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1.
911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage (techcrunch.com)
434 points by LopRabbit on Dec 28, 2018 | 213 comments
2.
What Happens to Kid Culture When Streets Are Closed to Cars (citylab.com)
432 points by anonymfus on Dec 28, 2018 | 233 comments
3.
Fish shell 3.0 (github.com/fish-shell)
506 points by faho on Dec 28, 2018 | 220 comments
4.
Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (crypto101.io)
514 points by febin on Dec 28, 2018 | 67 comments
5.
Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (2015) (vox.com)
244 points by jseliger on Dec 28, 2018 | 293 comments
6.
Portugal’s Economic Revival (nytimes.com)
189 points by Tomte on Dec 28, 2018 | 152 comments
7.
Best Paper Awards in Computer Science since 1996 (jeffhuang.com)
354 points by lazyjeff on Dec 28, 2018 | 46 comments
8.
Inside Haddington Dynamics and Their Groundbreaking Dexter Robot Arm (hackster.io)
102 points by tlrobinson on Dec 28, 2018 | 38 comments
9.
Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles (wsj.com)
222 points by tlrobinson on Dec 28, 2018 | 390 comments
10.
A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love atomic power (hcn.org)
199 points by peterkshultz on Dec 28, 2018 | 223 comments
11.
Show HN: Open source JavaScript library to record and replay the web (rrweb.io)
353 points by yz-yu on Dec 28, 2018 | 51 comments
12.
Show HN: Pg-extend-rs – Easy Postgres extensions in Rust (bluejekyll.github.io)
244 points by bluejekyll on Dec 28, 2018 | 22 comments
13.
More games should be honest about death (rockpapershotgun.com)
199 points by danso on Dec 28, 2018 | 120 comments
14.
Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech (nytimes.com)
241 points by lunchbreak on Dec 27, 2018 | 188 comments
15.
Sketches of Elixir (zdsmith.com)
204 points by signa11 on Dec 27, 2018 | 78 comments
16.
“Modern” C++ Lamentations (aras-p.info)
347 points by tpush on Dec 28, 2018 | 249 comments
17.
The Skylab 4 Mutiny, 1973 (2012) (libcom.org)
184 points by ingve on Dec 28, 2018 | 53 comments
18.
Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors (wsj.com)
176 points by ryanlol on Dec 28, 2018 | 329 comments
19.
New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion (nytimes.com)
240 points by shiftpgdn on Dec 28, 2018 | 166 comments
20.
SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels (hackertarget.com)
376 points by thewanderer1999 on Dec 28, 2018 | 70 comments
21.
Brain.js (github.com/brainjs)
273 points by hliyan on Dec 28, 2018 | 51 comments
22.
Clojure is Capable (ahungry.com)
198 points by ahungry on Dec 27, 2018 | 56 comments
23.
A fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante, and a murder (wired.co.uk)
271 points by Tomte on Dec 27, 2018 | 98 comments
24.
Anatomy of a shell (drewdevault.com)
97 points by emersion on Dec 28, 2018 | 20 comments
25.
Every Building on Every Block: A Time Capsule of 1930s New York (nytimes.com)
83 points by pseudolus on Dec 28, 2018 | 13 comments
26.
A History of Flavoring Food with Castoreum (vice.com)
61 points by tlrobinson on Dec 27, 2018 | 2 comments
27.
The Wright Brothers Defeated Gravity and the Government Machine (medium.com/dialogue-and-discourse)
68 points by TheSpine on Dec 28, 2018 | 56 comments
28.
Inside the AMD Microcode ROM [video] (ccc.de)
170 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 28, 2018 | 36 comments
29.
Bullet Journaling (2016) (popsci.com)
120 points by rfreytag on Dec 27, 2018 | 71 comments
30.
Do Developers Understand IEEE Floating Point? [pdf] (pdinda.org)
116 points by matt_d on Dec 26, 2018 | 100 comments

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