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1.
The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790 (wsj.com)
914 points by simonebrunozzi on Nov 9, 2019 | 413 comments
2.
My name causes an issue with any booking (travel.stackexchange.com)
812 points by signa11 on Nov 9, 2019 | 369 comments
3.
System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (layerci.com)
852 points by colinchartier on Nov 8, 2019 | 158 comments
4.
It’s Not Enough to Be Right – You Also Have to Be Kind (forge.medium.com)
595 points by victorbojica on Nov 9, 2019 | 304 comments
5.
I got my money back from a scammer by contacting his mom on Facebook (2016) (blog.haschek.at)
508 points by geek_at on Nov 9, 2019 | 174 comments
6.
Time Series Prediction – A short introduction for pragmatists (liip.ch)
393 points by makaimc on Nov 9, 2019 | 55 comments
7.
Fast Markov chains in ~20 lines of sh, grep, cut and Awk (0x0f0f0f.github.io)
369 points by 0x0f0f0f on Nov 9, 2019 | 39 comments
8.
Visual6502 Remix (floooh.github.io)
205 points by ingve on Nov 8, 2019 | 35 comments
9.
My Decade as a Fugitive (californiasunday.com)
183 points by wallflower on Nov 8, 2019 | 108 comments
10.
How Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't (gankra.github.io)
306 points by gok on Nov 9, 2019 | 170 comments
11.
Curl to shell isn't so bad (arp242.net)
266 points by stargrave on Nov 9, 2019 | 193 comments
12.
Mark Twain playing with electricity in Nikola Tesla's lab in 1894 (2013) (openculture.com)
117 points by bookofjoe on Nov 8, 2019 | 18 comments
13.
Expertise in the Age of YouTube (behavioralscientist.org)
189 points by zzaner on Nov 8, 2019 | 107 comments
14.
Show HN: LuaJIT assembler/assembly language for direct bytecode programming (github.com/rochus-keller)
141 points by Rochus on Nov 9, 2019 | 29 comments
15.
Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry Through Microbenchmarking (stuffedcow.net)
152 points by rrampage on Nov 9, 2019 | 18 comments
16.
List of Hoaxes on Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
181 points by 1_over_n on Nov 9, 2019 | 72 comments
17.
Haskell and Rust (fpcomplete.com)
148 points by pmoriarty on Nov 9, 2019 | 129 comments
18.
Elephants Rarely Get Cancer, Now We Know Why (2015) (discovermagazine.com)
153 points by Osiris30 on Nov 8, 2019 | 85 comments
19.
Type Checking for BPF Tracing (lwn.net)
50 points by signa11 on Nov 8, 2019
20.
Show HN: Nonprofit Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Shopping Platform (nearbyshops.org)
154 points by sumeetk on Nov 8, 2019 | 39 comments
21.
Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill available time (bbc.com)
142 points by pseudolus on Nov 9, 2019 | 29 comments
22.
Scientists take strides towards entirely renewable energy (phys.org)
63 points by dnetesn on Nov 8, 2019 | 24 comments
23.
Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (2005) (joelonsoftware.com)
112 points by aleyan on Nov 8, 2019 | 46 comments
24.
Spyware Maker NSO Group Promises Reform but Keeps Snooping (nytimes.com)
86 points by haasted on Nov 9, 2019 | 29 comments
25.
Instagram to test hiding like counts in the US (techcrunch.com)
115 points by asamant on Nov 9, 2019 | 60 comments
26.
Union Types have been accepted for PHP 8 (php.net)
140 points by BafS on Nov 9, 2019 | 99 comments
27.
The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of Patent Trolling (time.com)
121 points by MrXOR on Nov 9, 2019 | 46 comments
28.
Liverpool’s Crosby Beach Is a Mile of World War II Blitz Rubble (atlasobscura.com)
60 points by apollinaire on Nov 8, 2019 | 23 comments
29.
WebKit Goals for 2020 (webkit.org)
170 points by piccirello on Nov 9, 2019 | 149 comments
30.
Abe Lincoln Looks West: How the Civil War Changed the Frontier (laphamsquarterly.org)
36 points by samclemens on Nov 8, 2019 | 14 comments

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