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1.
Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals (latimes.com)
626 points by bookofjoe on July 13, 2019 | 297 comments
2.
Show HN: Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Setup Database (steinhq.com)
296 points by shivensinha4 on July 13, 2019 | 65 comments
3.
Mysterious illness that paralyzes healthy kids prompts plea from CDC (arstechnica.com)
244 points by smacktoward on July 12, 2019 | 82 comments
4.
Google Photos is making photos semi-public (medium.com/robertwiblin)
386 points by robertwiblin on July 13, 2019 | 139 comments
5.
The Good Employee, a story about how you can explain companies with graph theory (madeddu.xyz)
128 points by made2591 on July 12, 2019 | 17 comments
6.
Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State (2008) (clojure.org)
190 points by tosh on July 13, 2019 | 62 comments
7.
AMD Ryzen 3000 Post-Review BIOS Update Recap: Larger ST Gains, Some Gains/Losses (anandtech.com)
145 points by rbanffy on July 12, 2019 | 134 comments
8.
Costa Rica has run on 100% renewable energy for 300 days (vt.co)
409 points by Biba89 on July 12, 2019 | 178 comments
9.
Molten Salt Reactors (whatisnuclear.com)
155 points by zeristor on July 12, 2019 | 120 comments
10.
Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a Proxy (boredhacking.com)
165 points by bored_hacker on July 13, 2019 | 90 comments
11.
Tiles to Curves: Fun with Voronoi Graphs (gamedev.net)
148 points by worldsayshi on July 11, 2019 | 8 comments
12.
Why the C++ standard ships every three years (herbsutter.com)
229 points by frostmatthew on July 13, 2019 | 220 comments
13.
Petrichor: why does rain smell so good? (bbc.com)
206 points by happy-go-lucky on July 13, 2019 | 34 comments
14.
The Challenges of Operating a Computing Cloud and Charging for Its Use (2017) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
92 points by dastbe on July 13, 2019 | 3 comments
15.
Allow 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range (kernel.org)
241 points by cesarb on July 13, 2019 | 124 comments
16.
Eastgate Centre, Harare (wikipedia.org)
201 points by zeristor on July 13, 2019 | 60 comments
17.
Imaging Bell-type nonlocal behavior (advances.sciencemag.org)
160 points by karxxm on July 13, 2019 | 23 comments
18.
Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download (twitter.com/oasace)
513 points by meerita on July 13, 2019 | 155 comments
19.
Unemployed Fishing (drakemag.com)
151 points by unquote on July 11, 2019 | 64 comments
20.
A Navy veteran refused to accept a ‘no’ to his battery invention (techcrunch.com)
102 points by goodmachine on July 12, 2019 | 57 comments
21.
AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking (newscientist.com)
248 points by signa11 on July 11, 2019 | 115 comments
22.
Programming and Programming Languages (2018) (brown.edu)
155 points by AlexeyBrin on July 12, 2019 | 4 comments
23.
Tekton Pipelines – K8s-style resources for declaring CI pipelines (github.com/tektoncd)
83 points by based2 on July 13, 2019 | 20 comments
24.
The Structure and Interpretation of the Computer Science Curriculum (2004) (brown.edu)
81 points by tosh on July 13, 2019 | 13 comments
25.
Steam Labs (steampowered.com)
145 points by danso on July 11, 2019 | 54 comments
26.
Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Has Died (nytimes.com)
84 points by NaOH on July 13, 2019 | 22 comments
27.
First Moon landing was nearly a US–Soviet mission (nature.com)
99 points by bristleworm on July 12, 2019 | 34 comments
28.
Judge Gives E-Cigarette Makers 10 Months to Seek FDA Review (bloomberg.com)
96 points by JumpCrisscross on July 12, 2019 | 117 comments
29.
Amazon EventBridge: The biggest thing since AWS Lambda (trek10.com)
178 points by gilad on July 13, 2019 | 56 comments
30.
VW invests $2.6B in self-driving startup Argo AI as part of Ford alliance (techcrunch.com)
107 points by kqr2 on July 13, 2019 | 115 comments

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