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1. Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera (medium.com/jonathan.leitschuh)
1937 points by mplanchard on July 8, 2019 | 456 comments
2. Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 (blog.mozilla.org)
648 points by johnnyRose on July 9, 2019 | 197 comments
3. I Can’t Stop Winning (blog.pinboard.in)
786 points by jashkenas on July 9, 2019 | 214 comments
4. IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B (redhat.com)
552 points by voxadam on July 9, 2019 | 292 comments
5. Ross Perot Has Died (cnbc.com)
407 points by chuckgreenman on July 9, 2019 | 209 comments
6. France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall (reuters.com)
309 points by Ultramanoid on July 9, 2019 | 562 comments
7. John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with something better (nextplatform.com)
432 points by galaxyLogic on July 9, 2019 | 189 comments
8. It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done (nytimes.com)
375 points by mhb on July 8, 2019 | 129 comments
9. When Can I Reuse This Calendar? (whencanireusethiscalendar.com)
289 points by sharkweek on July 9, 2019 | 68 comments
10. Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer (github.com/johnfactotum)
299 points by lulouie on July 9, 2019 | 112 comments
11. Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients (sciencedaily.com)
248 points by Someone on July 9, 2019 | 58 comments
12. Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing (pixelfed.org)
284 points by octosphere on July 7, 2019 | 130 comments
13. California Earthquakes Disrupted HF Propagation on West Coast (arrl.org)
218 points by sciurus on July 9, 2019 | 95 comments
14. Pacman in 512 bytes of x86 boot sector machine code (github.com/nanochess)
229 points by nanochess on July 8, 2019 | 62 comments
15. Data Still Dominates (theartofmachinery.com)
152 points by atomlib on July 9, 2019 | 49 comments
16. C. Hoare and Co., a British banking dynasty in business for more than 300 years (bloomberg.com)
169 points by artsandsci on July 9, 2019 | 91 comments
17. Rsync, GUIs, power, control, design, and decisions (ashleyblewer.com)
183 points by luu on July 9, 2019 | 132 comments
18. Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say indies (bbc.com)
289 points by pseudolus on July 9, 2019 | 314 comments
19. Database as Filesystem [video] (youtube.com)
175 points by enobrev on July 9, 2019 | 58 comments
20. Libra, 2 Weeks In (facebook.com)
185 points by simonebrunozzi on July 8, 2019 | 276 comments
21. The challenges of teaching software engineering (sicpers.info)
118 points by ingve on July 9, 2019 | 106 comments
22. Show HN: Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2 (minimaxir.com)
126 points by minimaxir on July 9, 2019 | 43 comments
23. How I Taught My Kid to Read (theatlantic.com)
210 points by objections on July 9, 2019 | 173 comments
24. How to run a small social network site for your friends (runyourown.social)
252 points by coldsnap427 on July 8, 2019 | 60 comments
25. Disney TV Studios Eyes New Profit Participation Model (deadline.com)
71 points by hhs on July 9, 2019 | 30 comments
26. The Riemann Hypothesis Says 5040 Is the Last (utexas.edu)
219 points by ColinWright on July 8, 2019 | 56 comments
27. Telomere shortening rate predicts species life span (pnas.org)
153 points by bookofjoe on July 8, 2019 | 61 comments
28. Firefox 68.0 (mozilla.org)
478 points by dm on July 9, 2019 | 271 comments
29. Ants give away the secrets of human brain processes (lundbeckfonden.com)
98 points by dpflan on July 9, 2019 | 3 comments
30. New Fast.ai Course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing (fast.ai)
320 points by my_first_acct on July 9, 2019 | 21 comments

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