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1. I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me (samuelmaddock.com)
1920 points by smaddock on April 2, 2019 | 605 comments
2. Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains (citylab.com)
623 points by aaronbrethorst on April 2, 2019 | 266 comments
3. Reducing notification permission prompt spam in Firefox (nightly.mozilla.org)
777 points by barryvan on April 2, 2019 | 260 comments
4. French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen (torrentfreak.com)
696 points by obl on April 2, 2019 | 368 comments
5. Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand (arstechnica.com)
788 points by vanburen on April 2, 2019 | 413 comments
6. Sci-Hub and Alexandra Basic Information (engineuring.wordpress.com)
436 points by stared on April 2, 2019 | 134 comments
7. From Show HN to Series D (segment.com)
361 points by fullung on April 2, 2019 | 53 comments
8. YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection (pjreddie.com)
320 points by headalgorithm on April 2, 2019 | 61 comments
9. Why Do Buses Bunch? (setosa.io)
310 points by elliekelly on April 2, 2019 | 150 comments
10. Averages Can Be Misleading: Try a Percentile (2014) (elastic.co)
199 points by donbox on April 2, 2019 | 55 comments
11. Idaho sets record low solar price as it starts on shift to 100pct renewables (reneweconomy.com.au)
309 points by chdaniel on April 2, 2019 | 159 comments
12. OKRs Aren't Going to Fix Your Communication Issues (craigkerstiens.com)
324 points by saisrirampur on April 1, 2019 | 165 comments
13. Editor.js – Block Styled Editor (editorjs.io)
347 points by tortilla on April 2, 2019 | 72 comments
14. Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (usefyi.com)
347 points by speter on April 2, 2019 | 316 comments
15. Getty Images Sued Again for Trying to License Public Domain Images (techdirt.com)
292 points by ccnafr on April 1, 2019 | 98 comments
16. Implementing API Billing with Stripe (daily.co)
180 points by kwindla on April 2, 2019 | 82 comments
17. Rare Persian manuscripts dating back to 13th century now online (loc.gov)
218 points by bookofjoe on April 2, 2019 | 47 comments
18. I’m only making business card sized games now (frankforce.com)
264 points by Delgan on April 1, 2019 | 173 comments
19. Deadlines Are Killing Us, and Almost Everything Else I Know About Leadership (medium.com/duncanr)
256 points by Elof on April 1, 2019 | 128 comments
20. The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets (2015) (theintercept.com)
223 points by colinprince on April 2, 2019 | 110 comments
21. Size visualization of Go executables using D3 (poss.name)
125 points by knz42 on April 1, 2019 | 53 comments
22. A once abandoned drug compound shows an ability to rebuild organs (scientificamerican.com)
132 points by LinuxBender on April 1, 2019 | 54 comments
23. The Difference Between ‘Violet’ and ‘Purple’ (2015) (jakubmarian.com)
218 points by hawski on April 2, 2019 | 102 comments
24. Demand is skyrocketing in China for mice that mimic the diseases of humans (bloomberg.com)
64 points by pseudolus on April 1, 2019 | 26 comments
25. Trying to make sense of CompuServe server hard disk images (medium.com/mpnet)
133 points by harel on April 2, 2019 | 59 comments
26. Verilator: Fast, Free Verilog HDL Simulator (veripool.org)
102 points by steven741 on April 2, 2019 | 19 comments
27. Nikoli Puzzles (nikoli.co.jp)
150 points by S4M on April 2, 2019 | 24 comments
28. A Roadmap for Eliminating Patents in Open Source (hansenpartnership.com)
71 points by pabs3 on March 31, 2019 | 12 comments
29. Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon (nature.com)
173 points by pseudolus on April 2, 2019 | 95 comments
30. Statistical mechanics of money (2000) (arxiv.org)
86 points by hairytrog on April 2, 2019 | 60 comments

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