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1.The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (newyorker.com)
1663 points by lordnacho on Aug 8, 2019 | 777 comments
2.AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip (reuters.com)
837 points by jonbaer on Aug 8, 2019 | 255 comments
3.Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone (forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster)
773 points by tareqak on Aug 8, 2019 | 282 comments
4.Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye (linuxjournal.com)
838 points by akulbe on Aug 8, 2019 | 356 comments
5.Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning (uspto.gov)
650 points by smsm42 on Aug 8, 2019 | 244 comments
6.GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories (github.blog)
680 points by dstaheli on Aug 8, 2019 | 231 comments
7.NY State alleges ExxonMobil knew risks of climate change and defrauded investors (esquire.com)
321 points by colinprince on Aug 8, 2019 | 116 comments
8.Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate (nytimes.com)
425 points by jumelles on Aug 8, 2019 | 501 comments
9.One job, many roles: The different skills needed to be a successful CTO (madewithlove.be)
346 points by andreascreten on Aug 8, 2019 | 68 comments
10.Racket: Lisp for Learning (lwn.net)
221 points by chmaynard on Aug 8, 2019 | 148 comments
11.Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do (krebsonsecurity.com)
204 points by hsnewman on Aug 8, 2019 | 57 comments
12.The Death of Social Reciprocity in the Era of Digital Distraction (scientificamerican.com)
242 points by headalgorithm on Aug 8, 2019 | 114 comments
13.What has to happen with Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space (utcc.utoronto.ca)
214 points by stargrave on Aug 8, 2019 | 88 comments
14.Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair (ifixit.com)
361 points by miles on Aug 8, 2019 | 252 comments
15.Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open borders (thenation.com)
177 points by daddy_drank on Aug 8, 2019 | 253 comments
16.How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be (figma.com)
213 points by twog on Aug 8, 2019 | 37 comments
17.Living Off the Land in Linux (gtfobins.github.io)
163 points by DyslexicAtheist on Aug 8, 2019 | 35 comments
18.How to Get into Farming with No Money (1980) (smallfarmersjournal.com)
123 points by docbrown on Aug 8, 2019 | 42 comments
19.Old Paris Is No More (laphamsquarterly.org)
167 points by collapse on Aug 8, 2019 | 101 comments
20.Sentient: Classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence (theverge.com)
129 points by ajay-d on Aug 7, 2019 | 54 comments
21.Computer Science Illustrated (2014) (csillustrated.berkeley.edu)
184 points by signa11 on Aug 8, 2019 | 16 comments
22.Launch HN: Quirk (YC S19) – Open-Source Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
196 points by flaque on Aug 8, 2019 | 93 comments
23.We may not be running out of helium after all (2015) (newatlas.com)
87 points by welder on Aug 7, 2019 | 78 comments
24.Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn (lambdaisland.com)
231 points by galfarragem on Aug 8, 2019 | 209 comments
25.Better Encrypted Group Chat (trailofbits.com)
156 points by UkiahSmith on Aug 7, 2019 | 39 comments
26.Air Force Reveals Tests of Supposed Record-Setting Scramjet from N. Grumman (thedrive.com)
70 points by nwrk on Aug 7, 2019 | 34 comments
27.On the Road in 1980 (standpointmag.co.uk)
52 points by mstats on Aug 8, 2019 | 13 comments
28.Suburb in the sky: how Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall (theguardian.com)
101 points by charlysl on Aug 6, 2019 | 22 comments
29.Circulating in China’s Financial System: More Than $200B in I.O.U.s (nytimes.com)
101 points by nafizh on Aug 8, 2019 | 85 comments
30.TV detector van (wikipedia.org)
151 points by rishabhd on Aug 8, 2019 | 327 comments

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