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1. Larry Roberts has died (nytimes.com)
654 points by jbegley on Dec 30, 2018 | 93 comments
2. How Facebook tracks you on Android [video] (ccc.de)
673 points by gala8y on Dec 30, 2018 | 203 comments
3. Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces (rsms.me)
664 points by dsego on Dec 29, 2018 | 92 comments
4. Guesstimate – A Spreadsheet for things that aren't certain (getguesstimate.com)
529 points by 666_howitzer on Dec 29, 2018 | 67 comments
5. Microsoft changed how it interviews software developers (businessinsider.fr)
412 points by pplonski86 on Dec 30, 2018 | 331 comments
6. Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building apps (cnbc.com)
366 points by brandonb on Dec 29, 2018 | 211 comments
7. Essential C (2003) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
285 points by saadadasd on Dec 30, 2018 | 146 comments
8. Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?
681 points by lichtenberger on Dec 30, 2018 | 212 comments
9. How the Valley treats experienced people (rachelbythebay.com)
554 points by zdw on Dec 30, 2018 | 493 comments
10. A list of lists of interview questions (github.com/maximabramchuck)
284 points by melenaos on Dec 30, 2018 | 84 comments
11. Understanding is a poor substitute for convexity (2012) (edge.org)
130 points by alrex021 on Dec 30, 2018 | 64 comments
12. CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets (twitter.com/gossithedog)
328 points by EamonnMR on Dec 30, 2018 | 161 comments
13. Hacking how we see [video] (ccc.de)
144 points by febin on Dec 30, 2018 | 9 comments
14. EU to fund bug bounty programs for open-source projects (zdnet.com)
459 points by svenfaw on Dec 30, 2018 | 142 comments
15. Critical step found in DNA repair, cellular aging (2017) (news.harvard.edu)
238 points by dcu on Dec 30, 2018 | 61 comments
16. A little-known C feature: Static array indices in parameter declarations (2013) (hamberg.no)
259 points by fanf2 on Dec 29, 2018 | 60 comments
17. A quest for beauty and clear thinking: interviewing John Baez (mathisintheair.com)
96 points by mathgenius on Dec 30, 2018 | 22 comments
18. An Economic Geography of the United States: From Commutes to Megaregions (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
71 points by sytelus on Dec 28, 2018 | 6 comments
19. Software Methodology: Why One Size Fits No One (github.com/risk-first)
211 points by bobm_kite9 on Dec 30, 2018 | 82 comments
20. Marchetti's constant (wikipedia.org)
82 points by raldi on Dec 29, 2018 | 24 comments
21. A tech addict who works in the tech industry (seattletimes.com)
103 points by wallflower on Dec 28, 2018 | 68 comments
22. How long is that Bézier? (raphlinus.github.io)
164 points by raphlinus on Dec 30, 2018 | 18 comments
23. SchemaCrawler: Free database schema discovery and comprehension tool (schemacrawler.com)
143 points by based2 on Dec 30, 2018 | 20 comments
24. Show HN: Bake – A modular build system and package manager for C/C++ (github.com/sandermertens)
132 points by ajmmertens on Dec 30, 2018 | 70 comments
25. Safe and Secure Drivers in High-Level Languages [video] (ccc.de)
173 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 30, 2018 | 61 comments
26. Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings (weforum.org)
172 points by wslh on Dec 29, 2018 | 171 comments
27. As oil and gas exports surge, West Texas becomes the world’s “extraction colony” (texastribune.org)
96 points by howard941 on Dec 30, 2018 | 177 comments
28. KubeDB – Run production-grade databases easily on Kubernetes (kubedb.com)
187 points by openmaze on Dec 30, 2018 | 91 comments
29. Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce compensated hypogonadism (nih.gov)
300 points by wallace_f on Dec 30, 2018 | 234 comments
30. Let the Fountain Pens Flow (nytimes.com)
130 points by CaliforniaKarl on Dec 27, 2018 | 114 comments

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