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1.
Fast (patrickcollison.com)
1314 points by doppp on Dec 21, 2019 | 291 comments
2.
The Deep Sea (neal.fun)
703 points by thereyougo on Dec 21, 2019 | 96 comments
3.
Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about messaging (1998) (squeakfoundation.org)
318 points by goranmoomin on Dec 21, 2019 | 174 comments
4.
Go + Services = One Goliath Project (khanacademy.org)
418 points by yawn on Dec 21, 2019 | 434 comments
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U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices (reuters.com)
386 points by swat535 on Dec 21, 2019 | 161 comments
6.
Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737 Max pilots unprepared (bloomberg.com)
224 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 21, 2019 | 132 comments
7.
Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t Take It (wsj.com)
122 points by Bostonian on Dec 19, 2019 | 152 comments
8.
Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mandarin Pronunciation (mandarintonetrainer.com)
237 points by drastorguev on Dec 21, 2019 | 183 comments
9.
Apprenticeships Beat Classrooms (scotthyoung.com)
229 points by BerislavLopac on Dec 19, 2019 | 106 comments
10.
Monica: Open-source personal CRM (monicahq.com)
372 points by jandeboevrie on Dec 21, 2019 | 129 comments
11.
The modern web is becoming unusable (omarabid.com)
512 points by csomar on Dec 20, 2019 | 213 comments
12.
Neural Network (nxxcxx.github.io)
154 points by miket on Dec 21, 2019 | 14 comments
13.
Randy Suess, computer bulletin board inventor, has died (nytimes.com)
122 points by pgrote on Dec 21, 2019 | 28 comments
14.
A cool way to explain logic gates with water [video] (twitter.com/page_eco)
189 points by stared on Dec 21, 2019 | 38 comments
15.
CDC Confirms a THC Additive, Vitamin E Acetate, Is Culprit in Most Vaping Deaths (npr.org)
244 points by harmmonica on Dec 20, 2019 | 163 comments
16.
Outdoor Computing with a Deck Desk (mgsloan.com)
151 points by lelf on Dec 20, 2019 | 61 comments
17.
Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End (github.com/zedeus)
195 points by goranmoomin on Dec 21, 2019 | 38 comments
18.
Normal 1: what normal maps are and how they work (artstation.com)
134 points by atomlib on Dec 21, 2019 | 26 comments
19.
Squashed Bugs, with Failure Rate Heatmaps (pingcap.com)
115 points by roecuco on Dec 21, 2019 | 18 comments
20.
ACM signed letter opposing open access (publishers.org)
265 points by beefhash on Dec 21, 2019 | 138 comments
21.
The Afsluitdijk (theafsluitdijk.com)
239 points by jacquesm on Dec 19, 2019 | 100 comments
22.
The World’s Oldest Forest Has 385M-Year-Old Tree Roots (smithsonianmag.com)
120 points by sohkamyung on Dec 20, 2019 | 13 comments
23.
Creating Online Environments That Work Well for Older Users (smashingmagazine.com)
87 points by imgabe on Dec 21, 2019 | 54 comments
24.
Betelgeuse Fades More (astroblogger.blogspot.com)
95 points by Amorymeltzer on Dec 21, 2019 | 40 comments
25.
Navy’s flawed technology set the USS John McCain up for disaster (propublica.org)
194 points by thomasjudge on Dec 20, 2019 | 144 comments
26.
Science United – distributed computing for scientific projects (scienceunited.org)
52 points by Austin_Conlon on Dec 21, 2019 | 4 comments
27.
Controlling Text Generation with Plug and Play Language Models (uber.com)
62 points by aleyan on Dec 19, 2019 | 5 comments
28.
Moonjit – Fork of LuaJIT to Continue Development (github.com/moonjit)
119 points by xvilka on Dec 21, 2019 | 58 comments
29.
LavaPS: Top, Implemented as a Lava Lamp (1995) (isi.edu)
99 points by ColinWright on Dec 21, 2019 | 22 comments
30.
Apple has a secret team working on internet satellites (bloomberg.com)
173 points by uptown on Dec 20, 2019 | 121 comments

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