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1. I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the stock market” (reddit.com)
701 points by starpilot on Aug 16, 2019 | 204 comments
2. Start Your Own ISP (startyourownisp.com)
635 points by _gfwu on Aug 17, 2019 | 95 comments
3. WeWTF (profgalloway.com)
840 points by braythwayt on Aug 17, 2019 | 278 comments
4. The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kanji in the wild (japanesecomplete.com)
342 points by sova on Aug 17, 2019 | 208 comments
5. Japan surpasses China as largest foreign holder of US Treasurys (cnbc.com)
260 points by hker on Aug 16, 2019 | 136 comments
6. Making email more modern with JMAP (fastmail.blog)
327 points by mfsch on Aug 16, 2019 | 166 comments
7. Software architects should be involved in earliest system engineering activities (cmu.edu)
225 points by runningmike on Aug 17, 2019 | 179 comments
8. Alone in the Dark (filfre.net)
253 points by myth_drannon on Aug 17, 2019 | 61 comments
9. U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss (bloomberg.com)
267 points by paulpauper on Aug 16, 2019 | 189 comments
10. Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome (pulltech.net)
280 points by github-cat on Aug 17, 2019 | 340 comments
11. Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry (pashi.com)
303 points by sohamsankaran on Aug 17, 2019 | 169 comments
12. The first solar road has turned out to be a disappointing failure (sciencealert.com)
214 points by lxm on Aug 17, 2019 | 337 comments
13. Nixery: Transparently build and serve containers using Nix (github.com/google)
192 points by _kb on Aug 17, 2019 | 27 comments
14. Hacking the Sonos IKEA Symfonisk into a High Quality Speaker Amp (makezine.com)
255 points by mochtar on Aug 17, 2019 | 47 comments
15. Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018) (seriot.ch)
183 points by panic on Aug 17, 2019 | 178 comments
16. Show HN: ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading (mccormick.cx)
285 points by chr15m on Aug 17, 2019 | 30 comments
17. NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded (nytimes.com)
203 points by digital55 on Aug 17, 2019 | 117 comments
18. Animal movies promote awareness, not harm, say researchers (ox.ac.uk)
94 points by EndXA on Aug 17, 2019 | 23 comments
19. Free and open-source tools for analog filmmaking (sixteenmillimeter.com)
114 points by nessunodoro on Aug 17, 2019 | 16 comments
20. “Bicycle of the Mind” (learningbyshipping.com)
142 points by jensgk on Aug 16, 2019 | 45 comments
21. Flying with Miniature Horses (nytimes.com)
62 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 17, 2019 | 104 comments
22. The Biggest Mistakes First-Time Founders Make [video] (blog.ycombinator.com)
99 points by chrisa on Aug 16, 2019 | 12 comments
23. Video Game Preservation – An archive of commercial video game source code (github.com/videogamepreservation)
213 points by groundlogic on Aug 17, 2019 | 41 comments
24. São Paulo’s Outdoor Advertising Ban (2016) (99percentinvisible.org)
185 points by anoncow on Aug 17, 2019 | 94 comments
25. With friends like these (perl.org)
101 points by lizmat on Aug 17, 2019 | 22 comments
26. A Deep Dive into AMD’s Rome Epyc Architecture (nextplatform.com)
135 points by lamchob on Aug 16, 2019 | 45 comments
27. You May Be Better Off Picking Stocks at Random, Study Finds (studyfinds.org)
146 points by Vaslo on Aug 17, 2019 | 77 comments
28. Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends them through the mail (twitter.com/virginmedia)
182 points by molenzwiebel on Aug 17, 2019 | 54 comments
29. Effortless Elixir Releases and Deployment (alchemist.camp)
127 points by AlchemistCamp on Aug 17, 2019 | 28 comments
30. O Oberlin, My Oberlin (commentarymagazine.com)
162 points by jseliger on Aug 16, 2019 | 58 comments

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