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1. Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes (washingtonpost.com)
658 points by drfuchs on Nov 14, 2019 | 392 comments
2. Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy' (bbc.com)
510 points by DarkContinent on Nov 15, 2019 | 207 comments
3. Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival (zdnet.com)
741 points by cpeterso on Nov 15, 2019 | 566 comments
4. To motivate people, talk about the context of the work to be done (sametab.com)
443 points by anacleto on Nov 15, 2019 | 116 comments
5. Eigenvectors from eigenvalues (terrytao.wordpress.com)
529 points by bigpumpkin on Nov 15, 2019 | 86 comments
6. The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann (medium.com/cantors-paradise)
636 points by jorgenveisdal on Nov 15, 2019 | 319 comments
7. NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS (tom7.org)
199 points by tantalor on Nov 15, 2019 | 33 comments
8. If you're busy, you're doing something wrong (2011) (calnewport.com)
499 points by unpredict on Nov 14, 2019 | 162 comments
9. Distilling knowledge from neural networks to build smaller and faster models (floydhub.com)
230 points by alexamadoriml on Nov 15, 2019 | 16 comments
10. Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? (2017) (math.stackexchange.com)
453 points by akakievich on Nov 15, 2019 | 131 comments
11. Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings (cnbc.com)
416 points by stygiansonic on Nov 15, 2019 | 548 comments
12. Sourcehut's Year in Alpha (sourcehut.org)
351 points by ddevault on Nov 15, 2019 | 69 comments
13. Hayabusa2 is leaving the asteroid Ryugu and heading back to Earth (syfy.com)
298 points by sohkamyung on Nov 15, 2019 | 67 comments
14. Training algorithms on copyrighted data not illegal: US Supreme Court (towardsdatascience.com)
327 points by alok-g on Nov 15, 2019 | 46 comments
15. Sea-Thru: A Method for Removing Water from Underwater Images (petapixel.com)
340 points by cgranier on Nov 15, 2019 | 74 comments
16. TROS: IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers (righto.com)
189 points by magnat on Nov 15, 2019 | 36 comments
17. Open-sourcing Clusterman, a cluster autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos (yelp.com)
109 points by drmorr on Nov 15, 2019 | 44 comments
18. How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contractors for search results (msn.com)
247 points by tysone on Nov 15, 2019 | 177 comments
19. Show HN: Faster UTF-8 validator (github.com/zwegner)
122 points by zwegner on Nov 15, 2019 | 55 comments
20. Show HN: Scholarref tools – never deal with journal webpages again (adamsgaard.dk)
127 points by admsg on Nov 15, 2019 | 18 comments
21. LLVM-tutor: collection of out-of-tree LLVM examples for teaching and learning (github.com/banach-space)
109 points by matt_d on Nov 14, 2019 | 3 comments
22. A Pragmatic Approach to Thorny People Problems (witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com)
151 points by DoreenMichele on Nov 14, 2019 | 91 comments
23. Homology (tungsteno.io)
125 points by mathgenius on Nov 14, 2019 | 26 comments
24. Exploiting Intel’s Management Engine (homelinux.net)
209 points by DyslexicAtheist on Nov 14, 2019 | 52 comments
25. What is the “two-drive trick” that can read Amiga disks on a PC? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
151 points by _Microft on Nov 15, 2019 | 43 comments
26. GC Fun at Twitch (modularfinance.se)
64 points by _raz on Nov 14, 2019 | 43 comments
27. Organice – Using Org mode from a smartphone or browser [video] (youtube.com)
111 points by preek on Nov 14, 2019 | 33 comments
28. Against Economics (nybooks.com)
136 points by kwindla on Nov 14, 2019 | 191 comments
29. Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube (github.com/omarroth)
216 points by yarapavan on Nov 14, 2019 | 132 comments
30. The 80/24 Rule (ploeh.dk)
170 points by nreece on Nov 15, 2019 | 191 comments

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