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1. My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (jeffhuang.com)
1545 points by lazyjeff on Feb 8, 2020 | 402 comments
2. Time.gov was upgraded today (time.gov)
692 points by bryant on Feb 8, 2020 | 210 comments
3. Life and Death in a Wuhan Coronavirus ICU (straitstimes.com)
455 points by therealcamino on Feb 7, 2020 | 299 comments
4. Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good (lycos.com)
311 points by tikwidd on Feb 8, 2020 | 220 comments
5. Debt is coming to the tech industry (alexdanco.com)
541 points by jger15 on Feb 8, 2020 | 201 comments
6. Dangerous domain corp.com goes up for sale (krebsonsecurity.com)
406 points by DemiGuru on Feb 8, 2020 | 290 comments
7. Our first patent troll (mycroft.ai)
455 points by hysan on Feb 7, 2020 | 102 comments
8. Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
621 points by lucasfdacunha on Feb 8, 2020 | 145 comments
9. The vast but little-known fund of the Mormon Church (wsj.com)
312 points by havella on Feb 8, 2020 | 492 comments
10. Colab Pro (colab.research.google.com)
225 points by rahidz on Feb 8, 2020 | 102 comments
11. HiPlot: High-dimensional interactive plots made easy (facebook.com)
137 points by snippyhollow on Feb 7, 2020 | 21 comments
12. A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command (robertelder.org)
237 points by robertelder on Feb 8, 2020 | 143 comments
13. Scientists discover virus with no recognizable genes (sciencemag.org)
165 points by HarryHirsch on Feb 8, 2020 | 48 comments
14. Dolphin Progress Report: December 2019 and January 2020 (dolphin-emu.org)
141 points by karlding on Feb 7, 2020 | 24 comments
15. Become a Better Developer by Reading Source Code (stevejgordon.co.uk)
193 points by 0x54MUR41 on Feb 8, 2020 | 56 comments
16. Show HN: Open-source, configurable HDMI output for FPGAs (github.com/hdl-util)
195 points by purisame on Feb 8, 2020 | 31 comments
17. Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds (2014) (pbs.org)
346 points by pionerkotik on Feb 8, 2020 | 160 comments
18. What if half of Switzerland's rooftops produced electricity? (epfl.ch)
115 points by tchalla on Feb 7, 2020 | 72 comments
19. Ask HN: Were you in a computer user group, back in their heyday?
101 points by ohjeez on Feb 7, 2020 | 74 comments
20. Manufacturing plant fire threatens worldwide vinyl record supply (pitchfork.com)
129 points by gscott on Feb 8, 2020 | 158 comments
21. Inori/GPCS4: A Playstation 4 emulator just begin (github.com/inori)
159 points by axiomdata316 on Feb 8, 2020 | 32 comments
22. Lasersaur – open-source laser cutter (github.com/nortd)
175 points by anonsivalley652 on Feb 8, 2020 | 83 comments
23. Stepping Feet Illusion (wikipedia.org)
128 points by undefined1 on Feb 7, 2020 | 25 comments
24. Iodine: Verifying constant-time execution of hardware [pdf] (usenix.org)
40 points by godelmachine on Feb 7, 2020 | 3 comments
25. Hacked from a lightbulb (checkpoint.com)
90 points by bjoko on Feb 7, 2020 | 39 comments
26. How the Nike Vaporfly War Was Lost (outsideonline.com)
166 points by wmeredith on Feb 7, 2020 | 128 comments
27. Video game development in Iran (washingtonpost.com)
62 points by danso on Feb 6, 2020 | 9 comments
28. New research on how mosquitoes find humans to bite (phys.org)
74 points by dnetesn on Feb 7, 2020 | 42 comments
29. An improvised Lego device helped scientists conduct tests at CERN (home.cern)
107 points by lelf on Feb 7, 2020 | 26 comments
30. Analyzing the attacks on my website (dev.to)
104 points by JeremyMorgan on Feb 8, 2020 | 59 comments

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