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1. Why Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF (gds.blog.gov.uk)
541 points by edent on July 16, 2018 | 241 comments
2. Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one (theverge.com)
456 points by ss2003 on July 16, 2018 | 350 comments
3. Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day (techcrunch.com)
646 points by koolba on July 16, 2018 | 360 comments
4. Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypted SNI (twitter.com/grittygrease)
343 points by sahin on July 16, 2018 | 145 comments
5. Keeping a plaintext “did” file (theptrk.com)
507 points by theptrk on July 16, 2018 | 195 comments
6. The Power of Positive People (nytimes.com)
295 points by Tomte on July 16, 2018 | 146 comments
7. LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro (br.de)
341 points by wohlergehen on July 16, 2018 | 224 comments
8. Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62% (freshman.tech)
315 points by ayoisaiah on July 16, 2018 | 105 comments
9. Show HN: Hasura – Fast, instant GraphQL APIs on Postgres (github.com/hasura)
382 points by tango12 on July 16, 2018 | 103 comments
10. Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication (medicalnewstoday.com)
340 points by subcosmos on July 16, 2018 | 120 comments
11. El Fuego Viviente Chili Sauce (github.com/aweijnitz)
228 points by otorrillas on July 16, 2018 | 127 comments
12. A Parable by Dijkstra (1973) (utexas.edu)
296 points by fpvsoop on July 16, 2018 | 102 comments
13. Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux (slackware.com)
242 points by natex on July 16, 2018 | 87 comments
14. Rav1e: An experimental AV1 video encoder, designed to be fast and safe (github.com/xiph)
200 points by adamnemecek on July 16, 2018 | 73 comments
15. How two strangers set up Dropbox and made billions (bbc.co.uk)
191 points by scriptstar on July 16, 2018 | 127 comments
16. Instapaper is going independent (instapaper.com)
304 points by uptown on July 16, 2018 | 188 comments
17. Judge Orders Los Angeles Times to Delete Part of Published Article (nytimes.com)
218 points by augustocallejas on July 16, 2018 | 155 comments
18. Barbie typewriter (2015) (cryptomuseum.com)
123 points by rainbowmverse on July 16, 2018 | 50 comments
19. Leslie Nielsen’s career got serious when he got the chance to lighten up (2016) (melmagazine.com)
122 points by tosh on July 15, 2018 | 24 comments
20. How should we evaluate progress in AI? (meaningness.com)
119 points by amasad on July 16, 2018 | 63 comments
21. Amazon Prime Day deals 'not what they seem' (bbc.co.uk)
193 points by john58 on July 16, 2018 | 118 comments
22. Show HN: Font Playground – Play with variable fonts (typedetail.com)
131 points by wentin on July 16, 2018 | 23 comments
23. How Helsinki Arrived at the Future of Urban Travel First (bloomberg.com)
148 points by jarvelov on July 15, 2018 | 83 comments
24. Perceptrons from memristors (arxiv.org)
104 points by godelmachine on July 16, 2018 | 4 comments
25. Goldman Sachs model to predict World Cup game results didn’t come close (bloomberg.com)
245 points by rodionos on July 16, 2018 | 130 comments
26. Improving Connectomics by an Order of Magnitude (googleblog.com)
114 points by lainon on July 16, 2018 | 28 comments
27. How a Sneaky Furniture Expert Ripped Off the Rich and Tricked Versailles (vanityfair.com)
87 points by thisisit on July 16, 2018 | 22 comments
28. To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future (quantamagazine.org)
71 points by tdurden on July 16, 2018 | 25 comments
29. Launch HN: Dinesafe (YC S18) – Crowdsourcing Food Poisoning Reports
76 points by paddoq on July 16, 2018 | 66 comments
30. In 2017, US had largest decline in CO2 emissions (aei.org)
139 points by lxm on July 16, 2018 | 105 comments

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