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1. Life in the Spanish city that banned cars (theguardian.com)
1240 points by antr on Sept 18, 2018 | 679 comments
2. GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts in the State of Washington (gnupg.org)
711 points by Boulth on Sept 18, 2018 | 175 comments
3. Ask HN: Why did your startup fail and what did you learn?
675 points by lsr_ssri on Sept 18, 2018 | 440 comments
4. Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is doing throttling (news.northeastern.edu)
408 points by infodocket on Sept 18, 2018 | 177 comments
5. How Puerto Rico Became a Tax Haven for the Super Rich (gq.com)
267 points by evo_9 on Sept 18, 2018 | 215 comments
6. Fennel – Lisp in Lua (fennel-lang.org)
182 points by tosh on Sept 18, 2018 | 62 comments
7. I simulated California housing and learned about simulators (apenwarr.ca)
208 points by yorwba on Sept 18, 2018 | 158 comments
8. Am I Happy At Work? Analyzing my entire career (trackinghappiness.com)
225 points by madjackwalker on Sept 17, 2018 | 119 comments
9. Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce (techcrunch.com)
327 points by Oystersaremyfav on Sept 18, 2018 | 357 comments
10. Is “data scientist” the new “programmer”? (blogs.harvard.edu)
290 points by jdhzzz on Sept 18, 2018 | 239 comments
11. Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub (githubengineering.com)
159 points by Chris911 on Sept 18, 2018 | 52 comments
12. The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime with the FBI (wired.com)
124 points by kposehn on Sept 18, 2018 | 70 comments
13. How to fail as a new engineering manager (usejournal.com)
425 points by andygcook on Sept 18, 2018 | 106 comments
14. China Once Looked Tough on Trade. Now Its Options Are Dwindling (nytimes.com)
200 points by enitihas on Sept 18, 2018 | 374 comments
15. New bridge collapses into river in eastern Saskatchewan hours after opening (globalnews.ca)
148 points by ilamont on Sept 18, 2018 | 106 comments
16. Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920), mathematician (cam.ac.uk)
263 points by mgdo on Sept 18, 2018 | 46 comments
17. Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men (propublica.org)
271 points by danso on Sept 18, 2018 | 377 comments
18. Dear Moon (dearmoon.earth)
724 points by T-A on Sept 18, 2018 | 222 comments
19. Self-Driving Cars Can Handle Neither Rain nor Sleet nor Snow (bloomberg.com)
210 points by bookmtn on Sept 17, 2018 | 332 comments
20. Germany launches world's first hydrogen-powered train (theguardian.com)
207 points by ksourav on Sept 18, 2018 | 115 comments
21. Extended Validation Certificates Are Dead (troyhunt.com)
186 points by jcurbo on Sept 17, 2018 | 104 comments
22. Transmission of cancer by a single multiorgan donor to 4 transplant recipients (wiley.com)
134 points by bdz on Sept 17, 2018 | 76 comments
23. Native Clojure with GraalVM (janstepien.com)
197 points by tosh on Sept 18, 2018 | 97 comments
24. Times Newer Roman, a sneaky font designed to make essays look longer (theverge.com)
128 points by Tomte on Sept 18, 2018 | 89 comments
25. iOS 12, reviewed (arstechnica.com)
240 points by tomduncalf on Sept 18, 2018 | 196 comments
26. French bookshops revolt after prize selects novel self-published on Amazon (theguardian.com)
145 points by allthebest on Sept 18, 2018 | 116 comments
27. You and Your Research (1986) (virginia.edu)
88 points by palerdot on Sept 18, 2018 | 10 comments
28. Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom or RSS feeds (beesbuzz.biz)
176 points by angrygoat on Sept 18, 2018 | 49 comments
29. The Last Goodbye (path.com)
130 points by lerigner on Sept 17, 2018 | 78 comments
30. A new book about Nietzsche: tethering philosophy to the mess of daily experience (theatlantic.com)
181 points by magda_wang on Sept 18, 2018 | 100 comments

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