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China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon
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773
85
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685
309
Software Engineering at Google (2017)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01715
626
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Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/ethereum-plans-to-cut-its-absurd-energy-consumption-by-99-percent
509
132
How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-space-and-time-could-be-a-quantum-error-correcting-code-20190103/
428
169
Coconut: Pythonic functional programming
http://coconut-lang.org/
358
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Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain
https://grin-tech.org/
320
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Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died
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310
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305
105
Show HN: Learn and practice modern JavaScript
https://learnjavascript.online/
263
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Birding Like It’s 1899: Inside a Blockbuster American West Video Game
https://www.audubon.org/news/birding-its-1899-inside-blockbuster-american-west-video-game
242
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How to Eliminate the Dreaded “Blind Spot”
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~gdguo/driving/BlindSpot.htm
234
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Monorepo: please do
https://medium.com/@adamhjk/monorepo-please-do-3657e08a4b70
231
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Doom 3 in WebAssembly
http://continuation-labs.com/d3wasm/
50
PyPy for low-latency systems
https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2019/01/pypy-for-low-latency-systems.html
223
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The Looking Glass – Holographic Display
https://i.lookingglassfactory.com/
220
One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer
https://evertpot.com/a-look-back-at-sf/
216
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An Astronaut Accidentally Called 911 from Space
https://www.newsweek.com/astronaut-accidentally-calls-911-space-1276892
212
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Texas has enough sun and wind to quit coal, Rice researchers say
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Texas-has-enough-sun-and-wind-to-quit-coal-Rice-13501700.php
198
Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support via Android Runtime
https://9to5google.com/2019/01/02/android-runtime-app-support-fuchsia/?xyz
196
Google shifted $23B to tax haven Bermuda in 2017
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-taxes-netherlands/google-shifted-23-billion-to-tax-haven-bermuda-in-2017-filing-idUSKCN1OX1G9
195
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Ask HN: How old were the most talented software engineers you've met?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18812643
190
Gaming worth more than video and music combined
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46746593
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The relentless honesty of Ludwig Wittgenstein (2017)
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/ludwig-wittgenstein-honesty-ground/
149
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A Survey of the First 20 Years of Research on Semantic Web and Linked Data [pdf]
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01935898/document
148
12
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http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2019/01/01/using-tla-plus-to-understand-xen-vchan/
59
By growing cells in unrealistic liquids, scientists may have skewed results
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/cancer-culture-media-plasmax/579283/
147
20
Learn EBPF Tracing: Tutorial and Examples
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-01-01/learn-ebpf-tracing.html
144
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How to learn more as a C++ software engineer?
http://nullptr.nl/2019/01/better-cpp-software-engineer/
136
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Sobriety startups shaking up the 12-step model
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-02/inside-the-new-sobriety-start-ups-shaking-the-12-step-model/10671650
133
40
The Erdos Paradox
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11935
142
A new law in California requires pet stores to sell only rescue animals
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/us/california-pet-store-rescue-law.html
126
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Geoff Hinton Wants Computers to Think More Like Brains
https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-guru-computers-think-more-like-brains/
123
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Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019
https://andrewbrookins.com/technology/coding-on-ipad-pro-2019/
122
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Pandas dropping Python 2 support
https://twitter.com/jakevdp/status/1080583192803823616
35
Hurricane Electric 3D network map
https://he.net/3d-map/
120
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Pamir Highway: An epic drive on the roof of the world
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190102-pamir-highway-a-wild-ride-across-central-asia
Chinese Spacecraft Nears Landing on Far Side of Moon
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/world/asia/china-change-4-moon.html
118
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Full Shutdown of L Train to Be Halted by Cuomo
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/nyregion/l-train-shutdown.html
116
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Show HN: Jetpack – Webpack made more convenient
https://github.com/KidkArolis/jetpack
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6
Gaussian Processes Are Not So Fancy
https://planspace.org/20181226-gaussian_processes_are_not_so_fancy/
153
Apple Priced Itself Out of Shrinking Chinese Smartphone Market
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-03/apple-priced-itself-out-of-shrinking-chinese-smartphone-market
104
16
Measuring the size of the Earth by watching a shadow on a wall
https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/LatitudeCorrection.html?sa03h
100
The ABCs of Jacobin
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/the-abcs-of-jacobin-socialist-magazine.php/
99
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A thread for Junior Developers/Engineers
https://twitter.com/jamesmh_dev/status/1080455811048984576
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Chromebook accessibility: Changing the order of mouse buttons is unsupported
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/01/chromebooks-arent-accessible-and-google-doesnt-care/
The Firecracker virtual machine monitor
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/775736/d9d6c371b9dbfc5f/
86
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Wild monkeys with killer herpes are breeding like crazy in Florida
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/wild-monkeys-with-killer-herpes-are-breeding-like-crazy-in-florida/
14
Show HN: A Clojure-based on-demand delivery routing system
https://github.com/Purple-Services
3
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http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/how-alan-turing-deciphered-shark-skin
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