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1. The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 (sha-mbles.github.io)
928 points by ynezz on Jan 7, 2020 | 352 comments
2. Disinformation for hire: how a new breed of PR firms is selling lies online (buzzfeednews.com)
479 points by edward on Jan 7, 2020 | 269 comments
3. Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? (kevinrooke.com)
699 points by 123six on Jan 7, 2020 | 671 comments
4. Firefox 72.0 (mozilla.org)
758 points by Shinkirou on Jan 7, 2020 | 525 comments
5. AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs (anandtech.com)
432 points by neogodless on Jan 6, 2020 | 307 comments
6. Translating Quake 3 into Rust (immunant.com)
456 points by K0nserv on Jan 7, 2020 | 120 comments
7. Using the hunger I experienced as a kid to teach mine about generosity (2019) (humanparts.medium.com)
502 points by metafunctor on Jan 7, 2020 | 194 comments
8. Ask HN: Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s
441 points by kemiller on Jan 7, 2020 | 184 comments
9. Electrical Ground Current Event Detected in Norway (spaceweather.com)
316 points by duncancarroll on Jan 7, 2020 | 98 comments
10. Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool (lwn.net)
265 points by lukastyrychtr on Jan 7, 2020 | 174 comments
11. Show HN: jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go (github.com/cube2222)
217 points by cube2222 on Jan 7, 2020 | 90 comments
12. Our field isn't quite “artificial intelligence” – it's “cognitive automation” (twitter.com/fchollet)
294 points by vo2maxer on Jan 7, 2020 | 98 comments
13. Let the Compiler Do the Work (cliffle.com)
213 points by milliams on Jan 6, 2020 | 60 comments
14. Go Things I Love: Channels and Goroutines (justindfuller.com)
192 points by iamjfu on Jan 6, 2020 | 69 comments
15. Pegasus Mail, 30 Years On (pmail.com)
186 points by rhabarba on Jan 7, 2020 | 46 comments
16. The End of the Beginning (stratechery.com)
202 points by nikbackm on Jan 7, 2020 | 115 comments
17. Laptop OEMs – make a proper high-end AMD laptop (basilgohar.com)
236 points by basilgohar on Jan 7, 2020 | 170 comments
18. AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th (anandtech.com)
252 points by erik on Jan 7, 2020 | 249 comments
19. Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers (latimes.com)
386 points by rschnalzer on Jan 7, 2020 | 485 comments
20. Analyzing churn rates, free trials, and other metrics (jlongster.com)
149 points by shinryuu on Jan 7, 2020 | 16 comments
21. Google files opening Supreme Court brief in Oracle v. Google copyright lawsuit (blog.google)
163 points by alpb on Jan 7, 2020 | 112 comments
22. The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money (tandfonline.com)
124 points by cryptowizard on Jan 7, 2020 | 314 comments
23. Why is Wednesday, November 17, 1858 the base time for OpenVMS? (stanford.edu)
188 points by kristianp on Jan 6, 2020 | 67 comments
24. Flyte: A Cloud Native Machine Learning and Data Processing Platform (lyft.com)
135 points by mgrover on Jan 7, 2020 | 19 comments
25. Urgent and Important – Rotate Your Amazon RDS, Aurora, and DocumentDB Certs (amazon.com)
185 points by jeffbarr on Jan 7, 2020 | 33 comments
26. People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige (bennettnotes.com)
378 points by _davebennett on Jan 6, 2020 | 350 comments
27. What people get wrong about Bertrand Russell (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
106 points by lermontov on Jan 7, 2020 | 79 comments
28. Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) (fossil-scm.org)
240 points by cnst on Jan 6, 2020 | 550 comments
29. On Facts and Thinking (reading.supply)
89 points by ptbrodie on Jan 6, 2020 | 11 comments
30. Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives [pdf] (princeton.edu)
419 points by plickdixon on Jan 7, 2020 | 214 comments

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