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1. An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake from 1974 (threadreaderapp.com)
791 points by InclinedPlane on Nov 4, 2018 | 252 comments
2. Harvard Converts Millions of Legal Documents into Open Data (govtech.com)
331 points by profquail on Nov 4, 2018 | 31 comments
3. Prison time, hefty fines for data privacy violations: draft U.S. Senate bill (reuters.com)
386 points by octosphere on Nov 4, 2018 | 270 comments
4. An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus (2009) (wraabe.wordpress.com)
343 points by userbinator on Nov 4, 2018 | 90 comments
5. Apple's T2 chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone (techcrunch.com)
218 points by tosh on Nov 4, 2018 | 151 comments
6. My Amazon Interview Horror Story (igorkromin.net)
351 points by ikromin on Nov 4, 2018 | 292 comments
7. GoCity – Code City metaphor for visualizing Go source code (go-city.github.io)
210 points by eqcho on Nov 4, 2018 | 35 comments
8. A key ingredient for a universal flu vaccine may come from llamas (latimes.com)
184 points by superpickles789 on Nov 4, 2018 | 49 comments
9. Show HN: Technical note app that builds a knowledge base (monocorpus.com)
180 points by mtbarta on Nov 4, 2018 | 52 comments
10. EventStore: Open-Source, Functional Database with Complex Event Processing in JS (github.com/eventstore)
122 points by juancampa on Nov 4, 2018 | 63 comments
11. An iOS dev's intro to graphics, and a graphics engineer's intro to ARKit (medium.com/maxxfrazer)
74 points by maxxfrazer on Nov 3, 2018 | 2 comments
12. Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of pollutants (atlasobscura.com)
140 points by basicplus2 on Nov 4, 2018 | 138 comments
13. So You Want to Learn Physics (2016) (susanjfowler.com)
229 points by happy-go-lucky on Nov 4, 2018 | 122 comments
14. Real Progress in Parkinson’s (blogs.sciencemag.org)
140 points by etiam on Nov 4, 2018 | 20 comments
15. 6502 Language Implementation Approaches (dwheeler.com)
105 points by ingve on Nov 4, 2018 | 26 comments
16. Learning Clojure: comparing with Java streams (frankel.ch)
117 points by nfrankel on Nov 4, 2018 | 44 comments
17. Collecting and the age of memeing (ecns.cn)
56 points by exolymph on Nov 3, 2018 | 25 comments
18. Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038 (robertelder.org)
199 points by robertelder on Nov 4, 2018 | 65 comments
19. Stealing Chrome cookies without a password (pdf.zone)
125 points by octosphere on Nov 4, 2018 | 45 comments
20. Scaling Machine Learning at Uber with Michelangelo (uber.com)
112 points by dpandya on Nov 4, 2018 | 59 comments
21. Quark Deconfinement as Supernova Explosion Engine for Blue Supergiant Stars (nature.com)
47 points by gotocake on Nov 4, 2018 | 6 comments
22. Prolog Under the Hood: An Honest Look (1992) (amzi.com)
60 points by networked on Nov 4, 2018 | 57 comments
23. A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone (newyorker.com)
80 points by Tomte on Nov 3, 2018 | 13 comments
24. In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You (2012) (crookedtimber.org)
92 points by mpweiher on Nov 3, 2018 | 109 comments
25. Avoiding race conditions in Swift (swiftbysundell.com)
63 points by ingve on Nov 4, 2018 | 38 comments
26. Wired Interviews Bill Gates (1996) [video] (youtube.com)
139 points by ytrash on Nov 4, 2018 | 55 comments
27. Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (2012) (kuomarc.wordpress.com)
121 points by pmoriarty on Nov 3, 2018 | 165 comments
28. A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010) (regehr.org)
74 points by pmoriarty on Nov 3, 2018 | 103 comments
29. Coffman engine starter (wikipedia.org)
58 points by zeristor on Nov 3, 2018 | 15 comments
30. Things Stanislaw Lem Predicted (culture.pl)
167 points by a_bonobo on Nov 3, 2018 | 39 comments

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