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1.

Cloudflare S-1 (www.sec.gov)

215 points by tpw212 2019-08-15 | 98 comments

2.

NULL license plate not such a bright idea (knrs.iheart.com)

194 points by dublin 2019-08-12 | 124 comments

3.

Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate (www.nytimes.com)

175 points by jumelles 2019-08-08 | 190 comments

4.

Terminating Service for 8Chan (new.blog.cloudflare.com)

154 points by sandmansandine 2019-08-05 | 78 comments

5.

Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI (openai.com)

144 points by gdb 2019-07-22 | 51 comments

6.

GitHub Is Down (www.githubstatus.com)

133 points by tomduncalf 2019-07-22 | 32 comments

7.

Paris breaks all-time high temperature as deadly heat wave grips Europe (www.accuweather.com)

128 points by spking 2019-07-25 | 83 comments

8.

Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer (www.lastweekinaws.com)

120 points by mjulian 2019-08-05 | 33 comments

9.

Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York (www.bbc.com)

113 points by MobileVet 2019-08-10 | 68 comments

10.

Chaos in Hong Kong as hundreds of masked men assault protesters, journalists (www.hongkongfp.com)

112 points by thomasjoulin 2019-07-22 | 27 comments

11.

Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000 Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day (petapixel.com)

106 points by elijahparker 2019-07-18 | 37 comments

12.

Apple to acquire the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business (www.apple.com)

104 points by kennethfriedman 2019-07-25 | 27 comments

13.

Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored by Chinese students' (www.bbc.co.uk)

103 points by metaphysics 2019-08-02 | 40 comments

14.

CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978 (www.epi.org)

103 points by howard941 2019-08-15 | 99 comments

15.

U.S. Designates China as Currency Manipulator (www.wsj.com)

102 points by anilshanbhag 2019-08-05 | 60 comments

16.

How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals (www.nytimes.com)

99 points by gumby 2019-07-24 | 32 comments

17.

Can ads on a page read my password? (security.stackexchange.com)

90 points by linux2647 2019-08-07 | 21 comments

18.

Don't go to the Cloud (if you can) (txt.black)

90 points by zulgan 2019-08-07 | 44 comments

19.

MITM on all HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

89 points by bzbarsky 2019-07-18 | 5 comments

20.

At what time of day does famous programmers work? (ivan.bessarabov.com)

88 points by lionix 2019-07-18 | 18 comments

21.

And Now, the Big Coal Plants Begin to Close (www.scientificamerican.com)

86 points by artsandsci 2019-08-16 | 36 comments

22.

Scientists Discover a Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis (www.nytimes.com)

85 points by rafaelc 2019-08-14 | 10 comments

23.

“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” (lore.kernel.org)

85 points by doener 2019-08-02 | 38 comments

24.

The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (www.newyorker.com)

84 points by lordnacho 2019-08-08 | 27 comments

25.

Show HN: No CS Degree – Interviews with Self-Taught Devs (www.nocsdegree.com)

82 points by Pete-Codes 2019-07-23 | 36 comments

26.

8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service (www.theverge.com)

82 points by gregmac 2019-08-05 | 97 comments

27.

Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study (www.nationalgeographic.com)

80 points by whatami 2019-08-11 | 19 comments

28.

BlazingSQL is Now Open Source (blog.blazingdb.com)

80 points by roaramburu 2019-08-05 | 3 comments

29.

Basic Electron Framework Exploitation (www.contextis.com)

80 points by adambb 2019-08-07 | 54 comments

30.

Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax (techcrunch.com)

77 points by Corrado 2019-07-30 | 6 comments

31.

NYC Mesh is an all-volunteer community creating its own high-speed internet svc. (www.wsj.com)

77 points by psim1 2019-08-06 | 14 comments

32.

Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments (www.nature.com)

74 points by headalgorithm 2019-07-26 | 30 comments

33.

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019 (www.backblaze.com)

74 points by LaSombra 2019-08-06 | 24 comments

34.

Lambda School fined $75k by CA for operating without state approval [pdf] (www.bppe.ca.gov)

73 points by lanrh1836 2019-07-29 | 57 comments

35.

Stunnel and How to Get Free Airline Wi-Fi (potatofrom.space)

73 points by Pneumaticat 2019-07-20 | 23 comments

36.

