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1. Google Docs gets an API for task automation (techcrunch.com)
594 points by Manu1987 on Feb 11, 2019 | 191 comments
2. Undercover spy exposed in NYC was one of many (apnews.com)
464 points by wglb on Feb 11, 2019 | 171 comments
3. The Psychological Trap of Freelancing (thecut.com)
542 points by ingve on Feb 11, 2019 | 247 comments
4. Amazon is buying Eero (techcrunch.com)
318 points by mikece on Feb 11, 2019 | 224 comments
5. What's next for SemVer (steveklabnik.com)
280 points by steveklabnik on Feb 11, 2019 | 222 comments
6. The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store (techcrunch.com)
420 points by longdefeat on Feb 11, 2019 | 202 comments
7. The Brain’s “Inner GPS” Creates Conceptual Spaces in the Mind (nautil.us)
275 points by pseudolus on Feb 11, 2019 | 52 comments
8. Don't hold users hostage, facilitate their exit (chagency.co.uk)
173 points by chdaniel on Feb 10, 2019 | 115 comments
9. Google Edge TPU Devices (withgoogle.com)
276 points by walterbell on Feb 10, 2019 | 113 comments
10. 38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using types (reddit.com)
358 points by deterministic on Feb 11, 2019 | 390 comments
11. The first dexterous and sentient hand prosthesis has been successfully implanted (detop-project.eu)
135 points by stonewhite on Feb 10, 2019 | 54 comments
12. Cheap and simple medical devices have to overcome deeply rooted biases (newyorker.com)
217 points by 0xedb on Feb 11, 2019 | 134 comments
13. Forge – Work with Git forges from the comfort of Magit (github.com/magit)
141 points by jdormit on Feb 11, 2019 | 34 comments
14. Bounty Hunt Announced on Swiss eVoting System (onlinevote-pit.ch)
173 points by tzmudzin on Feb 11, 2019 | 54 comments
15. YC Interviews in NYC (blog.ycombinator.com)
157 points by katm on Feb 11, 2019 | 76 comments
16. Openrsync imported into the tree (undeadly.org)
138 points by protomyth on Feb 11, 2019 | 70 comments
17. Build your own dial-up ISP in 2019 (dogemicrosystems.ca)
205 points by waffle_ss on Feb 11, 2019 | 82 comments
18. World’s oldest known wild bird is a mother again on Midway Atoll (staradvertiser.com)
155 points by ilamont on Feb 11, 2019 | 19 comments
19. Shipwreck reveals ancient market for knock-off consumer goods (arstechnica.com)
89 points by Tomte on Feb 11, 2019 | 24 comments
20. Datashader: turns even the largest data into images, accurately (datashader.org)
237 points by luu on Feb 11, 2019 | 69 comments
21. The Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube (2009) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
135 points by lainon on Feb 11, 2019 | 42 comments
22. The Data Science of MathOverflow (wolfram.com)
84 points by coliveira on Feb 11, 2019 | 29 comments
23. Be: Fundraising Misadventures (mondaynote.com)
128 points by WoodenChair on Feb 11, 2019 | 20 comments
24. The night parrot, Australia's most elusive bird (abc.net.au)
76 points by oska on Feb 11, 2019 | 13 comments
25. ‘Minimal’ cell raises stakes in race to harness synthetic life (2016) (nature.com)
57 points by headalgorithm on Feb 11, 2019 | 24 comments
26. Dolly Parton Gives a Library of 100M Books (2018) (npr.org)
190 points by jmsflknr on Feb 11, 2019 | 33 comments
27. Is huh a universal word? (2013) (ideophone.org)
86 points by bryanrasmussen on Feb 10, 2019 | 86 comments
28. Elegy for a vent in a Hawaiian volcano (washingtonpost.com)
55 points by pseudolus on Feb 10, 2019 | 16 comments
29. A Tinder-style app called Tudder lets farmers find breeding matches for cattle (bloomberg.com)
126 points by montalbano on Feb 10, 2019 | 28 comments
30. Gene therapy trials on monkeys’ eyes could help cure color blindness (wired.com)
41 points by eaguyhn on Feb 10, 2019 | 15 comments

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