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1. Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People (tobyrush.com)
697 points by kick on Oct 19, 2019 | 101 comments
2. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1996) [pdf] (opendocs.github.io)
665 points by susam on Oct 19, 2019 | 142 comments
3. An electric crate motor you can drop into your car (jalopnik.com)
416 points by hourislate on Oct 19, 2019 | 264 comments
4. Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness? (elemental.medium.com)
287 points by imartin2k on Oct 19, 2019 | 80 comments
5. ML From Scratch, Part 1: Linear Regression (oranlooney.com)
301 points by olooney on Oct 19, 2019 | 38 comments
6. Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries in the US (techcrunch.com)
254 points by anon1m0us on Oct 18, 2019 | 234 comments
7. All plastic waste could be recycled into new plastic: researchers (chalmers.se)
249 points by rahuldottech on Oct 19, 2019 | 150 comments
8. Loopless Programming (jsoftware.com)
199 points by codesections on Oct 17, 2019 | 122 comments
9. When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested (propublica.org)
244 points by johnny313 on Oct 19, 2019 | 220 comments
10. The $68k Fish: The future of salmon in the Pacific Northwest (harpers.org)
198 points by howard941 on Oct 19, 2019 | 57 comments
11. Fuzzing the Z-Machine (8bitworkshop.com)
73 points by Luc on Oct 19, 2019 | 6 comments
12. Learn ClojureScript: Discovering Sequence Operations (learn-clojurescript.com)
143 points by kendru on Oct 19, 2019 | 52 comments
13. Working with Errors in Go 1.13 (golang.org)
184 points by kevinconaway on Oct 19, 2019 | 114 comments
14. The problem with metrics is a big problem for AI (fast.ai)
172 points by QuitterStrip on Oct 19, 2019 | 47 comments
15. Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (2011) (archive.org)
162 points by Tomte on Oct 19, 2019 | 101 comments
16. ET Don't Phone Home (jacquesmattheij.com)
184 points by jacquesm on Oct 19, 2019 | 82 comments
17. Pop_OS 19.10 (system76.com)
192 points by surfsvammel on Oct 19, 2019 | 127 comments
18. Reason Won't Save Us (nautil.us)
165 points by brycehalley on Oct 19, 2019 | 119 comments
19. Periodic Planar Three-Body Orbits (observablehq.com)
107 points by jashkenas on Oct 19, 2019 | 15 comments
20. Number of Self-Published Titles Jumped 40% in 2018 (publishersweekly.com)
97 points by unquote on Oct 17, 2019 | 58 comments
21. Pascal Compiler for the C64: Introducing Turbo Rascal SE (lemonspawn.com)
112 points by pjmlp on Oct 19, 2019 | 38 comments
22. Terror management theory (wikipedia.org)
132 points by _Microft on Oct 19, 2019 | 46 comments
23. Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy (arxiv.org)
69 points by breck on Oct 19, 2019 | 4 comments
24. Show HN: Blackjack Break, a minimal quick-play blackjack game (blackjackbreak.com)
132 points by ltiger on Oct 18, 2019 | 64 comments
25. Egypt uncovers 'huge cache' of ancient sealed coffins (cnn.com)
93 points by unpredict on Oct 18, 2019 | 25 comments
26. Show HN: Closest Volcano (closestvolcano.com)
70 points by rontoes on Oct 18, 2019 | 40 comments
27. International Repair Day (openrepair.org)
133 points by etiam on Oct 19, 2019 | 46 comments
28. Builders Ditch Nest After Google Ties Devices to Digital Assistant (bloomberg.com)
181 points by MBCook on Oct 18, 2019 | 121 comments
29. A Nun’s 450-Year-Old ‘Last Supper’ Makes Its Museum Debut in Florence (atlasobscura.com)
67 points by Vigier on Oct 17, 2019 | 26 comments
30. D at 20: Hits and Misses [pdf] (digitalmars.com)
123 points by noch on Oct 18, 2019 | 53 comments

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