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1.Show HN: A browser extension which blocks chat/helpdesk widgets (hellogoodbye.app)
510 points by bcye on March 16, 2019 | 226 comments
2.How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013) (propublica.org)
462 points by danso on March 14, 2019 | 253 comments
3.Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study (reuters.com)
310 points by onetimemanytime on March 16, 2019 | 231 comments
4.A solar-powered, self-hosted version of Low-Tech Magazine (lowtechmagazine.com)
235 points by hemmert on March 16, 2019 | 66 comments
5.As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com)
284 points by mykowebhn on March 16, 2019 | 284 comments
6.Wolfenstein: Ray Tracing on Using WebGL1 (reindernijhoff.net)
235 points by leeoniya on March 16, 2019 | 27 comments
7.Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their privacy (malwarebytes.com)
242 points by johnisgood on March 16, 2019 | 113 comments
8.Lem: A Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility (github.com/cxxxr)
159 points by lelf on March 16, 2019 | 77 comments
9.Marcel Duchamp Interview on Art and Dada (1956) [video] (youtube.com)
56 points by brudgers on March 15, 2019 | 22 comments
10.How I Learned to Love Algebraic Geometry (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
243 points by chmaynard on March 15, 2019 | 54 comments
11.The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ (theguardian.com)
355 points by wallflower on March 16, 2019 | 217 comments
12.Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has begun (reddit.com)
170 points by danso on March 16, 2019 | 90 comments
13.YUML – Easy Embeddable Diagrams (yuml.me)
178 points by etaioinshrdlu on March 16, 2019 | 54 comments
14.Formula 1: The secret aerodynamicist reveals design concepts (bbc.com)
175 points by clouddrover on March 15, 2019 | 66 comments
15.Transcatheter aortic valve replacement effective in younger, healthier patients (nytimes.com)
137 points by matt4077 on March 16, 2019 | 44 comments
16.School is all about signaling, not skill-building (latimes.com)
315 points by kermittd on March 16, 2019 | 216 comments
17.Invent More, Toil Less (2016) [pdf] (usenix.org)
128 points by DyslexicAtheist on March 16, 2019 | 41 comments
18.Seven Commandments for Event-Driven Architectures (rjzaworski.com)
142 points by n1bble on March 16, 2019 | 30 comments
19.Facebook announces next-generation Open Rack frame (fb.com)
125 points by el_duderino on March 16, 2019 | 44 comments
20.Show HN: A simple Prolog Interpreter written in a few lines of Python 3 (github.com/photonlines)
149 points by photon_lines on March 15, 2019 | 20 comments
21.How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games (2017) (nautil.us)
141 points by bookofjoe on March 15, 2019 | 78 comments
22.Why Operators Are Useful (neopythonic.blogspot.com)
178 points by s16h on March 16, 2019 | 167 comments
23.Falling in love with OpenBSD again (functionallyparanoid.com)
146 points by lelf on March 15, 2019 | 92 comments
24.Facebook’s algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated News Feed (niemanlab.org)
237 points by sethbannon on March 16, 2019 | 131 comments
25.Worstsort (byorgey.wordpress.com)
73 points by pplonski86 on March 15, 2019 | 42 comments
26.Launch HN: Nabis (YC W19) – Cannabis Shipping and Logistics
83 points by vning93 on March 16, 2019 | 23 comments
27.Wikipedia and the Wisdom of Polarized Crowds (nautil.us)
84 points by dnetesn on March 15, 2019 | 31 comments
28.Before the Internet (2017) (newyorker.com)
74 points by eodafbaloo on March 16, 2019 | 31 comments
29.Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry (slatestarcodex.com)
117 points by gbear605 on March 15, 2019 | 37 comments
30.Knoppix 8.5.0 Released (knopper.net)
135 points by bjoko on March 16, 2019 | 50 comments

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