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1.		For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity (startribune.com)
		701 points by sbuccini on Jan 6, 2020 \| 494 comments
2.		Products I Wish Existed (eladgil.com)
		798 points by eladgil on Jan 6, 2020 \| 419 comments
3.		The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis (qz.com)
		450 points by lxm on Jan 6, 2020 \| 281 comments
4.		Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dark energy is in error (phys.org)
		486 points by apsec112 on Jan 6, 2020 \| 286 comments
5.		Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level (drive.google.com)
		792 points by zuhayeer on Jan 6, 2020 \| 589 comments
6.		Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and the Art of Programming [video] (youtube.com)
		355 points by tambourine_man on Jan 6, 2020 \| 72 comments
7.		Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig (github.com/jzck)
		355 points by netgusto on Jan 6, 2020 \| 223 comments
8.		Renowned Entomologist Says ‘Get Rid of Your Lawn’ (wttw.com)
		393 points by mayiplease on Jan 6, 2020 \| 323 comments
9.		Ben Carlin (wikipedia.org)
		125 points by Thevet on Jan 4, 2020 \| 7 comments
10.		New Cambridge Analytica Leaks (techcrunch.com)
		404 points by mindgam3 on Jan 6, 2020 \| 193 comments
11.		Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube (googleblog.com)
		277 points by geddy on Jan 6, 2020 \| 357 comments
12.		Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz (wi-fi.org)
		225 points by dmmalam on Jan 6, 2020 \| 202 comments
13.		A harassment campaign on Goodreads (patreon.com)
		270 points by ilamont on Jan 6, 2020 \| 175 comments
14.		Always Review Your Dependencies, AGPL Edition (agwa.name)
		253 points by zdw on Jan 6, 2020 \| 228 comments
15.		SoftBank has walked away from startups, months after submitting term sheets (axios.com)
		274 points by jmsflknr on Jan 6, 2020 \| 124 comments
16.		Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software development (2015) (archive.org)
		232 points by barry-cotter on Jan 5, 2020 \| 151 comments
17.		Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringement? (arstechnica.com)
		292 points by callwaiting on Jan 5, 2020 \| 123 comments
18.		Clojure for the Erlang VM (clojerl.org)
		242 points by lsh on Jan 6, 2020 \| 49 comments
19.		ClickHouse cost-efficiency in action: analyzing 500B rows on an Intel NUC (altinity.com)
		216 points by hodgesrm on Jan 6, 2020 \| 86 comments
20.		CalVer: Calendar Versioning (calver.org)
		194 points by tosh on Jan 6, 2020 \| 99 comments
21.		Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view (ouster.com)
		168 points by derek_frome on Jan 6, 2020 \| 118 comments
22.		Your cyberpunk games are dangerous (2015) (boingboing.net)
		200 points by EndXA on Jan 5, 2020 \| 45 comments
23.		Pre-Inca canal system uses hillsides as sponges to store water (eos.org)
		118 points by bryanrasmussen on Jan 6, 2020 \| 20 comments
24.		Performance variation in ‘identical’ processors (coding-guidelines.com)
		98 points by johndcook on Jan 5, 2020 \| 54 comments
25.		Intel Has PCIe 4.0 Optane SSDs Ready, but Nothing to Plug Them Into (tomshardware.com)
		130 points by rbanffy on Jan 5, 2020 \| 68 comments
26.		Social perception bias might be an emergent property of our social networks (arstechnica.com)
		153 points by BerislavLopac on Jan 5, 2020 \| 69 comments
27.		Nestur: NES Emulator in Rust (github.com/spieglt)
		153 points by tosh on Jan 6, 2020 \| 52 comments
28.		Why I use R (shotwell.ca)
		185 points by cardosof on Jan 6, 2020 \| 117 comments
29.		Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems (2015) [pdf] (nips.cc)
		107 points by earino on Jan 6, 2020 \| 5 comments
30.		Dealing with Loneliness (manojsurya.com)
		191 points by manojsurya on Jan 6, 2020 \| 142 comments
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