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  • 0 4

    New Floating Cycle Roundabout (bicycledutch.wordpress.com)
  • 11 70

    Informer – Telegram Mass Surveillance with Python (github.com)
  • 0 5

    Hiring Is Obsolete (2005) (www.paulgraham.com)
  • 21 55

    2020: Things You Should Read to Become a Better Human and Developer (dottedsquirrel.com)
  • 60 38

    No Alcohol, No Coffee for 27 Months (2016) (www.vanschneider.com)
  • 9 21

    Show HN: Flash replacement (its-near.me)
  • 8 37

    Surgeons withdraw support for heart disease advice (www.bbc.com)
  • 36 34

    Ask HN: How to improve code quality while maintaining decent velocity?
  • 10 80

    L-systems (jsantell.com)
  • 0 9

    Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences (arxiv.org)
  • 9 23

    Threads can infect each other with their low priority (github.com)
  • 64 115

    Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement (daringfireball.net)
  • 1 5

    The Fate of Empires (1978) [pdf] (www.thegreatstory.org)
  • 142 84

    New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy (www.cnn.com)
  • 30 43

    Residents increasingly unhappy with Bay Area life, new poll finds (www.mercurynews.com)
  • 31 17

    Why you can't get cell service on the tarmac (thepointsguy.com)
  • 4 56

    A 6k-year-old fruit fly gave the world modern cheeses and yogurts (theconversation.com)
  • 20 24

    There aren't enough humans for cloud-native infra (siliconangle.com)
  • 38 41

    A newly updated index ranks English proficiency around the world (www.economist.com)
  • 51 52

    How Trolls Overran the Public Square (www.project-syndicate.org)
  • 5 26

    Two Arms and a Head (2011) (www.2arms1head.com)
  • 10 22

    Jumping to Conclusions: When People Decide Based on Insufficient Information (effectiviology.com)
  • 128 244

    Ask HN: We are shutting down our startup, I get our code. What now?
  • 0 14

    How a Chinese Company Built a $250M Search Hijacking Empire (medium.com)
  • 117 65

    Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of Americans Love Cooking (2017) (hbr.org)
  • 5 31

    Introduction to Gate (savo.la)
  • 25 127

    Computational photography from selfies to black holes (blog.letsenhance.io)
  • 5 20

    Show HN: Cron Color: Color Tool and Contrast Checker for Web Design (croncolor.com)
  • 125 244

    Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables (www.evanjones.ca)
  • 117 77

    Vietnam’s Richest Man Bets $2B to Sell Cars to Americans (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 32 51

    Missing Movies (2018) (johnaugust.com)
  • 222 231

    Apple’s Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market (www.theinformation.com)
  • 32 87

    Russian flag and national anthem banned from 2020 Olympics (www.thestar.com.my)
  • 4 14

    EU approves 3.2B euro state aid for battery research (www.reuters.com)
  • 144 69

    If Bitcoin Looks Like It Isn’t Trading, It’s Because It Isn’t (www.wsj.com)
  • 94 187

    Transputer (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 21 48

    If All Stories Were Written Like Science Fiction Stories (2004) (web.archive.org)
  • 17 88

    Science Books of 2019 (fivebooks.com)
  • 1 11

    Writing the Slowest Quicksort (chasewilson.dev)
  • 17 42

    Show HN: My in-network Node app for controlling my kids' nightlights (github.com)
  • 65 280

    The Nintendo Switch Switch (blog.cynthia.re)
  • 0 11

    Controllers Are Services (paul-m-jones.com)
  • 418 244

    College-educated workers are taking over the American factory floor (www.wsj.com)
  • 3 17

    Installing system packages in Docker with minimal bloat (pythonspeed.com)
  • 83 91

    For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town (www.atlasobscura.com)
  • 27 136

    Caroll Spinney has died (www.nytimes.com)
  • 157 180

    E-scooter company goes bust after spending big on Facebook ads (www.bbc.com)
  • 426 176

