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1. Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandalorian (ascmag.com)
766 points by ashin on Feb 20, 2020 | 122 comments
2. Suspicious Discontinuities (danluu.com)
644 points by janvdberg on Feb 20, 2020 | 297 comments
3. DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M (techcrunch.com)
477 points by drchiu on Feb 20, 2020 | 282 comments
4. A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’ (techcrunch.com)
420 points by malshe on Feb 20, 2020 | 268 comments
5. What happens to a mail-order mattress after you return it (fivethirtyeight.com)
383 points by japaget on Feb 20, 2020 | 307 comments
6. Show HN: Kasaya – A scripting language and runtime for browser automation (github.com/syscolabs)
386 points by hliyan on Feb 20, 2020 | 106 comments
7. Stop Using Encrypted Email (latacora.micro.blog)
475 points by lvh on Feb 19, 2020 | 547 comments
8. Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner on their 70-year friendship (theguardian.com)
186 points by tintinnabula on Feb 20, 2020 | 50 comments
9. BlurHash: Algorithm to generate compact representation of an image placeholder (blurha.sh)
363 points by goranmoomin on Feb 20, 2020 | 110 comments
10. Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not returned (stripe.com)
356 points by tumblen on Feb 19, 2020 | 255 comments
11. Poolside.fm (poolside.fm)
431 points by MrBuddyCasino on Feb 20, 2020 | 79 comments
12. Brothels of Ancient Pompeii (historytoday.com)
137 points by diodorus on Feb 19, 2020 | 51 comments
13. Create a First-Person Shooter In Godot (godottutorials.pro)
302 points by studentLS on Feb 20, 2020 | 72 comments
14. How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter (buzzfeednews.com)
316 points by blatherard on Feb 20, 2020 | 91 comments
15. 500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format (2016) (leahhanson.us)
265 points by cosmojg on Feb 20, 2020 | 91 comments
16. Launch HN: PostHog (YC W20) – open-source product analytics
282 points by james_impliu on Feb 20, 2020 | 83 comments
17. Later school start times are associated with more sleep and better performance (advances.sciencemag.org)
314 points by simonebrunozzi on Feb 20, 2020 | 170 comments
18. Why Germans won’t heat their homes even with free electricity? (kaikenhuippu.com)
302 points by ericdanielski on Feb 20, 2020 | 387 comments
19. MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning (introtodeeplearning.com)
259 points by say_it_as_it_is on Feb 20, 2020 | 15 comments
20. BBC Micro Bot (8bitkick.cc)
173 points by fermigier on Feb 19, 2020 | 35 comments
21. Big Ball of Mud (1999) (laputan.org)
122 points by brudgers on Feb 19, 2020 | 48 comments
22. Reducing Docker Image Size (ardanlabs.com)
176 points by aberoham on Feb 19, 2020 | 35 comments
23. Principles of Icon Design (uxdesign.cc)
210 points by praveenscience on Feb 19, 2020 | 56 comments
24. Uranium Glass (wikipedia.org)
97 points by EndXA on Feb 19, 2020 | 42 comments
25. Generative Teaching Networks: Accelerating Neural Architecture Search (uber.com)
116 points by yigitdemirag on Feb 20, 2020 | 15 comments
26. Slavery in Early Austin: The Stringer’s Hotel and Urban Slavery (notevenpast.org)
53 points by samclemens on Feb 20, 2020 | 47 comments
27. Telecoms say they have a First Amendment right to sell private data (vice.com)
278 points by rahuldottech on Feb 20, 2020 | 144 comments
28. The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years (atlasoftheuniverse.com)
164 points by dluan on Feb 20, 2020 | 68 comments
29. Formal proof and analysis of an incremental cycle detection algorithm (inria.fr)
72 points by lelf on Feb 20, 2020 | 5 comments
30. Morgan Stanley to Buy E-Trade for $13B (nytimes.com)
221 points by jbredeche on Feb 20, 2020 | 112 comments

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