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1. DuckDuckGo Traffic (duckduckgo.com)
1145 points by patrickbolle on Sept 29, 2018 | 375 comments
2. Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges (sec.gov)
684 points by omarchowdhury on Sept 29, 2018 | 465 comments
3. World’s Oldest Surviving Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years (torrentfreak.com)
533 points by lainon on Sept 29, 2018 | 203 comments
4. Solid – Reshape the web as we know it (inrupt.com)
750 points by yarapavan on Sept 29, 2018 | 250 comments
5. Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry (rollingstone.com)
245 points by elsherbini on Sept 29, 2018 | 142 comments
6. Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error (force.com)
234 points by Animats on Sept 29, 2018 | 126 comments
7. How I ended up writing opensnoop in pure C using eBPF (bolinfest.github.io)
158 points by aberoham on Sept 29, 2018 | 10 comments
8. Atlassian's new terms forbid benchmarking (atlassian.com)
332 points by adtac on Sept 29, 2018 | 195 comments
9. Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sensation Stardew Valley (gq.com)
320 points by benbreen on Sept 28, 2018 | 120 comments
10. Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?
613 points by Carl_Platt on Sept 29, 2018 | 563 comments
11. The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 (github.com/microsoft)
328 points by plurby on Sept 28, 2018 | 115 comments
12. Haiku R1/beta1 has been released (haiku-os.org)
296 points by hakfoo on Sept 29, 2018 | 79 comments
13. U.S. Congress Renews $5M Open Textbook Pilot for Second Year (sparcopen.org)
166 points by infodocket on Sept 29, 2018 | 64 comments
14. Solving My Email Problem (nawaz.org)
179 points by BeetleB on Sept 29, 2018 | 125 comments
15. How counterfeits benefit Amazon (latimes.com)
296 points by petethomas on Sept 29, 2018 | 171 comments
16. UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy International (privacyinternational.org)
178 points by severine on Sept 29, 2018 | 32 comments
17. Hundreds of academics at top UK universities accused of bullying (theguardian.com)
147 points by pseudolus on Sept 28, 2018 | 75 comments
18. The relative performance of C and Rust (dtrace.org)
326 points by dmpk2k on Sept 29, 2018 | 148 comments
19. The Riemann Hypothesis, explained (medium.com/jorgenveisdal)
191 points by jorgevei on Sept 29, 2018 | 26 comments
20. Log(Graph): A Near-Optimal High-Performance Graph Representation (2018) [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
180 points by espeed on Sept 27, 2018 | 12 comments
21. FreshRSS – A free, self-hostable aggregator (freshrss.org)
117 points by Jaruzel on Sept 28, 2018 | 30 comments
22. REMI: Python REMote Interface Library (github.com/dddomodossola)
120 points by amasad on Sept 29, 2018 | 47 comments
23. Uber Scam in Brazil – Drivers Have ‘Challenges’ Ending Trips (loyaltylobby.com)
171 points by lxm on Sept 29, 2018 | 133 comments
24. A Texas-Sized Pavement Problem (strongtowns.org)
85 points by oftenwrong on Sept 28, 2018 | 69 comments
25. [dupe] Facebook blocked users from posting some stories about its security breach (techcrunch.com)
233 points by okket on Sept 29, 2018 | 17 comments
26. What 61,000 hidden structures reveal about Maya civilization (arstechnica.com)
94 points by mooreds on Sept 29, 2018 | 26 comments
27. John Urschel Goes Pro (hmmdaily.com)
112 points by tacomonstrous on Sept 29, 2018 | 37 comments
28. Rust Ownership Explained with Python (paulkernfeld.com)
149 points by adamnemecek on Sept 29, 2018 | 45 comments
29. The origin of circuits (2007) (damninteresting.com)
84 points by sajid on Sept 29, 2018 | 25 comments
30. The dangerous myth still believed about the Lehman Brothers bust (washingtonpost.com)
111 points by rfreytag on Sept 27, 2018 | 67 comments

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