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1. The Polygons of Another World (fabiensanglard.net)
704 points by ibobev on Jan 2, 2020 | 125 comments
2. Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system (apache.org)
587 points by LinuxBender on Jan 2, 2020 | 237 comments
3. Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019 (twitter.com/andershartmann)
864 points by anonymfus on Jan 2, 2020 | 505 comments
4. Happy Public Domain Day: Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” Is Copyright Free (hyperallergic.com)
492 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 1, 2020 | 119 comments
5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)
403 points by whoishiring on Jan 2, 2020 | 694 comments
6. One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swine fever in China (nytimes.com)
349 points by vo2maxer on Jan 2, 2020 | 296 comments
7. BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop (michaelaltfield.net)
331 points by maltfield on Jan 2, 2020 | 261 comments
8. Recover HD Using a Magnet (unipi.it)
270 points by lrizzo on Jan 2, 2020 | 85 comments
9. Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon (onezero.medium.com)
398 points by maxfan8 on Jan 2, 2020 | 327 comments
10. Hard deadlines are not user-first (jatins.gitlab.io)
467 points by jatins on Jan 1, 2020 | 246 comments
11. RQ – Simple Job Queues for Python (github.com/rq)
222 points by gilad on Jan 2, 2020 | 106 comments
12. Six works of Computer Science-Fiction (2015) (fogus.me)
371 points by edjroot on Jan 2, 2020 | 93 comments
13. Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations (cunicode.com)
308 points by belforn on Jan 2, 2020 | 47 comments
14. Things and Stuff of 2019 (fogus.me)
138 points by grzm on Jan 2, 2020 | 11 comments
15. Any way to find a lost Kindle inside a house? (ebooks.stackexchange.com)
376 points by miles on Jan 2, 2020 | 115 comments
16. Performance Testing HTTP/1.1 vs. HTTP/2 vs. HTTP/2 and Server Push for REST APIs (evertpot.com)
198 points by treve on Jan 2, 2020 | 71 comments
17. Cerebras’s giant chip will smash deep learning’s speed barrier (ieee.org)
159 points by pheme1 on Jan 2, 2020 | 102 comments
18. I Was Google’s Head of International Relations (medium.com/rossformaine)
815 points by sleepyshift on Jan 2, 2020 | 297 comments
19. Serving Dynamic Vector Tiles from PostGIS (crunchydata.com)
143 points by liotier on Jan 2, 2020 | 29 comments
20. Philosophy as a public service (nautil.us)
166 points by dnetesn on Jan 2, 2020 | 95 comments
21. How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go players trespassing (cbc.ca)
248 points by planetjones on Jan 2, 2020 | 95 comments
22. I'm not feeling the async pressure (pocoo.org)
337 points by pauloxnet on Jan 1, 2020 | 100 comments
23. International evaluation of an AI system for breast cancer screening (nature.com)
86 points by superfx on Jan 1, 2020 | 26 comments
24. Polyphonic overtone singing explained visually (2014) [video] (youtube.com)
66 points by peter_d_sherman on Jan 2, 2020 | 23 comments
25. On Privacy versus Freedom (matrix.org)
255 points by Arathorn on Jan 2, 2020 | 201 comments
26. Event Sourcing (2017) (arkwright.github.io)
170 points by taspeotis on Jan 1, 2020 | 77 comments
27. Dad takes son to Mongolia to get him off his phone (bbc.com)
183 points by pseudolus on Jan 2, 2020 | 148 comments
28. The NRO Issues Inspection Request to ICANN Concerning .ORG Sale (circleid.com)
198 points by miles on Jan 1, 2020 | 22 comments
29. Show HN: An infinitely nested task manager where progress bubbles up to the top (discotask.com)
126 points by adriaanmulder on Jan 2, 2020 | 86 comments
30. The Swinging 1660s (thonyc.wordpress.com)
70 points by Hooke on Jan 1, 2020 | 17 comments

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