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1.
NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (2002) (cypherspace.org)
564 points by Lammy on Dec 22, 2019 | 87 comments
2.
Fashionable Problems (paulgraham.com)
365 points by hackerews on Dec 22, 2019 | 185 comments
3.
Autonomous DeLorean drives sideways to move forward (stanford.edu)
580 points by 80mph on Dec 22, 2019 | 188 comments
4.
Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015) (jnd.org)
535 points by sogen on Dec 22, 2019 | 500 comments
5.
Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game
716 points by ItsFirefly on Dec 22, 2019 | 193 comments
6.
Show HN: Local Node.js app to save everything you browse and serve it offline (github.com/dosyago)
406 points by archivist1 on Dec 22, 2019 | 97 comments
7.
Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?
643 points by ignoramous on Dec 22, 2019 | 85 comments
8.
Guerilla Gardening (2015) (guerrillagardening.org)
217 points by jacquesm on Dec 22, 2019 | 40 comments
9.
What's Amazon's market share? 35% or 5%? (ben-evans.com)
186 points by mooreds on Dec 22, 2019 | 93 comments
10.
Microdosing LSD for Alzheimer’s proves safe in early human trial (newatlas.com)
214 points by futureguy on Dec 22, 2019 | 107 comments
11.
A Lonely Plea: ‘Anybody Need a Grandma for Christmas?’ (nytimes.com)
134 points by danso on Dec 21, 2019 | 152 comments
12.
Scaling Etsy (twitter.com/mcfunley)
352 points by luu on Dec 21, 2019 | 110 comments
13.
Booking.com agrees to EU demands to change travel offers (reuters.com)
227 points by deng on Dec 22, 2019 | 184 comments
14.
New laser ultrasound technique can remotely image the inside of a person (news.mit.edu)
192 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 22, 2019 | 42 comments
15.
NeurIPS 2019 Notes [pdf] (david-abel.github.io)
150 points by rebelhit on Dec 21, 2019 | 33 comments
16.
Predicting When P=NP Is Resolved (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
106 points by furcyd on Dec 22, 2019 | 62 comments
17.
Windows 10 Desktop: Physically building and photographing the logos (2015) (gmunk.com)
198 points by iudqnolq on Dec 22, 2019 | 105 comments
18.
Reggae: A build system with multiple front ends (D, Python) and back ends (github.com/atilaneves)
76 points by olvy0 on Dec 22, 2019 | 17 comments
19.
BPF Theremin, Tetris, and Typewriters (brendangregg.com)
75 points by brendangregg on Dec 22, 2019 | 9 comments
20.
Klong: a Simple Array Language (t3x.org)
89 points by kick on Dec 22, 2019 | 73 comments
21.
Longest-Serving Professor at Cornell Reflects on Journey Through Academia (cornellsun.com)
125 points by sbolt on Dec 22, 2019 | 24 comments
22.
LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual (1962) [pdf] (softwarepreservation.org)
123 points by kick on Dec 22, 2019 | 21 comments
23.
Teaching “The Smell” (learningfromincidents.io)
68 points by meanie on Dec 21, 2019 | 2 comments
24.
How Smartphones Betray Democracy (nytimes.com)
165 points by ENOTTY on Dec 22, 2019 | 105 comments
25.
SBCL20 in Vienna (xach.com)
104 points by tosh on Dec 20, 2019 | 10 comments
26.
French executives convicted in the suicides of 35 of their workers (washingtonpost.com)
149 points by andrewl on Dec 22, 2019 | 115 comments
27.
Post Mortem of Ludum Dare 38 and Bullet Surfing (andy-rambles.com)
47 points by bluedino on Dec 21, 2019 | 8 comments
28.
OpenBSD system-call-origin verification (lwn.net)
112 points by swills on Dec 22, 2019 | 92 comments
29.
Does simultaneous multithreading still make sense? (codeblueprint.co.uk)
87 points by wheresvic3 on Dec 21, 2019 | 65 comments
30.
MegaZeux: Game creation system released in 1994 and still being developed today (digitalmzx.com)
95 points by 6581 on Dec 22, 2019 | 17 comments

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