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1.
O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation (randomascii.wordpress.com)
501 points by harikb on Dec 9, 2019 | 224 comments
2.
Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups (github.com/davidferguson)
384 points by jstanley on Dec 8, 2019 | 62 comments
3.
Technology Preview: Signal Private Group System (signal.org)
328 points by stablemap on Dec 9, 2019 | 152 comments
4.
Operations for Effective CEOs (sametab.com)
413 points by anacleto on Dec 9, 2019 | 67 comments
5.
The Nintendo Switch Switch (cynthia.re)
329 points by bitcynth on Dec 9, 2019 | 78 comments
6.
Apple’s Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market (theinformation.com)
316 points by salgernon on Dec 9, 2019 | 330 comments
7.
WireGuard is in net-next (kernel.org)
567 points by piliberto on Dec 9, 2019 | 205 comments
8.
A walk through the Magit interface (emacsair.me)
194 points by rohitpaulk on Dec 7, 2019 | 81 comments
9.
AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab (twitter.com/nickwalton00)
415 points by _ps6d on Dec 9, 2019 | 202 comments
10.
Transputer (wikipedia.org)
236 points by simonpure on Dec 9, 2019 | 140 comments
11.
The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) (vitavonni.de)
428 points by maple3142 on Dec 9, 2019 | 311 comments
12.
College-educated workers are taking over the American factory floor (wsj.com)
288 points by vo2maxer on Dec 9, 2019 | 506 comments
13.
Caroll Spinney has died (nytimes.com)
153 points by kevinconaway on Dec 8, 2019 | 29 comments
14.
Must and Must Not: On writing documentation (acm.org)
182 points by amortize on Dec 9, 2019 | 63 comments
15.
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014) (joshworth.com)
422 points by brycehalley on Dec 8, 2019 | 82 comments
16.
Some things every C programmer should know about C (2002) (archive.org)
223 points by kick on Dec 9, 2019 | 108 comments
17.
Long Bets by Confidence Level (jefftk.com)
102 points by raleighm on Dec 9, 2019 | 22 comments
18.
Science Books of 2019 (fivebooks.com)
140 points by Anon84 on Dec 9, 2019 | 28 comments
19.
Game Boy Advance “Hello World” Using Zig (github.com/wendigojaeger)
188 points by WendigoJaeger on Dec 9, 2019 | 103 comments
20.
Simple Rules ‘Bootstrap’ the Laws of Physics (quantamagazine.org)
186 points by theafh on Dec 9, 2019 | 91 comments
21.
Repo Blowup Was Fueled by Big Banks and Hedge Funds, BIS Says (bloomberg.com)
133 points by aazaa on Dec 9, 2019 | 76 comments
22.
Show HN: Version Control for Databases (github.com/infostreams)
224 points by akie on Dec 9, 2019 | 88 comments
23.
Developing a Statically Typed Programming Language (2017) (mgechev.com)
143 points by proxybop on Dec 8, 2019 | 20 comments
24.
Héctor Garcia-Molina, 1953–2019 (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
121 points by furcyd on Dec 8, 2019 | 16 comments
25.
How TiKV reads and writes (tikv.org)
97 points by mountainview on Dec 8, 2019 | 12 comments
26.
Formatting Is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust (jamesmunns.com)
135 points by Twirrim on Dec 9, 2019 | 30 comments
27.
Missing Movies (2018) (johnaugust.com)
70 points by smacktoward on Dec 9, 2019 | 39 comments
28.
Vietnam’s Richest Man Bets $2B to Sell Cars to Americans (bloomberg.com)
103 points by danso on Dec 9, 2019 | 160 comments
29.
Centrifugal Machine Guns (armourersbench.com)
96 points by smacktoward on Dec 9, 2019 | 67 comments
30.
Cray-2 vectorization instruction notes by former Principal Engineer of Cray (archive.org)
74 points by kick on Dec 9, 2019 | 22 comments

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