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1. Open source firmware is important for security (jessfraz.com)
615 points by eindiran on May 9, 2019 | 100 comments
2. Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage (hacks.mozilla.org)
467 points by headalgorithm on May 9, 2019 | 266 comments
3. Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes (theatlantic.com)
587 points by anfilt on May 9, 2019 | 222 comments
4. Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story (amazon.com)
604 points by jeffbarr on May 9, 2019 | 135 comments
5. Denver decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms (denverpost.com)
538 points by tosh on May 8, 2019 | 140 comments
6. We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business (niteo.co)
898 points by dz0ny on May 9, 2019 | 509 comments
7. All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward (zdnet.com)
556 points by CrankyBear on May 9, 2019 | 372 comments
8. We Can Do Better Than SQL (edgedb.com)
624 points by 1st1 on May 9, 2019 | 424 comments
9. For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection (ieee.org)
433 points by mbroncano on May 9, 2019 | 449 comments
10. “Users want control” is a shoulder shrug (ianbicking.org)
285 points by collinmanderson on May 8, 2019 | 168 comments
11. United Nations Expert Arrested in Tunisia for Using an RTL-SDR (rtl-sdr.com)
323 points by newman8r on May 9, 2019 | 145 comments
12. It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video (singhkays.com)
321 points by singhkays on May 9, 2019 | 315 comments
13. Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook (nytimes.com)
542 points by tysone on May 9, 2019 | 288 comments
14. TensorFlow Graphics: Computer Graphics Meets Deep Learning (medium.com/tensorflow)
239 points by lelf on May 9, 2019 | 25 comments
15. When Engineers Become Whistleblowers (scientificamerican.com)
273 points by furcyd on May 9, 2019 | 127 comments
16. Inheritance versus Composition (lwn.net)
273 points by chmaynard on May 8, 2019 | 184 comments
17. Getting Featured on Hacker News (aytwit.com)
162 points by dougk16 on May 8, 2019 | 84 comments
18. Unencumbered Open Source Commodore 64 ROMs (github.com/mega65)
98 points by reidrac on May 9, 2019 | 16 comments
19. Urban trees 'live fast, die young' compared to those in rural forests (phys.org)
183 points by dnetesn on May 9, 2019 | 109 comments
20. Post-mortem and remediations for the Matrix.org security breach (matrix.org)
183 points by Arathorn on May 8, 2019 | 64 comments
21. Software markets and businesses are 10x bigger due to the internet (eladgil.com)
118 points by eladgil on May 9, 2019 | 11 comments
22. On the Trail of the RoboCall King (wired.com)
80 points by rmason on May 9, 2019 | 54 comments
23. Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily (github.com/hiroppy)
122 points by peaceiris on May 9, 2019 | 41 comments
24. Darpa Seeks Tools to Capture Underground Worlds in 3D (darpa.mil)
59 points by zeristor on May 9, 2019 | 22 comments
25. PostgreSQL 11.3 and 10.8 (postgresql.org)
281 points by oskari on May 9, 2019 | 157 comments
26. Training the Brain to Eat Less Sugar (drexel.edu)
197 points by furcyd on May 8, 2019 | 161 comments
27. Becoming Dr. Seuss (npr.org)
37 points by acsillag on May 8, 2019 | 20 comments
28. Building CentOS 8 (centos.org)
174 points by rbjorklin on May 9, 2019 | 28 comments
29. Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features (arxiv.org)
76 points by selimonder on May 8, 2019 | 28 comments
30. ‘Build More Housing’ Is No Match for Inequality (citylab.com)
139 points by gmck on May 9, 2019 | 190 comments

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