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1. Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016) (cutle.fish)
1002 points by aphextron on Feb 15, 2020 | 281 comments
2. The dystopian world of software engineering interviews (jarednelsen.dev)
1027 points by asangha on Feb 15, 2020 | 811 comments
3. What made the 1960s CDC6600 supercomputer fast? (cpldcpu.wordpress.com)
216 points by kken on Feb 15, 2020 | 102 comments
4. Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019) (weforum.org)
417 points by saadalem on Feb 15, 2020 | 500 comments
5. ESbuild – A fast JavaScript bundler and minifier in Go (github.com/evanw)
355 points by todotask on Feb 15, 2020 | 133 comments
6. Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle (joisig.com)
554 points by joisig on Feb 15, 2020 | 77 comments
7. ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse (homehack.nl)
372 points by app4soft on Feb 15, 2020 | 191 comments
8. How to take smart notes with Org mode (jethro.dev)
296 points by noelwelsh on Feb 15, 2020 | 72 comments
9. Apple's long processor journey (liam-on-linux.livejournal.com)
162 points by AndrewDucker on Feb 15, 2020 | 83 comments
10. These Lyrics Do Not Exist (theselyricsdonotexist.com)
139 points by brogrammer2018 on Feb 15, 2020 | 46 comments
11. Ask HN: What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?
496 points by programbreeding on Feb 14, 2020 | 207 comments
12. Plink-plonk.js – hear webpages render with DOM observer and audio API (gist.github.com)
248 points by hicksyfern on Feb 14, 2020 | 58 comments
13. Microsoft cut off game maker's revenue stream, so he built his own replacement (cnbc.com)
125 points by aluket on Feb 15, 2020 | 59 comments
14. Three Types of Data (brandons.me)
109 points by brundolf on Feb 15, 2020 | 23 comments
15. RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India (cbc.ca)
140 points by the_unknown on Feb 15, 2020 | 61 comments
16. From models of galaxies to atoms, simple AI shortcuts speed up simulations (sciencemag.org)
85 points by DarkContinent on Feb 15, 2020 | 36 comments
17. Designing the most performant row-level security schema in Postgres (2018) (medium.com/cazzer)
75 points by dfee on Feb 14, 2020 | 10 comments
18. DBLog: A Change-Data-Capture Framework (netflixtechblog.com)
102 points by srijan4 on Feb 15, 2020 | 13 comments
19. Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling support (ivanceras.github.io)
161 points by ivanceras on Feb 14, 2020 | 33 comments
20. Classification of the Principal Programming Paradigms (2009) (ucl.ac.be)
116 points by oumua_don17 on Feb 14, 2020 | 33 comments
21. A 7KB AWS lambda Node.js library with zero runtime dependencies (npmjs.com)
123 points by albertgao on Feb 14, 2020 | 59 comments
22. Auto-vectorization for the masses (2011) (leiradel.github.io)
51 points by lelf on Feb 15, 2020 | 19 comments
23. Human Universals (2002) (depaul.edu)
54 points by NoRagrets on Feb 15, 2020 | 12 comments
24. AutoFlip: an open-source framework for intelligent video reframing (googleblog.com)
89 points by jonbaer on Feb 14, 2020 | 10 comments
25. Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets (docs.google.com)
400 points by ollieglass on Feb 15, 2020 | 331 comments
26. On emulating hypervisors: a Samsung RKP case study (phrack.org)
64 points by based2 on Feb 15, 2020 | 1 comment
27. Exploring the Web Speech API (voorhoede.nl)
78 points by jbmoelker on Feb 14, 2020 | 9 comments
28. Astronomers want public funds for intelligent life search (bbc.co.uk)
89 points by aluket on Feb 15, 2020 | 100 comments
29. Cancer medicine generates enormous revenues but marginal benefits for patients? (scientificamerican.com)
186 points by jwblackwell on Feb 15, 2020 | 123 comments
30. The geology and geophysics of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth (science.sciencemag.org)
41 points by robin_reala on Feb 14, 2020 | 2 comments

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