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1.
The Lesson to Unlearn (paulgraham.com)
1333 points by adunk on Dec 7, 2019 | 565 comments
2.
The Product-Minded Software Engineer (pragmaticengineer.com)
616 points by turingbook on Dec 7, 2019 | 142 comments
3.
Great White Sharks Are Terrified of Orcas (smithsonianmag.com)
322 points by EndXA on Dec 7, 2019 | 191 comments
4.
Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a consultant/freelancer?
622 points by _qjt0 on Dec 7, 2019 | 268 comments
5.
File systems unfit as distributed storage back ends: 10 years of Ceph (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
209 points by mpweiher on Dec 7, 2019 | 34 comments
6.
The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers (theverge.com)
283 points by lelf on Dec 7, 2019 | 169 comments
7.
Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup (cnbc.com)
265 points by lelf on Dec 4, 2019 | 211 comments
8.
Reducing the Performance Gap of Intel's MKL on AMD Threadripper (pugetsystems.com)
222 points by smartmic on Dec 7, 2019 | 138 comments
9.
France proposes upload filter law, “forgets” user rights (juliareda.eu)
277 points by gnomewascool on Dec 6, 2019 | 75 comments
10.
Indexing Billions of Text Vectors (0x65.dev)
252 points by martinlaz on Dec 7, 2019 | 40 comments
11.
Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet experiment (wsj.com)
216 points by ilyaeck on Dec 7, 2019 | 208 comments
12.
Rolls-Royce Touts Nuclear Reactors as Key to Clean Jet Fuel (bloomberg.com)
164 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 7, 2019 | 203 comments
13.
Structuring Your Project (python-guide.org)
186 points by ai_ja_nai on Dec 7, 2019 | 37 comments
14.
Brain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processing (wustl.edu)
164 points by Lorenz_Duremdes on Dec 7, 2019 | 38 comments
15.
What Is Systems Programming, Really? (2018) (willcrichton.net)
130 points by generichuman on Dec 7, 2019 | 49 comments
16.
JIT and Ruby's MJIT (appfolio.com)
115 points by stanislavb on Dec 6, 2019 | 54 comments
17.
A Billion Surveillance Cameras Forecast to Be Watching Within Two Years (wsj.com)
136 points by aerophilic on Dec 5, 2019 | 98 comments
18.
Drugs that tamp down inflammation in the brain could slow cognitive decline (news.berkeley.edu)
148 points by chris1993 on Dec 7, 2019 | 78 comments
19.
Show HN: Learn When to Quit (github.com/victorqribeiro)
147 points by atum47 on Dec 4, 2019 | 44 comments
20.
FDA Approving Drugs at Breakneck Speed, Raising Alarm (msn.com)
106 points by eplanit on Dec 7, 2019 | 77 comments
21.
TailScale – Instantly interconnect your devices and services, wherever they are (tailscale.com)
104 points by goranmoomin on Dec 4, 2019 | 42 comments
22.
Math Whiz Trades Without Humans (bloomberg.com)
99 points by monsieurpng on Dec 6, 2019 | 54 comments
23.
Rust implementations of abstract algebraic structures (gitlab.com/ornamentist)
139 points by alex_hirner on Dec 7, 2019 | 9 comments
24.
New Features in ES2019 (javascript.christmas)
192 points by sveingjoby on Dec 7, 2019 | 117 comments
25.
Sixteen APL Amuse-Bouches (2016) (vector.org.uk)
62 points by kick on Dec 5, 2019 | 51 comments
26.
Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict Success 35 Years Later (nih.gov)
92 points by michalu on Dec 7, 2019 | 105 comments
27.
Thomas Edison’s brilliant life, told in reverse (washingtonpost.com)
50 points by ohaikbai on Dec 7, 2019 | 21 comments
28.
Why smallpox is no more, but polio and other diseases persist (quantamagazine.org)
86 points by yarapavan on Dec 7, 2019 | 52 comments
29.
FOSS Zombies (davidalfonso.es)
42 points by pferde on Dec 7, 2019 | 17 comments
30.
One Instruction Set Computer (wikipedia.org)
54 points by lelf on Dec 7, 2019 | 26 comments

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