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1. Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (coding-guidelines.com)
780 points by walterclifford on Jan 18, 2021 | 308 comments
2. GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free (eleuther.ai)
725 points by sieste on Jan 18, 2021 | 252 comments
3. I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (tjcx.me)
851 points by swyx on Jan 18, 2021 | 385 comments
4. Tech companies are profiling us from before birth (mitpress.mit.edu)
380 points by DamnInteresting on Jan 18, 2021 | 138 comments
5. Context switching costs more than we give it credit for (thinkingthrough.substack.com)
590 points by maddynator on Jan 18, 2021 | 352 comments
6. That XOR Trick (2020) (florian.github.io)
428 points by wagslane on Jan 18, 2021 | 231 comments
7. We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college (kansascity.com)
539 points by amin on Jan 18, 2021 | 396 comments
8. HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know (rachelbythebay.com)
730 points by atg_abhishek on Jan 18, 2021 | 458 comments
9. IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv (ieee.org)
201 points by tosh on Jan 17, 2021 | 30 comments
10. Three reasons fungi are not plants (asm.org)
220 points by chewbacha on Jan 18, 2021 | 101 comments
11. The embedded YouTube player told me what you were watching (xdavidhu.me)
260 points by hackerpain on Jan 18, 2021 | 104 comments
12. Review broken products instead of new ones (buyforlife.com)
244 points by hubraumhugo on Jan 17, 2021 | 121 comments
13. I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users (zdnet.com)
250 points by GordonS on Jan 17, 2021 | 158 comments
14. Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies (turquoise.health)
447 points by ageitgey on Jan 18, 2021 | 374 comments
15. Nobody lives here: Nearly 5M Census Blocks with zero population (2014) (mapsbynik.com)
162 points by sndean on Jan 18, 2021 | 103 comments
16. The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000) (archive.org)
201 points by mmastrac on Jan 18, 2021 | 98 comments
17. Software engineering is a learning process, working code is a side effect (lambdabytes.io)
237 points by io_nathan on Jan 18, 2021 | 74 comments
18. MuseScore 3.6 (musescore.org)
236 points by app4soft on Jan 17, 2021 | 78 comments
19. Jim Simons proved the textbooks wrong, almost (bloomberg.com)
154 points by paulpauper on Jan 17, 2021 | 90 comments
20. A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes (github.com/micah5)
344 points by rvieira on Jan 18, 2021 | 75 comments
21. Patient Regains Sight Following Artificial Cornea Implantation (prnewswire.com)
406 points by muskminion on Jan 18, 2021 | 75 comments
22. Stromatolites: A Billion-Year-Old Living Organism (bbc.com)
112 points by pseudolus on Jan 18, 2021 | 30 comments
23. Decluttering low-Earth orbit: It's time to tidy up space (economist.com)
174 points by edward on Jan 18, 2021 | 131 comments
24. The Amiga 1000 Parceiro (amigalove.com)
134 points by jdkee on Jan 18, 2021 | 22 comments
25. Can you treat loneliness by creating an imaginary friend? (nautil.us)
188 points by pseudolus on Jan 18, 2021 | 216 comments
26. Safari 14 added WebExtensions support, so where are the extensions? (sixcolors.com)
200 points by 1cvmask on Jan 17, 2021 | 216 comments
27. Technosolutionism Isn’t the Fix (hedgehogreview.com)
117 points by pseudolus on Jan 18, 2021 | 77 comments
28. Why Combustion Is Exothermic (acs.org)
136 points by jasonhansel on Jan 18, 2021 | 65 comments
29. Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing their diets (economist.com)
213 points by Vindl on Jan 18, 2021 | 260 comments
30. Apple II Basic Bot (atari8bitbot.com)
62 points by elvis70 on Jan 17, 2021 | 18 comments

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