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1.
Writing Safe Shell Scripts (2019) (sipb.mit.edu)
504 points by rrampage on Feb 1, 2020 | 159 comments
2.
Airbus ran ‘massive’ bribery scheme to win orders (ft.com)
369 points by avocado4 on Feb 1, 2020 | 240 comments
3.
PyRobot (pyrobot.org)
212 points by datashrimp on Feb 1, 2020 | 37 comments
4.
TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex (asana.com)
312 points by lobster_roll on Jan 31, 2020 | 209 comments
5.
Writing a RISC-V OS in Rust: System Calls (stephenmarz.com)
201 points by azhenley on Jan 31, 2020 | 34 comments
6.
Deanonymizing Tor Circuits (hackerfactor.com)
243 points by zbentley on Feb 1, 2020 | 107 comments
7.
USB 4.0 [pdf] (usb.org)
197 points by kalium-xyz on Feb 1, 2020 | 77 comments
8.
EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard (appleinsider.com)
262 points by rahuldottech on Jan 31, 2020 | 508 comments
9.
History of LSD in Czechoslovakia (przekroj.pl)
220 points by collapse on Feb 1, 2020 | 27 comments
10.
Shaking Up the Diamond Industry (newyorker.com)
188 points by EwanToo on Feb 1, 2020 | 120 comments
11.
Algo Deck: an open-source collection of 200 cards on algorithms (github.com/teivah)
214 points by teivah on Feb 1, 2020 | 27 comments
12.
Instagram took down private unofficial APIs via DMCA (github.com/mgp25)
268 points by giansegato on Feb 1, 2020 | 128 comments
13.
Wenyan-lang: Classical Chinese Programming Language (ieee.org)
184 points by yread on Feb 1, 2020 | 128 comments
14.
My Second Phone Is in the Cloud (lucassimpson.com)
192 points by SmooL on Feb 1, 2020 | 103 comments
15.
Show HN: Heimdall – Self-managed email alias/forwarding service (github.com/fterh)
130 points by fterh on Feb 1, 2020 | 52 comments
16.
Writing Runbook Documentation When You’re an SRE (transposit.com)
137 points by mooreds on Feb 1, 2020 | 38 comments
17.
The Museum of Arts and Crafts in Paris is a trove of cunning inventions (smithsonianmag.com)
102 points by vo2maxer on Feb 1, 2020 | 30 comments
18.
MoonScript: Dynamic scripting language that compiles into Lua (moonscript.org)
164 points by dvfjsdhgfv on Feb 1, 2020 | 109 comments
19.
An update to 37-year-old MIDI (qz.com)
159 points by pseudolus on Jan 31, 2020 | 101 comments
20.
Reading Notes on Braudel's “Civilization and Capitalism” (fantasticanachronism.com)
78 points by blast on Feb 1, 2020 | 12 comments
21.
Critical flaw in Trezor hardware wallets (kraken.com)
121 points by menduz on Jan 31, 2020 | 49 comments
22.
The Persian Desert (2015) (riowang.blogspot.com)
94 points by acsillag on Feb 1, 2020 | 6 comments
23.
Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning (ankeshanand.com)
97 points by ankeshanand on Feb 1, 2020 | 13 comments
24.
Apple Aperture: Senior QA (2004-2005) (techreflect.net)
146 points by CharlesW on Feb 1, 2020 | 71 comments
25.
TTY-Exit: terminal exit codes for humans and machines (github.com/piotrmurach)
61 points by pmurach on Feb 1, 2020 | 14 comments
26.
How to give a great presentation: advice from a legendary adman (2012) (brainpickings.org)
224 points by c0restraint on Feb 1, 2020 | 17 comments
27.
OpenWRT remote code execution via MITM due to bug in package manager (infradead.org)
89 points by guidovranken on Jan 31, 2020 | 29 comments
28.
Ian Bogost on games, doorknobs, and general readers (publicbooks.org)
36 points by pshaw on Feb 1, 2020 | 2 comments
29.
USB, Java take center stage at Comdex (1996) (uakom.sk)
76 points by ecliptik on Jan 31, 2020 | 42 comments
30.
A milestone in the hunt for metallic hydrogen (nature.com)
85 points by pseudolus on Feb 1, 2020 | 21 comments

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