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1.The Polygons of Another World (fabiensanglard.net)
704 points by ibobev on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 125 comments [ext]
2.Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system (apache.org)
587 points by Bender on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 237 comments [ext]
3.Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019 (twitter.com/andershartmann)
864 points by anonymfus on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 505 comments [ext]
4. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
4.Happy Public Domain Day: Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” Is Copyright Free (hyperallergic.com)
492 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 1, 2020 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
5.Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020) [ext]
403 points by whoishiring on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 694 comments [ext]
6.One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swine fever in China (nytimes.com)
349 points by vo2maxer on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 296 comments [ext]
7. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
7.BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop (michaelaltfield.net)
331 points by maltfield on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 261 comments [ext]
8.Recover HD Using a Magnet (unipi.it)
270 points by lrizzo on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
9.Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon (onezero.medium.com)
398 points by maxfan8 on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 327 comments [ext]
10. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 84 days ago | hide | 122 comments
10.Hard deadlines are not user-first (jatins.gitlab.io)
467 points by jatins on Jan 1, 2020 [ext] | 246 comments [ext]
11.RQ – Simple Job Queues for Python (github.com/rq)
222 points by gilad on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
12.Six works of Computer Science-Fiction (2015) (fogus.me)
371 points by edjroot on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
13. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 431 days ago | hide | 93 comments
13.Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations (cunicode.com)
308 points by belforn on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
14.Things and Stuff of 2019 (fogus.me)
138 points by grzm on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
15.Any way to find a lost Kindle inside a house? (ebooks.stackexchange.com)
376 points by miles on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
16. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
16.Performance Testing HTTP/1.1 vs. HTTP/2 vs. HTTP/2 and Server Push for REST APIs (evertpot.com)
198 points by treve on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
17.Cerebras’s giant chip will smash deep learning’s speed barrier (ieee.org)
159 points by pheme1 on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
18.I Was Google’s Head of International Relations (medium.com/rossformaine)
815 points by sleepyshift on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 297 comments [ext]
19. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
19.Serving Dynamic Vector Tiles from PostGIS (crunchydata.com)
143 points by liotier on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
20.Philosophy as a public service (nautil.us)
166 points by dnetesn on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
21.How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go players trespassing (cbc.ca)
248 points by planetjones on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
22. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
22.I'm not feeling the async pressure (pocoo.org)
337 points by pauloxnet on Jan 1, 2020 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
23.International evaluation of an AI system for breast cancer screening (nature.com)
86 points by superfx on Jan 1, 2020 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
24.Polyphonic overtone singing explained visually (2014) [video] (youtube.com)
66 points by peter_d_sherman on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
25. When Peak AI Capability Arrives at Impractical Prices, Deployment Lags (tobyord.com)
290 points by oox1230 2 days ago | hide | 120 comments
25.On Privacy versus Freedom (matrix.org)
255 points by Arathorn on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 201 comments [ext]
26.Event Sourcing (2017) (arkwright.github.io)
170 points by taspeotis on Jan 1, 2020 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
27.Dad takes son to Mongolia to get him off his phone (bbc.com)
183 points by pseudolus on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 148 comments [ext]
28. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
28.The NRO Issues Inspection Request to ICANN Concerning .ORG Sale (circleid.com)
198 points by miles on Jan 1, 2020 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
29.Show HN: An infinitely nested task manager where progress bubbles up to the top (discotask.com)
126 points by adriaanmulder on Jan 2, 2020 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
30.The Swinging 1660s (thonyc.wordpress.com)
70 points by Hooke on Jan 1, 2020 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
31. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments

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