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1.
NULL license plate not such a bright idea (iheart.com)
999 points by dublin on Aug 12, 2019 | 467 comments
2.
Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic (wsj.com)
879 points by minimaxir on Aug 12, 2019 | 449 comments
3.
Python Is Eating the World (zdnet.com)
879 points by gilad on Aug 12, 2019 | 957 comments
4.
Why has examine.com disappeared from search results? (examine.com)
750 points by cyrusshepard on Aug 12, 2019 | 353 comments
5.
The Horror of Microsoft Teams (medium.com/joshuamkite)
544 points by rekoros on Aug 12, 2019 | 332 comments
6.
Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected (bleepingcomputer.com)
440 points by nradov on Aug 11, 2019 | 193 comments
7.
Await in Rust (docs.rs)
368 points by luu on Aug 11, 2019 | 243 comments
8.
Metal shards from Boeing 787 taking off over Rome rain down on people below (independent.co.uk)
253 points by remote_phone on Aug 12, 2019 | 122 comments
9.
A Bloomberg reporter’s account of trying to get back his name and credit rating (bloomberg.com)
261 points by pseudolus on Aug 12, 2019 | 199 comments
10.
Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots into Bee Farms (2018) (huffingtonpost.com)
160 points by rmason on Aug 12, 2019 | 107 comments
11.
Home 3D metal printing: first results (incoherency.co.uk)
187 points by jstanley on Aug 12, 2019 | 31 comments
12.
Finding Amelia Earhart’s Plane Seemed Impossible – Then Came a Startling Clue (nytimes.com)
119 points by tlb on Aug 12, 2019 | 51 comments
13.
Where will ‘garage orphans’ charge electric cars? (theglobeandmail.com)
151 points by throw0101a on Aug 12, 2019 | 526 comments
14.
The worst sales promotion in history: Hoover's free flight fiasco (thehustle.co)
281 points by occamschainsaw on Aug 11, 2019 | 169 comments
15.
Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup (nakedcapitalism.com)
177 points by Cbasedlifeform on Aug 12, 2019 | 162 comments
16.
P++ idea: FAQ (php.net)
167 points by tnorthcutt on Aug 10, 2019 | 91 comments
17.
SEC Investigating Data Leak at First American Financial Corp (krebsonsecurity.com)
89 points by feross on Aug 12, 2019 | 14 comments
18.
Which Categories of Seed Startups Are Thriving? Which Aren't? (tomtunguz.com)
126 points by rmason on Aug 11, 2019 | 55 comments
19.
Why Does Infrastructure Cost So Much? (strongtowns.org)
189 points by jseliger on Aug 12, 2019 | 221 comments
20.
Xfce 4.14 (xfce.org)
380 points by severine on Aug 12, 2019 | 128 comments
21.
Economist Raj Chetty has found a surprising tool to fight housing segregation (vox.com)
137 points by MaysonL on Aug 11, 2019 | 115 comments
22.
Social exclusion fuels extremism in young men (neurosciencenews.com)
302 points by jseliger on Aug 12, 2019 | 326 comments
23.
Spying on HTTPS (textslashplain.com)
257 points by rom1v on Aug 12, 2019 | 115 comments
24.
Monads as a Programming Pattern (samgrayson.me)
233 points by charmonium on Aug 12, 2019 | 80 comments
25.
Poetry: Dependency Management for Python (eustace.io)
236 points by jtanderson on Aug 12, 2019 | 75 comments
26.
Ear Speakers – Research, Design, and Evolution (valvesoftware.com)
96 points by mxfh on Aug 9, 2019 | 44 comments
27.
Extended Validation Certificates Are Really Dead (troyhunt.com)
162 points by dyates on Aug 12, 2019 | 149 comments
28.
Teen Hacker Finds Bugs in School Software That Exposed Millions of Records (wired.com)
174 points by nreece on Aug 10, 2019 | 65 comments
29.
OpenCensus Web: A tool to trace and monitor user-perceived performance (googleblog.com)
123 points by crdgonzalezca on Aug 12, 2019 | 26 comments
30.
Hall’s Law: The Nineteenth Century Prequel to Moore’s Law (2012) (ribbonfarm.com)
67 points by Hooke on Aug 11, 2019 | 2 comments

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