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1.Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code (beepb00p.xyz)
661 points by october_sky on Jan 27, 2020 | 157 comments
2.CacheOut: Leaking Data on Intel CPUs via Cache Evictions (cacheoutattack.com)
607 points by beefhash on Jan 27, 2020 | 130 comments
3.Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon (usb-hubs.org)
560 points by junkern on Jan 26, 2020 | 275 comments
4.GNU Recutils (tomasino.org)
505 points by carlesfe on Jan 26, 2020 | 143 comments
5.Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary selling web browsing data (vice.com)
759 points by jeremiahlee on Jan 27, 2020 | 192 comments
๐Ÿ“š. AI Can Manage Your Mutual Fund (archive.is)
16 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 3 days ago | archive
6.An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google (bradfitz.com)
1012 points by jgrahamc on Jan 27, 2020 | 271 comments
7.Show HN: Text-to-speech and speech-to-text open-source software stack (github.com/codeforequity-at)
438 points by ftreml on Jan 26, 2020 | 85 comments
8.โ€œMy wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdaysโ€ (2009) (launchpad.net)
577 points by beshrkayali on Jan 27, 2020 | 207 comments
9.Whatโ€™s wrong with computational notebooks? (utk.edu)
377 points by ashort11 on Jan 27, 2020 | 221 comments
10.The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird Internet history (zamzar.com)
243 points by whyleyc on Jan 27, 2020 | 34 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Predicting the Big Game (archive.is)
16 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 3 days ago | archive
11.Pygame Zero: Creating games without boilerplate (pygame-zero.readthedocs.io)
189 points by dvfjsdhgfv on Jan 26, 2020 | 58 comments
12.Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team (sifive.com)
264 points by pedrow on Jan 27, 2020 | 182 comments
13.Show HN: Binarysearch.io โ€“ Learn Algorithms Together (binarysearch.io)
279 points by readyoursicp on Jan 27, 2020 | 38 comments
14.Glial brain cells, long in neuronsโ€™ shadow, reveal hidden powers (quantamagazine.org)
136 points by theafh on Jan 27, 2020 | 22 comments
15.Five Years of Btrfs (markmcb.com)
214 points by vordoo on Jan 27, 2020 | 237 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Fake Cancer Doctor Insider Trading (archive.ph)
13 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 44 days ago | archive
16.To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect (2018) (quantamagazine.org)
146 points by guybedo on Jan 27, 2020 | 104 comments
17.Bitcoin Gold hit by 51% attacks, $72K in cryptocurrency double-spent (thenextweb.com)
342 points by scalableUnicon on Jan 27, 2020 | 187 comments
18.Using OpenAI Gym to train an open-source 3D printed robot (github.com/nicrusso7)
135 points by nicrusso7 on Jan 27, 2020 | 26 comments
19.A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript (github.com/oldboyxx)
286 points by mariuz on Jan 27, 2020 | 97 comments
20.Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019) (matthiasott.com)
239 points by rohmanhakim on Jan 27, 2020 | 203 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Honda Needs a Tune-Up (davidsd.org)
22 min read | by davidsd.org | saved 112 days ago | archive
21.Wolf Pups That Play Fetch (nytimes.com)
83 points by Hooke on Jan 27, 2020 | 45 comments
22.Detroit's salt mine: City beneath the city (detroitnews.com)
143 points by Jupe on Jan 27, 2020 | 85 comments
23.Using mixed integer programming to assign air cargo to flights (flexport.engineering)
199 points by mattmarcus on Jan 27, 2020 | 56 comments
24.Hacking on Clang is surprisingly easy (mort.coffee)
134 points by mort96 on Jan 27, 2020 | 26 comments
25.How Much Does a Mile of Road Cost? (strongtowns.org)
179 points by oftenwrong on Jan 27, 2020 | 312 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Tariffs Are For Emergencies - Bloomberg (archive.ph)
18 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 327 days ago | archive
26.How to Become a Centaur (2018) (mitpress.mit.edu)
111 points by ArtWomb on Jan 27, 2020 | 33 comments
27.Bill Manning has died (rdvlivefromtokyo.blogspot.com)
119 points by dredmorbius on Jan 27, 2020 | 67 comments
28.Photo of a suspended, glowing single atom wins photography prize (bigthink.com)
174 points by Anon84 on Jan 27, 2020 | 62 comments
29.Rat had 'no brain' and somehow lived a normal life (news.northeastern.edu)
143 points by respinal on Jan 27, 2020 | 48 comments
30.Preliminary assessment of the International Spreading Risk of Coronavirus [pdf] (mobs-lab.org)
86 points by Anon84 on Jan 27, 2020 | 28 comments
๐Ÿ“š. Doing well in your courses (cs.stanford.edu)
8 min read | by Andrej Karpathy | saved 73 days ago | archive

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