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1. Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go (jse.li)
692 points by eat_veggies on Jan 4, 2020 | 90 comments
2. No nuances, just buggy code (was: related to Spinlock implementation) (realworldtech.com)
540 points by shaklee3 on Jan 5, 2020 | 274 comments
3. A former Egyptian engineer found the secret to building a big gas-station chain (seattletimes.com)
260 points by wallflower on Jan 5, 2020 | 189 comments
4. Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
1337 points by futur321 on Jan 5, 2020 | 970 comments
5. Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler (parceljs.org)
347 points by gilad on Jan 5, 2020 | 201 comments
6. Survey of scientists sheds light on reproducibility crisis (2016) (nature.com)
262 points by nabla9 on Jan 5, 2020 | 173 comments
7. A Guide to WebAuthn (webauthn.guide)
205 points by simonpure on Jan 5, 2020 | 119 comments
8. The Most Abandoned Books on GoodReads (2019) (gwern.net)
240 points by Hooke on Jan 4, 2020 | 113 comments
9. How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886) (online-literature.com)
336 points by utopian3 on Jan 5, 2020 | 166 comments
10. The Polygons of Another World: IBM PC (fabiensanglard.net)
143 points by ingve on Jan 5, 2020 | 35 comments
11. Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression (archlinux.org)
271 points by nloomans on Jan 5, 2020 | 153 comments
12. Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age (nature.com)
289 points by casefields on Jan 5, 2020 | 142 comments
13. JobFunnel, a job website search aggregator (github.com/paulmcinnis)
160 points by paulm7242 on Jan 4, 2020 | 37 comments
14. How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built (nfx.com)
145 points by domrdy on Jan 5, 2020 | 38 comments
15. Show HN: Terrastruct – A Diagramming Tool for Systems (terrastruct.com)
187 points by alixanderwang on Jan 5, 2020 | 99 comments
16. Fascia encases tissues and organs and may have widespread effects (2019) (washingtonpost.com)
158 points by andrewl on Jan 5, 2020 | 86 comments
17. Masterminds of Programming: Chuck Moore (2009) (oreilly.com)
98 points by chrispsn on Jan 5, 2020 | 40 comments
18. Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice (danluu.com)
265 points by jakevoytko on Jan 5, 2020 | 76 comments
19. Rolling Stones tracks posted briefly on YouTube in attempt to extend copyright (theguardian.com)
143 points by augustocallejas on Jan 5, 2020 | 62 comments
20. Including Illegal Activity in the U.S. National Economic Accounts [pdf] (bea.gov)
96 points by benbreen on Jan 3, 2020 | 49 comments
21. Cutting Google out of your life (2019) (github.com/tycrek)
365 points by yarapavan on Jan 5, 2020 | 175 comments
22. Bio-coal: A renewable and producible fuel from lignocellulosic biomass (advances.sciencemag.org)
90 points by rch on Jan 5, 2020 | 75 comments
23. Lisp Symbolics Macivory 3 with loaded software (twitter.com/rainerjoswig)
165 points by eecc on Jan 5, 2020 | 79 comments
24. Japanese Grammar in EBNF notation (learnjapanese.best)
135 points by sova on Jan 5, 2020 | 54 comments
25. Machine Learning Can't Handle Long-Term Time-Series Data (lesswrong.com)
148 points by jocker12 on Jan 5, 2020 | 64 comments
26. Native American tribe insulates itself from CA blackouts with microgrid utility (washingtonpost.com)
88 points by vo2maxer on Jan 5, 2020 | 22 comments
27. Reflections on Teaching Wargame Design (warontherocks.com)
115 points by idl3Y on Jan 4, 2020 | 9 comments
28. Show HN: Set with Friends – A Real-Time multiplayer online card game (setwithfriends.com)
95 points by ekzhang on Jan 4, 2020 | 37 comments
29. A little-known US-Canada border dispute (bbc.com)
59 points by tomohawk on Jan 4, 2020 | 12 comments
30. Actix Web: Optimization Amongst Optimizations (brandur.org)
120 points by brandur on Jan 5, 2020 | 14 comments

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