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1.
Why Enterprise Software Sucks (twitter.com/random_walker)
1310 points by randomwalker on Oct 11, 2019 | 554 comments
2.
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project (theverge.com)
1083 points by gkolli on Oct 11, 2019 | 343 comments
3.
Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku (github.com/perl6)
619 points by Ovid on Oct 11, 2019 | 439 comments
4.
System76 Will Ship Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open-Source Firmware (forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho)
570 points by Aissen on Oct 10, 2019 | 271 comments
5.
What Happens to the Body on No Sleep (outsideonline.com)
636 points by lxm on Oct 9, 2019 | 313 comments
6.
Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime (economist.com)
408 points by pseudolus on Oct 11, 2019 | 219 comments
7.
SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering (sec.gov)
323 points by jmsflknr on Oct 11, 2019 | 201 comments
8.
Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey (netblocks.org)
363 points by infodocket on Oct 11, 2019 | 229 comments
9.
600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js (2015) (jayway.com)
357 points by dgelks on Oct 11, 2019 | 137 comments
10.
NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter 2020 (reuters.com)
308 points by callwaiting on Oct 11, 2019 | 161 comments
11.
Review of 737 Max Certification Finds Fault with Boeing and FAA (nytimes.com)
258 points by awad on Oct 11, 2019 | 124 comments
12.
California power outage triggers chaos in science labs (nature.com)
264 points by McKayDavis on Oct 11, 2019 | 301 comments
13.
Uber Go Style Guide (github.com/uber-go)
309 points by robfig on Oct 11, 2019 | 134 comments
14.
AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering (spun.io)
278 points by bifrost on Oct 11, 2019 | 150 comments
15.
What You Can't Say (2004) (paulgraham.com)
241 points by georgecmu on Oct 11, 2019 | 232 comments
16.
Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first (instagram-engineering.com)
213 points by stablemap on Oct 11, 2019 | 68 comments
17.
Hiren’s BootCD Based on Windows 10 PE X64 (hirensbootcd.org)
238 points by aspenmayer on Oct 11, 2019 | 84 comments
18.
Chrome 77 Breaking Drag and Drop Events (chromium.org)
219 points by ardenpm on Oct 11, 2019 | 186 comments
19.
Credit Suisse scandal shakes Zurich’s elite (swissinfo.ch)
191 points by kenneth on Oct 11, 2019 | 86 comments
20.
Twitter analysis: identifying a propaganda bot network (bellingcat.com)
232 points by anigbrowl on Oct 11, 2019 | 71 comments
21.
Why Do People Neglect Maintenance? (themaintainers.org)
233 points by benbreen on Oct 9, 2019 | 149 comments
22.
Zettelkästen? (clerestory.netlify.com)
202 points by dredmorbius on Oct 9, 2019 | 90 comments
23.
Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, has died (cbsnews.com)
292 points by sohkamyung on Oct 11, 2019 | 32 comments
24.
Photos of Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology (nytimes.com)
139 points by hesk on Oct 11, 2019 | 36 comments
25.
Atari VCS Lead Architect Quits, Claims Six Months of Design Work Went Unpaid (hothardware.com)
101 points by rbanffy on Oct 9, 2019 | 60 comments
26.
Lost transcription of Tale of Genji chapter found in Japanese storeroom (theguardian.com)
103 points by apophasis on Oct 11, 2019 | 9 comments
27.
Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a toll on society (theatlantic.com)
245 points by robtherobber on Oct 11, 2019 | 186 comments
28.
New York's Strand bookstore fights back over landmark status (theguardian.com)
103 points by allthebest on Oct 11, 2019 | 76 comments
29.
Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests (trillworks.com)
166 points by kapkapkap on Oct 11, 2019 | 45 comments
30.
Fibers aren’t useful for much any more (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
93 points by mappu on Oct 11, 2019 | 58 comments

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