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1. Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time (bbc.com)
1375 points by clouddrover on Jan 23, 2020 | 361 comments
2. Float Toy (evanw.github.io)
649 points by lelf on Jan 22, 2020 | 69 comments
3. City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once (anvaka.github.io)
668 points by jordinebot on Jan 22, 2020 | 143 comments
4. “This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” (twitter.com/poa_nyc)
810 points by slater on Jan 23, 2020 | 378 comments
5. NOAA Satellites Helped Save a Record 421 Lives in 2019 (noaa.gov)
305 points by infodocket on Jan 23, 2020 | 118 comments
6. Pantone 448 C (wikipedia.org)
442 points by kmskontorp on Jan 22, 2020 | 277 comments
7. Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Office365 ProPlus installer (theverge.com)
445 points by Flenser on Jan 23, 2020 | 267 comments
8. ADHD, a Lifelong Struggle (2018) (gekk.info)
458 points by spiffytech on Jan 23, 2020 | 441 comments
9. What happened to Mint? (fastcompany.com)
494 points by vontzy on Jan 23, 2020 | 440 comments
10. My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a generic filter doesn't work (twitter.com/iamshanemorris)
457 points by mring33621 on Jan 23, 2020 | 347 comments
11. 82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on government cell phones (militarytimes.com)
361 points by danso on Jan 23, 2020 | 237 comments
12. My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks (mycpu.org)
341 points by mycpuorg on Jan 23, 2020 | 203 comments
13. Apple lawsuit tests if an employee can plan rival startup while on payroll (reuters.com)
214 points by pseudolus on Jan 21, 2020 | 211 comments
14. Why I Procrastinate (2019) (invisibleup.com)
425 points by InvisibleUp on Jan 23, 2020 | 161 comments
15. All Sonos products will continue to work past May (sonos.com)
219 points by wlj on Jan 23, 2020 | 262 comments
16. See Python, See Python Go, Go Python Go (2016) (heroku.com)
188 points by amzans on Jan 23, 2020 | 59 comments
17. What I Learned About SaaS at Buildium (outseta.com)
192 points by geoffroberts on Jan 21, 2020 | 28 comments
18. Talking to myself: how I trained GPT2-1.5b for rubber ducking using my chat data (svilentodorov.xyz)
217 points by Tenoke on Jan 23, 2020 | 67 comments
19. To replace the additive BPA, a chemical company teams up with unlikely allies (sciencemag.org)
101 points by laurex on Jan 23, 2020 | 44 comments
20. The Automated Dungeon Master (technicshistory.com)
89 points by cfmcdonald on Jan 23, 2020 | 38 comments
21. SystemE: A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp (github.com/a-schaefers)
162 points by jjwiseman on Jan 22, 2020 | 103 comments
22. Fixing Google Map Transit Feed Mistakes in Taiwan (taipeiurbanism.com)
140 points by danso on Jan 23, 2020 | 37 comments
23. The Myth of Self-Reliance: An encounter with Emerson’s essays (theparisreview.org)
165 points by lxm on Jan 23, 2020 | 112 comments
24. A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidden code (theregister.co.uk)
324 points by kick on Jan 23, 2020 | 182 comments
25. Seattle-area voters to vote by smartphone in district election (npr.org)
146 points by perseusprime11 on Jan 23, 2020 | 191 comments
26. How can you be so certain? (2019) [pdf] (open-std.org)
190 points by gpderetta on Jan 22, 2020 | 23 comments
27. Is there any truth in truth serums? (2015) (sciencehistory.org)
61 points by Hooke on Jan 23, 2020 | 49 comments
28. SaveDotOrg Protest at ICANN in Los Angeles this Friday Jan 24 (savedotorg.org)
275 points by dredmorbius on Jan 23, 2020 | 29 comments
29. Design Tips for Developers (copplest.one)
321 points by kiwicopple on Jan 23, 2020 | 54 comments
30. The Teetering Towers of Abstraction (bit-player.org)
58 points by alberto_ol on Jan 21, 2020 | 4 comments

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