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1. Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second (sciencemag.org)
473 points by headalgorithm 11 hours ago | hide | 198 comments
2. Weighted blankets might ease insomnia and anxiety (washingtonpost.com)
45 points by laurex 2 hours ago | hide | 18 comments
3. Phones that secretly listen to us are a myth (bbc.co.uk)
12 points by AndrewDucker 53 minutes ago | hide | 17 comments
4. Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash – Markdown source (2001) (github.com)
43 points by emptybits 2 hours ago | hide | 1 comment
5. A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online (techcrunch.com)
452 points by bifrost 11 hours ago | hide | 118 comments
6. Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Psychedelic Research (jhu.edu)
325 points by infodocket 11 hours ago | hide | 64 comments
7. Holes in T. rex's skull now thought to have regulated body temperature (sciencedaily.com)
44 points by curtis 3 hours ago | hide | 10 comments
8. Sally Floyd, who helped things run smoothly online, has died (nytimes.com)
150 points by NaOH 8 hours ago | hide | 5 comments
9. Amazon’s Shipping Empire Is Challenging UPS and FedEx (wsj.com)
22 points by prostoalex 2 hours ago | hide | 4 comments
10. Drone Bubble Bursts, Wiping Out Startups and Hammering VC Firms (bloomberg.com)
136 points by prostoalex 10 hours ago | hide | 85 comments
11. In an area without cellphone reception, I was unable to open the car (theatlantic.com)
82 points by curtis 6 hours ago | hide | 42 comments
12. Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead (torproject.org)
112 points by jakobdabo 8 hours ago | hide | 24 comments
13. CircleCI Security Incident (circleci.com)
96 points by sciurus 7 hours ago | hide | 28 comments
14. Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional Rights (nytimes.com)
60 points by jbegley 5 hours ago | hide | 20 comments
15. Fuzzy and semantic search for captioned YouTube videos (github.com)
4 points by Aditya_Ramesh 35 minutes ago | hide | discuss
16. Tesla’s Autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 crash on the 405 (latimes.com)
107 points by casefields 9 hours ago | hide | 123 comments
17. Lego to open 160 new stores as other toy retailers suffer (ft.com)
77 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
18. Google’s GDPR Workaround (brave.com)
1668 points by donohoe 18 hours ago | hide | 538 comments
19. Show HN: fast visual-inertial odometry/SLAM for AR/VR/Robotics (github.com)
61 points by xfei91 8 hours ago | hide | 17 comments
20. Whatever happened to Six Sigma? (qz.com)
137 points by respinal 10 hours ago | hide | 121 comments
21. The History of American College Dorms (theamericanconservative.com)
39 points by pepys 6 hours ago | hide | 10 comments
22. Woman is first to receive cornea made from ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells (nature.com)
7 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | hide | discuss
23. YC Office Hours for Startups Tackling Climate Issues (ycombinator.com)
109 points by katm 11 hours ago | hide | 29 comments
24. Warning: Implicit Backdoor (tedunangst.com)
166 points by ssklash 13 hours ago | hide | 85 comments
25. Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006) (norvig.com)
171 points by Pete_D 13 hours ago | hide | 81 comments
26. The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017) (hbr.org)
184 points by thtthings 9 hours ago | hide | 58 comments
27. To Jupyter and Beyond: Interactive Data Science at Scale with OmniSci (omnisci.com)
66 points by domoritz 9 hours ago | hide | 3 comments
28. The Legal Gray Zone of Marijuana at Airports (wsj.com)
94 points by chmaynard 13 hours ago | hide | 145 comments
29. Debate in Austria over enshrining use of cash in the constitution (euractiv.com)
79 points by rumcajz 3 hours ago | hide | 83 comments
30. Reach Robotics is closing (techcrunch.com)
42 points by prostoalex 8 hours ago | hide | 36 comments

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