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1.
Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer (localghost.dev)
745 points by _quhg on Sept 6, 2019 | 378 comments
2.
 Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains (leebutterman.com)
673 points by lsb on Sept 6, 2019 | 141 comments
3.
Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA (housebeautiful.com)
464 points by apress on Sept 6, 2019 | 191 comments
4.
Apple has copied some of the most popular apps in the App Store (washingtonpost.com)
465 points by rgbrenner on Sept 5, 2019 | 309 comments
5.
A Message about iOS Security (apple.com)
432 points by css on Sept 6, 2019 | 291 comments
6.
Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager (github.com/microsoft)
507 points by nailer on Sept 6, 2019 | 163 comments
7.
Sites with dumb password rules (github.com/dumb-password-rules)
485 points by enjoyyourlife on Sept 5, 2019 | 320 comments
8.
42 is found to be the sum of three cubes (twitter.com/robinhouston)
552 points by techolic on Sept 6, 2019 | 237 comments
9.
You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face (onezero.medium.com)
296 points by Garbage on Sept 6, 2019 | 165 comments
10.
Three Tribes of Programming (2017) (josephg.com)
270 points by ivank on Sept 5, 2019 | 119 comments
11.
Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw (nymag.com)
195 points by borisjabes on Sept 6, 2019 | 164 comments
12.
I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
213 points by proberts on Sept 6, 2019 | 247 comments
13.
Squirrels listen in to birds' conversations as signal of safety (phys.org)
143 points by lelf on Sept 5, 2019 | 41 comments
14.
Mathematician Wins $3M Prize for 'Magic Wand Theorem' (livescience.com)
175 points by arunc on Sept 6, 2019 | 54 comments
15.
The Porsche Taycan's Two-Speed Gearbox (wired.com)
104 points by jbredeche on Sept 5, 2019 | 210 comments
16.
Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance (elemental.medium.com)
278 points by feross on Sept 5, 2019 | 148 comments
17.
Parallelism in Crystal (crystal-lang.org)
139 points by sdogruyol on Sept 6, 2019 | 41 comments
18.
Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims (2018) (liebertpub.com)
78 points by laurex on Sept 5, 2019 | 16 comments
19.
Ancient Turing Pattern Builds Feathers, Hair and Now Shark Skin (quantamagazine.org)
120 points by occamschainsaw on Sept 6, 2019 | 22 comments
20.
Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal (swift.org)
162 points by xmmrm on Sept 5, 2019 | 74 comments
21.
EASA Insists on Testing Boeing 737 Max Itself Before Lifting Ban (simpleflying.com)
218 points by kunkurus on Sept 6, 2019 | 115 comments
22.
FermiNet: State of the art approx of molecular orbitals (twitter.com/pfau)
83 points by jagiammona on Sept 6, 2019 | 18 comments
23.
Are We Wrong About Black Holes? (quantamagazine.org)
93 points by theafh on Sept 5, 2019 | 51 comments
24.
I Got More Data, My Model Is More Refined, but My Estimator Is Getting Worse [pdf] (columbia.edu)
129 points by charlysl on Sept 6, 2019 | 17 comments
25.
Why doesn’t anyone weep for Docker? (techrepublic.com)
222 points by jumpingdeeps on Sept 6, 2019 | 239 comments
26.
India to Attempt Moon Landing at the Lunar South Pole Today (space.com)
179 points by perseusprime11 on Sept 6, 2019 | 158 comments
27.
At 97, lithium-ion battery pioneer says his work is not done (acs.org)
126 points by sohkamyung on Sept 6, 2019 | 45 comments
28.
MLIR Primer: A Compiler Infrastructure for the End of Moore’s Law (ai.google)
127 points by sandGorgon on Sept 6, 2019 | 23 comments
29.
A bad cup of tea and the birth of modern statistics (sciencehistory.org)
74 points by apophasis on Sept 6, 2019 | 19 comments
30.
Shift to electric vehicles will radically change auto factories (detroitnews.com)
86 points by rmason on Sept 6, 2019 | 134 comments

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