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1. Cloudflare S-1 (sec.gov)
915 points by tpw212 on Aug 15, 2019 | 351 comments
2. The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist (npr.org)
536 points by danso on Aug 15, 2019 | 157 comments
3. Amazon offered ‘Amazon’s Choice’ to vendors who bought ads and lowered prices (digiday.com)
395 points by ilamont on Aug 15, 2019 | 122 comments
4. Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment (stripe.com)
569 points by mhoad on Aug 15, 2019 | 205 comments
5. WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy (webkit.org)
397 points by feross on Aug 14, 2019 | 245 comments
6. People Simply Empty Out (1986) (lettersofnote.com)
399 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 15, 2019 | 226 comments
7. I wasn’t getting hired as a data scientist, so I sought data on who is (towardsdatascience.com)
403 points by jonbaer on Aug 15, 2019 | 101 comments
8. AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans (theverge.com)
410 points by smohnot on Aug 15, 2019 | 289 comments
9. Martini: Real-Time Terrain Mesh Generator (observablehq.com)
339 points by mourner on Aug 15, 2019 | 65 comments
10. I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code (github.com/hoanhan101)
450 points by hoanhan101 on Aug 15, 2019 | 52 comments
11. CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet (cutiepi.io)
463 points by ducaale on Aug 15, 2019 | 142 comments
12. Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents (wsj.com)
295 points by Bostonian on Aug 14, 2019 | 71 comments
13. America’s elderly seem more screen-obsessed than the young (economist.com)
216 points by CPAhem on Aug 15, 2019 | 101 comments
14. Google Warns Developers That All New Android Apps Require 3 Days for Approval (choiceofgames.com)
203 points by dfabulich on Aug 15, 2019 | 112 comments
15. Google Forcing Nest Cameras’ Visual Indicator Light To Be On (mattcrampton.com)
185 points by revicon on Aug 14, 2019 | 155 comments
16. Chemists make first-ever ring of pure carbon (nature.com)
157 points by headalgorithm on Aug 15, 2019 | 62 comments
17. Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances (amazon.com)
141 points by ingve on Aug 15, 2019 | 35 comments
18. Hedonometer (hedonometer.org)
206 points by mhb on Aug 15, 2019 | 70 comments
19. Static Analysis at Scale: An Instagram Story (instagram-engineering.com)
137 points by YoavShapira on Aug 15, 2019 | 34 comments
20. Mapped: The world’s coal power plants (carbonbrief.org)
168 points by acidburnNSA on Aug 14, 2019 | 164 comments
21. A bug I wish I hadn't caught (roganmurley.com)
241 points by fagnerbrack on Aug 13, 2019 | 94 comments
22. Moravec's Paradox (wikipedia.org)
155 points by jkuria on Aug 15, 2019 | 87 comments
23. Toptal suit against co-founder dismissed (pacermonitor.com)
120 points by ivanech on Aug 15, 2019 | 75 comments
24. Rust 1.37.0 (rust-lang.org)
393 points by pietroalbini on Aug 15, 2019 | 183 comments
25. The death of a weather satellite as seen by SDR (hackaday.com)
92 points by guiambros on Aug 13, 2019 | 20 comments
26. Columnist asked researchers what they could find out from just his cell number (nytimes.com)
143 points by sneeze-slayer on Aug 15, 2019 | 111 comments
27. WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera (theverge.com)
352 points by artsandsci on Aug 15, 2019 | 194 comments
28. Google’s rivals opt out of search engine auction, calling it ‘anti-competitive’ (venturebeat.com)
173 points by fourthark on Aug 15, 2019 | 111 comments
29. Which Is the Best John Le Carré Novel? (2014) (newyorker.com)
68 points by keiferski on Aug 14, 2019 | 35 comments
30. Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos calls GE a ‘bigger fraud than Enron’ (cnbc.com)
297 points by one2zero on Aug 15, 2019 | 236 comments

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