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31. Ford Stole Tech for Best-Selling Trucks from MIT, Professors Say (bloomberg.com)
162 points by sndean on Feb 4, 2019 | 70 comments
32. Bye, Bye, Google (defn.io)
539 points by Bogdanp on Feb 4, 2019 | 287 comments
33. Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook (lareviewofbooks.org)
313 points by lxm on Feb 4, 2019 | 180 comments
34. Out-Of-Office Messages Are a Security Risk (lonesysadmin.net)
161 points by zdw on Feb 3, 2019 | 88 comments
35. Recent events highlight an unpleasant scientific practice: ethics dumping (economist.com)
59 points by jkuria on Feb 2, 2019 | 36 comments
36. God Mode Unlocked – Hardware Backdoors in Via C3 CPUs (2018) [video] (youtube.com)
162 points by MagicPropmaker on Feb 4, 2019 | 26 comments
37. Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet (2018) (gto76.github.io)
335 points by pizzaburek on Feb 4, 2019 | 81 comments
38. Transformer-XL: Unleashing the Potential of Attention Models (googleblog.com)
73 points by headalgorithm on Feb 4, 2019 | 7 comments
39. WebAssembly Troubles Part 1: WebAssembly Is Not a Stack Machine (troubles.md)
175 points by panic on Feb 3, 2019 | 59 comments
40. If You're Often Angry or Irritable, You May Be Depressed (npr.org)
405 points by tuxguy on Feb 4, 2019 | 291 comments
41. German town votes ‘No’ to street names (dw.com)
173 points by 0xedb on Feb 4, 2019 | 289 comments
42. Leap Spins out of YC (blog.ycombinator.com)
103 points by cbcowans on Feb 4, 2019 | 54 comments
43. A Mini-Introduction to Information Theory (arxiv.org)
136 points by godelmachine on Feb 3, 2019 | 24 comments
44. Istio – An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices (github.com/istio)
163 points by kumaranvpl on Feb 4, 2019 | 67 comments
45. Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking (2016) (propublica.org)
280 points by ForHackernews on Feb 4, 2019 | 42 comments
46. Antarctic Weddell expedition targets Shackleton's lost ship (bbc.co.uk)
32 points by DanBC on Feb 3, 2019 | 10 comments
47. Show HN: Gita – a CLI tool to manage multiple Git repos (github.com/nosarthur)
79 points by nosarthur on Feb 4, 2019 | 36 comments
48. Mozilla Raises Concerns Over Facebook’s Lack of Transparency (blog.mozilla.org)
249 points by Manu1987 on Feb 4, 2019 | 47 comments
49. Drones Help Rid Galapagos Island of Invasive Rats (ieee.org)
68 points by rbanffy on Feb 4, 2019 | 58 comments
50. Monitoring Heart Health, One Toilet Seat at a Time (ieee.org)
38 points by benryon on Feb 2, 2019 | 7 comments
51. Why Semantic Versioning Isn't (2015) (gist.github.com)
61 points by hliyan on Feb 3, 2019 | 44 comments
52. Making SetInterval Declarative with React Hooks (overreacted.io)
100 points by clessg on Feb 4, 2019 | 78 comments
53. Behind the Lion Air Crash, a Trail of Decisions Kept Pilots in the Dark (nytimes.com)
104 points by simonbr on Feb 3, 2019 | 82 comments
54. Visiting the Anderton Boat Lift on My Narrowboat (2017) [video] (youtube.com)
41 points by CaliforniaKarl on Feb 4, 2019 | 9 comments
55. Browser diversity starts with us (zeldman.com)
172 points by ccnafr on Feb 4, 2019 | 91 comments
56. Defense of Amazon's Face Recognition Tool Undermined by Only Known Police Client (gizmodo.com)
110 points by smacktoward on Feb 3, 2019 | 35 comments
57. Huawei Sting Offers Rare Glimpse of the U.S. Targeting a Chinese Giant (bloomberg.com)
152 points by moh_maya on Feb 4, 2019 | 61 comments
58. Navigation Should Be Boring (allenpike.com)
87 points by mpweiher on Feb 4, 2019 | 78 comments
59. Scalable Video Technology for AV1 Encoder (github.com/openvisualcloud)
46 points by andruby on Feb 4, 2019 | 11 comments
60. Hacker facing an 8-year jail term for exposing vulnerabilities in Magyar Telekom (cyware.com)
167 points by DyslexicAtheist on Feb 4, 2019 | 82 comments

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