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1. For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity (startribune.com)
701 points by sbuccini on Jan 6, 2020 | 494 comments
2. Products I Wish Existed (eladgil.com)
798 points by eladgil on Jan 6, 2020 | 419 comments
3. The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis (qz.com)
450 points by lxm on Jan 6, 2020 | 281 comments
4. Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dark energy is in error (phys.org)
486 points by apsec112 on Jan 6, 2020 | 286 comments
5. Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level (drive.google.com)
792 points by zuhayeer on Jan 6, 2020 | 589 comments
6. Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and the Art of Programming [video] (youtube.com)
355 points by tambourine_man on Jan 6, 2020 | 72 comments
7. Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig (github.com/jzck)
355 points by netgusto on Jan 6, 2020 | 223 comments
8. Renowned Entomologist Says ‘Get Rid of Your Lawn’ (wttw.com)
393 points by mayiplease on Jan 6, 2020 | 323 comments
9. Ben Carlin (wikipedia.org)
125 points by Thevet on Jan 4, 2020 | 7 comments
10. New Cambridge Analytica Leaks (techcrunch.com)
404 points by mindgam3 on Jan 6, 2020 | 193 comments
11. Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube (googleblog.com)
277 points by geddy on Jan 6, 2020 | 357 comments
12. Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz (wi-fi.org)
225 points by dmmalam on Jan 6, 2020 | 202 comments
13. A harassment campaign on Goodreads (patreon.com)
270 points by ilamont on Jan 6, 2020 | 175 comments
14. Always Review Your Dependencies, AGPL Edition (agwa.name)
253 points by zdw on Jan 6, 2020 | 228 comments
15. SoftBank has walked away from startups, months after submitting term sheets (axios.com)
274 points by jmsflknr on Jan 6, 2020 | 124 comments
16. Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software development (2015) (archive.org)
232 points by barry-cotter on Jan 5, 2020 | 151 comments
17. Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringement? (arstechnica.com)
292 points by callwaiting on Jan 5, 2020 | 123 comments
18. Clojure for the Erlang VM (clojerl.org)
242 points by lsh on Jan 6, 2020 | 49 comments
19. ClickHouse cost-efficiency in action: analyzing 500B rows on an Intel NUC (altinity.com)
216 points by hodgesrm on Jan 6, 2020 | 86 comments
20. CalVer: Calendar Versioning (calver.org)
194 points by tosh on Jan 6, 2020 | 99 comments
21. Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view (ouster.com)
168 points by derek_frome on Jan 6, 2020 | 118 comments
22. Your cyberpunk games are dangerous (2015) (boingboing.net)
200 points by EndXA on Jan 5, 2020 | 45 comments
23. Pre-Inca canal system uses hillsides as sponges to store water (eos.org)
118 points by bryanrasmussen on Jan 6, 2020 | 20 comments
24. Performance variation in ‘identical’ processors (coding-guidelines.com)
98 points by johndcook on Jan 5, 2020 | 54 comments
25. Intel Has PCIe 4.0 Optane SSDs Ready, but Nothing to Plug Them Into (tomshardware.com)
130 points by rbanffy on Jan 5, 2020 | 68 comments
26. Social perception bias might be an emergent property of our social networks (arstechnica.com)
153 points by BerislavLopac on Jan 5, 2020 | 69 comments
27. Nestur: NES Emulator in Rust (github.com/spieglt)
153 points by tosh on Jan 6, 2020 | 52 comments
28. Why I use R (shotwell.ca)
185 points by cardosof on Jan 6, 2020 | 117 comments
29. Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems (2015) [pdf] (nips.cc)
107 points by earino on Jan 6, 2020 | 5 comments
30. Dealing with Loneliness (manojsurya.com)
191 points by manojsurya on Jan 6, 2020 | 142 comments

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