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Calgary student has been studying decibel levels in hand dryers since age nine (cbc.ca)
681 points by lxm on June 26, 2019 | 320 comments
2.
Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust (brave.com)
669 points by teovoinea on June 26, 2019 | 359 comments
3.
Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio? (stackoverflow.com)
909 points by iokanuon on June 26, 2019 | 402 comments
4.
Real-world dynamic programming: seam carving (avikdas.com)
412 points by akdas on June 26, 2019 | 66 comments
5.
‘Pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation (cam.ac.uk)
377 points by EndXA on June 26, 2019 | 205 comments
6.
HTML is the Web (petelambert.com)
561 points by mmoez on June 26, 2019 | 328 comments
7.
Next steps toward Go 2 (golang.org)
334 points by rom16384 on June 26, 2019 | 214 comments
8.
The Toyota Way (wikipedia.org)
368 points by qin on June 26, 2019 | 216 comments
9.
SymPy makes math fun again (wordsandbuttons.online)
267 points by maximilianroos on June 26, 2019 | 59 comments
10.
Apple buys autonomous driving company Drive.ai (axios.com)
440 points by _ps6d on June 26, 2019 | 214 comments
11.
Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011) (idlewords.com)
346 points by rmbryan on June 26, 2019 | 190 comments
12.
Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ramp Up (bloomberg.com)
272 points by malshe on June 26, 2019 | 195 comments
13.
VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard (vesa.org)
234 points by zaphoyd on June 26, 2019 | 227 comments
14.
A Visual Intro to NumPy and Data Representation (jalammar.github.io)
366 points by jalammar on June 26, 2019 | 21 comments
15.
150k Small Business Website Teardown 2019 (freshchalk.com)
298 points by gurgeous on June 26, 2019 | 59 comments
16.
The “backfire effect” is mostly a myth, a broad look at the research suggests (niemanlab.org)
125 points by hhs on June 26, 2019 | 98 comments
17.
BTrDB: Berkeley Tree Database (btrdb.io)
231 points by tectonic on June 25, 2019 | 44 comments
18.
Hey advertisers, track this (blog.mozilla.org)
493 points by dantondwa on June 26, 2019 | 230 comments
19.
Rich Felker of musl libc comments on Google's LLVM libc proposal (llvm.org)
387 points by maximilianroos on June 25, 2019 | 159 comments
20.
Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge (behavioralscientist.org)
246 points by hirundo on June 26, 2019 | 318 comments
21.
I was seven words away from being spear-phished (robertheaton.com)
436 points by _ttg on June 26, 2019 | 180 comments
22.
Lyme Disease Cases Are Exploding (elemental.medium.com)
321 points by sb057 on June 25, 2019 | 230 comments
23.
Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?
374 points by subhrm on June 26, 2019 | 373 comments
24.
When Pepsi Had a Navy (lflank.wordpress.com)
223 points by davesailer on June 26, 2019 | 66 comments
25.
Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (princeton.edu)
228 points by mxfh on June 25, 2019 | 76 comments
26.
The West’s failed fight against China’s ‘Cloud Hopper’ hackers (reuters.com)
151 points by metaphysics on June 26, 2019 | 131 comments
27.
A photo history of Frog, the company that designed the original Mac (theverge.com)
111 points by microwavecamera on June 26, 2019 | 29 comments
28.
What is ergodicity? (2016) (larspsyll.wordpress.com)
155 points by lamby on June 26, 2019 | 54 comments
29.
YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism (bloomberg.com)
133 points by gilad on June 26, 2019 | 139 comments
30.
U.S. Tech Companies Sidestep a Ban, to Keep Selling to Huawei (nytimes.com)
120 points by Despegar on June 25, 2019 | 81 comments

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