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1.My Favourite Git Commit (fatbusinessman.com)
1313 points by robin_reala on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 370 comments [ext]
2.Coffee Is Hard (stilldrinking.org)
768 points by mrleiter on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 219 comments [ext]
3.Earth and Sun (ciechanow.ski)
701 points by davezatch on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
4. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
4.Four kinds of documentation (divio.com)
717 points by arnsholt on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 199 comments [ext]
5.New pathfinding algorithm (factorio.com)
478 points by jsnell on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 109 comments [ext]
6.Bazel 1.0 (googleblog.com)
411 points by vips7L on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 201 comments [ext]
7. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Faster Layouts with CSS Grid and Subgrid (hacks.mozilla.org)
244 points by feross on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
8.Email marketing regulations around the world (github.com/threeheartsdigital)
173 points by 02thoeva on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
9.The Wayback Machine: Fighting Digital Extinction in New Ways (archive.org)
211 points by toomuchtodo on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
10. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
10.Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just Two Bulls (npr.org)
237 points by dangerman on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 246 comments [ext]
11.Mathematics for Machine Learning [pdf] (mml-book.com)
327 points by yarapavan on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
12.Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines? (everydayastronaut.com)
271 points by wolfram74 on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
13. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
13.How to Read “Gilgamesh” (newyorker.com)
148 points by akkartik on Oct 16, 2019 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
14.Gridsome – A Vue.js static site generator (gridsome.org)
210 points by AlphaWeaver on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
15.The US nuclear forces’ messaging system finally got rid of its floppy disks (c4isrnet.com)
175 points by sohkamyung on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 122 comments [ext]
16. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
16.Writing Great Mystery Plots (vulture.com)
192 points by jawns on Oct 16, 2019 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
17.Ivan Sutherland: 6 Legged Walker: CMU 1982 and 1983 [video] (youtube.com)
85 points by tobijkl on Oct 17, 2019 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
18.Really Fixing Getrandom() (lwn.net)
154 points by Tomte on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 101 comments [ext]
19. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
19.Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code (2006) [pdf] (pixelscommander.com)
143 points by trymas on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
20.Cortex: Deploy machine learning models in production (github.com/cortexlabs)
123 points by ChefboyOG on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
21.Uptime 15,364 days – The Computers of Voyager [video] (youtube.com)
201 points by big_chungus on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
22. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 23 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
22.The World's First 20-Hour Airline Flight (bloomberg.com)
111 points by pseudolus on Oct 16, 2019 [ext] | 159 comments [ext]
23.California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving (stripes.com)
220 points by spking on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 153 comments [ext]
24.AI Detects Heart Failure from One Heartbeat: Study (forbes.com/sites/nicholasfearn)
126 points by rusht on Oct 17, 2019 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
25. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 92 days ago | hide | 70 comments
25.J.S. Bach the Rebel: The subversive practice of a canonical composer (laphamsquarterly.org)
106 points by tintinnabula on Oct 17, 2019 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
26.Show HN: Change Python code while it's running using a reloading loop (github.com/julvo)
187 points by julvo on Oct 16, 2019 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
27.YC Interview Tips from a Former YC Partner [video] (youtube.com)
89 points by garry on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
28. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
28.I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) (cornell.edu)
210 points by rococode on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 184 comments [ext]
29.Frank Lloyd Wright Loved to Hate New York (theamericanconservative.com)
56 points by overwhelm on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
30.We moved our servers to Iceland (simpleanalytics.com)
190 points by classified on Oct 18, 2019 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
31. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 1 day ago | hide | 47 comments

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