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1. Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms (bradfrost.com)
1124 points by octosphere on Feb 15, 2019 | 506 comments
2. Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google search engine (digital.com)
553 points by cromat3 on Feb 15, 2019 | 315 comments
3. First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant (asahi.com)
371 points by howard941 on Feb 15, 2019 | 208 comments
4. Build your own old-school 3D shooter in a weekend (github.com/ssloy)
376 points by lobo42 on Feb 14, 2019 | 100 comments
5. Audio AI: isolating vocals from stereo music using Convolutional Neural Networks (towardsdatascience.com)
275 points by turbohz on Feb 14, 2019 | 72 comments
6. My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8 (ietf.org)
810 points by baptou12 on Feb 15, 2019 | 496 comments
7. Leon: An open-source personal assistant (github.com/leon-ai)
332 points by yvonnick on Feb 13, 2019 | 64 comments
8. Modern Alternatives to PGP (gtank.cc)
313 points by tptacek on Feb 15, 2019 | 247 comments
9. Uber Revenue Growth Slows, Losses Persist as 2019 IPO Draws Near (bloomberg.com)
199 points by schintan on Feb 15, 2019 | 278 comments
10. Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page (chromestory.com)
361 points by kumaranvpl on Feb 15, 2019 | 319 comments
11. Talos – A modern Linux distribution for Kubernetes (github.com/autonomy)
139 points by alexellisuk on Feb 15, 2019 | 42 comments
12. Controlling a 2D Robotic Arm with Deep Reinforcement Learning (floydhub.com)
74 points by formalsystem on Feb 14, 2019 | 13 comments
13. Adblockers Performance Study (whotracks.me)
212 points by kkm on Feb 15, 2019 | 121 comments
14. Replacing JavaScript Hot Path with WebAssembly (developers.google.com)
226 points by markdog12 on Feb 14, 2019 | 103 comments
15. What principal investigators taught me about my failure to land tenure (nature.com)
116 points by pseudolus on Feb 14, 2019 | 72 comments
16. Coding Intentionally in Bash Grains (exercism.io)
96 points by ihid on Feb 15, 2019 | 32 comments
17. A RISC-V CPU for $8 (hackaday.com)
230 points by heywire on Feb 14, 2019 | 62 comments
18. A proof that Unix utility sed is Turing complete (catonmat.net)
202 points by CrankyBear on Feb 13, 2019 | 106 comments
19. Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer (yhatt.github.io)
194 points by pplonski86 on Feb 14, 2019 | 42 comments
20. A Lost Monument to Industry and Traditional Urbanism (theamericanconservative.com)
82 points by wyndham on Feb 15, 2019 | 24 comments
21. 24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today (marcocantu.com)
204 points by mariuz on Feb 14, 2019 | 162 comments
22. An Inside Look at the Backblaze Storage Pod Museum (backblaze.com)
165 points by sp8 on Feb 15, 2019 | 31 comments
23. Sample cloud-native application with microservices (github.com/googlecloudplatform)
231 points by zdw on Feb 15, 2019 | 127 comments
24. Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead of dynamic ones? (2004) (9p.io)
162 points by stargrave on Feb 15, 2019 | 219 comments
25. Entity–component–system (ECS) back and forth (skypjack.github.io)
77 points by skypjack on Feb 14, 2019 | 61 comments
26. Time Travel (2006) (scottaaronson.com)
119 points by panic on Feb 14, 2019 | 82 comments
27. Sexy prime (wikipedia.org)
124 points by lelf on Feb 15, 2019 | 40 comments
28. Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing transactions: WSJ (reuters.com)
225 points by protomyth on Feb 15, 2019 | 342 comments
29. Where Glaciers Melt Away, Switzerland Sees Opportunity (nytimes.com)
87 points by pseudolus on Feb 15, 2019 | 67 comments
30. The Lonely Life of a Yacht Influencer (melmagazine.com)
267 points by microtherion on Feb 15, 2019 | 263 comments

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