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1. NordVPN confirms it was hacked (techcrunch.com)
1368 points by afshinmeh on Oct 21, 2019 | 642 comments
2. “We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” (scientificamerican.com)
925 points by bookofjoe on Oct 21, 2019 | 586 comments
3. 63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions (randomascii.wordpress.com)
480 points by nikbackm on Oct 21, 2019 | 84 comments
4. Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined (businessinsider.com)
560 points by hkmaxpro on Oct 21, 2019 | 283 comments
5. AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data (theinformation.com)
421 points by ballmers_peak on Oct 21, 2019 | 238 comments
6. The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have surveillance and control (cccb.org)
464 points by _kb on Oct 21, 2019 | 200 comments
7. Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
781 points by gavribirnbaum on Oct 21, 2019 | 296 comments
8. Amazon is shipping expired food, customers say (cnbc.com)
464 points by rahuldottech on Oct 21, 2019 | 217 comments
9. Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud (businessinsider.com)
480 points by sogen on Oct 21, 2019 | 301 comments
10. Traffic lights worldwide set to change after a Swedish engineer saw red (theregister.co.uk)
362 points by bennyp101 on Oct 21, 2019 | 340 comments
11. To hire neurodiverse workers, one firm got rid of job interviews (bbc.com)
297 points by nkc407 on Oct 21, 2019 | 415 comments
12. FireEye confirms APT41 hacked TeamViewer, may have accessed billions of devices (twitter.com/cglyer)
306 points by miles on Oct 20, 2019 | 70 comments
13. Elm 0.19.1 (elm-lang.org)
348 points by roebk on Oct 21, 2019 | 145 comments
14. Show HN: Nginx Image with HTTP/3 (QUIC), TLS1.3 with 0-RTT, Brotli
219 points by _1h6r on Oct 20, 2019 | 63 comments
15. RLSL: a Rust to SPIR-V Compiler (docs.google.com)
199 points by Impossible on Oct 21, 2019 | 45 comments
16. The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (2010) (cdixon.org)
191 points by feross on Oct 21, 2019 | 198 comments
17. Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsing history and bookmarks (github.com/worldbrain)
288 points by kick on Oct 21, 2019 | 95 comments
18. Photographing Big Waves at Mavericks (cake.co)
144 points by brudgers on Oct 18, 2019 | 13 comments
19. SoftBank to take control of WeWork: Sources (cnbc.com)
234 points by sikim on Oct 21, 2019 | 178 comments
20. CRISPR therapy may reverse autism gene mutation effects in mice: study (spectrumnews.org)
124 points by daegloe on Oct 21, 2019 | 97 comments
21. Google attempted to shut down a unionization meeting in Zurich (vox.com)
396 points by imartin2k on Oct 21, 2019 | 212 comments
22. An on-going conversion of Scoopex's Amiga Hardware coding tutorials into C (github.com/spec-chum)
104 points by erickhill on Oct 21, 2019 | 13 comments
23. Australia Newspapers Redact Front Pages in Media-Freedom Protest (bloomberg.com)
190 points by soroushjp on Oct 21, 2019 | 59 comments
24. Client-side web programming in Haskell: A retrospective (chrisdone.com)
163 points by mxschumacher on Oct 20, 2019 | 47 comments
25. The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal election – ranked (nikobell.ca)
213 points by firloop on Oct 21, 2019 | 94 comments
26. Doctor T, don’t you get tired of only seeing older patients? (twitter.com/therealdoctort)
278 points by happy-go-lucky on Oct 21, 2019 | 47 comments
27. Ask HN: What are the most fundamental books on computer science?
474 points by michalu on Oct 21, 2019 | 192 comments
28. Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Event in Taiwan (polygon.com)
387 points by ilamont on Oct 21, 2019 | 265 comments
29. Fantasy console on a console (jborza.github.io)
98 points by jborza on Oct 21, 2019 | 3 comments
30. Internet Exchange Map (internetexchangemap.com)
132 points by ghgr on Oct 20, 2019 | 47 comments

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