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31.
How to detect web bots? (antoinevastel.com)
115 points by avastel on Feb 9, 2020 | 75 comments
32.
Negative Feedback Is Positive (davidnicholaswilliams.com)
94 points by davnicwil on Feb 8, 2020 | 46 comments
33.
Wrestling Python into LLVM Intermediate Representation (2019) [video] (youtube.com)
72 points by tomrod on Feb 9, 2020 | 19 comments
34.
Polymath: A Markup Language for Everything (jwmza.com)
109 points by johnmorrison on Feb 8, 2020 | 57 comments
35.
Tools you’d miss if you left a company (rachelbythebay.com)
170 points by kogir on Feb 8, 2020 | 108 comments
36.
Design: the key to writing and advising a one-draft thesis (2002) [pdf] (tufts.edu)
58 points by Tomte on Feb 9, 2020 | 6 comments
37.
Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?
298 points by marceee0901 on Feb 9, 2020 | 91 comments
38.
A Tutorial on Countable Ordinals (2010) [pdf] (cam.ac.uk)
48 points by smoyer on Feb 7, 2020 | 4 comments
39.
Unexpected places you can and can’t use null bytes (eklitzke.org)
63 points by ammmir on Feb 9, 2020 | 71 comments
40.
An Economist’s Guide to Potty Training (mitpress.mit.edu)
98 points by anarbadalov on Feb 6, 2020 | 42 comments
41.
The compelling mathematical challenge of the three-body problem (ucsc.edu)
67 points by based2 on Feb 8, 2020 | 13 comments
42.
Whales could help curb climate change (weforum.org)
53 points by based2 on Feb 8, 2020 | 20 comments
43.
Effects of “The Work” meditation on symptoms and quality of life (2015) (sciencedirect.com)
56 points by miles on Feb 8, 2020 | 16 comments
44.
CS-838: Virtualization (wisc.edu)
75 points by butterthebuddha on Feb 8, 2020 | 3 comments
45.
How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
119 points by turrini on Feb 9, 2020 | 117 comments
46.
An optimization to help code compilation times on big CPUs (phoronix.com)
145 points by eaguyhn on Feb 9, 2020 | 42 comments
47.
Frankenstein Veto (wikipedia.org)
177 points by Tomte on Feb 9, 2020 | 87 comments
48.
Diffing Coronaviruses (jameshfisher.com)
119 points by jamesfisher on Feb 9, 2020 | 17 comments
49.
Jupyter Notebooks to Web App (github.com/christianfjung)
91 points by christianjung on Feb 9, 2020 | 18 comments
50.
Simlish, the language that defined The Sims (theverge.com)
71 points by tintinnabula on Feb 9, 2020 | 10 comments
51.
Fixng Nginx 502 Gateway Timeout with proxy_pass During Deployments (winricklabs.com)
49 points by winrid on Feb 8, 2020 | 15 comments
52.
Format Python Code Using YAPF (leimao.github.io)
47 points by keyboardman on Feb 9, 2020 | 65 comments
53.
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was great for bacteria (nytimes.com)
38 points by dnetesn on Feb 8, 2020 | 8 comments
54.
Librem 5 phone shows the cost of being different (arstechnica.com)
124 points by Gedxx on Feb 9, 2020 | 80 comments
55.
An Evening With George Steiner (nplusonemag.com)
14 points by lermontov on Feb 7, 2020 | 1 comment
56.
Volume of a Sphere (solipsys.co.uk)
62 points by ColinWright on Feb 8, 2020 | 40 comments
57.
Thee Oh Sees’ year-long effort to put their albums on 8-track box sets (theverge.com)
26 points by benbreen on Feb 8, 2020 | 11 comments
58.
A CVE Journey: From Crash to Local Privilege Escalation (iamalsaher.tech)
36 points by based2 on Feb 9, 2020 | 1 comment
59.
Efficient static checking of library updates (2018) [pdf] (asankhaya.github.io)
24 points by ingve on Feb 8, 2020
60.
When to use dictionary compression (2018) (fastcompression.blogspot.com)
31 points by luu on Feb 9, 2020 | 4 comments

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