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1. FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up (9to5mac.com)
1534 points by uptown on Jan 28, 2019 | 429 comments
2. Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN (techcrunch.com)
1454 points by randomacct3847 on Jan 29, 2019 | 445 comments
3. Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip (workingwa.org)
1320 points by timebomb0 on Jan 29, 2019 | 675 comments
4. AresDB: Uber’s GPU-Powered Open-Source, Real-Time Analytics Engine (uber.com)
375 points by manojlds on Jan 29, 2019 | 107 comments
5. Office 365 global authentication outage (office365.com)
342 points by Jedd on Jan 29, 2019 | 154 comments
6. Advice to new programmers (olafurw.com)
391 points by ingve on Jan 29, 2019 | 117 comments
7. A Self-Learning, Modern Computer Science Curriculum (functionalcs.github.io)
394 points by hacknrk on Jan 29, 2019 | 30 comments
8. Show HN: Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories (postmake.io)
475 points by Malfunction92 on Jan 29, 2019 | 82 comments
9. The Man Who Invented Information Theory (2017) (bostonreview.net)
380 points by huihuiilly on Jan 29, 2019 | 100 comments
10. Firefox 65.0 released (mozilla.org)
724 points by theodorejb on Jan 29, 2019 | 414 comments
11. Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck (statebox.org)
280 points by mathgenius on Jan 29, 2019 | 325 comments
12. Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code (arxiv.org)
250 points by furcyd on Jan 29, 2019 | 172 comments
13. The Tao of Programming (1987) (textfiles.com)
245 points by ghosthamlet on Jan 29, 2019 | 57 comments
14. I exploited TLS-SNI-01 issuing Let's Encrypt SSL-certs for any domain (2018) (detectify.com)
240 points by yread on Jan 28, 2019 | 77 comments
15. A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture (acm.org)
231 points by matt_d on Jan 29, 2019 | 84 comments
16. Librem 5 Hardware Update (puri.sm)
186 points by fghtr on Jan 29, 2019 | 110 comments
17. Samsung Unveils 15.6-Inch Ultra-HD OLED Display for Laptops (anandtech.com)
184 points by jseliger on Jan 29, 2019 | 172 comments
18. Building a “Simple” Distributed System – Formal Verification (jack-vanlightly.com)
151 points by pron on Jan 29, 2019 | 9 comments
19. Racket-On-Chez Status: January 2019 (racket-lang.org)
175 points by bwidlar on Jan 29, 2019 | 32 comments
20. The body’s microbial community may influence the brain and behavior (nytimes.com)
153 points by bookofjoe on Jan 28, 2019 | 63 comments
21. Maze Design (2005) (uwaterloo.ca)
156 points by amenghra on Jan 29, 2019 | 32 comments
22. Writing Apps in Go and Swift (youngdynasty.net)
158 points by youngdynasty on Jan 29, 2019 | 61 comments
23. Show HN: Apprise – A lightweight all-in-one notification solution (github.com/caronc)
163 points by l2g on Jan 29, 2019 | 22 comments
24. The CADR Microprocessor (lm-3.github.io)
112 points by gilgamesh3 on Jan 28, 2019 | 16 comments
25. Rayshader – An open-source R package for producing 2D and 3D hillshaded maps (rayshader.com)
150 points by mxfh on Jan 28, 2019 | 21 comments
26. RIOT: Operating System for the Internet of Things (riot-os.org)
142 points by lainon on Jan 28, 2019 | 74 comments
27. Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017) (outsideonline.com)
189 points by shrikant on Jan 28, 2019 | 356 comments
28. Gmail Services Global Outage (outage.report)
272 points by nedsma on Jan 29, 2019 | 159 comments
29. Predictors of mental health in employed adults with autism spectrum disorder (wiley.com)
92 points by laurex on Jan 29, 2019 | 39 comments
30. From “Hello World” to VP of Engineering at Reddit (2017) (devcolor.org)
191 points by karim on Jan 28, 2019 | 100 comments

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