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1.
Having Kids (paulgraham.com)
1992 points by yarapavan on Dec 14, 2019 | 863 comments
2.
Challenging projects every programmer should try (utk.edu)
911 points by azhenley on Dec 14, 2019 | 297 comments
3.
Tony Brooker, creator of Mark 1 Autocode, has died (nytimes.com)
433 points by gumby on Dec 14, 2019 | 77 comments
4.
Win32 on macOS (winehq.org)
486 points by yarapavan on Dec 14, 2019 | 130 comments
5.
The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Smaller and Safer (wired.com)
266 points by corporate_shi11 on Dec 14, 2019 | 239 comments
6.
Coping with Flexbox (kgrz.io)
155 points by technicolor on Dec 14, 2019 | 55 comments
7.
Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense (vox.com)
126 points by blairh313 on Dec 13, 2019 | 84 comments
8.
Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped (bbc.co.uk)
197 points by ColinWright on Dec 14, 2019 | 110 comments
9.
What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code? (theatlantic.com)
226 points by ForHackernews on Dec 14, 2019 | 222 comments
10.
Enough with the Dead Butterflies (2017) (emilydamstra.com)
263 points by dorkwood on Dec 14, 2019 | 28 comments
11.
Rsuite – R development and data science platform (github.com/wlogsolutions)
97 points by wjak on Dec 14, 2019 | 113 comments
12.
New approaches shed light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality (scientificamerican.com)
262 points by oli5679 on Dec 14, 2019 | 328 comments
13.
Oklo launches Aurora advanced fission clean energy plant in US (nsenergybusiness.com)
122 points by tosh on Dec 11, 2019 | 39 comments
14.
49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change (grahamcluley.com)
410 points by pwg on Dec 13, 2019 | 306 comments
15.
Glush: A robust parser compiler built using non-deterministic automatons (sanity.io)
84 points by evenw on Dec 12, 2019 | 33 comments
16.
Cracking LUKS/dm-crypt passphrases (diverto.github.io)
105 points by dvaun on Dec 14, 2019 | 62 comments
17.
Confessions of a Book Pirate (2010) (themillions.com)
96 points by iamiam on Dec 13, 2019 | 85 comments
18.
Modern garbage collection: Part 2 (plan99.net)
150 points by mariuz on Dec 12, 2019 | 91 comments
19.
Bloomberg just bought CityLab and put half its reporters out of a job (motherjones.com)
210 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 13, 2019 | 65 comments
20.
Show HN: Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [video] (spacepub.space)
131 points by ddevault on Dec 14, 2019 | 49 comments
21.
Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do?
264 points by yolo42 on Dec 13, 2019 | 312 comments
22.
Centaur Unveils Its New Server-Class x86 Core (wikichip.org)
105 points by parvizp on Dec 14, 2019 | 33 comments
23.
Using Broadway in an Elixir application (appsignal.com)
108 points by Liriel on Dec 12, 2019
24.
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Is Now World Fantasy Premier League #1 (twitter.com/magnuscarlsen)
204 points by thom on Dec 14, 2019 | 124 comments
25.
Neural Renderer and Differentiable Rendering [video] (youtube.com)
86 points by abj on Dec 14, 2019 | 14 comments
26.
The Architecture of a Large-Scale Web Search Engine, Circa 2019 (0x65.dev)
166 points by nikk699 on Dec 14, 2019 | 22 comments
27.
Stonehenge 1875 family photo may be earliest at monument (bbc.co.uk)
63 points by bauc on Dec 12, 2019 | 9 comments
28.
Dynamo vs. Cassandra: Systems Design of NoSQL Databases (2018) (sujithjay.com)
104 points by amortize on Dec 13, 2019 | 25 comments
29.
Seven deadly sins of talking about “types” (2014) (cam.ac.uk)
98 points by porker on Dec 13, 2019 | 86 comments
30.
The Cathedral and the Bizarre (marktarver.com)
107 points by bronsa on Dec 14, 2019 | 124 comments

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