Norwegian F-35 Sending Sensitive Data Back to Lockheed (2018) (fighterjetsworld.com)

71 points by dsego 2019-08-03 | 27 comments

37.

Health insurance companies are useless. Get rid of them (www.latimes.com)

70 points by howard941 2019-08-06 | 36 comments

38.

Middle-aged vlogger who used filter to look young caught in live-stream glitch (www.bbc.com)

68 points by mLuby 2019-07-30 | 26 comments

39.

Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights (www.blog.google)

67 points by momentmaker 2019-08-09 | 26 comments

40.

Germany to close all 84 of its coal-fired power plants (www.latimes.com)

67 points by ____Sash---701_ 2019-08-16 | 37 comments

41.

Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone (www.forbes.com)

66 points by tareqak 2019-08-08 | 32 comments

42.

Beijing strikes ominous tone, saying military could intervene in Hong Kong (www.latimes.com)

66 points by onetimemanytime 2019-07-25 | 24 comments

43.

WeWork Gave Founder Loans as It Paid Him Rent, IPO Filing Shows (www.bloomberg.com)

65 points by AndrewBissell 2019-08-14 | 19 comments

44.

WeWork Co-Founder Has Cashed Out at Least $700M Via Sales, Loans (www.wsj.com)

65 points by mkeeter 2019-07-18 | 43 comments

45.

Fasting Cure Is No Fad (www.wsj.com)

62 points by paulsutter 2019-08-02 | 30 comments

46.

Renters may get access to rogue landlord database (www.bbc.co.uk)

61 points by pmoriarty 2019-07-21 | 40 comments

47.

Slack Is Down (status.slack.com)

61 points by geerlingguy 2019-07-29 | 15 comments

48.

Want to hire the best programmers? Offer growth (triplebyte.com)

61 points by ammon 2019-07-23 | 18 comments

49.

Elsevier: “It's Illegal to Sci-Hub. We Link to Sci-Hub All the Time.” (boingboing.net)

61 points by johnhenry 2019-08-04 | 12 comments

50.

About the “Security Issue” on VLC (twitter.com)

60 points by tiri 2019-07-24 | 20 comments

51.

A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers (twitter.com)

60 points by allthebest 2019-08-10 | 24 comments

52.

Puffer – Stream live TV in the browser (puffer.stanford.edu)

60 points by rowdyranga 2019-07-21 | 15 comments

53.

Millions of people eat octopus- why we shouldn't (www.weforum.org)

59 points by laurex 2019-08-07 | 53 comments

54.

Facebook Is Dying (medium.com)

58 points by JumpCrisscross 2019-07-27 | 23 comments

55.

‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-blocking list (digiday.com)

57 points by ilamont 2019-08-02 | 32 comments

56.

GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece of modern tech-insanity (www.theregister.co.uk)

57 points by gitgud 2019-08-15 | 18 comments

57.

NASA worked out how to make food out of thin air – and it could feed billions (www.weforum.org)

57 points by seanwilson 2019-08-07 | 32 comments

58.

Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone (onezero.medium.com)

57 points by 3x3matrix 2019-07-24 | 51 comments

59.

The poor can’t afford to follow public health advice (www.hsj.co.uk)

56 points by DanBC 2019-07-18 | 40 comments

60.

McKinsey Advised Johnson and Johnson on Increasing Opioid Sales (www.nytimes.com)

56 points by acalmon 2019-07-25 | 6 comments

61.

IBM fired 100k employees to be more appealing to Millenials (www.bloomberg.com)

55 points by thmslee 2019-08-01 | 26 comments

62.

Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2019 Results [pdf] (abc.xyz)

55 points by mrep 2019-07-25 | 33 comments

63.

Use plaintext email (useplaintext.email)

54 points by Sir_Cmpwn 2019-07-24 | 42 comments

64.

FBI Says QAnon, Internet Conspiracy Theorists Are National Security Threats (www.vice.com)

54 points by Elof 2019-08-01 | 27 comments

65.

Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted (www.smithsonianmag.com)

54 points by pseudolus 2019-07-29 | 13 comments

66.

Linux Journal Ceases Publication (www.linuxjournal.com)

54 points by akulbe 2019-08-08 | 12 comments

67.

Yield curve is blaring loudest recession warning since 2007 (www.bloomberg.com)

54 points by tempsy 2019-08-05 | 41 comments

68.

