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1. Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation (techcrunch.com)
774 points by e1ven on Feb 5, 2019 | 835 comments
2. HTTP/3 explained (haxx.se)
716 points by signa11 on Feb 5, 2019 | 233 comments
3. Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
2009 points by apitman on Feb 5, 2019 | 1165 comments
4. How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies to Her Death (buzzfeednews.com)
366 points by jbegley on Feb 5, 2019 | 134 comments
5. Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better (juliareda.eu)
490 points by walterbell on Feb 5, 2019 | 228 comments
6. Lectures in Quantitative Economics as Python and Julia Notebooks (quantecon.org)
355 points by westurner on Feb 5, 2019 | 48 comments
7. Data Structure Visualizations (2011) (usfca.edu)
384 points by prabhupant on Feb 5, 2019 | 33 comments
8. Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish (michelin.com)
212 points by vezycash on Feb 5, 2019 | 222 comments
9. The Hanabi Challenge: A New Frontier for AI Research (arxiv.org)
150 points by iron0013 on Feb 5, 2019 | 66 comments
10. Small World: The Tiny House Trend (believermag.com)
195 points by magda_wang on Feb 5, 2019 | 329 comments
11. Previous: NeXT computer hardware emulator (alternative-system.com)
153 points by ingve on Feb 5, 2019 | 25 comments
12. Tarrare (wikipedia.org)
311 points by aaaaaaaaaaab on Feb 5, 2019 | 72 comments
13. Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds (neh.gov)
199 points by samclemens on Feb 5, 2019 | 61 comments
14. Our Language Affects What We See (scientificamerican.com)
143 points by ALee on Feb 3, 2019 | 103 comments
15. Containers and Virtual Machines at the Edge (stackpath.com)
93 points by Elof on Feb 5, 2019 | 19 comments
16. Floating Point Visually Explained (2017) (fabiensanglard.net)
206 points by mercer on Feb 5, 2019 | 17 comments
17. Electron v5.0 Timeline (electronjs.org)
135 points by jedixit on Feb 5, 2019 | 97 comments
18. How long will a 64 bit Transaction-ID last in PostgreSQL? (scherbaum.la)
101 points by vinayan3 on Feb 5, 2019 | 32 comments
19. Bringing black and white photos to life using Colourise.sg (data.gov.sg)
88 points by sohkamyung on Feb 4, 2019 | 18 comments
20. Apple Names Deirdre O’Brien Senior Vice President of Retail and People (apple.com)
111 points by coloneltcb on Feb 5, 2019 | 106 comments
21. X265 3.0 released (bitbucket.org/multicoreware)
138 points by htfy96 on Feb 5, 2019 | 119 comments
22. Model Metropolis (logicmag.io)
112 points by tekromancr on Feb 5, 2019 | 60 comments
23. Journalism generated by machine is on the rise (nytimes.com)
123 points by pseudolus on Feb 5, 2019 | 59 comments
24. Security Researcher Assaulted Following Vulnerability Disclosure (secjuice.com)
399 points by wglb on Feb 5, 2019 | 110 comments
25. Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation (twitter.com/teotwaki)
290 points by slau on Feb 5, 2019 | 110 comments
26. Show HN: Gitin – a minimal commit/branch/workdir explorer for Git (github.com/isacikgoz)
107 points by isacikgoz on Feb 4, 2019 | 26 comments
27. The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience (thewalrus.ca)
130 points by pseudolus on Feb 5, 2019 | 87 comments
28. An Astrophysicist Who Maps the Universe’s Terra Incognita (quantamagazine.org)
70 points by gotocake on Feb 5, 2019 | 3 comments
29. Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two (nytimes.com)
244 points by colanderman on Feb 4, 2019 | 513 comments
30. Fiberbots: Design of a multi-agent, fiber composite digital fabrication system (media.mit.edu)
44 points by eaguyhn on Feb 3, 2019 | 12 comments

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