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1. Dotfile madness (0x46.net)
1146 points by boreq on Feb 2, 2019 | 514 comments
2. Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, the Last of the Itaniums (anandtech.com)
193 points by ch_123 on Feb 2, 2019 | 204 comments
3. Sex censorship killed the internet we love (engadget.com)
627 points by coding123 on Feb 2, 2019 | 493 comments
4. More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision (bloomberg.com)
387 points by pseudolus on Feb 2, 2019 | 330 comments
5. A Python Interpreter Written in Rust (github.com/rustpython)
430 points by rch on Feb 2, 2019 | 194 comments
6. What Impossible Meant to Feynman (nautil.us)
325 points by dnetesn on Feb 2, 2019 | 42 comments
7. Insurance Company Says NotPetya Is an “Act of War”, Refuses to Pay (senseient.com)
295 points by marklyon on Feb 2, 2019 | 251 comments
8. Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway (apenwarr.ca)
312 points by zdw on Feb 1, 2019 | 109 comments
9. McKinsey Advised Purdue Pharma How to ‘Turbocharge’ Opioid Sales, Lawsuit Says (nytimes.com)
230 points by seapunk on Feb 2, 2019 | 68 comments
10. Google Play Store Now Open for Progressive Web Apps (medium.com/firt)
256 points by jbuild on Feb 1, 2019 | 78 comments
11. Uber’s transit offering just went live in Denver (techcrunch.com)
138 points by lxm on Feb 1, 2019 | 95 comments
12. A Design Flaw Behind MacBook Pro’s “Stage Light” Effect [video] (youtube.com)
260 points by dsego on Feb 2, 2019 | 153 comments
13. Be Careful about 23andMe’s Health Test (nytimes.com)
173 points by tysone on Feb 2, 2019 | 99 comments
14. RenTech Created the Ultimate, Tax-Free IRA Account for Employees (bloomberg.com)
85 points by throwawaymath on Feb 2, 2019 | 123 comments
15. Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace (joyfulbikeshedding.com)
139 points by signa11 on Feb 2, 2019 | 11 comments
16. Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR (cnet.com)
67 points by mstats on Feb 2, 2019 | 57 comments
17. Aztec Political Thought (2013) (abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com)
136 points by benbreen on Feb 2, 2019 | 31 comments
18. China unveils draft law to allow fully foreign-owned enterprises (thehindubusinessline.com)
142 points by beefman on Feb 2, 2019 | 67 comments
19. Ensuring a Level Playing Field for Rideshare (lyft.com)
70 points by mlthoughts2018 on Feb 2, 2019 | 38 comments
20. A model to simulate how ideas move from one academic institution to another (scientificamerican.com)
52 points by ibhosszu on Feb 1, 2019 | 8 comments
21. Who Were the Pinkertons? (slate.com)
45 points by smacktoward on Feb 1, 2019 | 37 comments
22. One Man's Quest to Prove Vermont Has Terrible Cell Service (npr.org)
88 points by evo_9 on Feb 1, 2019 | 46 comments
23. The cloud skills shortage and the unemployed army of the certified (itnext.io)
195 points by rajeshmr on Feb 2, 2019 | 163 comments
24. DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show (2009) (nytimes.com)
154 points by apo on Feb 2, 2019 | 28 comments
25. Openwrt 18.06.2 released (openwrt.org)
181 points by ausjke on Feb 2, 2019 | 129 comments
26. New U.S. Experiments Aim to Create Gene-Edited Human Embryos (npr.org)
55 points by bcaulfield on Feb 2, 2019 | 28 comments
27. $190M missing after crypto exchange Quadriga CEO dies (theglobeandmail.com)
182 points by scosman on Feb 2, 2019 | 125 comments
28. A Kenyan Engineer Who Created Gloves That Turn Sign Language into Speech (becauseofthemwecan.com)
108 points by MaysonL on Feb 2, 2019 | 25 comments
29. Helping to Build Cloudflare, Part 2: The Worst Two Weeks (cloudflare.com)
158 points by jgrahamc on Feb 2, 2019 | 20 comments
30. Digital identity has three layers, and you can only protect one of them (qz.com)
103 points by longdefeat on Feb 2, 2019 | 31 comments

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