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1. Ramanujan Surprises Again (2015) (maths.org)
454 points by tmbsundar on Feb 16, 2020 | 92 comments
2. 1-on-1 meeting questions (github.com/vgraupera)
1030 points by yankit on Feb 16, 2020 | 296 comments
3. I Learned French in 12 Months (runwes.com)
748 points by ingve on Feb 16, 2020 | 312 comments
4. FDA clears ‘world’s first’ portable, low-cost MRI (healthimaging.com)
447 points by apsec112 on Feb 16, 2020 | 130 comments
5. South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux (fosslinux.com)
447 points by bitxbitxbitcoin on Feb 16, 2020 | 201 comments
6. Defacto: Factorio-like game in the browser for the PICO-8 (lexaloffle.com)
309 points by sxp on Feb 16, 2020 | 71 comments
7. Photographer sues Getty Images for $1B for being billed for her own photo (2016) (latimes.com)
402 points by vezycash on Feb 16, 2020 | 120 comments
8. Dreamcast Emulator Redream 1.5.0 Progress Report (redream.io)
183 points by tosh on Feb 16, 2020 | 47 comments
9. A 2,500-mile radius in Asia contains half the world's population (2017) (cntraveler.com)
205 points by elsewhen on Feb 16, 2020 | 209 comments
10. Meme (Multitasking Extensible Messaging Environment): Multiuser Forth VR (1994) (archive.org)
75 points by DonHopkins on Feb 16, 2020 | 20 comments
11. Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007) (lowendmac.com)
130 points by ecliptik on Feb 16, 2020 | 23 comments
12. Show HN: Configurable Route Planning – Avoid left turns, areas and more (graphhopper.com)
143 points by karussell on Feb 15, 2020 | 44 comments
13. Graph Neural Networks – An Overview (theaisummer.com)
185 points by sergioskar on Feb 16, 2020 | 28 comments
14. Benford's Law (wikipedia.org)
145 points by kjhughes on Feb 15, 2020 | 93 comments
15. Paperd.Ink – A hackable e-paper display (paperd.ink)
242 points by robertlangdon on Feb 16, 2020 | 83 comments
16. Waterfox sold to System1, an ad company that bought a majority of Startpage (reddit.com)
188 points by djsumdog on Feb 15, 2020 | 85 comments
17. Demystifying Differentiable Programming (2018) (arxiv.org)
110 points by noelwelsh on Feb 16, 2020 | 42 comments
18. "This community is available in the app" (reddit.com)
399 points by swat535 on Feb 16, 2020 | 224 comments
19. The Art of Powerful Questions (2003) [pdf] (umanitoba.ca)
199 points by azizsaya on Feb 16, 2020 | 14 comments
20. The side effects of an unfinished internet (neilpatil.me)
81 points by patil215 on Feb 15, 2020 | 22 comments
21. FDAAA Trials Tracker (trialstracker.net)
76 points by olvy0 on Feb 16, 2020 | 18 comments
22. A Paper Algorithm Notation (2014) (canonical.org)
61 points by kick on Feb 16, 2020 | 30 comments
23. Compiling PHP's Eval() to .NET (peachpie.io)
73 points by pchp on Feb 16, 2020 | 9 comments
24. Did the early internet activists blow it? (slate.com)
113 points by IAmEveryone on Feb 15, 2020 | 104 comments
25. Boredom is but a window to a sunny day beyond the gloom (aeon.co)
105 points by Petiver on Feb 16, 2020 | 25 comments
26. Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work (1983) (hbr.org)
93 points by luu on Feb 16, 2020 | 18 comments
27. How to Take Smart Notes (fortelabs.co)
469 points by Anon84 on Feb 16, 2020 | 111 comments
28. Content takedown and users’ rights in India (theleaflet.in)
53 points by rahuldottech on Feb 15, 2020 | 9 comments
29. Activate this ‘bracelet of silence,’ and Alexa can’t eavesdrop (nytimes.com)
115 points by rmason on Feb 16, 2020 | 133 comments
30. Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (2016) (quantamagazine.org)
117 points by yurisagalov on Feb 16, 2020 | 52 comments

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