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1. Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14 (1971) (rollingstone.com)
382 points by astdb on Feb 18, 2020 | 111 comments
2. Kickstarter employees vote to unionize (vice.com)
910 points by danso on Feb 18, 2020 | 1092 comments
3. New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta (cloud.google.com)
343 points by cvallejo on Feb 18, 2020 | 139 comments
4. Help the Graphics team track down an interesting WebRender bug (mozillagfx.wordpress.com)
427 points by Santosh83 on Feb 18, 2020 | 154 comments
5. Don't touch my clipboard (alexanderell.is)
718 points by otras on Feb 18, 2020 | 312 comments
6. 7k-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered (ctvnews.ca)
281 points by shafkathullah on Feb 18, 2020 | 130 comments
7. Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it (understandlegacycode.com)
397 points by ahuth on Feb 17, 2020 | 121 comments
8. Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's extradition hearing (slashdot.org)
512 points by akvadrako on Feb 17, 2020 | 349 comments
9. Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets (techcrunch.com)
372 points by ajaviaad on Feb 18, 2020 | 258 comments
10. How Spotify ran a large Google Dataflow job for Wrapped 2019 (spotify.com)
269 points by jhatax on Feb 18, 2020 | 89 comments
11. The new business of AI and how it’s different from traditional software (a16z.com)
398 points by gk1 on Feb 18, 2020 | 210 comments
12. C4: C in Four Functions (2014) (github.com/rswier)
436 points by azhenley on Feb 18, 2020 | 131 comments
13. Real Time Person Removal from Complex Video (github.com/jasonmayes)
429 points by aliabd on Feb 18, 2020 | 142 comments
14. Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running (twitter.com/foone)
417 points by edward on Feb 18, 2020 | 185 comments
15. Home Office tells man, 101, his parents must confirm ID (theguardian.com)
248 points by georgecmu on Feb 18, 2020 | 75 comments
16. Sherbet: An Ergonomic Gaming Keypad (billiam.org)
326 points by zdw on Feb 18, 2020 | 83 comments
17. Gravitational-lensing measurements push Hubble-constant discrepancy past 5σ (scitation.org)
155 points by digital55 on Feb 18, 2020 | 33 comments
18. Heart doctors 'held back stent death data' (bbc.com)
149 points by olvy0 on Feb 18, 2020 | 32 comments
19. Reid Hoffman's $30M bet: Send partners, not cash, to startups (angel.co)
197 points by e2e4 on Feb 18, 2020 | 125 comments
20. Ray Tracing Essentials, Part 1: Basics of Ray Tracing (nvidia.com)
231 points by mariuz on Feb 17, 2020 | 40 comments
21. Running servers and services well is not trivial (2018) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
156 points by kiyanwang on Feb 17, 2020 | 74 comments
22. Detexify: LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition (2009) (kirelabs.org)
144 points by lohfu on Feb 18, 2020 | 28 comments
23. Prosecutors allege Micfo obtained 800k IPv4 addresses illegally (wsj.com)
77 points by ammaristotle on Feb 18, 2020 | 78 comments
24. Code and data for The Economist's Big Mac index (github.com/theeconomist)
138 points by mkirchner on Feb 17, 2020 | 27 comments
25. The Myth of Architect as Chess Master (bennorthrop.com)
73 points by yarapavan on Feb 17, 2020 | 70 comments
26. Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications (amazon.science)
141 points by andrioni on Feb 18, 2020 | 16 comments
27. How Bezos built his data machine (bbc.co.uk)
126 points by colinprince on Feb 18, 2020 | 40 comments
28. Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the APIs you use
125 points by cameroncooper on Feb 18, 2020 | 48 comments
29. 'Ghost ship' washes up on Irish coast (bbc.co.uk)
128 points by RijilV on Feb 18, 2020 | 97 comments
30. On Design Thinking (nplusonemag.com)
150 points by luu on Feb 17, 2020 | 27 comments

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