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1. What are those grids of glass in the sidewalk and why are they purple? (kqed.org)
803 points by vo2maxer on Jan 3, 2020 | 116 comments
2. Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) (news.ycombinator.com)
908 points by tcharlton on Jan 2, 2020 | 437 comments
3. Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code (github.com/s-macke)
720 points by netgusto on Jan 3, 2020 | 116 comments
4. Which Emoji Scissors Close? (wh0.github.io)
1545 points by _nhynes on Jan 3, 2020 | 126 comments
5. EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V (lutris.net)
814 points by WoodenKatana on Jan 3, 2020 | 484 comments
6. When good ideas make bad business (tjcx.me)
735 points by tomjcleveland on Jan 3, 2020 | 341 comments
7. Dive into Deep Learning (d2l.ai)
528 points by soohyung on Jan 3, 2020 | 89 comments
8. Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
815 points by napsterbr on Jan 2, 2020 | 1096 comments
9. Psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study (independent.co.uk)
447 points by pmoriarty on Jan 2, 2020 | 223 comments
10. How strong is your knot? (news.mit.edu)
286 points by chmaynard on Jan 2, 2020 | 132 comments
11. Just Build the Product (davnicwil.com)
343 points by davnicwil on Jan 2, 2020 | 102 comments
12. Elasticsearch from the Bottom Up (2013) (elastic.co)
205 points by bobjordan on Jan 2, 2020 | 30 comments
13. Programming Language Checklist (famicol.in)
334 points by lelf on Jan 2, 2020 | 164 comments
14. Hospitals mergers do not improve quality: study (wsj.com)
194 points by vo2maxer on Jan 2, 2020 | 232 comments
15. First evidence found of tool use by seabirds (phys.org)
127 points by dnetesn on Jan 3, 2020 | 25 comments
16. How the Digg team was acquihired (lethain.com)
187 points by stuartmemo on Jan 2, 2020 | 116 comments
17. How to Write a Book in Emacs (2015) (masteringemacs.org)
145 points by sea6ear on Jan 3, 2020 | 37 comments
18. Scammers registering date-based domain names (shkspr.mobi)
153 points by edent on Jan 3, 2020 | 165 comments
19. Clear and Present Leadership (davidtate.org)
151 points by tate on Jan 3, 2020 | 39 comments
20. Show HN: I combined Milligram, Skeleton, and Normalize into a single CSS project (sscaffold-css.com)
158 points by thaumaturgy on Jan 3, 2020 | 33 comments
21. Ask HN: How do you manage logs for your backend services?
250 points by tusharsoni on Jan 3, 2020 | 139 comments
22. C++ Pattern Matching Proposal [pdf] (open-std.org)
192 points by je42 on Jan 2, 2020 | 212 comments
23. One Medical S-1 (sec.gov)
132 points by coloneltcb on Jan 3, 2020 | 101 comments
24. Predicting where AI is going in 2020 (venturebeat.com)
122 points by alfozan on Jan 2, 2020 | 84 comments
25. The Autism History Project (uoregon.edu)
81 points by Hooke on Jan 3, 2020 | 3 comments
26. Is Fry’s Electronics in trouble? (sfchronicle.com)
187 points by pcvarmint on Jan 3, 2020 | 372 comments
27. Cryptocurrency in the 2020s (coinbase.com)
150 points by openmosix on Jan 3, 2020 | 266 comments
28. A 160k-year-old jaw in a Tibetan cave might explain high altitude living (businessinsider.com)
109 points by NoRagrets on Jan 2, 2020 | 34 comments
29. Particle accelerator fits on the head of a pin (techcrunch.com)
87 points by rbanffy on Jan 3, 2020 | 40 comments
30. Why “Gradient” Descent? (scienceofdata.org)
105 points by JunaidB on Jan 3, 2020 | 26 comments

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