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1. Gears (ciechanow.ski)
2760 points by robert-boehnke on Feb 12, 2020 | 222 comments
2. GitHub CLI is now in beta (github.blog)
669 points by twapi on Feb 12, 2020 | 188 comments
3. No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia (vice.com)
687 points by SZJX on Feb 12, 2020 | 247 comments
4. Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot (kqed.org)
606 points by NoRagrets on Feb 12, 2020 | 889 comments
5. Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom (zephony.com)
641 points by kevinpaladin on Feb 12, 2020 | 300 comments
6. Rotary Cellphone (justine-haupt.com)
572 points by nallerooth on Feb 12, 2020 | 165 comments
7. Court rules that people can't be locked up indefinitely for refusing to decrypt (techdirt.com)
451 points by danso on Feb 12, 2020 | 173 comments
8. SoundCloud raises $75M from SiriusXM (techcrunch.com)
346 points by theomega on Feb 12, 2020 | 218 comments
9. Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (whonix.org)
198 points by adrelanos on Feb 12, 2020 | 35 comments
10. Show HN: Autocode – Automatically generate API code for SaaS apps (autocode.com)
247 points by keithwhor on Feb 12, 2020 | 78 comments
11. A bestiary of single-file implementations of programming languages (github.com/marcpaq)
267 points by kick on Feb 12, 2020 | 84 comments
12. Essential shutting down after failing to launch ‘GEM’ smartphone (9to5google.com)
241 points by minimaxir on Feb 12, 2020 | 275 comments
13. An Astronaut’s Guide to Mental Models (fs.blog)
260 points by yarapavan on Feb 11, 2020 | 57 comments
14. OpenPush: A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android (f-droid.org)
347 points by blendergeek on Feb 12, 2020 | 95 comments
15. Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2018) (skeeve.com)
215 points by kick on Feb 11, 2020 | 80 comments
16. Does my data fit in RAM? (yourdatafitsinram.net)
216 points by louwrentius on Feb 12, 2020 | 162 comments
17. Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day (ndepend.com)
280 points by rcsorensen on Feb 12, 2020 | 207 comments
18. Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation (gitlab.com/esr)
274 points by psxuaw on Feb 11, 2020 | 94 comments
19. Bruce McEwen, who found stress can alter the brain, has died (nytimes.com)
174 points by pseudolus on Feb 12, 2020 | 45 comments
20. The Rise of “Movie-Set Urbanism” (strongtowns.org)
289 points by DoreenMichele on Feb 11, 2020 | 199 comments
21. Using Python and Selenium for automated visual regression testing (github.com/seleniumbase)
125 points by seleniumbase on Feb 11, 2020 | 40 comments
22. Beer Waste Saves Montana Town $1M on Water Treatment (npr.org)
129 points by shawkinaw on Feb 12, 2020 | 31 comments
23. U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks (wsj.com)
219 points by tysone on Feb 11, 2020 | 121 comments
24. Hallucinogenic Fish (wikipedia.org)
148 points by ajaviaad on Feb 12, 2020 | 55 comments
25. Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority (handshake.org)
254 points by LinuxBender on Feb 12, 2020 | 120 comments
26. Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux (github.com/trunkmaster)
222 points by JonAtkinson on Feb 12, 2020 | 80 comments
27. Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web (acolyer.org)
256 points by godelmachine on Feb 12, 2020 | 109 comments
28. Who Was Sun Tzu’s Napoleon? (thestrategybridge.org)
126 points by smacktoward on Feb 11, 2020 | 61 comments
29. US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile-phone networks (arstechnica.com)
261 points by ssully on Feb 12, 2020 | 276 comments
30. Several months in the life of Project Zero – Part 1: The Chrome bug of suffering (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
140 points by archimag0 on Feb 12, 2020 | 27 comments

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