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1. Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent (techcrunch.com)
1077 points by pseudolus on May 31, 2019 | 224 comments
2. Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well (pragmaticengineer.com)
1109 points by gregdoesit on May 31, 2019 | 371 comments
3. Scaling to 1M active GraphQL subscriptions on Postgres (github.com/hasura)
353 points by tango12 on May 31, 2019 | 80 comments
4. "DigitalOcean Killed Our Company" (twitter.com/w3nicolas)
1343 points by sergiomattei on May 31, 2019 | 596 comments
5. Semantic: Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages (github.com/github)
193 points by lelf on May 31, 2019 | 25 comments
6. James Webb Space Telescope emerges successfully from final thermal vacuum test (phys.org)
345 points by dnetesn on May 31, 2019 | 157 comments
7. Betrayed by an app she had never heard of (privacyinternational.org)
442 points by Brajeshwar on May 31, 2019 | 241 comments
8. Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog (github.com/mathieudutour)
494 points by mathieudutour on May 31, 2019 | 130 comments
9. Space firm founded by billionaire Paul Allen closing operations (reuters.com)
198 points by hhs on May 31, 2019 | 80 comments
10. Another Step Toward the End of Moore’s Law (ieee.org)
148 points by furcyd on May 31, 2019 | 130 comments
11. Urql: a GraphQL client library (formidable.com)
217 points by smusumeche on May 31, 2019 | 77 comments
12. Rare Dreamcast-Powered Sega Fish Life Preserved and Released by Musée Bolo (thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk)
172 points by yrochat on May 28, 2019 | 53 comments
13. One SQL to Rule Them All: Management of Streams and Tables (arxiv.org)
260 points by dwenzek on May 31, 2019 | 35 comments
14. Irish Supreme Court Dismisses Facebook’s Complaint on NSA Surveillance [pdf] (noyb.eu)
135 points by donohoe on May 31, 2019 | 27 comments
15. I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I Expected (cbc.ca)
453 points by pseudolus on May 31, 2019 | 408 comments
16. GM fungus can rapidly kill mosquitoes that spread malaria, study suggests (bbc.co.uk)
190 points by hbilar2 on May 31, 2019 | 149 comments
17. Amazon interested in buying Boost from T-Mobile, Sprint: sources (reuters.com)
122 points by Geeek on May 30, 2019 | 85 comments
18. Eating Jell-O with Chopsticks (granolashotgun.com)
179 points by oftenwrong on May 31, 2019 | 118 comments
19. Ask HN: A Good Alternative for ReCaptcha?
368 points by Ayesh on May 31, 2019 | 199 comments
20. Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network Using Only NumPy (victorzhou.com)
126 points by vzhou842 on May 31, 2019 | 12 comments
21. Deposit of rare-earth minerals off Japan could supply world for centuries (2018) (sciencealert.com)
174 points by lelf on May 30, 2019 | 62 comments
22. How Plaid Reconciles Pending and Posted Transactions (plaid.com)
127 points by bjacokes on May 31, 2019 | 26 comments
23. Birthday Paradox Revisited (datagenetics.com)
86 points by bookofjoe on May 29, 2019 | 27 comments
24. Faster Parallel Python Without Python Multiprocessing (towardsdatascience.com)
93 points by Cyranix on May 31, 2019 | 29 comments
25. More evidence that autism is linked to gut bacteria (economist.com)
174 points by fraqed on May 30, 2019 | 101 comments
26. Data API for Amazon Aurora Serverless (amazon.com)
83 points by vincentdm on May 30, 2019 | 19 comments
27. Canada Uses Civil Anti-Spam Law in Bid to Fine Malware Purveyors (krebsonsecurity.com)
58 points by feross on May 30, 2019 | 4 comments
28. Too Many Medicines Simply Don’t Work (bloomberg.com)
138 points by pseudolus on May 30, 2019 | 106 comments
29. Cache Concurrency Control (braze.com)
57 points by brazeepd on May 30, 2019 | 5 comments
30. Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing (propublica.org)
77 points by nkurz on May 29, 2019 | 56 comments

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