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1. All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people (medium.com/bellmar)
1230 points by mbellotti on Aug 5, 2019 | 266 comments
2. 8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service (theverge.com)
910 points by gregmac on Aug 5, 2019 | 1566 comments
3. Amazon Is a Monopoly (marketplacepulse.com)
524 points by juokaz on Aug 5, 2019 | 328 comments
4. Terminating Service for 8Chan (cloudflare.com)
1098 points by sandmansandine on Aug 5, 2019 | 1376 comments
5. Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017) (gwern.net)
525 points by tosh on Aug 5, 2019 | 139 comments
6. Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet (wsj.com)
304 points by mudil on Aug 5, 2019 | 328 comments
7. U.S. Designates China as Currency Manipulator (wsj.com)
357 points by anilshanbhag on Aug 5, 2019 | 333 comments
8. Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer (lastweekinaws.com)
651 points by mjulian on Aug 5, 2019 | 349 comments
9. Information Theory for Intelligent People (2018) [pdf] (santafe.edu)
451 points by oska on Aug 5, 2019 | 19 comments
10. Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems (2015) (jsomers.net)
453 points by zt on Aug 5, 2019 | 171 comments
11. Administration Using the Full Power of the Surveillance State on Whistleblowers (theintercept.com)
318 points by humantiy on Aug 5, 2019 | 136 comments
12. BlazingSQL is Now Open Source (blazingdb.com)
307 points by roaramburu on Aug 5, 2019 | 64 comments
13. Rust Language Cheat Sheet (cheats.rs)
444 points by ivank on Aug 5, 2019 | 63 comments
14. Calculus For The People (geogebra.org)
396 points by tannrckb on Aug 5, 2019 | 75 comments
15. RegExr (regexr.com)
349 points by tosh on Aug 5, 2019 | 54 comments
16. Syslog: Complete System Administrator Guide (devconnected.com)
274 points by SCHKN on Aug 5, 2019 | 35 comments
17. Memory Management in Python (rushter.com)
265 points by blacknessninja on Aug 5, 2019 | 33 comments
18. Punpedia – The Online Encyclopedia of Puns (punpedia.org)
215 points by curtis on Aug 3, 2019 | 54 comments
19. Climate change made European heatwave up to 3°C hotter (nature.com)
202 points by pseudolus on Aug 5, 2019 | 129 comments
20. SpaceX Smallsat Rideshare Program (spacex.com)
169 points by mulcahey on Aug 5, 2019 | 80 comments
21. There is no evil like reCAPTCHA (thestoic.me)
557 points by eitland on Aug 5, 2019 | 284 comments
22. How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years (blog.ycombinator.com)
150 points by snowmaker on Aug 5, 2019 | 53 comments
23. Getting Real About Distributed System Reliability (2012) (empathybox.com)
152 points by sacheendra on Aug 4, 2019 | 6 comments
24. Continuous 3D Printing Possible With Transparent Polygon Scanning? (fabbaloo.com)
90 points by hexa_storm on Aug 5, 2019 | 68 comments
25. Let's Build a Video Card (eater.net)
264 points by eb0la on Aug 5, 2019 | 26 comments
26. Curve fitting A: Linear Least Squares (umd.edu)
111 points by webdva on Aug 4, 2019 | 3 comments
27. Launch HN: Compound (YC S19) – helping employees understand equity compensation
140 points by jrdngonen on Aug 5, 2019 | 42 comments
28. Why the French love to say no (bbc.com)
160 points by hhs on Aug 5, 2019 | 124 comments
29. Mental Models Box – A collection of models useful in everyday life (mentalmodelsbox.com)
300 points by thugger on Aug 5, 2019 | 34 comments
30. Apple Card restrictions include no jailbreaking or cryptocurrency purchases (theverge.com)
106 points by lelf on Aug 3, 2019 | 128 comments

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