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1. Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company (nytimes.com)
778 points by subdane on Sept 26, 2018 | 352 comments
2. Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking (twitter.com/jonathanmayer)
996 points by technocracy on Sept 25, 2018 | 355 comments
3. Mmm, Pi-hole (troyhunt.com)
849 points by cryptography on Sept 26, 2018 | 408 comments
4. WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind (forbes.com/sites/parmyolson)
626 points by petethomas on Sept 26, 2018 | 392 comments
5. Product Updates Based on Your Feedback (blog.google)
780 points by tptacek on Sept 26, 2018 | 451 comments
6. How to Build a Low-Tech Website (lowtechmagazine.com)
600 points by RomanZolotarev on Sept 26, 2018 | 183 comments
7. Introducing Oculus Quest, Our First 6DOF All-In-One VR System (oculus.com)
377 points by TiredOfLife on Sept 26, 2018 | 247 comments
8. AWS now supports U2F/Yubikeys (amazon.com)
357 points by captn3m0 on Sept 25, 2018 | 127 comments
9. LTE Base Station Software (bellard.org)
215 points by vezycash on Sept 26, 2018 | 45 comments
10. Skip – A programming language to skip the things you have already computed (skiplang.com)
283 points by pbowyer on Sept 26, 2018 | 100 comments
11. 'Super Mario Bros.' speedrunner hits nearly inhuman 4:55 world record (mashable.com)
445 points by danso on Sept 25, 2018 | 121 comments
12. Show HN: You Don't Need WordPress – Create a Blog With Only Google Docs (youdontneedwp.com)
257 points by patwalls on Sept 26, 2018 | 110 comments
13. When Zuckerberg Asserted Control, Instagram’s Founders Chafed (nytimes.com)
260 points by eudora on Sept 26, 2018 | 112 comments
14. Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own Housing Crisis (collectorsweekly.com)
208 points by docker_up on Sept 26, 2018 | 181 comments
15. Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
460 points by sardaaraz on Sept 26, 2018 | 472 comments
16. How leaves talk to roots (phys.org)
84 points by dnetesn on Sept 26, 2018 | 1 comment
17. The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare (steveblank.com)
209 points by kulu2002 on Sept 26, 2018 | 136 comments
18. Meshbird – distributed private networking (meshbird.com)
177 points by gyre007 on Sept 25, 2018 | 42 comments
19. Announcing Hyperswarm (hashbase.io)
166 points by bpierre on Sept 26, 2018 | 23 comments
20. Abstract of the NTSB Report on Air Canada flight 759's taxiway overflight at SFO [pdf] (ntsb.gov)
124 points by CaliforniaKarl on Sept 26, 2018 | 127 comments
21. Bill Gates-led $1B energy fund expands startup portfolio fighting climate change (qz.com)
137 points by edwinksl on Sept 26, 2018 | 43 comments
22. Automakers working to transform data from cars into secondary revenue streams (carbuzz.com)
169 points by reaperducer on Sept 26, 2018 | 147 comments
23. Oracle’s Java 11 trap (joda.org)
478 points by haimez on Sept 26, 2018 | 236 comments
24. Simple Python implementation of a Bayesian multi-armed bandit algorithm (peterroelants.github.io)
117 points by Xochipilli on Sept 26, 2018 | 5 comments
25. Fata Morgana in the Juan de Fuca Strait (usra.edu)
60 points by dangerman on Sept 25, 2018 | 7 comments
26. Rejected Then Recruited: Our Journey into Y Combinator (repl.it)
114 points by amasad on Sept 26, 2018 | 21 comments
27. The Problem With APLs (hillelwayne.com)
82 points by mr_golyadkin on Sept 26, 2018 | 51 comments
28. Trees, Teeth, and Time: The mathematics of clock making (ams.org)
90 points by espeed on Sept 26, 2018 | 4 comments
29. Pixelmash: Resolution-Independent Pixel Art Software for PC and Mac [video] (youtube.com)
93 points by caspervonb on Sept 26, 2018 | 19 comments
30. Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga (bellingcat.com)
273 points by abhi3 on Sept 26, 2018 | 97 comments

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