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1. NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blame Spanner (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)
510 points by evanweaver on Sept 21, 2018 | 301 comments
2. People Like You More Than You Know (scientificamerican.com)
577 points by ALee on Sept 20, 2018 | 200 comments
3. Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard (morepypy.blogspot.com)
173 points by mattip on Sept 21, 2018 | 39 comments
4. Functional core, imperative shell (2012) (destroyallsoftware.com)
389 points by fagnerbrack on Sept 21, 2018 | 126 comments
5. Holding a Program in One's Head (2007) (paulgraham.com)
215 points by dasmoth on Sept 21, 2018 | 79 comments
6. Apple File System Reference [pdf] (developer.apple.com)
248 points by abkumar on Sept 21, 2018 | 64 comments
7. Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades (latimes.com)
133 points by spking on Sept 21, 2018 | 98 comments
8. Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China (theintercept.com)
541 points by halestock on Sept 21, 2018 | 289 comments
9. Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula (1999) [pdf] (rowan.edu)
148 points by drusepth on Sept 21, 2018 | 54 comments
10. A Day in the Life of Americans (flowingdata.com)
155 points by paulb81 on Sept 20, 2018 | 61 comments
11. Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer – Part Two (stoplight.io)
125 points by pytlesk4 on Sept 21, 2018 | 19 comments
12. Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing you down (heapanalytics.com)
178 points by drob on Sept 21, 2018 | 92 comments
13. Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
458 points by chefqual on Sept 21, 2018 | 286 comments
14. Insane complexity of calendrically correct date and time operations (yourcalendricalfallacyis.com)
256 points by mtmail on Sept 20, 2018 | 140 comments
15. Coursera Machine Learning MOOC by Andrew Ng – Python Programming Assignments (github.com/dibgerge)
214 points by sonabinu on Sept 20, 2018 | 45 comments
16. Worst Puzzle Ever (2009) (rongarret.info)
127 points by lisper on Sept 21, 2018 | 44 comments
17. Qualcomm’s Chain of Trust (lineageos.org)
180 points by krtkush on Sept 21, 2018 | 130 comments
18. Deep learning experiments in OCaml (janestreet.com)
218 points by yminsky on Sept 21, 2018 | 97 comments
19. Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple (asaph.org)
389 points by asaph on Sept 21, 2018 | 210 comments
20. A DMT trip 'feels like dying' – and scientists now agree (bbc.co.uk)
213 points by jeffwass on Sept 21, 2018 | 133 comments
21. Go team adding a Go language server to core (googlesource.com)
218 points by sqs on Sept 21, 2018 | 92 comments
22. C++ Core Coroutines Proposal [pdf] (open-std.org)
144 points by anqurvanillapy on Sept 21, 2018 | 116 comments
23. The South African mountains older than continents (bbc.com)
156 points by MiriamWeiner on Sept 21, 2018 | 40 comments
24. A Cat Meme Photographer from a Century Ago (saturdayeveningpost.com)
122 points by ainar-g on Sept 19, 2018 | 53 comments
25. Saving the Prized Chile That Grows Only in Oaxaca’s Mountains (atlasobscura.com)
75 points by extarial on Sept 20, 2018 | 4 comments
26. After Five Years of Living in Trees, a Protest Community Is Being Evicted (atlasobscura.com)
94 points by extarial on Sept 21, 2018 | 51 comments
27. Freezing your credit is now free in all states under a new law (usatoday.com)
258 points by kimsk112 on Sept 21, 2018 | 104 comments
28. Alane: Using Aluminum Hydride as Fuel (ardica.com)
71 points by peter_d_sherman on Sept 19, 2018 | 51 comments
29. Xamarin Forms: it works (sharpnado.com)
128 points by roubachof on Sept 20, 2018 | 55 comments
30. Discovery of Galileo’s lost letter shows he edited his ideas to fool Inquisition (nature.com)
103 points by snake117 on Sept 21, 2018 | 45 comments

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