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1. Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second (sciencemag.org)
442 points by headalgorithm 10 hours ago | hide | 190 comments
2. A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online (techcrunch.com)
424 points by bifrost 10 hours ago | hide | 112 comments
3. Holes in T. rex's skull now thought to have regulated body temperature (sciencedaily.com)
41 points by curtis 2 hours ago | hide | 7 comments
4. Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Psychedelic Research (jhu.edu)
306 points by infodocket 10 hours ago | hide | 60 comments
5. Sally Floyd, who helped things run smoothly online, has died (nytimes.com)
132 points by NaOH 7 hours ago | hide | 5 comments
6. Amazon’s Shipping Empire Is Challenging UPS and FedEx (wsj.com)
11 points by prostoalex 1 hour ago | hide | 3 comments
7. Weighted blankets might ease insomnia and anxiety (washingtonpost.com)
13 points by laurex 1 hour ago | hide | 4 comments
8. Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional Rights (nytimes.com)
43 points by jbegley 4 hours ago | hide | 13 comments
9. Drone Bubble Bursts, Wiping Out Startups and Hammering VC Firms (bloomberg.com)
129 points by prostoalex 9 hours ago | hide | 81 comments
10. Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book (v1.1 2019 Release) (github.com)
13 points by emptybits 1 hour ago | hide | discuss
11. CircleCI Security Incident (circleci.com)
88 points by sciurus 6 hours ago | hide | 26 comments
12. Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead (torproject.org)
100 points by jakobdabo 7 hours ago | hide | 22 comments
13. In an area without cellphone reception, I was unable to open the car (theatlantic.com)
65 points by curtis 5 hours ago | hide | 35 comments
14. Debate in Austria over enshrining use of cash in the constitution (euractiv.com)
73 points by rumcajz 2 hours ago | hide | 64 comments
15. Tesla’s Autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 crash on the 405 (latimes.com)
100 points by casefields 8 hours ago | hide | 108 comments
16. The History of American College Dorms (theamericanconservative.com)
37 points by pepys 5 hours ago | hide | 9 comments
17. Whatever happened to Six Sigma? (qz.com)
128 points by respinal 9 hours ago | hide | 117 comments
18. Google’s GDPR Workaround (brave.com)
1650 points by donohoe 18 hours ago | hide | 531 comments
19. Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs (bloomberg.com)
296 points by kgwgk 15 hours ago | hide | 270 comments
20. Show HN: fast visual-inertial odometry/SLAM for AR/VR/Robotics (github.com)
54 points by xfei91 7 hours ago | hide | 15 comments
21. YC Office Hours for Startups Tackling Climate Issues (ycombinator.com)
104 points by katm 10 hours ago | hide | 28 comments
22. Warning: Implicit Backdoor (tedunangst.com)
160 points by ssklash 12 hours ago | hide | 85 comments
23. The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017) (hbr.org)
175 points by thtthings 8 hours ago | hide | 53 comments
24. Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006) (norvig.com)
162 points by Pete_D 12 hours ago | hide | 77 comments
25. The Legal Gray Zone of Marijuana at Airports (wsj.com)
86 points by chmaynard 12 hours ago | hide | 140 comments
26. Reach Robotics is closing (techcrunch.com)
42 points by prostoalex 7 hours ago | hide | 32 comments
27. Lego to open 160 new stores as other toy retailers suffer (ft.com)
68 points by bookofjoe 6 hours ago | hide | 42 comments
28. To Jupyter and Beyond: Interactive Data Science at Scale with OmniSci (omnisci.com)
59 points by domoritz 8 hours ago | hide | 3 comments
29. Debugging WebAssembly outside of the browser (hacks.mozilla.org)
125 points by syrusakbary 14 hours ago | hide | 56 comments
30. What’s Up with LIGO? (backreaction.blogspot.com)
64 points by valeg 7 hours ago | hide | 36 comments

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