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1.
How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure (statnews.com)
633 points by KKKKkkkk1 on Dec 30, 2019 | 382 comments
2.
Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video] (ccc.de)
626 points by sturza on Dec 30, 2019 | 243 comments
3.
What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth (github.com/imsnif)
863 points by PleaseHelpMe on Dec 30, 2019 | 180 comments
4.
Scaling React Server Side Rendering (arkwright.github.io)
551 points by boernard on Dec 27, 2019 | 131 comments
5.
Blue light may not be as disruptive to sleep patterns as thought: mouse study (manchester.ac.uk)
323 points by rcarmo on Dec 29, 2019 | 162 comments
6.
A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
398 points by Impossible on Dec 29, 2019 | 362 comments
7.
Snapcast – Synchronous multi-room audio player (github.com/badaix)
301 points by geekuillaume on Dec 29, 2019 | 131 comments
8.
The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago (tickgit.com)
436 points by patrickdevivo on Dec 30, 2019 | 295 comments
9.
Focus has become more valuable than intelligence (2018) (alexand.ro)
571 points by alexandroo on Dec 29, 2019 | 213 comments
10.
French court rules Steam games must be able to be resold (engadget.com)
352 points by abbe98 on Dec 29, 2019 | 241 comments
11.
ProtonMail takes aim at Google with an encrypted calendar (venturebeat.com)
355 points by vabmit on Dec 30, 2019 | 145 comments
12.
Pedestrian routing that offers pleasant alternatives to the shortest route (gislounge.com)
221 points by liotier on Dec 30, 2019 | 92 comments
13.
Changes to accessing and using Geolite2 databases (maxmind.com)
172 points by anandchowdhary on Dec 30, 2019 | 61 comments
14.
Generalized Knights (lemoing.ca)
132 points by lemoing on Dec 30, 2019 | 45 comments
15.
New Material to Make Lithium Ion Batteries Self-Healing and Easily Recyclable (goodnewsnetwork.org)
114 points by elorant on Dec 30, 2019 | 22 comments
16.
Ffmpeg-Python: Python bindings for FFmpeg – with complex filtering support (github.com/kkroening)
220 points by brudgers on Dec 29, 2019 | 29 comments
17.
The StingRay Is Why the 4th Amendment Was Written (2017) (fee.org)
269 points by jseliger on Dec 29, 2019 | 149 comments
18.
Arduino programmable air, pneumatics kit (arduino.cc)
139 points by itronitron on Dec 29, 2019 | 26 comments
19.
Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop (nexedi.com)
156 points by fermigier on Dec 30, 2019 | 93 comments
20.
Why introductory chemistry is boring: a long-term historical perspective (get21stnight.com)
203 points by klevertree on Dec 30, 2019 | 139 comments
21.
Show HN: MassCode – a code snippets manager for developers (github.com/antonreshetov)
115 points by antonreshetov on Dec 30, 2019 | 46 comments
22.
KafkaHQ (github.com/tchiotludo)
219 points by rickette on Dec 30, 2019 | 33 comments
23.
Show HN: Art Resources and Tutorials Website (artres.xyz)
109 points by astrikos on Dec 30, 2019 | 12 comments
24.
Switching from Chrome to Firefox (support.mozilla.org)
568 points by nachtigall on Dec 30, 2019 | 312 comments
25.
Too Much Crypto [pdf] (iacr.org)
182 points by fanf2 on Dec 30, 2019 | 98 comments
26.
CPU Introspection: Intel Load Port Snooping (gamozolabs.github.io)
180 points by matt_d on Dec 30, 2019 | 19 comments
27.
Publish – A static site generator for Swift developers (github.com/johnsundell)
143 points by _quhg on Dec 30, 2019 | 20 comments
28.
The Central Limit Theorem and Its Misuse (lambdaclass.com)
176 points by lelf on Dec 29, 2019 | 67 comments
29.
Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video] (ccc.de)
219 points by HelenePhisher on Dec 30, 2019 | 202 comments
30.
Write Junior Code (parsonsmatt.org)
173 points by bibyte on Dec 28, 2019 | 141 comments

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