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1. Going Solo, Successfully (inburke.com)
638 points by kevinburke on Feb 17, 2019 | 191 comments
2. Flightradar24 – how it works (habr.com)
874 points by crunchiebones on Feb 17, 2019 | 155 comments
3. You probably don't need a single-page app (plausible.io)
816 points by ukutaht on Feb 17, 2019 | 499 comments
4. WireGuard for MacOS (zx2c4.com)
575 points by helper on Feb 17, 2019 | 154 comments
5. We Lost Our Ability to Mend (dieworkwear.com)
369 points by imartin2k on Feb 17, 2019 | 416 comments
6. Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs (wired.com)
242 points by lelf on Feb 16, 2019 | 112 comments
7. On Being an Engineering Manager (nickmchardy.com)
304 points by boyter on Feb 17, 2019 | 76 comments
8. What ABC called "pink slime," USDA now says can be labeled "ground beef" (newfoodeconomy.org)
299 points by lxm on Feb 17, 2019 | 299 comments
9. Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for Discrete GPUs (phoronix.com)
209 points by symisc_devel on Feb 17, 2019 | 44 comments
10. Y Combinator’s latest batch of startups is too big for one Demo Day stage (techcrunch.com)
156 points by laurex on Feb 17, 2019 | 81 comments
11. Technical Recruiting Needs to Focus on Selling the Position (leerob.io)
151 points by leerob on Feb 17, 2019 | 136 comments
12. Github restricts public Faceswap repo to logged-in users (github.com/deepfakes)
299 points by jordwalke on Feb 17, 2019 | 218 comments
13. Deciphering the Messages of Apple’s T2 Coprocessor (duo.com)
130 points by walterbell on Feb 17, 2019 | 25 comments
14. Etsy sellers say their bank accounts were emptied in major billing snafu (boingboing.net)
182 points by mkeeter on Feb 17, 2019 | 103 comments
15. The Joy of Standards (nytimes.com)
74 points by fanf2 on Feb 17, 2019 | 26 comments
16. MIDI City 2000 (midicity-2000.glitch.me)
76 points by rafaelc on Feb 17, 2019 | 8 comments
17. Meaningful life at older ages – relationship with prosperity, health, biology (pnas.org)
133 points by pseudolus on Feb 16, 2019 | 16 comments
18. Arm Helium: New vector extension for the M-Profile Architecture (arm.com)
53 points by flagada on Feb 17, 2019 | 10 comments
19. Data leak reveals China is tracking almost 2.6m people in Xinjiang (ft.com)
164 points by metaphysics on Feb 17, 2019 | 91 comments
20. NL-Graphs: A Hybrid Approach Toward Interactively Querying Semantic Data [pdf] (eswc-conferences.org)
50 points by godelmachine on Feb 17, 2019 | 8 comments
21. Study finds professors’ attitudes affect students’ grades (arstechnica.com)
75 points by pseudolus on Feb 16, 2019 | 56 comments
22. Formal Verification of Y86-64 Processors (csappbook.blogspot.com)
49 points by oumua_don17 on Feb 17, 2019 | 8 comments
23. Janet – A dynamic language and bytecode VM (github.com/janet-lang)
152 points by traderjane on Feb 16, 2019 | 50 comments
24. Git-signatures – Multiple PGP signatures for your commits (github.com/hashbang)
75 points by Couto on Feb 17, 2019 | 14 comments
25. Deck-build – A powerful and tiny bash framework to build custom Docker images (github.com/flexos-io)
61 points by d3ck on Feb 17, 2019 | 34 comments
26. Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++ Applications (arxiv.org)
167 points by matt_d on Feb 17, 2019 | 36 comments
27. AIL Framework – Open Source Analysis Information Leak Framework (github.com/circl)
38 points by adulau on Feb 16, 2019 | 5 comments
28. Study Looks at Why Neolithic Humans Buried Their Dogs with Them (smithsonianmag.com)
55 points by pseudolus on Feb 16, 2019 | 15 comments
29. Naming elliptic curves used in cryptography (johndcook.com)
58 points by weinzierl on Feb 16, 2019
30. Kerosene Lantern Becomes a Compact Bioreactor (hackaday.com)
32 points by stevefan1999 on Feb 16, 2019

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