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1.
Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger (twitter.com/vah_13)
476 points by ortekk on Oct 26, 2019 | 155 comments
2.
An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools (wezm.net)
636 points by signa11 on Oct 26, 2019 | 102 comments
3.
Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material (phys.org)
172 points by jonbaer on Oct 25, 2019 | 49 comments
4.
Patents are about sharing information – don't shroud them in secrecy (eff.org)
197 points by DiabloD3 on Oct 26, 2019 | 74 comments
5.
Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman (metro.co.uk)
321 points by occamschainsaw on Oct 26, 2019 | 240 comments
6.
Indian startups have raised a record $11.3B this year (techcrunch.com)
236 points by jmsflknr on Oct 25, 2019 | 156 comments
7.
Tor Browser 9.0 (torproject.org)
238 points by htfy96 on Oct 26, 2019 | 75 comments
8.
Telling Whiskey from Whisky (aps.org)
144 points by bookofjoe on Oct 26, 2019 | 112 comments
9.
Dex: A research language for array processing in the Haskell/ML family (github.com/google-research)
147 points by azhenley on Oct 26, 2019 | 34 comments
10.
Containers in 2019: They're Calling It a Hypervisor Comeback (infoq.com)
201 points by ingve on Oct 26, 2019 | 192 comments
11.
IMO Grand Challenge (imo-grand-challenge.github.io)
128 points by panic on Oct 26, 2019 | 73 comments
12.
Bruno Simon – 3D Curriculum (bruno-simon.com)
251 points by laurentdc on Oct 26, 2019 | 42 comments
13.
Migrating Russian eagles run up data roaming charges (bbc.co.uk)
192 points by bauc on Oct 25, 2019 | 62 comments
14.
Sudo vulnerability (openwall.com)
119 points by breadandcrumbel on Oct 26, 2019 | 59 comments
15.
The Wonders of the Suffix Tree Through the Lens of Ukkonen’s Algorithm (humanreadablemag.com)
150 points by pekalicious on Oct 26, 2019 | 39 comments
16.
Someone is stealing Christopher Columbus letters (cbsnews.com)
125 points by mayiplease on Oct 25, 2019 | 32 comments
17.
Mir Books (mirtitles.org)
132 points by weinzierl on Oct 25, 2019 | 28 comments
18.
Please think architecture (2007) (freebsd.org)
115 points by cnst on Oct 26, 2019 | 27 comments
19.
Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (1999) (theatlantic.com)
124 points by gscott on Oct 25, 2019 | 122 comments
20.
Pernosco: Fast, Fun, Omniscient Debugging (pernos.co)
99 points by dochtman on Oct 25, 2019 | 5 comments
21.
Why Graphiti? (graphiti.dev)
154 points by geordee on Oct 26, 2019 | 45 comments
22.
No XBL Components Left in Firefox (twitter.com/justinfagnani)
137 points by mmastrac on Oct 26, 2019 | 66 comments
23.
Most interesting mathematics mistake? (2009) (mathoverflow.net)
97 points by panic on Oct 26, 2019 | 19 comments
24.
A neural net solves the three-body problem 100M times faster (technologyreview.com)
180 points by EndXA on Oct 26, 2019 | 51 comments
25.
Tesla’s new Solar Roof costs less than a new roof plus solar panels (techcrunch.com)
309 points by lxm on Oct 26, 2019 | 301 comments
26.
The dream journal of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who discovered neurons (2015) (nautil.us)
70 points by dnetesn on Oct 25, 2019 | 6 comments
27.
Airbnb in the Himalayas (veridici.com)
103 points by bookofjoe on Oct 25, 2019 | 44 comments
28.
A day in the life of a Danish forensic pathologist (information.dk)
80 points by bookofjoe on Oct 25, 2019 | 10 comments
29.
A push gone wrong in the name of what, exactly? (rachelbythebay.com)
119 points by janvdberg on Oct 26, 2019 | 89 comments
30.
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock (bbc.com)
95 points by eddyparkinson on Oct 26, 2019 | 36 comments

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