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1.Programming Fonts – Test Drive (programmingfonts.org)
712 points by southwindcg on Jan 21, 2019 | 283 comments
2.On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality (gwern.net)
576 points by pizza on Jan 21, 2019 | 306 comments
3.Why does APT not use HTTPS? (whydoesaptnotusehttps.com)
515 points by rishabhd on Jan 21, 2019 | 420 comments
4.Proper Breathing Brings Better Health (scientificamerican.com)
404 points by pseudolus on Jan 20, 2019 | 139 comments
5.H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017) (propublica.org)
509 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 21, 2019 | 190 comments
6.CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google (cnil.fr)
330 points by Aissen on Jan 21, 2019 | 222 comments
7.Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? (thinkfaster.co)
386 points by swimorsinka on Jan 21, 2019 | 397 comments
8.Advanced Mac Substitute: API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS (v68k.org)
271 points by fanf2 on Jan 21, 2019 | 64 comments
9.Intro to hacking MicroSD cards (2013) (bunniestudios.com)
352 points by bubblehack3r on Jan 21, 2019 | 29 comments
10.NumPy 1.16 is the last release to support Python 2.7 (github.com/numpy)
240 points by htfy96 on Jan 21, 2019 | 109 comments
11.If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? (nytimes.com)
243 points by kurthr on Jan 21, 2019 | 169 comments
12.Genode OS: A tool kit for highly secure special-purpose operating systems (genode.org)
205 points by doener on Jan 21, 2019 | 31 comments
13.Bed that saved me from the Taliban (bbc.co.uk)
576 points by ahamedirshad123 on Jan 21, 2019 | 133 comments
14.Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters (cnn.com)
218 points by gscott on Jan 21, 2019 | 111 comments
15.Letter in Response to Jan. 17 Article in The New York Times (hms.harvard.edu)
294 points by crunchiebones on Jan 21, 2019 | 136 comments
16.Quinn 0.2.0: QUIC protocol implementation in Rust (github.com/djc)
207 points by whoisnnamdi on Jan 21, 2019 | 50 comments
17.Google launches an AI contest for social good (ai.google)
164 points by saranshk on Jan 20, 2019 | 97 comments
18.Arbitrage and Equilibrium in the Team Fortress 2 Economy (2012) (valvesoftware.com)
55 points by pizza on Jan 20, 2019 | 12 comments
19.Ask HN: What are must-know concepts for back end development?
491 points by chrisdsaldivar on Jan 21, 2019 | 130 comments
20.Most “ugly” produce gets turned into soups, sauces, salsa, jam (twitter.com/sarahtaber_bww)
349 points by apsec112 on Jan 20, 2019 | 214 comments
21.An Introduction to Ray Tracing (1989) (realtimerendering.com)
194 points by walterbell on Jan 21, 2019 | 19 comments
22.Volume Rendering with WebGL (willusher.io)
95 points by ArtWomb on Jan 21, 2019 | 8 comments
23.Open Source Radio Telescope [pdf] (gnuradio.org)
131 points by wglb on Jan 20, 2019 | 9 comments
24.A Bridge Too Far: E.W. Dijkstra and Logic (vanemden.wordpress.com)
127 points by akkartik on Jan 20, 2019 | 72 comments
25.A Lifetime of Systems Thinking (thesystemsthinker.com)
228 points by yarapavan on Jan 21, 2019 | 48 comments
26.Photo-Sketching: Inferring Contour Drawings from Images (arxiv.org)
54 points by pplonski86 on Jan 21, 2019 | 25 comments
27.Show HN: FBP editor for music/vfx with [three, tone, tensorflow].js nodes (kousun12.github.io)
42 points by kousun12 on Jan 21, 2019 | 17 comments
28.Best Display for Programming? (2017) (hackernoon.com)
142 points by kristianp on Jan 21, 2019 | 197 comments
29.Idea that some species have stopped evolving is finally going extinct (2015) (nautil.us)
59 points by dnetesn on Jan 20, 2019 | 25 comments
30.Schumpeter on Strategy (reactionwheel.net)
101 points by imartin2k on Jan 21, 2019 | 4 comments

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