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1. Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore (nuclearsecrecy.com)
787 points by Fej on Dec 13, 2019 | 289 comments
2. Happy Hues – Curated colors in context (happyhues.co)
606 points by m1guelpf on Dec 13, 2019 | 110 comments
3. The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug (twitter.com/_taylorswope)
676 points by pkilgore on Dec 13, 2019 | 185 comments
4. Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search (forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster)
502 points by labase19 on Dec 12, 2019 | 269 comments
5. Ask HN: What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens?
373 points by CoffeeOnWrite on Dec 13, 2019 | 227 comments
6. Reputation management firms bury Google results by placing flattering content (wsj.com)
301 points by eplanit on Dec 13, 2019 | 128 comments
7. Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS (gameanalytics.com)
280 points by praveenscience on Dec 13, 2019 | 97 comments
8. Click Here to Kill (harpers.org)
215 points by self on Dec 12, 2019 | 107 comments
9. BBC Sound Effects (acropolis.org.uk)
183 points by tmalsburg2 on Dec 13, 2019 | 38 comments
10. A genomic predictor of lifespan in vertebrates (nature.com)
117 points by Vaslo on Dec 13, 2019 | 77 comments
11. Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning [pdf] (cdn.openai.com)
116 points by hongzi on Dec 13, 2019 | 34 comments
12. Httpserver.h: Single header library for writing non-blocking HTTP servers in C (github.com/jeremycw)
332 points by jeremycw on Dec 12, 2019 | 163 comments
13. Terence Tao Proves Result on the Collatz Conjecture (quantamagazine.org)
361 points by datashrimp on Dec 13, 2019 | 153 comments
14. Deep Learning Breakthrough Made by Rice University Scientists (arstechnica.com)
112 points by Tomte on Dec 13, 2019 | 33 comments
15. Startup Growth and Venture Returns (angel.co)
100 points by ed on Dec 12, 2019 | 30 comments
16. Cyc (wikipedia.org)
357 points by mdszy on Dec 13, 2019 | 173 comments
17. Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Strategies (2017) (hbr.org)
290 points by anthilemoon on Dec 12, 2019 | 68 comments
18. Show HN: LastingPaper – A Desktop App for Your E-Ink Kindle (lastingpaper.com)
138 points by lvscar on Dec 13, 2019 | 34 comments
19. An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? (reddit.com)
554 points by m0ck on Dec 13, 2019 | 362 comments
20. Probability Theory for Physically Based Rendering (ompf2.com)
134 points by mariuz on Dec 13, 2019 | 11 comments
21. Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes (bloomberg.com)
348 points by pseudolus on Dec 13, 2019 | 430 comments
22. How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll (atlasobscura.com)
186 points by sohkamyung on Dec 13, 2019 | 43 comments
23. Basics of Compiler Design (2000) [pdf] (diku.dk)
207 points by _mtkq on Dec 13, 2019 | 34 comments
24. Bill Atkinson: Reflections on the 40th anniversary of my joining Apple (folklore.org)
219 points by kick on Dec 13, 2019 | 78 comments
25. Uni: Query the Unicode database from the CLI, with good support for emojis (github.com/arp242)
111 points by oftenwrong on Dec 12, 2019 | 29 comments
26. America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971 (2008) (nih.gov)
77 points by tintinnabula on Dec 13, 2019 | 95 comments
27. SuperShuttle is going out of business (latimes.com)
166 points by lxm on Dec 13, 2019 | 133 comments
28. Reimagining the PhD (nadiaeghbal.com)
211 points by imartin2k on Dec 13, 2019 | 111 comments
29. Rules of Machine Learning: Best Practices for ML Engineering [pdf] (zinkevich.org)
188 points by yarapavan on Dec 13, 2019 | 4 comments
30. Intel Takes Lidar Indoors (zdnet.com)
86 points by stambros on Dec 12, 2019 | 41 comments

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