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1. How to Find Hidden Cameras and Spy Gear (senteltechsecurity.com)
749 points by loteck on Jan 16, 2019 | 182 comments
2. Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over (mastercard.com)
716 points by hbcondo714 on Jan 17, 2019 | 339 comments
3. Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals (github.com/schollz)
492 points by captn3m0 on Jan 17, 2019 | 146 comments
4. Dbeaver – Multi-platform database tool (dbeaver.io)
483 points by vbv on Jan 17, 2019 | 203 comments
5. Rust 1.32 released (rust-lang.org)
430 points by steveklabnik on Jan 17, 2019 | 161 comments
6. ScyllaDB Open Source 3.0 (scylladb.com)
210 points by manigandham on Jan 17, 2019 | 68 comments
7. DNS Flag Day on February 1, 2019: check your domains (dnsflagday.net)
375 points by el_duderino on Jan 17, 2019 | 93 comments
8. Microsoft pledges $500M for affordable housing in Seattle area (nytimes.com)
338 points by pgodzin on Jan 17, 2019 | 178 comments
9. Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M (techcrunch.com)
246 points by toufiqbarhamov on Jan 17, 2019 | 173 comments
10. Adding new DNA letters makes novel proteins possible (economist.com)
161 points by pseudolus on Jan 17, 2019 | 35 comments
11. Preparing for Prison (2016) (prisonuk.blogspot.com)
160 points by Tomte on Jan 17, 2019 | 94 comments
12. The 773M Record “Collection #1” Data Breach (troyhunt.com)
325 points by shritesh on Jan 16, 2019 | 120 comments
13. Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email (chaddickerson.com)
269 points by wrench4916 on Jan 17, 2019 | 145 comments
14. HeidiSQL – GUI client for MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL (heidisql.com)
250 points by pqb on Jan 17, 2019 | 92 comments
15. Lego collecting delivers huge and uncorrelated market returns (bloomberg.com)
229 points by pseudolus on Jan 17, 2019 | 207 comments
16. My PHP Development Setup (johnmackenzie.co.uk)
340 points by lxm on Jan 16, 2019 | 163 comments
17. Oklahoma Department of Securities Leaked Millions of Files (upguard.com)
127 points by wglb on Jan 17, 2019 | 24 comments
18. Screen time: how much is too much? (nature.com)
190 points by pseudolus on Jan 17, 2019 | 266 comments
19. Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway (medium.com/s)
388 points by kjhughes on Jan 17, 2019 | 244 comments
20. 600 days of postmarketOS (postmarketos.org)
226 points by ollieparanoid on Jan 16, 2019 | 59 comments
21. More than you really wanted to know about Patch (landley.net)
139 points by signa11 on Jan 16, 2019 | 10 comments
22. Spectrum – Image transcoding library for Android or iOS (libspectrum.io)
130 points by markoa on Jan 17, 2019 | 28 comments
23. A Stroke Turned a 63-Year-Old into a Rap Legend (theatlantic.com)
209 points by mtg on Jan 16, 2019 | 74 comments
24. What’s Causing the Rise of Hoarding Disorder? (jstor.org)
135 points by toufiqbarhamov on Jan 17, 2019 | 193 comments
25. Automating Datacenter Operations at Dropbox (dropbox.com)
94 points by dmicher on Jan 16, 2019 | 22 comments
26. A bot for Starcraft in Rust, C or any other language (habr.com)
140 points by hokkos on Jan 17, 2019 | 15 comments
27. Raylib: a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy game programming (raylib.com)
153 points by njn on Jan 17, 2019 | 29 comments
28. Coinbase Acqui-Hires Blockspring (techcrunch.com)
65 points by wslh on Jan 17, 2019 | 24 comments
29. Show HN: Json2graphql – From a JSON file to Postgres-backed realtime GraphQL (github.com/hasura)
120 points by wawhal on Jan 17, 2019 | 40 comments
30. The creeping IT apocalypse (forrestbrazeal.com)
324 points by forrestbrazeal on Jan 17, 2019 | 277 comments

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