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1.Crew Dragon launch escape demonstration (spacex.com)
721 points by eps on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 328 comments [ext]
2.Why build this blog, or anything, on IPFS? (teetotality.blog)
302 points by beaucronin on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 148 comments [ext]
3.Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes (nototo.app)
475 points by dirtyaura on Jan 18, 2020 [ext] | 131 comments [ext]
4. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
4.Show HN: A set of standard document templates [ext]
433 points by kostarelo on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
5.C++ coroutines: Initial implementation pushed to master (gcc.gnu.org)
231 points by matt_d on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 169 comments [ext]
6.Reformer, the Efficient Transformer (googleblog.com)
158 points by datashrimp on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
7. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
7.How is search so bad? A case study (svilentodorov.xyz)
319 points by Tenoke on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 396 comments [ext]
8.Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read? [ext]
613 points by bogoman on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 388 comments [ext]
9.Demoscene, the secret behind Finnish game industry (janipenttinen.com)
254 points by velmu on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
10. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
10.AlphaFold: Using AI for Scientific Discovery (deepmind.com)
136 points by panabee on Jan 18, 2020 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
11.Yukihiro Matsumoto: “Ruby is designed for humans, not machines” (evrone.com)
248 points by Evrone on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 174 comments [ext]
12.The Polygons of Another World: Super Nintendo (fabiensanglard.net)
282 points by ingve on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
13. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
13.Show HN: Proton Native V2 – Create Cross Platform Desktop Apps with React (proton-native.js.org)
222 points by kusti8 on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
14.World’s Shortest Wavelength Laser Diode Emits Deep UV Light at Room Temperature (iop.org)
101 points by bookofjoe on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
15.Maine's giant spinning ice disc looks like it's reforming (theguardian.com)
127 points by pseudolus on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
16. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.Standalone WebAssembly games using I/O devices (medium.com/wasmer)
137 points by panic on Jan 18, 2020 [ext] | 128 comments [ext]
17.Sonant: A tool for creating generative music based on random walks (generated.space)
106 points by hardmaru on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
18.Dynamic type systems are not inherently more open (lexi-lambda.github.io)
382 points by jose_zap on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 275 comments [ext]
19. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
19.A game in a pure language (part 1): introduction and problems with Idris (flowing.systems)
144 points by panic on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
20.Statecharts: A visual formalism for complex systems [pdf] (sciencedirectassets.com)
121 points by sktrdie on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
21.Indiana's Oldest State Worker Is Retiring at 102 (npr.org)
88 points by js2 on Jan 18, 2020 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
22. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 19 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
22.Synchronization gear (wikipedia.org)
54 points by colinmegill on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
23.Ginkgo Bioworks: Organism Engineering at Scale (ginkgobioworks.com)
57 points by apsec112 on Jan 17, 2020 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
24.On Preventing Programming Languages from Interfering with Programming (1975) [pdf] (breckyunits.com)
55 points by breck on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
25. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
25.Differential Dataflow but at what cost? (2017) (github.com/frankmcsherry)
61 points by mrry on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
26.Let People Move to Jobs (jefftk.com)
134 points by luu on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 302 comments [ext]
27.Aspects of Categorical Recursion Theory (arxiv.org)
85 points by jesuslop on Jan 18, 2020 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
28. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
28.Fedora CoreOS Out of Preview (fedoramagazine.org)
121 points by ecliptik on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
29.Brandchirps – Simple Brand Monitoring (brandchirps.com)
121 points by JamesGreene on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
30.The phases product teams go through (firstround.com)
88 points by yarapavan on Jan 17, 2020 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
31. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments

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