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1. No evidence that testosterone reduces cognitive empathy (upenn.edu)
427 points by elorant on Oct 2, 2019 | 236 comments
2. The vultures of Spain skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy (twitter.com/turbanminor)
542 points by isp on Oct 1, 2019 | 101 comments
3. Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS (arstechnica.com)
645 points by Deinos on Oct 1, 2019 | 434 comments
4. Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet (netblocks.org)
560 points by anigbrowl on Oct 2, 2019 | 304 comments
5. New In Postgres 12: Generated Columns (pgdash.io)
516 points by craigkerstiens on Oct 2, 2019 | 190 comments
6. Ocean plastic waste probably comes from ships, report says (afp.com)
373 points by elorant on Oct 2, 2019 | 291 comments
7. Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices (techcrunch.com)
372 points by aminecodes on Oct 2, 2019 | 291 comments
8. Show HN: Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project (stavros.io)
442 points by stavros on Oct 2, 2019 | 91 comments
9. How a double-free bug in WhatsApp turns to remote code execution (awakened1712.github.io)
416 points by wyldfire on Oct 2, 2019 | 120 comments
10. Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019 (ycombinator.com)
371 points by andygcook on Oct 2, 2019 | 156 comments
11. Making a RISC-V Operating System Using Rust (utk.edu)
300 points by fogus on Oct 2, 2019 | 46 comments
12. Schwab Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commissions (aboutschwab.com)
274 points by lxm on Oct 2, 2019 | 275 comments
13. This To That (thistothat.com)
386 points by thunderbong on Sept 30, 2019 | 92 comments
14. How much faster is Redis at storing a blob of JSON compared to Postgres? (peterbe.com)
224 points by Manozco on Oct 2, 2019 | 114 comments
15. What are the most indispensable books for indie hackers? (indiehackers.com)
301 points by ChanningAllen on Oct 2, 2019 | 61 comments
16. Small Trial Reverses a Year of Alzheimer's Cognitive Decline in Just Two Months (sciencealert.com)
254 points by lelf on Sept 30, 2019 | 81 comments
17. Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way? (syfy.com)
222 points by Santosh83 on Oct 2, 2019 | 100 comments
18. The IBM Pentium 4 64-Bit CPU (cpushack.com)
207 points by sohkamyung on Oct 2, 2019 | 78 comments
19. Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing (astro.golf)
232 points by mrspatula on Oct 2, 2019 | 113 comments
20. Unsung Beauty of Analog Devices Datasheets (neil.computer)
173 points by neilpanchal on Sept 30, 2019 | 65 comments
21. Tiny Acquires Meteor (techcrunch.com)
165 points by doppp on Oct 2, 2019 | 56 comments
22. The myth of the teacher pay gap? (nationalaffairs.com)
144 points by autokill on Oct 1, 2019 | 301 comments
23. 40k-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found (2015) (digitaljournal.com)
158 points by blfr on Sept 29, 2019 | 36 comments
24. A New R6RS Scheme Compiler (weinholt.se)
182 points by widdershins on Oct 2, 2019 | 57 comments
25. Taichi: A Language for High-Performance Computation on Spatially Sparse Data [pdf] (taichi.graphics)
78 points by matt_d on Oct 2, 2019 | 9 comments
26. Solving the Wrong Problem (2011) (azarask.in)
142 points by dedalus on Oct 2, 2019 | 42 comments
27. Visa, Mastercard, Others Reconsider Involvement in Facebook's Libra Network (wsj.com)
184 points by JumpCrisscross on Oct 2, 2019 | 109 comments
28. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody and predictions (nature.com)
208 points by sohkamyung on Oct 2, 2019 | 110 comments
29. Bulgaria is the world’s fastest-shrinking country (bbc.com)
316 points by clouddrover on Sept 30, 2019 | 295 comments
30. Intel slashes prices in face of AMD competition (anandtech.com)
202 points by taspeotis on Oct 2, 2019 | 159 comments

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