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1. I found two identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs (possiblywrong.wordpress.com)
826 points by bookofjoe on April 17, 2019 | 207 comments
2. First Japan-Built Airliner in 50 Years Takes on Boeing and Airbus (bloomberg.com)
406 points by pseudolus on April 18, 2019 | 112 comments
3. How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Developer (ieee.org)
528 points by pross356 on April 18, 2019 | 298 comments
4. Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent (businessinsider.com)
525 points by starmftronajoll on April 18, 2019 | 297 comments
5. The Healing Power of Gardens (nytimes.com)
349 points by dgam on April 18, 2019 | 112 comments
6. Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the work of single author (arstechnica.com)
301 points by Tomte on April 17, 2019 | 93 comments
7. Keeping master green at scale (uber.com)
301 points by roshanj on April 18, 2019 | 115 comments
8. Super Mario Bros. has been released for the Commodore 64 (lemon64.com)
360 points by muterad_murilax on April 18, 2019 | 124 comments
9. Advanced NLP with SpaCy (spacy.io)
357 points by jonbaer on April 18, 2019 | 36 comments
10. Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust (github.com/dessalines)
319 points by adamnemecek on April 17, 2019 | 99 comments
11. AES-GCM-SIV: Nonce Misuse-Resistant Authenticated Encryption (ietf.org)
120 points by conductor on April 18, 2019 | 48 comments
12. Bling Fire: Finite state machine and regular expression manipulation library (github.com/microsoft)
301 points by catam on April 18, 2019 | 65 comments
13. Optimizing M3: Halving Our Metrics Ingestion Latency by Forking the Go Compiler (uber.com)
206 points by roskilli on April 18, 2019 | 67 comments
14. IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery (statnews.com)
257 points by hprotagonist on April 18, 2019 | 169 comments
15. A Cult Japanese Retailer Making Billions Breaking All the Rules (bloomberg.com)
187 points by pseudolus on April 17, 2019 | 140 comments
16. A physics master’s degree opens doors to myriad careers (scitation.org)
169 points by digital55 on April 18, 2019 | 162 comments
17. Once it was easy to be obscure, but technology has ended that (nytimes.com)
240 points by tysone on April 17, 2019 | 190 comments
18. Ask HN: Machine learning resources for audio processing
252 points by samrohn on April 17, 2019 | 26 comments
19. Recursive Drawing (mandalagaba.com)
184 points by Liriel on April 17, 2019 | 36 comments
20. Engineers create ‘lifelike’ material with artificial metabolism (cornell.edu)
147 points by r4um on April 17, 2019 | 51 comments
21. God's Number Is 20 (2010) (cube20.org)
152 points by weinzierl on April 17, 2019 | 83 comments
22. The Parker “51” (2018) (richardspens.com)
78 points by astdb on April 18, 2019 | 70 comments
23. Wipro Intruders Targeted Other Major IT Firms (krebsonsecurity.com)
75 points by valiant-comma on April 18, 2019 | 7 comments
24. Donald E. Knuth: An Oral History (2018) [video] (stanford.edu)
173 points by bsilvereagle on April 18, 2019 | 20 comments
25. Anarchists Who Took the Commuter Train (longreads.com)
107 points by iron0013 on April 17, 2019 | 41 comments
26. ‘Our Lying Eyes’: Inaccurate eyewitness identifications and wrongful convictions (nybooks.com)
74 points by hhs on April 18, 2019 | 36 comments
27. Canada Group Sues Government over Google's Sidewalk Labs (bbc.com)
117 points by colinprince on April 18, 2019 | 65 comments
28. Lessons from the Long Depression (coppolacomment.com)
106 points by jajag on April 17, 2019 | 56 comments
29. Modern Clowning in Los Angeles (dorsia.io)
63 points by aarmenante on April 18, 2019 | 9 comments
30. Lexical Distance Among Languages of Europe (2015) (alternativetransport.wordpress.com)
84 points by lelf on April 16, 2019 | 39 comments

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