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1.My FOSS Story (burntsushi.net)
833 points by mfrw on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 200 comments [ext]
2.The Internet of Beefs (ribbonfarm.com)
513 points by rinze on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 317 comments [ext]
3.Thank HN: My SaaS paid my rent this month [ext]
800 points by frits1993 on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 187 comments [ext]
4. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
4.Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer' (bbc.co.uk)
625 points by sjcsjc on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 154 comments [ext]
5.My story as a self-taught AI researcher (floydhub.com)
364 points by emilwallner on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 170 comments [ext]
6.Life Is Driven by Network Effects (nfx.com)
269 points by taigeair on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
7. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 84 days ago | hide | 122 comments
7.How to Corrupt a SQLite Database File (sqlite.org)
372 points by goranmoomin on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 148 comments [ext]
8.FreeBSD is an amazing operating system (unixsheikh.com)
395 points by hggh on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 191 comments [ext]
9.Miscarriage can lead to 'long-term post-traumatic stress' (bbc.com)
224 points by adrian_mrd on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 175 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.A watershed moment for protein structure prediction (nature.com)
272 points by ColinWright on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
11.Gamedev Tutorial: Dot Product, Rulers, and Bouncing Balls (allenchou.net)
213 points by cjcat2266 on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
12.Cello – High Level C (libcello.org)
251 points by thisisastopsign on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
13. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
13.BMW Connected Apps Protocol (hufman.github.io)
359 points by zdw on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 120 comments [ext]
14.Technical Debt Is Like a Tetris Game (fluentcpp.com)
256 points by ingve on Jan 18, 2020 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
15.Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights (2018) (jonlu.ca)
207 points by jonluca on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
16. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
16.Ontology for the life sciences: genes, proteins, diseases, all expressed in OWL (obofoundry.org)
178 points by mnemonicsloth on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
17.How Amazon Web Services Uses Formal Methods (2015) [pdf] (pepperdine.edu)
199 points by mindcrime on Jan 18, 2020 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
18.SoftICE (wikipedia.org)
168 points by peter_d_sherman on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
19. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments
19.Femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/jeffbezanson)
146 points by lelf on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
20.LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them (theregister.co.uk)
257 points by jbredeche on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 256 comments [ext]
21.Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't (howstuffworks.com)
197 points by praveenscience on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 169 comments [ext]
22. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
22.3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics [video] (lexfridman.com)
187 points by oska on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
23.Mir: A lightweight JIT compiler project (redhat.com)
183 points by ksec on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
24.New suction-cup system spins water to stick to rough surfaces (newatlas.com)
167 points by anon463637 on Jan 18, 2020 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
25. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
25.SaaS marketing tactics and case studies (apollodigital.io)
212 points by noelceta on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
26.Variations on symmetric nearest neighbour smoothing (observablehq.com)
92 points by jashkenas on Jan 19, 2020 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
27.Incarcerated and Facebook (medium.com/callumprentice)
194 points by callumprentice on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 194 comments [ext]
28. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
28.Pharo 8.0 (pharo.org)
237 points by estebanlor on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
29.Growing Music: musical interpretations of L-Systems (2005) (york.ac.uk)
78 points by bjourne on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
30.Testing Dataflow Analyses for Precision and Soundness (regehr.org)
38 points by matt_d on Jan 20, 2020 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
31. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 593 days ago | hide | 76 comments

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