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1.
Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows (reddit.com)
1793 points by rahuldottech on Sept 28, 2019 | 766 comments
2.
Starship Prototype Unveiled (space.com)
543 points by childintime on Sept 29, 2019 | 330 comments
3.
Berlin Key (wikipedia.org)
446 points by woozyolliew on Sept 29, 2019 | 147 comments
4.
Text Rendering Hates You (gankra.github.io)
542 points by robin_reala on Sept 29, 2019 | 169 comments
5.
Three recent papers uncover the extent of tracking on TVs (twitter.com/random_walker)
411 points by randomwalker on Sept 28, 2019 | 155 comments
6.
Starship Update (spacex.com)
438 points by adventured on Sept 29, 2019 | 195 comments
7.
A computer built from NOR gates: inside the Apollo Guidance Computer (righto.com)
127 points by matt_d on Sept 29, 2019 | 25 comments
8.
Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering (raahul.me)
212 points by cplat on Sept 29, 2019 | 165 comments
9.
Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (codingnest.com)
237 points by dmit on Sept 27, 2019 | 45 comments
10.
Pre-built solar homes could make renewable energy almost 50% cheaper (inverse.com)
196 points by elorant on Sept 29, 2019 | 142 comments
11.
JSON for Modern C++ (github.com/nlohmann)
189 points by gballan on Sept 29, 2019 | 121 comments
12.
We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone (technologyreview.com)
205 points by laurex on Sept 29, 2019 | 127 comments
13.
Bounded Integer: Header-only C++ library replaces integers, adds explicit bounds (bitbucket.org/davidstone)
144 points by olvy0 on Sept 29, 2019 | 122 comments
14.
How Buildings Learn (1997) [video] (youtube.com)
63 points by ivank on Sept 27, 2019 | 11 comments
15.
The Quest to Be Good at Everything (superorganizers.substack.com)
189 points by dshipper on Sept 29, 2019 | 35 comments
16.
Life as a cancer patient: ‘it feels like dying from the drugs meant to save me’ (theguardian.com)
159 points by SZJX on Sept 28, 2019 | 129 comments
17.
SBCL 20: Steel Bank Common Lisp's 20th Anniversary Workshop (sbcl.org)
157 points by kristianp on Sept 29, 2019 | 33 comments
18.
Bloomberg Misreports on Whatsapp Story (twitter.com/alexstamos)
195 points by 2arrs2ells on Sept 29, 2019 | 58 comments
19.
Event Modeling (eventmodeling.org)
194 points by eterps on Sept 29, 2019 | 20 comments
20.
Prescription drugs and grapefruit a 'deadly mix' (2012) (nhs.uk)
168 points by guscost on Sept 27, 2019 | 82 comments
21.
New blood test could detect more than 20 types of cancer (telegraph.co.uk)
169 points by spking on Sept 29, 2019 | 35 comments
22.
AllenNLP Interpret: A Framework for Explaining Predictions of NLP Models (allennlp.org)
87 points by polm23 on Sept 27, 2019 | 6 comments
23.
Pictures from the 1939 New York World's Fair (2017) (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
138 points by userbinator on Sept 29, 2019 | 36 comments
24.
Theorem Proving in Lean [pdf] (leanprover.github.io)
91 points by furcyd on Sept 29, 2019 | 22 comments
25.
Grumman X-29: An impossible fighter jet with inverted wings (cnn.com)
73 points by nwrk on Sept 29, 2019 | 40 comments
26.
GE, NASA Partner to advance the future of electric flight (zdnet.com)
66 points by joak on Sept 29, 2019 | 31 comments
27.
Before 737 Max, Boeing’s Flight-Control System Included Key Safeguards (wsj.com)
94 points by bookofjoe on Sept 29, 2019 | 41 comments
28.
Spaghetti Sort (2018) (morr.cc)
97 points by pvorb on Sept 29, 2019 | 53 comments
29.
David E. Shaw and the Ultimate College Hedge (nymag.com)
102 points by wallflower on Sept 28, 2019 | 75 comments
30.
APL Demonstration (1975) [video] (youtube.com)
78 points by emersonrsantos on Sept 29, 2019 | 51 comments

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