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1. Perfectly Cropped (tyler.io)
1232 points by keehun on Oct 25, 2019 | 553 comments
2. Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract (nytimes.com)
701 points by aaronbrethorst on Oct 25, 2019 | 440 comments
3. Gmail marking email from me as spam (mail-archive.com)
475 points by cnst on Oct 25, 2019 | 393 comments
4. MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Computers That Didn't Work (ieee.org)
359 points by harrygoldstein on Oct 24, 2019 | 204 comments
5. Don Valentine has died (sequoiacap.com)
284 points by gatsby on Oct 25, 2019 | 26 comments
6. قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic (nas.sr)
556 points by kick on Oct 25, 2019 | 623 comments
7. Supercritical CO2 is heavy like a liquid, with weird and useful properties (popula.com)
212 points by firstbase on Oct 25, 2019 | 55 comments
8. My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be? (medium.com/help-me-heidi)
644 points by rmason on Oct 25, 2019 | 370 comments
9. An Illustrated Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect (okta.com)
431 points by jbigelow76 on Oct 25, 2019 | 74 comments
10. How SSH Port Became 22 (ssh.com)
382 points by kawera on Oct 24, 2019 | 81 comments
11. Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the result of a query (github.com/pubkey)
288 points by dsun180 on Oct 25, 2019 | 122 comments
12. Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline (gluebenchmark.com)
303 points by alexwg on Oct 24, 2019 | 235 comments
13. Non-Green Plants (2013) (plantsandprejudice.wordpress.com)
97 points by sillybilly on Oct 25, 2019 | 15 comments
14. Who Killed the Scrollbar? (ello.co)
351 points by dredmorbius on Oct 25, 2019 | 316 comments
15. Netflix open-sources Polynote, an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook (medium.com/netflix-techblog)
427 points by type_enthusiast on Oct 23, 2019 | 85 comments
16. Using Deep Learning to Predict the Olfactory Properties of Molecules (googleblog.com)
140 points by dyslexit on Oct 25, 2019 | 39 comments
17. Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure (janestreet.com)
186 points by lelf on Oct 25, 2019 | 42 comments
18. Metamath Zero, a bootstrapping theorem prover (arxiv.org)
125 points by giomasce on Oct 25, 2019 | 36 comments
19. Calculus for the Curious (thonyc.wordpress.com)
243 points by diodorus on Oct 24, 2019 | 38 comments
20. Reflections on My Career at Microsoft (medium.com/docjamesw)
300 points by CPAhem on Oct 25, 2019 | 159 comments
21. Ants Are Practically Immune to Traffic Jams (sciencealert.com)
191 points by laktak on Oct 25, 2019 | 160 comments
22. Python and OpenGL for Scientific Visualization (labri.fr)
235 points by dsego on Oct 25, 2019 | 24 comments
23. Intel SPMD Program Compiler: A Compiler for High-Performance SIMD Programming (ispc.github.io)
131 points by kick on Oct 25, 2019 | 30 comments
24. Focusmate – Virtual Coworking Helps You Get Things Done (focusmate.com)
184 points by jeffshek on Oct 25, 2019 | 62 comments
25. Obscure Charges That Utility Companies Add to Bills (propublica.org)
119 points by danso on Oct 24, 2019 | 29 comments
26. We tested Europe’s new lie detector for travelers and triggered a false positive (theintercept.com)
226 points by rchaudhary on Oct 25, 2019 | 114 comments
27. Applying BERT models to Search (blog.google)
165 points by moultano on Oct 25, 2019 | 109 comments
28. Show HN: Aim and Shoot – A game where your opponents are neural networks (github.com/victorqribeiro)
118 points by atum47 on Oct 25, 2019 | 33 comments
29. Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance (sicpers.info)
155 points by ingve on Oct 25, 2019 | 49 comments
30. Dagen H: the day Sweden switched from driving on the left to the right (2018) (drivemag.com)
95 points by gscott on Oct 25, 2019 | 53 comments

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