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1.
Goodbye, Clean Code (overreacted.io)
1678 points by danabramov on Jan 11, 2020 | 575 comments
2.
Medications that change who we are (bbc.com)
419 points by daveytea on Jan 11, 2020 | 274 comments
3.
Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) (johnsalvatier.org)
498 points by tosh on Jan 11, 2020 | 115 comments
4.
A billion medical images are exposed online (techcrunch.com)
350 points by OrgNet on Jan 11, 2020 | 189 comments
5.
A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song (marker.medium.com)
350 points by SirLJ on Jan 11, 2020 | 231 comments
6.
How to make roguelike games in Rust (bracketproductions.com)
301 points by agluszak on Jan 11, 2020 | 74 comments
7.
HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience (twilio.com)
357 points by ecaron on Jan 11, 2020 | 81 comments
8.
Pijul: a distributed version control system, written in Rust (2019) (pijul.com)
238 points by tosh on Jan 11, 2020 | 122 comments
9.
Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names like ‘Dick’ and ‘Cummings’ (theverge.com)
281 points by danso on Jan 11, 2020 | 286 comments
10.
Scientists Use Recycled Sewage Water to Grow 500-Acre Forest in the Desert (goodnewsnetwork.org)
222 points by ph0rque on Jan 11, 2020 | 84 comments
11.
We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need new programmers (theguardian.com)
227 points by notinventedhear on Jan 11, 2020 | 255 comments
12.
OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR (undeadly.org)
247 points by jackhalford on Jan 11, 2020 | 335 comments
13.
Ask HN: Are there any openly available software architecture documents?
407 points by passenger on Jan 10, 2020 | 49 comments
14.
Blake3 is 10 times faster than SHA-2 (nextjournal.com)
198 points by tosh on Jan 11, 2020 | 159 comments
15.
Haters (paulgraham.com)
321 points by razin on Jan 11, 2020 | 295 comments
16.
Day of week of procedure and 30 day mortality for elective surgery (2013) (bmj.com)
188 points by stanislavb on Jan 11, 2020 | 83 comments
17.
Autonomous Rust Unikernels in Google Cloud (nanovms.com)
121 points by eyberg on Jan 11, 2020 | 18 comments
18.
Some aspects of memory get better as we age (nytimes.com)
98 points by bookofjoe on Jan 10, 2020 | 24 comments
19.
OpenWrt 19.07 (openwrt.org)
208 points by zdw on Jan 11, 2020 | 116 comments
20.
Weird and Innovative Chips (2007) (cpushack.com)
108 points by tragiclos on Jan 11, 2020 | 21 comments
21.
Zeta: Functional Neural Networks in Ocaml (github.com/liaopeiyuan)
115 points by frjalex on Jan 11, 2020 | 9 comments
22.
Show HN: Algoviz, Interactive a* Pathfinding Visualization (njanjo.com)
89 points by forsythe on Jan 11, 2020 | 29 comments
23.
Petmate – C64 Petscii Editor (nurpax.github.io)
80 points by 6581 on Jan 11, 2020 | 8 comments
24.
Paging Dr. Google: How the Tech Giant Is Laying Claim to Health Data (wsj.com)
103 points by Bostonian on Jan 11, 2020 | 77 comments
25.
Health and Wealth in the Roman Empire (2019) (sciencedirect.com)
82 points by diodorus on Jan 9, 2020 | 28 comments
26.
T1: A Modern Programming Language for Constrained Environments (t1lang.github.io)
107 points by kick on Jan 10, 2020 | 65 comments
27.
What sci-fi can tell us about the future (economist.com)
48 points by eliotpeper on Jan 11, 2020 | 37 comments
28.
Sometimes all functions are continuous (2006) (andrej.com)
60 points by lelf on Jan 11, 2020 | 43 comments
29.
Raw WebGPU (alain.xyz)
99 points by ingve on Jan 11, 2020 | 41 comments
30.
Why should bottlepy stick to a file? (github.com/bottlepy)
98 points by Al0neStar on Jan 10, 2020 | 49 comments

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