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1. Google Is Eating Our Mail (tablix.org)
1931 points by saintamh on April 26, 2019 | 685 comments
2. TurboTax Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines (propublica.org)
881 points by danso on April 26, 2019 | 262 comments
3. Slack S-1 (sec.gov)
593 points by bardworx on April 26, 2019 | 453 comments
4. When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup (stanford.edu)
505 points by CaliforniaKarl on April 26, 2019 | 131 comments
5. Facebook's Email-Harvesting Practice Is Under Investigation in N.Y. (bloomberg.com)
334 points by kerng on April 26, 2019 | 98 comments
6. Can Uber ever make money? (economist.com)
287 points by lxm on April 26, 2019 | 412 comments
7. Base Web, Uber’s New Design System for Building Websites in React (uber.com)
266 points by sgolestane on April 26, 2019 | 148 comments
8. Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database (yugabyte.com)
237 points by sickeythecat on April 26, 2019 | 34 comments
9. Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers’ Performance (2018) (arxiv.org)
324 points by gyre007 on April 26, 2019 | 206 comments
10. Show HN: Sauron – A web framework in Rust that adheres to the Elm architecture (github.com/ivanceras)
305 points by ivanceras on April 26, 2019 | 97 comments
11. Open-sourcing F14 for memory-efficient hash tables (fb.com)
225 points by ot on April 26, 2019 | 45 comments
12. Much of the “science” used in design is bullshit (2014) (mjparnell.com)
330 points by spking on April 26, 2019 | 137 comments
13. How to Read a Schematic (sparkfun.com)
302 points by jlturner on April 26, 2019 | 82 comments
14. Name one thing in this photo (twitter.com/melip0ne)
568 points by explore on April 24, 2019 | 174 comments
15. Stepping Away from Sass (cathydutton.co.uk)
211 points by spking on April 25, 2019 | 155 comments
16. Many people are getting rare cancers in a small Georgia town (atlantamagazine.com)
168 points by echelon on April 26, 2019 | 93 comments
17. After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows To Carry On (npr.org)
161 points by Meerax on April 26, 2019 | 40 comments
18. Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour” (nature.com)
95 points by blh75 on April 26, 2019 | 48 comments
19. RePalm – Hardware Emulation of PalmOS (dmitry.gr)
175 points by zdw on April 26, 2019 | 37 comments
20. VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten (netblocks.org)
127 points by infodocket on April 25, 2019 | 59 comments
21. Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia (2018) (dazeddigital.com)
159 points by sjamella on April 25, 2019 | 36 comments
22. Principles and Techniques of Data Science (ds100.org)
347 points by charlysl on April 26, 2019 | 20 comments
23. WatchMe – Watch for Changes on a Page (github.com/vsoch)
182 points by Bilters on April 26, 2019 | 35 comments
24. Unseen Clockwork Orange 'Follow-Up' by Anthony Burgess Unearthed (bbc.com)
108 points by jonbaer on April 25, 2019 | 17 comments
25. Lisp Operating System (2015) (metamodular.com)
173 points by antipropaganda on April 25, 2019 | 61 comments
26. A former lead designer of Gmail fixes Gmail with a Chrome extension (fastcompany.com)
253 points by georgecmu on April 26, 2019 | 117 comments
27. Welcome to Shanghai, the capital of the future (theglobeandmail.com)
191 points by pseudolus on April 26, 2019 | 227 comments
28. Ecuador legalized gangs and murder rates plummeted (vox.com)
160 points by nwatson on April 24, 2019 | 69 comments
29. Private Space Launch Firms in China Race to Orbit (ieee.org)
73 points by starmanaj on April 26, 2019 | 28 comments
30. About Our Galaxy Fold Teardown (ifixit.org)
155 points by Garbage on April 26, 2019 | 90 comments

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