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1. A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018) (thehustle.co)
816 points by dragontamer on Aug 28, 2019 | 478 comments
2. MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy (ryanbigg.com)
655 points by ryanbigg on Aug 28, 2019 | 575 comments
3. exFAT in the Linux kernel (microsoft.com)
454 points by UkiahSmith on Aug 28, 2019 | 271 comments
4. What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person? (moderntreasury.com)
254 points by saarons on Aug 28, 2019 | 217 comments
5. Hong Kong ISP Association’s Statement on Selective Blocking of Internet Services (hkispa.org.hk)
406 points by hardmaru on Aug 28, 2019 | 189 comments
6. Lessons from Stripe (markmcgranaghan.com)
378 points by rspivak on Aug 28, 2019 | 126 comments
7. WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal (wtfutil.com)
518 points by jcamou on Aug 28, 2019 | 174 comments
8. Pastel: A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors (github.com/sharkdp)
264 points by praveenscience on Aug 28, 2019 | 28 comments
9. Words that do Handstands (hardmath123.github.io)
324 points by hardmath123 on Aug 28, 2019 | 51 comments
10. Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982) (theatlantic.com)
179 points by mlthoughts2018 on Aug 28, 2019 | 237 comments
11. Feds ordered Google location dragnet to solve Wisconsin bank robbery (theverge.com)
204 points by heshiebee on Aug 28, 2019 | 155 comments
12. Fracking in North America could be partly to blame for methane spike – study (newsweek.com)
359 points by colinprince on Aug 28, 2019 | 108 comments
13. Possible detection of a black hole with a mass that was thought to be impossible (quantamagazine.org)
189 points by theafh on Aug 28, 2019 | 101 comments
14. Most software companies ignore user behavior (reifyworks.com)
139 points by mrbbk on Aug 28, 2019 | 79 comments
15. GCC null pointer check removed (gcc.gnu.org)
239 points by Tomte on Aug 28, 2019 | 88 comments
16. The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security (schneier.com)
224 points by jaden on Aug 28, 2019 | 99 comments
17. TypeScript 3.6 (microsoft.com)
295 points by mceachen on Aug 28, 2019 | 204 comments
18. Show HN: I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News (pipedream.com)
151 points by marcxmiller on Aug 28, 2019 | 54 comments
19. 16-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes (arstechnica.com)
135 points by Tomte on Aug 28, 2019 | 35 comments
20. SmartyKit Apple I replica (smartykit.org)
85 points by bdcravens on Aug 28, 2019 | 46 comments
21. Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder (indiehackers.com)
280 points by liyasthomas on Aug 28, 2019 | 100 comments
22. How Web Content Can Affect Power Usage (webkit.org)
136 points by ingve on Aug 27, 2019 | 79 comments
23. Julia's Release Process (julialang.org)
153 points by StefanKarpinski on Aug 28, 2019 | 25 comments
24. Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure (ucsd.edu)
101 points by clouddrover on Aug 27, 2019 | 56 comments
25. Show HN: Repository of open source space-related software and hardware (github.com/orbitalindex)
96 points by tectonic on Aug 27, 2019 | 5 comments
26. Shipping wind turbines is not a breeze (freightwaves.com)
99 points by watchdogtimer on Aug 28, 2019 | 40 comments
27. Software Engineering Grads Lack the Skills Startups Need (ieee.org)
209 points by joker3 on Aug 28, 2019 | 171 comments
28. Western officials say Chinese agents contact foreign citizens using LinkedIn (nytimes.com)
140 points by t23 on Aug 28, 2019 | 43 comments
29. The Death of Alexander the Great: One of History's Great Unsolved Mysteries (lithub.com)
101 points by HNLurker2 on Aug 28, 2019 | 49 comments
30. Entropic: A federated package registry for anything (github.com/entropic-dev)
81 points by dsego on Aug 28, 2019 | 12 comments

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