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NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies (reuters.com)
686 points by lladnar on Oct 31, 2019 | 301 comments
2.
Restic – Backups Done Right (restic.net)
593 points by tambourine_man on Oct 31, 2019 | 177 comments
3.
Build Your Own Thrust Vectored Rockets for Vertical Landings Like SpaceX (makezine.com)
457 points by gscott on Oct 31, 2019 | 72 comments
4.
Getting Started with Security Keys (paulstamatiou.com)
346 points by flyosity on Oct 31, 2019 | 99 comments
5.
Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability (piper.com)
294 points by ghgr on Oct 31, 2019 | 232 comments
6.
I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb (vice.com)
1324 points by fieryscribe on Oct 31, 2019 | 618 comments
7.
Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning (deepmind.com)
355 points by hongzi on Oct 31, 2019 | 311 comments
8.
The FBI Is Tracking Our Faces in Secret, and We’re Suing (aclu.org)
511 points by dredmorbius on Oct 31, 2019 | 147 comments
9.
Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban (thehill.com)
356 points by lando2319 on Oct 31, 2019 | 362 comments
10.
We need new data books, so we started one: Cloud Data Management (chartio.com)
270 points by thingsilearned on Oct 31, 2019 | 47 comments
11.
Alf.io: open-source ticket reservation system (alf.io)
234 points by robbya on Oct 31, 2019 | 40 comments
12.
Typestates in Rust (2018) (yoric.github.io)
205 points by lwhsiao on Oct 31, 2019 | 73 comments
13.
The Machine Learning Software Engineering Interview (lyft.com)
238 points by mgrover on Oct 31, 2019 | 74 comments
14.
Plants “panic” when it rains (phys.org)
230 points by lelf on Oct 31, 2019 | 83 comments
15.
Which Planet Is Closest? (cgpgrey.com)
240 points by vl on Oct 31, 2019 | 71 comments
16.
The first high-resolution map of America’s food supply chain (fastcompany.com)
186 points by benryon on Oct 31, 2019 | 66 comments
17.
Frab – free and open conference management system (frab.github.io)
193 points by weinzierl on Oct 31, 2019 | 36 comments
18.
Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 70 Years (thedrive.com)
215 points by tomohawk on Oct 30, 2019 | 158 comments
19.
Show HN: A minimal Fortran TCP client and server (github.com/modern-fortran)
110 points by milancurcic on Oct 30, 2019 | 45 comments
20.
BZFlag (bzflag.org)
141 points by indigodaddy on Oct 30, 2019 | 68 comments
21.
Veterans want answers as new data shows rise in cancers over two decades of war (mcclatchydc.com)
130 points by spking on Oct 31, 2019 | 49 comments
22.
FastSpark: A New Fast Native Implementation of Spark from Scratch (medium.com/rajasekar3eg)
154 points by mkj on Oct 31, 2019 | 92 comments
23.
The Cloud and Open Source (tbray.org)
103 points by jcurbo on Oct 30, 2019 | 32 comments
24.
Static analysis of an unknown compression format (2012) (epita.fr)
111 points by luu on Oct 31, 2019 | 1 comment
25.
The Global Fertility Crash (bloomberg.com)
168 points by montalbano on Oct 31, 2019 | 250 comments
26.
GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract (latimes.com)
300 points by ilamont on Oct 31, 2019 | 638 comments
27.
Snake game made in Go (github.com/tristangoossens)
119 points by tristangoossens on Oct 31, 2019 | 49 comments
28.
Building columnar compression in a row-oriented database (timescale.com)
147 points by craigkerstiens on Oct 31, 2019 | 55 comments
29.
Is Death Reversible? (scientificamerican.com)
154 points by Bender on Oct 31, 2019 | 176 comments
30.
The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (2012) (nasa.gov)
83 points by rfreytag on Oct 29, 2019 | 45 comments

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