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1. The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender (thegrove3d.com)
604 points by juretriglav on Oct 20, 2019 | 49 comments
2. Lesser Known Coding Fonts (vfoley.xyz)
640 points by signa11 on Oct 20, 2019 | 246 comments
3. Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011) (kalzumeus.com)
570 points by greyoda on Oct 20, 2019 | 307 comments
4. Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting Pwnagotchi 1.0.0 (evilsocket.net)
336 points by dyslexit on Oct 20, 2019 | 51 comments
5. Compiling my own SPARC CPU inside a cheap FPGA (thanassis.space)
266 points by ttsiodras on Oct 20, 2019 | 127 comments
6. Python at Scale: Strict Modules (instagram-engineering.com)
388 points by apadmarao on Oct 17, 2019 | 251 comments
7. Practice Sight-Reading Music (sightreading.training)
235 points by disqard on Oct 18, 2019 | 45 comments
8. Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?
563 points by ryanmccullagh on Oct 20, 2019 | 601 comments
9. 38 People are looking at this post right now (twitter.com/ophirharpaz)
477 points by joeyespo on Oct 20, 2019 | 189 comments
10. Boeing Engineers Lost Control of the Company (perell.com)
352 points by davidperell on Oct 20, 2019 | 213 comments
11. Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM (hansdegoede.livejournal.com)
426 points by toma1k on Oct 20, 2019 | 318 comments
12. Today’s correction isn’t much like the dot-com bubble (theatlantic.com)
238 points by akrain on Oct 20, 2019 | 152 comments
13. A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS (2018) (hacks.mozilla.org)
196 points by absqueued on Oct 20, 2019 | 124 comments
14. F# RISC-V Instruction Set Formal Specification (github.com/mrlsd)
122 points by adamnemecek on Oct 20, 2019 | 16 comments
15. Soundex – a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound (wikipedia.org)
106 points by jstrieb on Oct 20, 2019 | 41 comments
16. Ancient Maya Farms Revealed by Laser Scanning (eos.org)
57 points by vinayan3 on Oct 19, 2019 | 11 comments
17. Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World (stanford.edu)
87 points by rfreytag on Oct 20, 2019 | 6 comments
18. Planetary 'autopsies' indicate worlds like Earth common in the cosmos (reuters.com)
115 points by weare138 on Oct 20, 2019 | 101 comments
19. The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor' (2018) (theatlantic.com)
143 points by agarden on Oct 19, 2019 | 121 comments
20. Igloo: A simple Windows automation tool (easyigloo.org)
148 points by easyigloo on Oct 20, 2019 | 33 comments
21. Math Breakthrough Speeds Supercomputer Simulations (ucdavis.edu)
106 points by EndXA on Oct 19, 2019 | 24 comments
22. Dr Sarah E. Hill: ‘A blind spot about how the pill influences women’s brains’ (theguardian.com)
189 points by laurex on Oct 20, 2019 | 98 comments
23. A historian's critique of popular conceptions of witchcraft (athenaeumreview.org)
89 points by collate on Oct 18, 2019 | 33 comments
24. Video Architecture Search (googleblog.com)
119 points by theafh on Oct 17, 2019 | 8 comments
25. How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts (theintercept.com)
289 points by elorant on Oct 20, 2019 | 132 comments
26. When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town (nytimes.com)
55 points by danso on Oct 20, 2019 | 18 comments
27. The FBI Lost Our Son (wsj.com)
147 points by alphabettsy on Oct 20, 2019 | 69 comments
28. Citizen Science Effort Seeks to Survey the Entire Great Barrier Reef (smithsonianmag.com)
66 points by bryanrasmussen on Oct 20, 2019 | 2 comments
29. Alexa and Google Home expose users to vishing and eavesdropping (srlabs.de)
178 points by kerm1t on Oct 20, 2019 | 62 comments
30. What should have been an IMG element became this (twitter.com/csswizardry)
287 points by seapunk on Oct 20, 2019 | 143 comments

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