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1. Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist (bbc.co.uk)
1036 points by fanf2 on April 17, 2019 | 366 comments
2. Popular Google Play store apps are abusing permissions and committing ad fraud (buzzfeednews.com)
388 points by mzs on April 17, 2019 | 173 comments
3. Intel Exiting 5G Modems (intel.com)
404 points by ItsTotallyOn on April 17, 2019 | 216 comments
4. Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis (matthewrayfield.com)
747 points by bemmu on April 17, 2019 | 165 comments
5. Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human rights concerns (reuters.com)
461 points by dredmorbius on April 17, 2019 | 111 comments
6. Let’s Encrypt to transition to ISRG root (scotthelme.co.uk)
342 points by trygvis on April 17, 2019 | 110 comments
7. Fluent 1.0: a localization system for natural-sounding translations (hacks.mozilla.org)
319 points by feross on April 17, 2019 | 115 comments
8. Meshroom: Open Source 3D Reconstruction Software (2018) [video] (alicevision.github.io)
262 points by hereiskkb on April 17, 2019 | 39 comments
9. A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus (nytimes.com)
203 points by dredmorbius on April 17, 2019 | 98 comments
10. Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg but can’t do anything (latimes.com)
272 points by smsm42 on April 17, 2019 | 210 comments
11. ‘Bubble Boys’ Cured in Medical Breakthrough Using Gene Therapy (bloomberg.com)
243 points by mzs on April 17, 2019 | 31 comments
12. Panic’s Next Editor (panic.com)
332 points by whalesalad on April 16, 2019 | 230 comments
13. Planet’s ocean-plastics problem detailed in 60-year data set (nature.com)
171 points by sunraa on April 17, 2019 | 44 comments
14. Employee Wellness Programs Yield Little Benefit, Study Shows (nytimes.com)
150 points by mlthoughts2018 on April 16, 2019 | 120 comments
15. Life of Brian at 40: an assertion of individual freedom that still resonates (theconversation.com)
253 points by sohkamyung on April 16, 2019 | 206 comments
16. How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)
184 points by hsnewman on April 17, 2019 | 50 comments
17. Zstandard v1.4.0 (github.com/facebook)
158 points by terrelln on April 16, 2019 | 67 comments
18. The Art of Research – A History by Vi Hart (theartofresearch.org)
165 points by anonymfus on April 16, 2019 | 17 comments
19. AMP pages displaying your own domain (googleblog.com)
200 points by dfabulich on April 17, 2019 | 325 comments
20. Google OAuth Login Issues (cloud.google.com)
118 points by derwiki on April 17, 2019 | 35 comments
21. Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware (devever.net)
168 points by jandeboevrie on April 17, 2019 | 34 comments
22. Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python (2018) (github.com/rlabbe)
234 points by r0f1 on April 16, 2019 | 12 comments
23. How the quantum search algorithm works (quantum.country)
152 points by p1esk on April 17, 2019 | 17 comments
24. Should I Resign from My Full Professor Job to Work Fulltime on Cocalc? (sagemath.com)
250 points by occamschainsaw on April 17, 2019 | 151 comments
25. Graphical Introduction to Dynamic Programming (avikdas.com)
210 points by adamnemecek on April 17, 2019 | 11 comments
26. Obfuscated Erlang (2012) (ferd.ca)
87 points by QuinnWilton on April 17, 2019 | 14 comments
27. Tinfoil Chat – Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system (github.com/maqp)
144 points by schlowmo on April 17, 2019 | 30 comments
28. Godot Engine – Announcing the Godot 2019 Showreel (godotengine.org)
175 points by makepanic on April 16, 2019 | 30 comments
29. Stripe Acquires Touchtech (techcrunch.com)
148 points by middle1 on April 17, 2019 | 43 comments
30. How does a relational database work? (2017) (coding-geek.com)
198 points by PeterZaitsev on April 16, 2019 | 26 comments

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