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1. Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month (oldgeekjobs.com)
1071 points by johnwheeler on Oct 19, 2016 | 247 comments
2. LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year (twinprime.com)
492 points by wkoszek on Oct 19, 2016 | 159 comments
3. The Anti-Helicopter Parent’s Plea: Let Kids Play (nytimes.com)
394 points by mhb on Oct 19, 2016 | 391 comments
4. How the Web Became Unreadable (backchannel.com)
532 points by mirandak4 on Oct 19, 2016 | 344 comments
5. Radar – A new set of integrated tools to help prevent fraud (stripe.com)
293 points by sinak on Oct 19, 2016 | 113 comments
6. Fixing Python Performance with Rust (sentry.io)
331 points by ngoldbaum on Oct 19, 2016 | 103 comments
7. An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Development [pdf] (brunel.ac.uk)
406 points by joatmon-snoo on Oct 19, 2016 | 323 comments
8. Introducing Rust Language Server (rust-lang.org)
406 points by JoshTriplett on Oct 18, 2016 | 104 comments
9. Wait continues for European Schiaparelli Mars lander (bbc.co.uk)
212 points by warrenmiller on Oct 19, 2016 | 91 comments
10. Netflix Chaos Monkey Upgraded (netflix.com)
271 points by dustinmoris on Oct 19, 2016 | 84 comments
11. Show HN: Get encrypted data from people that don’t know how to encrypt (github.com/whitesmith)
275 points by chomponthis on Oct 19, 2016 | 93 comments
12. “The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (1998) [pdf] (harpers.org)
212 points by bonefishgrill on Oct 18, 2016 | 150 comments
13. Double Solitude (newyorker.com)
210 points by pepys on Oct 18, 2016 | 42 comments
14. Astronauts enter China's space station [video] (bbc.com)
199 points by ehxor on Oct 19, 2016 | 119 comments
15. Is This Economist Too Far Ahead of His Time? (chronicle.com)
136 points by Hooke on Oct 18, 2016 | 116 comments
16. Do the math: too much calculus? (2012) (washingtonpost.com)
104 points by carlosgg on Oct 19, 2016 | 212 comments
17. How One Goldman Sachs Trader Made More Than $100M (wsj.com)
127 points by chollida1 on Oct 19, 2016 | 110 comments
18. Semi-hosting on ARM with Rust (embed.rs)
131 points by _mbr on Oct 19, 2016 | 31 comments
19. Thankful and lucky to have helped build Khan Academy (bjk5.com)
141 points by DanielRibeiro on Oct 19, 2016 | 20 comments
20. Donald Knuth used an Erlang-like notation (videlalvaro.github.io)
149 points by old_sound on Oct 19, 2016 | 93 comments
21. Introducing Google Cloud Shell’s new code editor (googleblog.com)
173 points by rafaelm on Oct 19, 2016 | 50 comments
22. T-Mobile will pay a $48M fine for throttling ‘unlimited data’ plans (theverge.com)
232 points by atombender on Oct 19, 2016 | 123 comments
23. Bedrock – Rock-solid distributed data (bedrockdb.com)
134 points by qertoip on Oct 18, 2016 | 109 comments
24. Amex for Developers (americanexpress.com)
152 points by titomc on Oct 18, 2016 | 86 comments
25. Show HN: TrueJob 1.0 – Pandora for jobs and data for everyone (truejob.com)
140 points by eggbrain on Oct 19, 2016 | 59 comments
26. Micro:bit developer community (microbit.org)
115 points by ntoll on Oct 19, 2016 | 36 comments
27. Modern Web 101: From Free Software Fetishism to Free Web (nexedi.com)
86 points by cnnx on Oct 19, 2016 | 66 comments
28. Why Are America's Most Innovative Companies Still Stuck in 1950s Suburbia? (collectorsweekly.com)
213 points by bootload on Oct 19, 2016 | 271 comments
29. Why the Film Industry Hasn't Been Disrupted Yet, Part 5 (endcrawl.com)
112 points by iampliny on Oct 19, 2016 | 89 comments
30. An empirical study on the impact of C++ lambdas and programmer experience (acm.org)
108 points by uaaa on Oct 19, 2016 | 105 comments

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