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1. Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode (heise.de)
552 points by r0nny on Aug 15, 2019 | 155 comments
2. YAML: Probably not so great after all (arp242.net)
445 points by kylequest on Aug 18, 2019 | 444 comments
3. Tech Interview Handbook (yangshun.github.io)
760 points by yangshun on Aug 17, 2019 | 324 comments
4. Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use (nurpax.github.io)
305 points by nurpax on Aug 18, 2019 | 60 comments
5. Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a security vulnerability (thenextweb.com)
539 points by praveenscience on Aug 18, 2019 | 162 comments
6. The Architecture of Open Source Applications (aosabook.org)
423 points by goranmoomin on Aug 18, 2019 | 37 comments
7. Python vs. Rust for Neural Networks (ngoldbaum.github.io)
290 points by rencire on Aug 18, 2019 | 142 comments
8. Building ages in the Netherlands (parallel.co.uk)
237 points by Schiphol on Aug 18, 2019 | 49 comments
9. Why doesn't mathematics collapse, though humans often make mistakes in proofs? (mathoverflow.net)
256 points by mathgenius on Aug 18, 2019 | 80 comments
10. Giving up on Julia (2016) (zverovich.net)
192 points by optimalsolver on Aug 18, 2019 | 167 comments
11. J can look like APL or English (wjmn.github.io)
153 points by paliilap on Aug 18, 2019 | 28 comments
12. Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf] (okbjgm.weebly.com)
189 points by jashkenas on Aug 18, 2019 | 20 comments
13. In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels (arstechnica.com)
238 points by anandaverma18 on Aug 18, 2019 | 154 comments
14. The interviewer skills ladder for high growth companies (medium.com/alexallain)
182 points by leeny on Aug 16, 2019 | 30 comments
15. Ruffle – An Adobe Flash Player Written in Rust Compiled to WebAssembly (github.com/ruffle-rs)
206 points by conroy on Aug 18, 2019 | 70 comments
16. Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972) [pdf] (sciencemadness.org)
150 points by ColinWright on Aug 18, 2019 | 34 comments
17. Interslavic Language (steen.free.fr)
161 points by platform on Aug 18, 2019 | 137 comments
18. Two brothers invented an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde (microsoft.com)
151 points by curtis on Aug 15, 2019 | 59 comments
19. Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have less than 5% battery (apps.apple.com)
265 points by driesdep on Aug 18, 2019 | 145 comments
20. Volcanoes on the Moon May Have Erupted During the Dinosaur Age (2014) (space.com)
67 points by curtis on Aug 18, 2019 | 34 comments
21. The League of Entropy Is Making Randomness Truly Random (onezero.medium.com)
94 points by kiyanwang on Aug 17, 2019 | 37 comments
22. The Software Arts (ucsc.edu)
51 points by Hooke on Aug 15, 2019 | 8 comments
23. Marium, the Dugong Who Charmed Thailand, Dies After Ingesting Plastic (npr.org)
91 points by laurex on Aug 18, 2019 | 57 comments
24. Using Wall Street secrets to reduce the cost of cloud infrastructure (techxplore.com)
55 points by dnetesn on Aug 17, 2019 | 11 comments
25. Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global recycling crisis (theiet.org)
67 points by alex_young on Aug 18, 2019 | 84 comments
26. Getting Started with Lisp in 2019 (smalldata.tech)
125 points by wheresvic3 on Aug 18, 2019 | 64 comments
27. The Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition (tgceec.tumblr.com)
106 points by rahimiali on Aug 18, 2019 | 32 comments
28. General Balanced Trees (1999) [pdf] (uu.se)
55 points by brudgers on Aug 17, 2019 | 11 comments
29. Microsoft Has First Major Impact on Chrome (thurrott.com)
147 points by adrian_mrd on Aug 17, 2019 | 114 comments
30. HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts to shut out trolls (news.rthk.hk)
170 points by s_Hogg on Aug 18, 2019 | 43 comments

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