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1. Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast (techdirt.com)
1606 points by CrankyBear on Sept 18, 2019 | 498 comments
2. Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook (ft.com)
685 points by hhs on Sept 18, 2019 | 500 comments
3. Modern C, Second Edition (gustedt.wordpress.com)
597 points by matt_d on Sept 18, 2019 | 233 comments
4. The cost of parsing JSON (v8.dev)
543 points by s9w on Sept 18, 2019 | 293 comments
5. The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation (ft.com)
367 points by praveenscience on Sept 18, 2019 | 299 comments
6. Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1 (inkscape.org)
603 points by nkoren on Sept 18, 2019 | 164 comments
7. Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated (pragmaticengineer.com)
608 points by signa11 on Sept 18, 2019 | 211 comments
8. Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy (techdirt.com)
574 points by kamiYcombi on Sept 18, 2019 | 541 comments
9. AirSim: open-source simulator for autonomous vehicles (github.com/microsoft)
320 points by jonbaer on Sept 18, 2019 | 53 comments
10. Show HN: I made a jobs board for developers without degrees (nocsok.com)
343 points by Pete-Codes on Sept 18, 2019 | 322 comments
11. Banks, Arbitrary Password Restrictions and Why They Don't Matter (troyhunt.com)
183 points by weinzierl on Sept 17, 2019 | 224 comments
12. Welcoming Semmle to GitHub (github.blog)
256 points by johns on Sept 18, 2019 | 104 comments
13. How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic (2017) (brandur.org)
278 points by dmitryminkovsky on Sept 17, 2019 | 26 comments
14. New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become International Standard (neo4j.com)
290 points by Anon84 on Sept 18, 2019 | 166 comments
15. Functor, Applicative, and Monad (typeslogicscats.gitlab.io)
252 points by TheAsprngHacker on Sept 18, 2019 | 120 comments
16. Handshake: Decentralizing DNS to Improve the Security of the Internet (namebase.io)
222 points by troquerre on Sept 17, 2019 | 84 comments
17. Going Fast Slowly (varnish-cache.org)
263 points by chatmasta on Sept 18, 2019 | 75 comments
18. How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters (nytimes.com)
304 points by samfriedman on Sept 18, 2019 | 133 comments
19. Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking information (swissinfo.ch)
133 points by baazaar on Sept 18, 2019 | 147 comments
20. At Dynamicland, the Building Is the Computer (tashian.com)
132 points by swannodette on Sept 18, 2019 | 31 comments
21. Men Arrested at Courthouse Say They Were Sent to Test Its Security (nytimes.com)
209 points by brdd on Sept 17, 2019 | 137 comments
22. The Gravitational-Wave “Revolution” Is Underway (scientificamerican.com)
153 points by LinuxBender on Sept 18, 2019 | 89 comments
23. How we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades (2018) (bustbyte.no)
155 points by got-any-grapes on Sept 18, 2019 | 88 comments
24. .su (wikipedia.org)
353 points by gyosifov on Sept 18, 2019 | 226 comments
25. Caesarean babies have different gut bacteria, microbiome study finds (theguardian.com)
199 points by uxhacker on Sept 18, 2019 | 137 comments
26. Launch HN: Dashblock (YC S19) – Turn Any Website into an API
165 points by HPouillot on Sept 18, 2019 | 100 comments
27. A Love Letter to Personal Websites (vanschneider.com)
204 points by devbas on Sept 17, 2019 | 95 comments
28. Endurance Running Hypothesis (wikipedia.org)
97 points by Petiver on Sept 17, 2019 | 53 comments
29. Google Fi Unlimited Plan (fi.google.com)
176 points by jbredeche on Sept 17, 2019 | 249 comments
30. AgileFall – When Waterfall Sneaks Back into Agile (steveblank.com)
176 points by furkansahin on Sept 17, 2019 | 173 comments

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