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1.		Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode (heise.de)
		552 points by r0nny on Aug 15, 2019 \| 155 comments
2.		YAML: Probably not so great after all (arp242.net)
		445 points by kylequest on Aug 18, 2019 \| 444 comments
3.		Tech Interview Handbook (yangshun.github.io)
		760 points by yangshun on Aug 17, 2019 \| 324 comments
4.		Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use (nurpax.github.io)
		305 points by nurpax on Aug 18, 2019 \| 60 comments
5.		Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a security vulnerability (thenextweb.com)
		539 points by praveenscience on Aug 18, 2019 \| 162 comments
6.		The Architecture of Open Source Applications (aosabook.org)
		423 points by goranmoomin on Aug 18, 2019 \| 37 comments
7.		Python vs. Rust for Neural Networks (ngoldbaum.github.io)
		290 points by rencire on Aug 18, 2019 \| 142 comments
8.		Building ages in the Netherlands (parallel.co.uk)
		237 points by Schiphol on Aug 18, 2019 \| 49 comments
9.		Why doesn't mathematics collapse, though humans often make mistakes in proofs? (mathoverflow.net)
		256 points by mathgenius on Aug 18, 2019 \| 80 comments
10.		Giving up on Julia (2016) (zverovich.net)
		192 points by optimalsolver on Aug 18, 2019 \| 167 comments
11.		J can look like APL or English (wjmn.github.io)
		153 points by paliilap on Aug 18, 2019 \| 28 comments
12.		Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf] (okbjgm.weebly.com)
		189 points by jashkenas on Aug 18, 2019 \| 20 comments
13.		In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels (arstechnica.com)
		238 points by anandaverma18 on Aug 18, 2019 \| 154 comments
14.		The interviewer skills ladder for high growth companies (medium.com/alexallain)
		182 points by leeny on Aug 16, 2019 \| 30 comments
15.		Ruffle – An Adobe Flash Player Written in Rust Compiled to WebAssembly (github.com/ruffle-rs)
		206 points by conroy on Aug 18, 2019 \| 70 comments
16.		Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972) [pdf] (sciencemadness.org)
		150 points by ColinWright on Aug 18, 2019 \| 34 comments
17.		Interslavic Language (steen.free.fr)
		161 points by platform on Aug 18, 2019 \| 137 comments
18.		Two brothers invented an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde (news.microsoft.com)
		151 points by curtis on Aug 15, 2019 \| 59 comments
19.		Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have less than 5% battery (apps.apple.com)
		265 points by driesdep on Aug 18, 2019 \| 145 comments
20.		Volcanoes on the Moon May Have Erupted During the Dinosaur Age (2014) (space.com)
		67 points by curtis on Aug 18, 2019 \| 34 comments
21.		The League of Entropy Is Making Randomness Truly Random (onezero.medium.com)
		94 points by kiyanwang on Aug 17, 2019 \| 37 comments
22.		The Software Arts (ucsc.edu)
		51 points by Hooke on Aug 15, 2019 \| 8 comments
23.		Marium, the Dugong Who Charmed Thailand, Dies After Ingesting Plastic (npr.org)
		91 points by laurex on Aug 18, 2019 \| 57 comments
24.		Using Wall Street secrets to reduce the cost of cloud infrastructure (techxplore.com)
		55 points by dnetesn on Aug 17, 2019 \| 11 comments
25.		Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global recycling crisis (theiet.org)
		67 points by alex_young on Aug 18, 2019 \| 84 comments
26.		Getting Started with Lisp in 2019 (smalldata.tech)
		125 points by wheresvic3 on Aug 18, 2019 \| 64 comments
27.		The Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition (tgceec.tumblr.com)
		106 points by rahimiali on Aug 18, 2019 \| 32 comments
28.		General Balanced Trees (1999) [pdf] (uu.se)
		55 points by brudgers on Aug 17, 2019 \| 11 comments
29.		Microsoft Has First Major Impact on Chrome (thurrott.com)
		147 points by adrian_mrd on Aug 17, 2019 \| 114 comments
30.		HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts to shut out trolls (news.rthk.hk)
		170 points by s_Hogg on Aug 18, 2019 \| 43 comments
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