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1.
Better World Books and the Internet Archive Unite to Preserve Millions of Books (against-the-grain.com)
389 points by l1n on Nov 6, 2019 | 44 comments
2.
What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising? (thecorrespondent.com)
500 points by anielsen on Nov 6, 2019 | 358 comments
3.
In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas (nytimes.com)
540 points by grzm on Nov 6, 2019 | 327 comments
4.
Congolese doctor discovered Ebola, but didn't get credit until now (npr.org)
370 points by respinal on Nov 6, 2019 | 74 comments
5.
TypeScript 3.7 (typescriptlang.org)
415 points by nerdkid93 on Nov 5, 2019 | 162 comments
6.
Start before you think you’re ready (austinkleon.com)
299 points by ingve on Nov 6, 2019 | 76 comments
7.
Is Inequality Inevitable? (scientificamerican.com)
238 points by viburnum on Nov 6, 2019 | 598 comments
8.
Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system (bbc.com)
431 points by osivertsson on Nov 6, 2019 | 216 comments
9.
A Study of Meditation Under the Influence of Psilocybin (nature.com)
278 points by say_it_as_it_is on Nov 6, 2019 | 154 comments
10.
“Is your startup idea taken?” and why we love X for Y startups (andrewchen.co)
317 points by motiw on Nov 6, 2019 | 223 comments
11.
Intel publishes misleading benchmarks against AMD (servethehome.com)
618 points by PaulHoule on Nov 6, 2019 | 202 comments
12.
Biometric YubiKey (yubico.com)
264 points by JoachimS on Nov 6, 2019 | 199 comments
13.
First New HIV Strain in 19 Years Identified (scientificamerican.com)
213 points by mrburton on Nov 6, 2019 | 87 comments
14.
Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outside of a crosswalk (theregister.co.uk)
457 points by notlukesky on Nov 6, 2019 | 563 comments
15.
DNA database that found Golden State Killer is potential national security leak (technologyreview.com)
233 points by mhb on Nov 6, 2019 | 190 comments
16.
CRDT: Conflict-free replicated data type (wikipedia.org)
229 points by tosh on Nov 6, 2019 | 63 comments
17.
Ask HN: How do you make sure your servers are up as a single founder?
448 points by thr0waway998877 on Nov 6, 2019 | 223 comments
18.
Self Sabotage: The Swiss History of Rigging Vital Infrastructure to Explode (99percentinvisible.org)
209 points by ubac on Nov 5, 2019 | 129 comments
19.
Postgres Health Check and SQL Performance Analysis (gitlab.com/postgres-ai)
169 points by torvald on Nov 6, 2019 | 18 comments
20.
Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed of a memory copy (arxiv.org)
344 points by beefhash on Nov 6, 2019 | 115 comments
21.
Mark Text: Simple and Elegant Markdown Editor Focused on Speed and Usability (marktext.app)
206 points by severine on Nov 6, 2019 | 141 comments
22.
Airbnb Plans to Verify Every Listing (nytimes.com)
175 points by ilamont on Nov 6, 2019 | 183 comments
23.
File systems unfit as distributed storage back ends: lessons from Ceph evolution (acolyer.org)
264 points by r4um on Nov 6, 2019 | 71 comments
24.
South Koreans fake their funerals for life lessons (reuters.com)
170 points by spking on Nov 6, 2019 | 61 comments
25.
The Emergent Features of JuliaLang: Part II – Traits (invenia.github.io)
107 points by eperim on Nov 6, 2019 | 18 comments
26.
Ogre 1.12.3 (ogre3d.org)
108 points by bbmario on Nov 5, 2019 | 61 comments
27.
One Tether Trader Didn't Cause the Bitcoin Bubble (bloomberg.com)
157 points by felixbraun on Nov 6, 2019 | 127 comments
28.
Facebook says one hundred API users may have improperly accessed user data (nbcnews.com)
209 points by happy-go-lucky on Nov 6, 2019 | 67 comments
29.
For Sale: Sat-Takers’ Names. Colleges Buy Student Data and Boost Exclusivity (wsj.com)
152 points by andygcook on Nov 6, 2019 | 105 comments
30.
Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done” (2016) (hbr.org)
83 points by tosh on Nov 5, 2019 | 13 comments

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