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1. Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14 (modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com)
1393 points by Diagon on Dec 8, 2019 | 405 comments
2. GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC (github.com/sapir)
288 points by goranmoomin on Dec 8, 2019 | 138 comments
3. Learning to code vs. learning to automate (daedtech.com)
398 points by sharacane on Dec 8, 2019 | 181 comments
4. The Go runtime scheduler's way of dealing with system calls (utcc.utoronto.ca)
255 points by todotask on Dec 8, 2019 | 99 comments
5. How much a baby is touched leaves measurable effects on DNA methylation (2017) (miamiherald.com)
181 points by wyndham on Dec 8, 2019 | 90 comments
6. Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last (aeon.co)
294 points by raleighm on Dec 6, 2019 | 93 comments
7. Friends of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures (seriss.com)
147 points by luu on Dec 8, 2019 | 70 comments
8. Statically-typed error handling in Python using Mypy (beepb00p.xyz)
198 points by Agathos on Dec 8, 2019 | 126 comments
9. SpaceX working on fix for Starlink satellites so they don’t disrupt astronomy (spacenews.com)
204 points by woliveirajr on Dec 8, 2019 | 255 comments
10. Studying the effects of interruption on motivation (bbc.com)
128 points by gozzoo on Dec 7, 2019 | 7 comments
11. Using machine learning to choose compression algorithms (vks.ai)
125 points by kootenpv on Dec 8, 2019 | 58 comments
12. Show HN: GoCode.io – A Golang Game in the Browser (gocode.io)
129 points by awb on Dec 7, 2019 | 47 comments
13. Epsilon: The JDK’s Do-Nothing Garbage Collector (oracle.com)
141 points by based2 on Dec 8, 2019 | 75 comments
14. Cairo Desktop Environment (cairoshell.com)
243 points by Rerarom on Dec 8, 2019 | 88 comments
15. Late-Stage Adversarial Interoperability (eff.org)
88 points by panarky on Dec 6, 2019 | 34 comments
16. Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young (1989) [video] (youtube.com)
198 points by zainamro on Dec 7, 2019 | 163 comments
17. Far Cry (ceasarbautista.com)
237 points by luu on Dec 8, 2019 | 103 comments
18. John Wheeler’s H-bomb blues (scitation.org)
68 points by sohkamyung on Dec 7, 2019 | 13 comments
19. Ask HN: Why GraphQL APIs but no Datalog APIs?
162 points by networked on Dec 8, 2019 | 107 comments
20. Smalltalk with the GraalVM (javaadvent.com)
109 points by mpweiher on Dec 8, 2019 | 33 comments
21. California is about to allow former felons to serve on juries (calmatters.org)
142 points by NoRagrets on Dec 8, 2019 | 158 comments
22. Hash – Complex Systems Simulation (hash.ai)
108 points by cocoflunchy on Dec 7, 2019 | 34 comments
23. An example of exploiting two fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox on Windows (github.com/0vercl0k)
190 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 8, 2019 | 56 comments
24. How to write better game libraries (handmade.network)
146 points by LucaSas on Dec 8, 2019 | 123 comments
25. How to Match “A B C” where A+B=C: The Beast Tamed (2018) (drregex.com)
95 points by tosh on Dec 7, 2019 | 11 comments
26. “I lost my inheritance with one wrong digit on my sort code” (theguardian.com)
244 points by vanilla-almond on Dec 7, 2019 | 222 comments
27. A One-Traffic-Light Town with Some of the Fastest Internet in the U.S (newyorker.com)
126 points by fortran77 on Dec 6, 2019 | 45 comments
28. A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare (randomcriticalanalysis.com)
72 points by jedharris on Dec 8, 2019 | 73 comments
29. AI and Economic Productivity: Expect Evolution, Not Revolution (ieee.org)
67 points by bookofjoe on Dec 7, 2019 | 31 comments
30. After a bone marrow transplant, a man has two sets of DNA (nytimes.com)
108 points by mcenedella on Dec 8, 2019 | 29 comments

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