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1. The Paxos Algorithm, or How to Win a Turing Award (lamport.azurewebsites.net)
328 points by pron on Aug 30, 2019 | 83 comments
2. Ask HN: How Do You Read?
686 points by vilvadot on Aug 31, 2019 | 247 comments
3. TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files (github.com/ebay)
467 points by bryanrasmussen on Aug 31, 2019 | 117 comments
4. Cue – A language for defining, generating, and validating data (cuelang.org)
354 points by wikibob on Aug 31, 2019 | 152 comments
5. The design of littlefs: A fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers (github.com/armmbed)
278 points by ingve on Aug 31, 2019 | 72 comments
6. Waypipe: GSoC Project Complete (freedesktop.org)
196 points by emersion on Aug 31, 2019 | 17 comments
7. A Manager’s Guide to Kubernetes Adoption (unixism.net)
205 points by shuss on Aug 31, 2019 | 102 comments
8. Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to GDPR fine (bbc.com)
214 points by rbanffy on Aug 30, 2019 | 172 comments
9. YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Privacy Violations (nytimes.com)
199 points by arctux on Aug 31, 2019 | 144 comments
10. What Is Zoned Storage and the Zoned Storage Initiative? (westerndigital.com)
93 points by ingve on Aug 31, 2019 | 34 comments
11. Alcohol Belts of Europe (wikipedia.org)
166 points by pionerkotik on Aug 31, 2019 | 130 comments
12. Why I like Clojure (sulami.github.io)
237 points by tosh on Aug 31, 2019 | 153 comments
13. Understanding SAT by Implementing a Simple SAT Solver in Python (2014) (sahandsaba.com)
158 points by c1ccccc1 on Aug 29, 2019 | 21 comments
14. A Simulated Enigma Machine (observablehq.com)
116 points by jashkenas on Aug 31, 2019 | 6 comments
15. What to do once you admit that decentralization never seems to work (2018) (hackernoon.com)
181 points by abdullahkhalids on Aug 31, 2019 | 142 comments
16. Simple Python Package to Extract Deep Learning Features (chsasank.github.io)
91 points by chsasank on Aug 31, 2019 | 11 comments
17. How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness (lesswrong.com)
212 points by astrofinch on Aug 31, 2019 | 114 comments
18. Telegram moves to protect identity of Hong Kong protesters (reuters.com)
328 points by hardmaru on Aug 31, 2019 | 81 comments
19. Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought (nytimes.com)
93 points by pseudolus on Aug 31, 2019 | 70 comments
20. Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account (dropbox.com)
202 points by whoisnnamdi on Aug 31, 2019 | 211 comments
21. Quantum radar has been demonstrated for the first time (technologyreview.com)
96 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB on Aug 30, 2019 | 11 comments
22. Scaling Static Analyses at Facebook (acm.org)
92 points by Areading314 on Aug 29, 2019 | 14 comments
23. Engineers build advanced microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes (phys.org)
66 points by lelf on Aug 29, 2019 | 12 comments
24. The Survival of Iggy Pop (newyorker.com)
103 points by pgodzin on Aug 30, 2019 | 46 comments
25. Show HN: ShapeForm – Schema Driven Forms for React (github.com/takeshape)
118 points by mcat on Aug 29, 2019 | 16 comments
26. Penn Effect (wikipedia.org)
68 points by hhs on Aug 30, 2019 | 31 comments
27. Making Web-Workers Async Iterables (github.com/jfet97)
49 points by jfet97 on Aug 31, 2019 | 4 comments
28. Opinion piece on GHC back ends (andreaspk.github.io)
81 points by allenleein on Aug 30, 2019 | 17 comments
29. Linux Pressure Stall Information (PSI) by Example (unixism.net)
132 points by shuss on Aug 30, 2019 | 18 comments
30. Famous Graphics Chips: Microsoft’s Talisman (computer.org)
64 points by ingve on Aug 30, 2019 | 24 comments

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