    Why Child Care Is So Expensive (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 4 20

    Listen: Today’s stories in a short 5-minute summary (listle.io)
  • 8 20

    Baijiu (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 49 151

    A walk through the Magit interface (emacsair.me)
  • 118 127

    How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real (www.newyorker.com)
  • 4 26

    Top key takeaways and announcements from KubeCon and CloudNative Con 2019 (www.cloudmanagementinsider.com)
  • Able Health (YC W16) is hiring a senior engineer to help improve patient care (ablehealth.com)
  • 3 11

    Modern Brands Going Back to Their Vintage Logos (opmaak.co)
  • 17 74

    To Wash It All Away (2014) [pdf] (scholar.harvard.edu)
  • 43 28

    The main sell point of Go is not simplicity, but overall balance and flexibility (github.com)
  • 38 80

    Every bookmark manager ever made (bookmarkos.com)
  • 57 44

    Teaching yourself about structural racism will improve your machine learning (academic.oup.com)
  • 9 8

    The PC was supposed to die a decade ago. Instead, this happened (www.zdnet.com)
  • 19 30

    Newly discovered Mac malware uses “fileless” technique to remain stealthy (arstechnica.com)
  • 28 124

    Formatting Is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust (jamesmunns.com)
  • 118 283

    Technology Preview: Signal Private Group System (signal.org)
  • 81 172

    Simple Rules ‘Bootstrap’ the Laws of Physics (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 10 65

    2019’s Top Machine and Deep Learning Research Papers (heartbeat.fritz.ai)
  • 6 30

    MicroPython: An Intro to Programming Hardware in Python (realpython.com)
  • 9 61

    An artificial glacier growing in the desert (2017) (edition.cnn.com)
  • 88 188

    Some things every C programmer should know about C (2002) (web.archive.org)
  • 148 116

    What Did the U.S. Get for $2T in Afghanistan? (www.nytimes.com)
  • 34 132

    Show HN: Tiny, fast, and free API to geolocate IP addresses (github.com)
  • 90 81

    An open-source browser extension to auto-skip sponsored segments on YouTube (github.com)
  • 201 445

    O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation (randomascii.wordpress.com)
  • 52 66

    Over the past 35 years, views on privacy and Caller ID have flipped (tedium.co)
  • 3 66

    Tsunebaro Makaguchi – Education Through Interest (www.tmakiguchi.org)
  • 37 41

    California, and the US, shouldn’t be afraid of density and upzoning (www.curbed.com)
  • 127 91

    Five cities account for vast majority of growth in U.S. tech jobs: study (www.wsj.com)
  • 4 44

    Things I Learned in 2019 (medium.com)
  • 41 104

    A man using Google ad data to help heroin users (onezero.medium.com)
  • 65 191

    Paul Volcker has died (www.nytimes.com)
  • 61 159

    Must and Must Not: On writing documentation (queue.acm.org)
  • 70 201

    Show HN: Version Control for Databases (github.com)
  • 73 128

    Repo Blowup Was Fueled by Big Banks and Hedge Funds, BIS Says (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 3 27

    Top Cybersecurity and DevOps Trends for 2020 (insights.dice.com)
  • 83 71

    The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap (www.hbs.edu)
  • 6 29

    Show HN: GoCheese: Python private package repository and caching proxy (gocheese.cypherpunks.ru)
  • 64 61

    Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 18 90

    Long Bets by Confidence Level (www.jefftk.com)
  • 66 372

    Operations for Effective CEOs (www.sametab.com)
  • 16 38

    PyFileFixity: Helping long term storage of data via redundant ECCs (pypi.org)
  •   24

    Russia banned from 2020 Olympics and 2022 World Cup over doping scandal (www.cnn.com)
  • 78 17

    The Throughput Problem: Recharging Electric Cars Requires the Patience of Job (spectator.org)
  • 208 130

