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1.
Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer (garrood.me)
521 points by braythwayt on July 28, 2019 | 267 comments
2.
Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer (medium.com/chrisgaul)
508 points by timafuyc on July 27, 2019 | 70 comments
3.
What Swimming Taught Me About Happiness (nytimes.com)
220 points by mitchbob on July 27, 2019 | 123 comments
4.
Problems with the CSS background-image property (nystudio107.com)
165 points by fagnerbrack on July 28, 2019 | 83 comments
5.
How I use the good parts of AWS (twitter.com/dvassallo)
357 points by DVassallo on July 28, 2019 | 165 comments
6.
In a Life-or-Death Crisis, Humility Is Everything (wsj.com)
79 points by jkuria on July 27, 2019 | 23 comments
7.
Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click (hackeryogi.com)
235 points by radhakrsna on July 28, 2019 | 114 comments
8.
Border Collie Trained to Recognize 1,022 Nouns Dies (nytimes.com)
195 points by pseudolus on July 28, 2019 | 101 comments
9.
Canada’s Forgotten Rainforest (thenarwhal.ca)
209 points by Red_Tarsius on July 28, 2019 | 62 comments
10.
Why Hypercard Had to Die (2011) (loper-os.org)
206 points by tobr on July 28, 2019 | 202 comments
11.
Coinbase Incident Post Mortem: June 25–26, 2019 (coinbase.com)
127 points by jessepollak on July 28, 2019 | 28 comments
12.
A chat room inside the browser console (console.chat)
167 points by ed on July 27, 2019 | 38 comments
13.
Mango leaves: Indian scientists' solution to a $2.5T global shipping problem (qz.com)
148 points by rubayeet on July 27, 2019 | 19 comments
14.
Gödel's Ontological Proof (wikipedia.org)
125 points by tosh on July 28, 2019 | 124 comments
15.
Spaceman Diff: Diffing Images on the Command Line (github.com/holman)
84 points by goranmoomin on July 28, 2019 | 16 comments
16.
Has the Time Come for City-Run Public Banks? (citylab.com)
109 points by pseudolus on July 27, 2019 | 68 comments
17.
A Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets (bloomberg.com)
316 points by igravious on July 28, 2019 | 349 comments
18.
Apple: No Macintosh Forks. But the iPad... (mondaynote.com)
116 points by evo_9 on July 28, 2019 | 159 comments
19.
Docker 19.03: Rootless Mode (Experimental) (github.com/moby)
97 points by UberIsAnnoying on July 27, 2019 | 43 comments
20.
Safe Deposit Boxes Aren't Safe (nytimes.com)
234 points by rafaelc on July 28, 2019 | 143 comments
21.
“Roman Biro”, complete with joke, found at London building site (theguardian.com)
100 points by sorokod on July 27, 2019 | 44 comments
22.
In Praise of Walking (theguardian.com)
182 points by haasted on July 28, 2019 | 78 comments
23.
OpenBGPD: The OpenBSD BGP internet routing daemon (openbgpd.org)
104 points by beefhash on July 27, 2019 | 31 comments
24.
Fax machines can be hacked to breach a network, using only its number (2018) (healthcareitnews.com)
102 points by DanBC on July 27, 2019 | 10 comments
25.
Misunderstanding Dunning-Kruger (theness.com)
169 points by imartin2k on July 28, 2019 | 86 comments
26.
Surprisingly popular (wikipedia.org)
241 points by tosh on July 28, 2019 | 87 comments
27.
Hell Is Other Internet People (thebaffler.com)
105 points by clydethefrog on July 27, 2019 | 52 comments
28.
The Farm Automation Breakthrough (forbes.com/sites/jimvinoski)
94 points by tomerbd on July 27, 2019 | 23 comments
29.
MathFiction: Alex Recommends (cofc.edu)
94 points by vezycash on July 27, 2019 | 11 comments
30.
The Death of the Mom and Pop E-Store (penguindreams.org)
117 points by sebst on July 27, 2019 | 127 comments

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