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1.
U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property (nytimes.com)
1426 points by ComputerGuru on Feb 20, 2019 | 423 comments
2.
Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015) (cbc.ca)
674 points by colinprince on Feb 20, 2019 | 330 comments
3.
Public protest against Amazon
920 points by _zsm0 on Feb 19, 2019 | 495 comments
4.
Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland and Italy Oppose EU Copyright Directive (permanentrepresentations.nl)
439 points by pasiaj on Feb 20, 2019 | 155 comments
5.
WiFi Hides Inside a USB Cable (hackaday.com)
384 points by glax on Feb 20, 2019 | 153 comments
6.
Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was not meant to be secret (businessinsider.com)
490 points by temp1928384 on Feb 20, 2019 | 268 comments
7.
Linux Kernel Through 4.20.10 Found Vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution (coocoor.com)
312 points by robin0 on Feb 20, 2019 | 146 comments
8.
Y Combinator Resources for Developers (yc.dev)
392 points by TonnyGaric on Feb 20, 2019 | 126 comments
9.
Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management (securityevaluators.com)
350 points by thenaturalist on Feb 20, 2019 | 198 comments
10.
Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt (erlang-solutions.com)
250 points by mpweiher on Feb 20, 2019 | 113 comments
11.
Growing a Compiler: Getting to Machine Learning from a General Purpose Compiler (docs.google.com)
179 points by ViralBShah on Feb 19, 2019 | 37 comments
12.
Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia (kirkcenter.org)
236 points by unquote on Feb 20, 2019 | 212 comments
13.
 [flagged] I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement (indiehackers.com)
407 points by JamesIH on Feb 20, 2019 | 274 comments
14.
OnionShare 2 adds anonymous dropboxes (micahflee.com)
241 points by soheilpro on Feb 20, 2019 | 59 comments
15.
How Former Ref Tim Donaghy Conspired to Fix NBA Games (espn.com)
166 points by laurex on Feb 20, 2019 | 92 comments
16.
Grand Canyon Museum Had Buckets of Uranium Sitting Around for 18 Years (npr.org)
155 points by _bxg1 on Feb 19, 2019 | 101 comments
17.
A DIY Cruise Missile (2004) (interestingprojects.com)
173 points by bgun on Feb 20, 2019 | 103 comments
18.
Cessna 188 Pacific Rescue (wikipedia.org)
205 points by curtis on Feb 20, 2019 | 60 comments
19.
Show HN: Commento: a fast, privacy-focused alternative to Disqus (commento.io)
271 points by adtac on Feb 20, 2019 | 85 comments
20.
20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience (cloud.google.com)
141 points by xTWOz on Feb 20, 2019 | 137 comments
21.
This Cat Does Not Exist (thiscatdoesnotexist.com)
428 points by ChrisArchitect on Feb 20, 2019 | 180 comments
22.
Canvas fingerprinting on the web (antoinevastel.com)
102 points by avastel on Feb 19, 2019 | 36 comments
23.
Show HN: Simple Webapp to Play with Open AI Transformer (Smaller Version) (sprinkleai.com)
75 points by holyash on Feb 20, 2019 | 22 comments
24.
Autocomplete Using Markov Chains (yurichev.com)
166 points by dennis714 on Feb 19, 2019 | 17 comments
25.
Reflections on Learning Rust by Building Punchtop (hyperbo.la)
115 points by lopopolo on Feb 19, 2019 | 9 comments
26.
Dr. Rhonda Patrick on DHA in Phospholipid Form and the Prevention of Alzheimers (zenpatient.com)
141 points by dtawfik1 on Feb 20, 2019 | 38 comments
27.
It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (2004) [pdf] (caltech.edu)
146 points by DoreenMichele on Feb 19, 2019 | 25 comments
28.
SIMD Instructions Considered Harmful (2017) (sigarch.org)
152 points by nuclx on Feb 19, 2019 | 118 comments
29.
A 5km Asteroid May Briefly Occult the Brightest Star in the Night Sky (arstechnica.com)
59 points by rbanffy on Feb 19, 2019 | 19 comments
30.
Should Mental Disorders Have Names? (scientificamerican.com)
126 points by Bender on Feb 19, 2019 | 101 comments

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