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1. Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen' (thedrive.com)
486 points by stopads on Jan 18, 2020 | 897 comments
2. Lisping at JPL (2002) (flownet.com)
307 points by sandinmyjoints on Jan 18, 2020 | 307 comments
3. I've been working on X11 on jailbroken iOS (maxleiter.com)
403 points by MaxLeiter on Jan 17, 2020 | 87 comments
4. Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service (arstechnica.com)
414 points by BerislavLopac on Jan 18, 2020 | 303 comments
5. Students defeat new 'Barnacle' parking clamp, skip fines and get free internet (postmediadriving.wordpress.com)
410 points by elliekelly on Jan 18, 2020 | 360 comments
6. Show HN: OneDev – A Lightweight GitLab Alternative (github.com/theonedev)
459 points by robinshen on Jan 18, 2020 | 94 comments
7. America’s aggressive use of sanctions endangers the dollar’s reign (economist.com)
235 points by lxm on Jan 18, 2020 | 310 comments
8. Luhmann's Zettelkasten (emvi.com)
186 points by marvinblum on Jan 18, 2020 | 83 comments
9. Algorithm for Drawing Trees (rachel53461.wordpress.com)
189 points by mfbx9da4 on Jan 18, 2020 | 40 comments
10. Data Brokers (ca.gov)
195 points by troydavis on Jan 18, 2020 | 75 comments
11. The case for cities where you’re a sensor, not a thing to be sensed (theguardian.com)
184 points by raleighm on Jan 18, 2020 | 44 comments
12. HTTP static server one-liners (gist.github.com)
286 points by known on Jan 18, 2020 | 66 comments
13. Cartridge cannot be used until printer is enrolled in HP Instant Ink (twitter.com/ryandonsullivan)
289 points by pionerkotik on Jan 18, 2020 | 163 comments
14. A biotechnology dream: nitrogen-fixing cereal crops (news.mit.edu)
105 points by NoRagrets on Jan 18, 2020 | 95 comments
15. Measure code execution time accurately in Python (knasmueller.net)
176 points by bknasmueller on Jan 18, 2020 | 60 comments
16. Barr’s Encryption Push Is Decades in the Making (wsj.com)
169 points by jonbaer on Jan 18, 2020 | 181 comments
17. Ending Legacy Admissions at Johns Hopkins (theatlantic.com)
140 points by vo2maxer on Jan 18, 2020 | 98 comments
18. Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout (github.blog)
137 points by Amorymeltzer on Jan 17, 2020 | 64 comments
19. Learn to write your first OS kernel (2018) (github.com/arjun024)
210 points by razerblader7 on Jan 18, 2020 | 12 comments
20. In search of a better job scheduler (beepb00p.xyz)
112 points by K2L8M11N2 on Jan 18, 2020 | 29 comments
21. LISP I Programmer's Manual (1960) [pdf] (siam.org)
95 points by kick on Jan 18, 2020 | 2 comments
22. Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people to their online images (nytimes.com)
369 points by johanam on Jan 18, 2020 | 156 comments
23. Why so many things cost exactly zero (bloomberg.com)
141 points by yarapavan on Jan 18, 2020 | 179 comments
24. ANSI Common Lisp (1995) (paulgraham.com)
129 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 18, 2020 | 54 comments
25. A new obstacle to landing a job after college: getting approved by AI (cnn.com)
136 points by TuringNYC on Jan 17, 2020 | 120 comments
26. L.A.'s Lost Transit (strongtowns.org)
114 points by jseliger on Jan 17, 2020 | 68 comments
27. Show HN: Store your luggage in local shops (usebounce.com)
174 points by cody3222 on Jan 18, 2020 | 179 comments
28. Principles to help design and deploy a zero trust architecture (github.com/ukncsc)
112 points by msolujic on Jan 18, 2020
29. SuperDisk (wikipedia.org)
78 points by peter_d_sherman on Jan 18, 2020 | 60 comments
30. Hyundai and Kia back Arrival, a British startup making electric delivery vans (arstechnica.com)
93 points by rbanffy on Jan 18, 2020 | 41 comments

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