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1. Python dicts are now ordered (softwaremaniacs.org)
734 points by signa11 on Feb 7, 2020 | 436 comments
2. Simple, solar-powered water desalination (news.mit.edu)
501 points by chmaynard on Feb 7, 2020 | 191 comments
3. No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback (interviewing.io)
527 points by leeny on Feb 6, 2020 | 622 comments
4. Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs. USB-C Chargers (forrestheller.com)
397 points by indy on Feb 6, 2020 | 205 comments
5. Critical Bluetooth vulnerability in Android (insinuator.net)
504 points by photon-torpedo on Feb 7, 2020 | 300 comments
6. ThinkPad T480 is my new main laptop which runs FreeBSD (genneko.github.io)
338 points by sev on Feb 7, 2020 | 236 comments
7. 1000 True Fans? Try 100 (a16z.com)
512 points by tonicb on Feb 7, 2020 | 217 comments
8. Tesla remotely removed autopilot features from used Tesla without notice (jalopnik.com)
500 points by t23 on Feb 7, 2020 | 452 comments
9. TV Backlight Compensation (lofibucket.com)
388 points by zdw on Feb 6, 2020 | 56 comments
10. Dynamic Route53 records for AWS auto scaling groups with Terraform (meltwater.com)
87 points by traxmaxx on Feb 7, 2020 | 36 comments
11. 95th percentile isn't that hard to reach (danluu.com)
444 points by janvdberg on Feb 7, 2020 | 286 comments
12. Modern workers are at the mercy of ratings (economist.com)
177 points by edward on Feb 7, 2020 | 91 comments
13. How to Escape from Immoral Mazes (thezvi.wordpress.com)
117 points by apsec112 on Feb 6, 2020 | 96 comments
14. Webcam, Lights, and Audio for Remote Work, Podcasting, Videos, and Streaming (mattstauffer.com)
309 points by ryanmaynard on Feb 6, 2020 | 137 comments
15. Board Games of the Ancient World (smithsonianmag.com)
209 points by CrankyBear on Feb 7, 2020 | 66 comments
16. The Rapid Growth of Io_uring (lwn.net)
213 points by signa11 on Feb 7, 2020 | 65 comments
17. Wikimedia Cookbook (wikibooks.org)
172 points by nerdkid93 on Feb 7, 2020 | 57 comments
18. Migrating to CockroachDB (openmymind.net)
163 points by latch on Feb 7, 2020 | 112 comments
19. This person does not exist (thispersondoesnotexist.com)
321 points by angrygoat on Feb 7, 2020 | 178 comments
20. Show HN: My Book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang (packtpub.com)
176 points by achilleasa on Feb 6, 2020 | 23 comments
21. Angular 9.0 (angular.io)
248 points by theodorejb on Feb 6, 2020 | 299 comments
22. Database Lab – Full-size staging databases as a service (gitlab.com/postgres-ai)
137 points by stansler on Feb 6, 2020 | 31 comments
23. Combinatris: Tetris with SKI Combinators (rave.org)
120 points by kondor on Feb 7, 2020 | 14 comments
24. How Andre Iguodala handled his rare NBA sabbatical in Silicon Valley (espn.com)
76 points by clairity on Feb 6, 2020 | 33 comments
25. The limits of high-speed rail (mappingignorance.org)
206 points by bookofjoe on Feb 6, 2020 | 142 comments
26. Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005) (charlespetzold.com)
108 points by goranmoomin on Feb 6, 2020 | 118 comments
27. Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's official HOSTS.TXT (2004) (iconia.com)
120 points by fanf2 on Feb 6, 2020 | 40 comments
28. Guide to the London Startup Ecosystem (startupsoflondon.com)
130 points by Ozzie-D on Feb 7, 2020 | 94 comments
29. Environmental lawyer who won a judgment against Chevron lost everything (theintercept.com)
266 points by ductionist on Feb 7, 2020 | 107 comments
30. MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019) (discussions.apple.com)
382 points by antalk on Feb 7, 2020 | 300 comments

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