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1.
Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff (techcrunch.com)
682 points by sohkamyung on June 8, 2019 | 308 comments
2.
Zanzibar: Consistent, Global Authorization System (ai.google)
365 points by acjohnson55 on June 8, 2019 | 129 comments
3.
The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature (wired.com)
357 points by nnx on June 8, 2019 | 117 comments
4.
New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It (nytimes.com)
402 points by howard941 on June 8, 2019 | 420 comments
5.
Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years (apnews.com)
240 points by antigizmo on June 8, 2019 | 61 comments
6.
The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates the GPL (twitter.com/foone)
317 points by donohoe on June 7, 2019 | 160 comments
7.
WeChat and the Surveillance State (bbc.com)
401 points by Markoff on June 8, 2019 | 255 comments
8.
Grover – A State-of-the-Art Defense Against Neural Fake News (allenai.org)
151 points by Qworg on June 8, 2019 | 68 comments
9.
It's time to switch to a four-day working week, say two experts (weforum.org)
313 points by joeyespo on June 8, 2019 | 154 comments
10.
USA lags behind EU, Brazil and China in banning harmful pesticides (phys.org)
225 points by QuickToBan on June 8, 2019 | 69 comments
11.
Gut bacteria may change the way many drugs work in the body (sciencenews.org)
186 points by idl3Y on June 8, 2019 | 47 comments
12.
Language, trees, and geometry in neural networks (pair-code.github.io)
125 points by 1wheel on June 7, 2019 | 5 comments
13.
Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light (news.mit.edu)
140 points by rbanffy on June 8, 2019 | 35 comments
14.
IBM and the Holocaust (2017) (oregonstate.edu)
219 points by luu on June 7, 2019 | 120 comments
15.
Rust, Macros, λ-calculus/Church numerals, oh my (github.com/nixpulvis)
121 points by nixpulvis on June 8, 2019 | 76 comments
16.
Generate new repositories with repository templates (github.blog)
146 points by mxstbr on June 8, 2019 | 24 comments
17.
Files UWP: An enthusiast’s take on what Windows File Explorer explorer should be (github.com/duke7553)
153 points by arthurz on June 8, 2019 | 178 comments
18.
GPT2, Counting Consciousness and the Curious Hacker (medium.com/npcollapse)
121 points by exolymph on June 8, 2019 | 58 comments
19.
ColorKitty: Find palettes from pictures (colorkitty.com)
94 points by based2 on June 8, 2019 | 19 comments
20.
Advertising may make people miserable, but it still has its uses (economist.com)
77 points by jkuria on June 8, 2019 | 120 comments
21.
America's rural radio stations are vanishing (theguardian.com)
100 points by eplanit on June 8, 2019 | 79 comments
22.
I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project (github.com/trillcyborg)
487 points by bubblehack3r on June 8, 2019 | 261 comments
23.
Write HTML Like It's 1999 (bradleytaunt.com)
254 points by bradley_taunt on June 8, 2019 | 187 comments
24.
Outrageously Large Neural Nets: Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer (2017) (arxiv.org)
65 points by msoad on June 8, 2019 | 33 comments
25.
Underwater Drones Nearly Triple Data from the Ocean Floor (bloomberg.com)
87 points by pseudolus on June 7, 2019 | 10 comments
26.
To stop a virus, California has euthanized more than 1.2M birds (latimes.com)
89 points by pseudolus on June 8, 2019 | 56 comments
27.
The human body is a mosaic of different genomes (nature.com)
114 points by pseudolus on June 8, 2019 | 12 comments
28.
Teenagers campaigning for Mike Gravel on Twitter (nytimes.com)
100 points by ordiblah on June 8, 2019 | 48 comments
29.
Trails Made by Starlink Satellites (iau.org)
69 points by tbeutel on June 8, 2019 | 27 comments
30.
The volatile era that gave rise to Jane Austen and Lord Byron (washingtonpost.com)
44 points by ohaikbai on June 7, 2019 | 1 comment

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