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1.
How to Exit Vim (github.com/hakluke)
1111 points by justinzollars on Jan 8, 2020 | 395 comments
2.
13.3" full color ePaper display (eink.com)
591 points by bufbupa on Jan 8, 2020 | 388 comments
3.
US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 (rhg.com)
495 points by lxm on Jan 8, 2020 | 409 comments
4.
Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language (github.com/beefytech)
533 points by beefdev on Jan 8, 2020 | 277 comments
5.
C Compiler from Scratch (github.com/doctorwkt)
484 points by harel on Jan 6, 2020 | 67 comments
6.
Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler (snowpack.dev)
391 points by codecurve on Jan 8, 2020 | 232 comments
7.
ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations (googleblog.com)
348 points by agluszak on Jan 8, 2020 | 45 comments
8.
The most important scientific problems have yet to be solved (1897) (mitpress.mit.edu)
257 points by anarbadalov on Jan 8, 2020 | 148 comments
9.
Avro Arrow blueprints on display after sitting in man's home for decades (cbc.ca)
153 points by goodcanadian on Jan 8, 2020 | 81 comments
10.
Jellyfin: A Free Software Media System (jellyfin.org)
318 points by matthberg on Jan 7, 2020 | 173 comments
11.
Which Machines Do Computer Architects Admire? (2013) (clemson.edu)
174 points by dhotson on Jan 8, 2020 | 156 comments
12.
CGA in 1024 Colors – A New Mode: The Illustrated Guide (2015) (int10h.org)
281 points by mariuz on Jan 8, 2020 | 69 comments
13.
How scientists across three continents produced an Ebola vaccine (statnews.com)
230 points by bookofjoe on Jan 8, 2020 | 61 comments
14.
How to Read a Paper (2016) [pdf] (uwaterloo.ca)
343 points by DecayingOrganic on Jan 7, 2020 | 40 comments
15.
Comma Two Devkit (comma.ai)
225 points by ryanlowun on Jan 7, 2020 | 230 comments
16.
Loudness war (wikipedia.org)
272 points by luketheobscure on Jan 7, 2020 | 172 comments
17.
The Political History of Pad Thai (scmp.com)
183 points by sjcsjc on Jan 7, 2020 | 99 comments
18.
Corundum: Open-source, high performance, FPGA-based NIC (github.com/ucsdsysnet)
188 points by lelf on Jan 8, 2020 | 68 comments
19.
A Sick Giant (waitbutwhy.com)
220 points by dsalzman on Jan 8, 2020 | 128 comments
20.
How Bees Argue (overcomingbias.com)
198 points by imartin2k on Jan 8, 2020 | 32 comments
21.
Training GPT-2 to Play Chess (slatestarcodex.com)
157 points by simulate on Jan 7, 2020 | 37 comments
22.
Contractors use shell games to hide owners, cheat taxpayers (pogo.org)
164 points by black6 on Jan 8, 2020 | 68 comments
23.
Specification for the D Programming Language (dlang.org)
175 points by crazypython on Jan 8, 2020 | 141 comments
24.
Birds and bats have strange gut microbiomes (phys.org)
62 points by dnetesn on Jan 7, 2020 | 11 comments
25.
Lidar Company Velodyne Debuts $100 Auto Safety Sensor (forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman)
103 points by finphil on Jan 8, 2020 | 81 comments
26.
Blackout Bug: Boeing 737 cockpit screens go blank if lands on specific runways (theregister.co.uk)
249 points by DemiGuru on Jan 8, 2020 | 129 comments
27.
Finding unique items: hash vs. sort (douglasorr.github.io)
137 points by douglasorr on Jan 7, 2020 | 81 comments
28.
FloatX: A C++ Library for Customized Floating-Point Arithmetic (github.com/oprecomp)
62 points by ArtWomb on Jan 8, 2020 | 14 comments
29.
F# Data Type Providers in .Net Core (2018) (lukemerrett.com)
139 points by kroltan on Jan 8, 2020 | 95 comments
30.
Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
287 points by balzss on Jan 8, 2020 | 165 comments

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