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1. Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver (theglobeandmail.com)
1081 points by ericzawo on Dec 5, 2018 | 586 comments
2. Guide to scaling engineering organizations (stripe.com)
664 points by joeyespo on Dec 5, 2018 | 139 comments
3. Why Do Hospitals Hate Sleep So Much? (motherjones.com)
689 points by curtis on Dec 5, 2018 | 509 comments
4. Facebook's seized files published by MPs (bbc.co.uk)
738 points by AndrewDucker on Dec 5, 2018 | 477 comments
5. Thieves boosting signal from key fobs inside homes to steal vehicles (cbc.ca)
345 points by colinprince on Dec 5, 2018 | 433 comments
6. 'Dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe (theconversation.com)
409 points by pavel_lishin on Dec 5, 2018 | 288 comments
7. Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing what you click (spreadprivacy.com)
357 points by The_Reto on Dec 5, 2018 | 127 comments
8. Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages (bloomberg.com)
443 points by adventured on Dec 5, 2018 | 240 comments
9. Internal Tensions at Facebook Are Boiling Over (buzzfeednews.com)
439 points by laurex on Dec 5, 2018 | 323 comments
10. Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey (medium.com/waymo)
327 points by yarapavan on Dec 5, 2018 | 170 comments
11. Tech company patterns (richg42.blogspot.com)
389 points by Impossible on Dec 4, 2018 | 37 comments
12. Convert a Bird Scooter to a personal one with $32 kit (scootertalk.org)
237 points by nthitz on Dec 4, 2018 | 170 comments
13. Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little (chriswarrick.com)
272 points by BerislavLopac on Dec 5, 2018 | 222 comments
14. Ask HN: What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit?
687 points by throwaway8m on Dec 4, 2018 | 508 comments
15. Seagate Announces 16TB HDD (nexthive.com)
166 points by rbanffy on Dec 5, 2018 | 215 comments
16. Using D to Create the World’s Fastest File System (dlang.org)
250 points by aldacron on Dec 5, 2018 | 161 comments
17. Modern China Is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre (2016) (lithub.com)
196 points by ALee on Dec 4, 2018 | 126 comments
18. Hamiltonian Monte Carlo explained (arogozhnikov.github.io)
210 points by adamnemecek on Dec 5, 2018 | 17 comments
19. A Cornell professor’s trick for getting 1700 peer reviewed publications (andrewgelman.com)
207 points by luu on Dec 4, 2018 | 120 comments
20. Show HN: Stock Trading from Google Spreadsheet
281 points by umitanuki on Dec 5, 2018 | 84 comments
21. Ransomware Infects 100K PCs in China, Demands WeChat Payment (movaxbx.ru)
150 points by known on Dec 5, 2018 | 58 comments
22. Immutable Web Apps (immutablewebapps.org)
248 points by octosphere on Dec 3, 2018 | 62 comments
23. Code2vec: learning distributed representations of code (code2vec.org)
173 points by abecedarius on Dec 4, 2018 | 27 comments
24. The new word processor wars: A fresh crop of productivity apps (geekwire.com)
131 points by lxm on Dec 4, 2018 | 104 comments
25. Show HN: Next Browser native on Linux
198 points by jmercouris on Dec 5, 2018 | 114 comments
26. Portable Text – JSON rich text specification for content editing platforms (github.com/portabletext)
123 points by thefln on Dec 5, 2018 | 81 comments
27. First baby born after deceased womb transplant (bbc.com)
110 points by daegloe on Dec 5, 2018 | 80 comments
28. Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will (scientificamerican.com)
122 points by sdeepak on Dec 4, 2018 | 253 comments
29. FAIR turns five: What we’ve accomplished and where we’re headed (fb.com)
70 points by pesenti on Dec 5, 2018 | 7 comments
30. Type erasure and reification (thegreenplace.net)
92 points by matt_d on Dec 5, 2018 | 91 comments

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