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1. Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing (chriskrycho.com)
830 points by chriskrycho on Oct 28, 2019 | 389 comments
2. Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit (reuters.com)
561 points by rubayeet on Oct 28, 2019 | 522 comments
3. Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan (princeton.edu)
502 points by f2f on Oct 28, 2019 | 139 comments
4. Adopting Erlang (adoptingerlang.org)
366 points by ProfDreamer on Oct 28, 2019 | 68 comments
5. Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads (nytimes.com)
309 points by mindgam3 on Oct 28, 2019 | 393 comments
6. How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works (figma.com)
268 points by Aqua_Geek on Oct 28, 2019 | 63 comments
7. Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
476 points by seisvelas on Oct 28, 2019 | 380 comments
8. Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path (keavy.com)
315 points by joshtynjala on Oct 28, 2019 | 134 comments
9. 3D graphics rendering pipeline. Implemented in JavaScript. Run in a terminal (github.com/sinclairzx81)
229 points by bwidlar on Oct 28, 2019 | 51 comments
10. The “Talk” (smbc-comics.com)
877 points by ChuckMcM on Oct 28, 2019 | 112 comments
11. Tcl: Everything Is a String (tcl-lang.org)
227 points by blacksqr on Oct 28, 2019 | 162 comments
12. On-Line Pizza Idea Is Clever but Only Half-Baked (1994) (latimes.com)
189 points by undefined1 on Oct 28, 2019 | 157 comments
13. Tether: The Story So Far (kalzumeus.com)
377 points by Doubleguitars on Oct 28, 2019 | 225 comments
14. The Story of the Team Behind the 6502 (team6502.org)
232 points by sohkamyung on Oct 28, 2019 | 43 comments
15. Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (2017) (plos.org)
146 points by 19h on Oct 28, 2019 | 36 comments
16. When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition (gkogan.co)
186 points by gk1 on Oct 28, 2019 | 89 comments
17. The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. (flowingdata.com)
189 points by well_i_never on Oct 28, 2019 | 148 comments
18. Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report (sourcehut.org)
216 points by colinprince on Oct 28, 2019 | 59 comments
19. Betrayal at Krondor (filfre.net)
177 points by danso on Oct 27, 2019 | 52 comments
20. Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985) (longform.org)
284 points by gscott on Oct 28, 2019 | 99 comments
21. A Phone Company Run by Drug Traffickers (vice.com)
136 points by joosters on Oct 27, 2019 | 56 comments
22. After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes (nytimes.com)
398 points by frenchman_in_ny on Oct 28, 2019 | 311 comments
23. Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’ (theguardian.com)
226 points by NoRagrets on Oct 28, 2019 | 164 comments
24. Launch HN: Carve (YC S19) – Rent Cars from Local Dealerships
95 points by amosgewirtz on Oct 28, 2019 | 165 comments
25. Introduction to Adversarial Machine Learning (floydhub.com)
143 points by ReDeiPirati on Oct 28, 2019 | 15 comments
26. High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language (2017) (nvidia.com)
122 points by open-source-ux on Oct 27, 2019 | 54 comments
27. Looping Music Seamlessly (nolannicholson.com)
223 points by crummy on Oct 28, 2019 | 61 comments
28. Breaking Bread: The dark and white flours of ideology (cabinetmagazine.org)
68 points by lermontov on Oct 27, 2019 | 36 comments
29. Why Palladium Is Suddenly a More Precious Metal (bloomberg.com)
99 points by hhs on Oct 28, 2019 | 84 comments
30. Snap: A Microkernel Approach to Host Networking (ai.google)
144 points by sandGorgon on Oct 28, 2019 | 75 comments

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