 2019 | 37 comments
28.
Uber Q3 Results (uber.com)
116 points by kgwgk on Nov 4, 2019 | 161 comments
29.
The Lost Key of QWERTY (2016) (widespacer.blogspot.com)
190 points by bryanrasmussen on Nov 5, 2019 | 84 comments
30.
How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct (nytimes.com)
137 points by feelthepress on Nov 5, 2019 | 74 comments

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