Blender 2.80 Is Out (download.blender.org)

54 points by soft8soft 2019-07-30 | 7 comments

69.

8chan Is a Normal Part of Mass Shootings Now (slate.com)

52 points by evo_9 2019-08-04 | 12 comments

70.

Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates (www.biorxiv.org)

52 points by lordnacho 2019-08-06 | 4 comments

71.

Paternity Leave Was Crucial After the Birth of My Child (parenting.nytimes.com)

52 points by rafaelc 2019-08-13 | 18 comments

72.

PyPy JIT for 64-bit ARM (morepypy.blogspot.com)

52 points by bratao 2019-07-28 | 9 comments

73.

FFmpeg 4.2 Released (ffmpeg.org)

51 points by _Gyan_ 2019-08-06 | 8 comments

74.

Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines (stripe.com)

50 points by mglukhovsky 2019-07-30 | 1 comments

75.

Hackers ship their exploits directly to their target’s mailroom (techcrunch.com)

50 points by lordqwerty 2019-08-07 | 20 comments

76.

What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type? (nsaphra.github.io)

50 points by panic 2019-08-10 | 5 comments

77.

Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack (knobattack.com)

49 points by Daviey 2019-08-16 | 10 comments

78.

How to assess the quality of garments: A beginner's guide (anuschkarees.com)

49 points by bookofjoe 2019-07-22 | 0 comments

79.

Boeing May Halt 737 Max Production (www.nytimes.com)

49 points by kderbe 2019-07-24 | 44 comments

80.

China warns India of 'reverse sanctions' if Huawei is blocked (www.reuters.com)

48 points by cik 2019-08-06 | 21 comments

81.

There is no evil like reCAPTCHA (v3) (thestoic.me)

48 points by eitland 2019-08-05 | 27 comments

82.

Satellite Images Show Vast Swaths of the Arctic on Fire (earther.gizmodo.com)

48 points by colinprince 2019-07-21 | 10 comments

83.

US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers (www.theverge.com)

48 points by Grazester 2019-08-11 | 28 comments

84.

Information Theory for Intelligent People (2018) [pdf] (tuvalu.santafe.edu)

48 points by oska 2019-08-05 | 1 comments

85.

Alaskan glaciers melting 100 times faster than previously thought (www.nationalgeographic.com)

48 points by QuickToBan 2019-07-25 | 6 comments

86.

A moonlit tribute to a moon landing icon (blog.google)

47 points by ChrisArchitect 2019-07-18 | 12 comments

87.

The We Company S-1 (www.sec.gov)

47 points by dawhizkid 2019-08-14 | 18 comments

88.

Yaegi – Yet Another Go Interpreter (blog.containo.us)

46 points by emilevauge 2019-07-24 | 2 comments

89.

HTTP/2 Denial of Service Advisory (github.com)

46 points by rdli 2019-08-13 | 4 comments

90.

Crispr pioneer among University of California researchers boycotting Elsevier (www.chemistryworld.com)

45 points by r0n0j0y 2019-08-13 | 2 comments

91.

Gist Is Down (gist.github.com)

45 points by bndw 2019-07-22 | 21 comments

92.

Chelsea Manning Can Remain in Jail for Another Year, Judge Rules (gizmodo.com)

44 points by danso 2019-08-07 | 15 comments

93.

A curated list of philosophy resources (github.com)

44 points by Immune 2019-07-30 | 18 comments

94.

DoorDash Changes Tipping Model After Uproar (www.nytimes.com)

43 points by mcgwiz 2019-07-24 | 28 comments

95.

GitHub Is Down: Incident on 2019-07-22 15:46 UTC (www.githubstatus.com)

42 points by fniephaus 2019-07-22 | 1 comments

96.

Cosmic Crisp Apple Launch (story.californiasunday.com)

41 points by zeveb 2019-07-19 | 23 comments

97.

MQTT: A Conceptual Deep-Dive (www.ably.io)

41 points by rchaudhary 2019-07-25 | 3 comments

98.

Airlines are finally fixing the middle seat (www.fastcompany.com)

41 points by mhb 2019-07-22 | 32 comments

99.

Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth, Again (www.nytimes.com)

41 points by humantiy 2019-07-30 | 39 comments

100.

Kashmir's internet shutdown: pharmacists run out of drugs, people can't get cash (www.nytimes.com)

41 points by ETHisso2017 2019-08-14 | 13 comments

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