    How to Buy a Private Jet (www.worth.com)
  • 74 77

    The Great Recycling Con [video] (www.nytimes.com)
  • 150 107

    Ten-Hour Time-Restricted Eating Benefits Patients with Metabolic Syndrome (www.npr.org)
  • 11 23

    The no-flush movement: the unexpected rise of the composting toilet (www.theguardian.com)
  • 3 40

    The Evolution of Trust (2017) (ncase.me)
  • 37 91

    AI-powered Lego sorting machine built with Lego bricks (www.brothers-brick.com)
  • 11 12

    Blue Light Blocking Glasses: How They Work and Why They Work (danielriley.blog)
  • 176 116

    What are your options for cognitive enhancement? (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 43 37

    A brief look at async-await (javascript.christmas)
  • 5 44

    Challenge: Find Twitter memes with suffix arrays (jvns.ca)
  •   21

    Major alert:44M Microsoft accounts using breached user names, passwords (www.idahoreporter.com)
  • 99 132

    Serverless Development with Serverless Framework (thecloud.christmas)
  • 0 11

    Show HN: inletsctl – Fast HTTP (L7) and TCP (L4) Tunnels (github.com)
  • 191 527

    WireGuard is in net-next (git.kernel.org)
  • 9 66

    Collaborative Software That’s Wary of the Cloud (www.wired.com)
  • 294 412

    The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) (www.vitavonni.de)
  • 12 76

    The Czochralski method for growing single-crystal semiconductors (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 9 47

    Rubrication Design Examples (www.gwern.net)
  • 5 17

    Museum in a Box (museuminabox.org)
  • 9 55

    Show HN: Yazz Pilot – Self Service Apps Without the IT Department (github.com)
  • 18 43

    NHS gives Amazon free use of health data under Alexa advice deal (www.theguardian.com)
  • 2 25

    Macros That Work Together: Comp-Time Bindings, Partial Expansion (2012) [pdf] (www.cs.utah.edu)
  •   8

    India, rating DOWNGRADED from ‘obstructed’ to ‘repressed’- CIVICUS (monitor.civicus.org)
  • 57 53

    Why Kids Love Garbage Trucks (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 8 66

    The Internet's first general-purpose distributed computing project (www.distributed.net)
  • 7 68

    Aplette: a minimalist APL oriented toward scripting within a UNIX environment (github.com)
  • 11 14

    Atom: Editor window startup is slow (github.com)
  • 14 68

    Finala: A cloud scanner that analyzes wasteful and unused resources (github.com)
  • The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Director of SEO (www.themuse.com)
  • 34 42

    Crypto Miners in Georgia Consume 10% of the Entire Nation’s Power (www.thedailychain.com)
  • 96 94

    Steve Jobs: Out for Revenge (1989) (www.nytimes.com)
  • 10 44

    ‘Zork’ Source Code, Presumed Lost, Has Been Uploaded to GitHub (kryptonradio.com)
  • 9 62

    The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online (1998) (www.rheingold.com)
  • 10 60

    Experiment closes gap in weather forecasting (phys.org)
  • 204 404

    AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab (twitter.com)
  • 26 98

    Financial Time Series Forecasting with Deep Learning: A Literature Review (arxiv.org)
  • 112 95

    America's Missile That Uses Sword Blades Instead of Explosives Has Struck Again (www.thedrive.com)
  • 21 73

    Cray-2 vectorization instruction notes by former Principal Engineer of Cray (web.archive.org)
  • 82 400

    If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014) (joshworth.com)
  • 67 96

    Centrifugal Machine Guns (armourersbench.com)
  • 34 63

    A way to make anonymous online donations (jpkoning.blogspot.com)
  • 29 61

    The ego depletion saga demonstrates the importance of effect sizes (pigee.wordpress.com)
  • 98 185

    Game Boy Advance “Hello World” Using Zig (github.com)
  • 2 19

    TwoTone: Data Sonification (twotone.io)
  • 5 16

    Loose Lips Sink Ships (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 16 120

    Héctor Garcia-Molina, 1953–2019 (rjlipton.wordpress.com)