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1. Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016) (cbc.ca)
862 points by colinprince on Jan 9, 2019 | 289 comments
2. Mobile customer location data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters (vice.com)
748 points by petethomas on Jan 8, 2019 | 239 comments
3. Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week (s-poony.github.io)
1079 points by lovasoa on Jan 9, 2019 | 270 comments
4. Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook (bloomberg.com)
848 points by ourmandave on Jan 9, 2019 | 463 comments
5. Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility (amazon.com)
519 points by ifcologne on Jan 9, 2019 | 306 comments
6. Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer (github.com/sharkdp)
456 points by okanesen on Jan 9, 2019 | 113 comments
7. The unlikely resurgence of Dungeons and Dragons (inlander.com)
351 points by gscott on Jan 8, 2019 | 282 comments
8. The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan (newrepublic.com)
353 points by tmitchell on Jan 9, 2019 | 241 comments
9. AMD Radeon VII: High-End 7nm Vega Video Card (anandtech.com)
223 points by shock on Jan 9, 2019 | 90 comments
10. The State of Software Security in 2019 (noncombatant.org)
311 points by zdw on Jan 9, 2019 | 124 comments
11. Wittgenstein’s theories are the basis of all modern NLP (towardsdatascience.com)
175 points by ghosthamlet on Jan 9, 2019 | 63 comments
12. Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2018 (getpolarized.io)
411 points by burtonator on Jan 9, 2019 | 41 comments
13. Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones (nikkei.com)
241 points by sohkamyung on Jan 9, 2019 | 370 comments
14. Cancer Progress: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (2018) (slatestarcodex.com)
219 points by sethbannon on Jan 8, 2019 | 69 comments
15. British Museum realises 'vase' is in fact an ancient mace-head upside down (theartnewspaper.com)
179 points by ohaikbai on Jan 9, 2019 | 93 comments
16. Road Tripping Around Europe in a Tesla Is Less Fun Than You’d Think (bloomberg.com)
170 points by pseudolus on Jan 9, 2019 | 444 comments
17. The state of gRPC in the browser (grpc.io)
203 points by simjue on Jan 9, 2019 | 96 comments
18. Understanding Perlin Noise (2014) (flafla2.github.io)
94 points by acdanger on Jan 9, 2019 | 18 comments
19. How would user-centric payouts affect the music-streaming world? (musically.com)
69 points by anotherevan on Jan 9, 2019 | 51 comments
20. SQLer – Turn Your SQL queries into RESTful APIs without any programming language (github.com/alash3al)
248 points by alash3al on Jan 8, 2019 | 55 comments
21. Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative (github.com/arnehilmann)
235 points by tcc_42 on Jan 9, 2019 | 89 comments
22. Crafting a life (1843magazine.com)
118 points by arcanus on Jan 8, 2019 | 24 comments
23. Star topics that interest you (blog.github.com)
87 points by guessmyname on Jan 8, 2019 | 15 comments
24. China’s Nreal raises $15M to shrink augmented headsets to size of sunglasses (techcrunch.com)
82 points by mindgam3 on Jan 9, 2019 | 55 comments
25. Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist (gmu.edu)
169 points by crunchiebones on Jan 8, 2019 | 123 comments
26. ELSA: Efficient Long-Term Secure Storage of Large Datasets (arxiv.org)
82 points by xek6ae on Jan 9, 2019 | 2 comments
27. The Egg Thief (outsideonline.com)
60 points by acdanger on Jan 8, 2019 | 7 comments
28. No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income if You Find a Job (nytimes.com)
217 points by dhh2106 on Jan 8, 2019 | 208 comments
29. How Estimates of the Gig Economy Went Wrong (wsj.com)
106 points by undefined1 on Jan 8, 2019 | 119 comments
30. Voltaire's Luck: The French Philosopher Outsmarts the Lottery (laphamsquarterly.org)
114 points by ArtWomb on Jan 8, 2019 | 30 comments

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