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1. Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords (cbc.ca)
950 points by cpncrunch on May 5, 2019 | 457 comments
2. Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons (ftp.mozilla.org)
506 points by akyuu on May 5, 2019 | 371 comments
3. The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf] (economics.harvard.edu)
487 points by dredmorbius on May 3, 2019 | 260 comments
4. Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified (stanford.edu)
397 points by lichtenberger on May 5, 2019 | 215 comments
5. UX clichés (uxdesign.cc)
354 points by flywithdolp on May 5, 2019 | 165 comments
6. Cost of serving billions of images per month (medium.com/p)
301 points by ghoshbishakh on May 4, 2019 | 135 comments
7. OpenAI releases larger GPT-2 model (openai.com)
234 points by p1esk on May 4, 2019 | 82 comments
8. The Access Economy: Why the Normal Distribution Is Vanishing (2015) (alexdanco.com)
222 points by ranvir on May 5, 2019 | 151 comments
9. Do Elephants Have Souls? (2013) (thenewatlantis.com)
192 points by seinundzeit on May 4, 2019 | 91 comments
10. Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books?
275 points by cconcepts on May 3, 2019 | 135 comments
11. Killer Rabbits in Medieval Manuscripts (openculture.com)
123 points by lelf on May 4, 2019 | 55 comments
12. Strategies, Tips, and Tricks for Anki (senrigan.io)
337 points by ingve on May 5, 2019 | 59 comments
13. Network offloading in OpenWrt (2018) [pdf] (files.wordpress.com)
157 points by workrockin on May 5, 2019 | 37 comments
14. Improving support for adult content on Mastodon (joinmastodon.org)
217 points by zach43 on May 5, 2019 | 85 comments
15. Repair delays for Tesla owners (sfgate.com)
176 points by lxm on May 2, 2019 | 193 comments
16. The Cassowary: World’s most dangerous bird (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)
111 points by seventyhorses on May 4, 2019 | 45 comments
17. My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era (thedailybeast.com)
139 points by susiecambria on May 4, 2019 | 106 comments
18. Flashrom – flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM and expansion cards (flashrom.org)
107 points by peter_d_sherman on May 5, 2019 | 19 comments
19. SirixDB – An Evolutionary, Temporal NoSQL Storage System (github.com/sirixdb)
88 points by burtonator on May 5, 2019 | 25 comments
20. Applying the Gestalt Principles to Code (yetanotherchris.dev)
167 points by ewokday on May 4, 2019 | 55 comments
21. My Childhood in a Cult (newyorker.com)
153 points by kurmouk on May 2, 2019 | 50 comments
22. Learning new skills in InfoSec without getting overwhelmed (azeria-labs.com)
94 points by ingve on May 4, 2019 | 15 comments
23. BGP 768K day, and whether it will cause internet outages (thousandeyes.com)
136 points by fraqed on May 3, 2019 | 28 comments
24. Ask HN: When have you taken a decision in code outside your domain of expertise?
145 points by mprev on May 3, 2019 | 99 comments
25. An Amateur Porno Set Off a Federal Witch Hunt (thedailybeast.com)
215 points by eplanit on May 5, 2019 | 67 comments
26. Starting a Business with a Co-Founder: Economics and Control (khanna.cc)
112 points by jv22222 on May 4, 2019 | 2 comments
27. After Your First Big Startup Success, What’s Next? (2014) (feld.com)
84 points by simonebrunozzi on May 5, 2019 | 35 comments
28. Precise timing of machine code with Linux perf (easyperf.net)
118 points by nkurz on May 2, 2019 | 8 comments
29. 400-year-old Bible stolen from US is found in Netherlands (apnews.com)
82 points by BobbyVsTheDevil on May 5, 2019 | 31 comments
30. Simulating gunfire in naval wargames (2016) (wargamingmiscellany.blogspot.com)
62 points by daddy_drank on May 5, 2019 | 29 comments

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