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1. Google Dataset Search (toolbox.google.com)
1035 points by kmax12 on Sept 5, 2018 | 76 comments
2. A First Course in Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers (uncw.edu)
514 points by lainon on Sept 5, 2018 | 65 comments
3. How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels (nationalgeographic.com)
384 points by walterbell on Sept 5, 2018 | 236 comments
4. ‘Five Eyes’ Nations Quietly Demand Government Access to Encrypted Data (nytimes.com)
478 points by aaronharnly on Sept 5, 2018 | 227 comments
5. The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light (hbr.org)
591 points by Ianvdl on Sept 5, 2018 | 334 comments
6. Elastic files for an IPO (sec.gov)
326 points by foolano on Sept 5, 2018 | 139 comments
7. Is the Lean Startup Dead? (steveblank.com)
432 points by axelfontaine on Sept 5, 2018 | 236 comments
8. The Tools I Use to Write Books (thorstenball.com)
472 points by misternugget on Sept 4, 2018 | 97 comments
9. YouTube and Netflix ‘Throttled’ by Carriers (bloomberg.com)
390 points by jonbaer on Sept 5, 2018 | 220 comments
10. Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates (blog.mozilla.org)
307 points by asymmetric on Sept 5, 2018 | 118 comments
11. Why does sorting in computer science mean ordering rather than categorizing? (twitter.com/random_walker)
239 points by randomwalker on Sept 4, 2018 | 147 comments
12. Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (eecs.berkeley.edu)
419 points by ingve on Sept 4, 2018 | 103 comments
13. But Rich People Live Here, So We Can't Be Going Broke (strongtowns.org)
261 points by oftenwrong on Sept 5, 2018 | 183 comments
14. Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook (pewresearch.org)
254 points by gnicholas on Sept 5, 2018 | 179 comments
15. Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve (wsj.com)
332 points by mudil on Sept 5, 2018 | 193 comments
16. How to Make a Big Decision (nytimes.com)
350 points by dsr12 on Sept 5, 2018 | 91 comments
17. Breakout implemented in JavaScript in a PDF (rawgit.com)
174 points by luu on Sept 5, 2018 | 56 comments
18. Turing Tumble – Build Marble-Powered Computers (turingtumble.com)
142 points by jtokoph on Sept 5, 2018 | 24 comments
19. When optimising code, never guess, always measure (solipsys.co.uk)
124 points by ColinWright on Sept 5, 2018 | 103 comments
20. Skype rolls back its redesign by ditching stories and squiggles (techcrunch.com)
150 points by mindgam3 on Sept 4, 2018 | 121 comments
21. “Prestudy”: Learning Chinese Through Reading (kerrickstaley.com)
213 points by KerrickStaley on Sept 5, 2018 | 107 comments
22. Show HN: AgentMaps – Turn maps into living societies (github.com/noncomputable)
112 points by andrewtable on Sept 4, 2018 | 8 comments
23. Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue (datacenterdynamics.com)
210 points by pcunite on Sept 4, 2018 | 108 comments
24. How the Go runtime implements maps efficiently without generics (cheney.net)
197 points by kjeetgill on Sept 5, 2018 | 86 comments
25. Sand scarcity is about more than “running out” of sand (theverge.com)
71 points by Tomte on Sept 5, 2018 | 37 comments
26. Scrapping Contracts: a critique of the Go generics proposal (merovius.de)
86 points by Merovius on Sept 5, 2018 | 26 comments
27. The Early History Of Smalltalk (1993) (worrydream.com)
121 points by ohjeez on Sept 4, 2018 | 68 comments
28. Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise (techcrunch.com)
230 points by Mereruka on Sept 4, 2018 | 185 comments
29. Choosing Your First Marketing Hire (gkogan.co)
98 points by gk1 on Sept 5, 2018 | 23 comments
30. How true hackers write JavaScript (news.ycombinator.com)
403 points by damir on Sept 5, 2018 | 328 comments

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