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1. Draft of the Fast.ai Book (github.com/fastai)
509 points by AgharaShyam on Feb 29, 2020 | 58 comments
2. A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools (acrossapp.com)
834 points by ksj2114 on Feb 29, 2020 | 453 comments
3. iNaturalist is a social network of people helping each other learn about nature (wired.com)
245 points by SirLJ on Feb 28, 2020 | 56 comments
4. A half-hour to learn Rust (fasterthanli.me)
927 points by xrd on Feb 29, 2020 | 148 comments
5. 2020 Leap Day Bugs (codeofmatt.com)
312 points by mj1586 on Feb 29, 2020 | 146 comments
6. FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data (krebsonsecurity.com)
291 points by feross on Feb 28, 2020 | 68 comments
7. 64 bit OS Raspberry Pi4 Benchmarks (medium.com/matteocroce)
258 points by tosh on Feb 29, 2020 | 101 comments
8. GDC 2020 has been postponed (gdconf.com)
263 points by minimaxir on Feb 29, 2020 | 198 comments
9. Two epigenetic regulators interfere with healthy aging (padiracinnovation.org)
171 points by JPLeRouzic on Feb 29, 2020 | 21 comments
10. My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s (gwern.net)
382 points by eru on Feb 28, 2020 | 197 comments
11. Intel Refreshes 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable, Slashes Prices (wikichip.org)
149 points by rbanffy on Feb 29, 2020 | 130 comments
12. Show HN: Edtr.io – Intuitive web editor, open source and fully adaptable (edtr.io)
234 points by SplishCrew on Feb 29, 2020 | 56 comments
13. Miranda released as free software (kent.ac.uk)
196 points by kick on Feb 28, 2020 | 121 comments
14. Open-source “pandemic ventilator” (instructables.com)
148 points by ericb on Feb 29, 2020 | 111 comments
15. The Man Who First Said 'Cyborg,' 50 Years Later (2010) (theatlantic.com)
42 points by benbreen on Feb 29, 2020 | 2 comments
16. Physicists grab individual atoms in groundbreaking experiment (phys.org)
119 points by magoghm on Feb 29, 2020 | 26 comments
17. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Asynchronous Programming (github.com/crazyguitar)
181 points by crazyguitar on Feb 29, 2020 | 43 comments
18. Adversarial Policies: Attacking Deep Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org)
75 points by magoghm on Feb 28, 2020 | 7 comments
19. Dave Prosser's C Preprocessing Algorithm (2006) (spinellis.gr)
112 points by goranmoomin on Feb 28, 2020 | 6 comments
20. Online altruists making Reddit more accessible (wired.com)
66 points by spost on Feb 29, 2020 | 43 comments
21. A mysterious bug in the firmware of Google's Titan M chip (alexbakker.me)
238 points by alexbakker on Feb 29, 2020 | 88 comments
22. Complex-step differentiation and automatic differentiation (2001) [pdf] (semanticscholar.org)
56 points by aidanrocke on Feb 29, 2020 | 6 comments
23. Archiving Web Sites (2018) (lwn.net)
112 points by butterthebuddha on Feb 29, 2020 | 11 comments
24. A Text Renaissance (ribbonfarm.com)
159 points by jacobedawson on Feb 28, 2020 | 58 comments
25. All the current trees in Barcelona (carto.com)
127 points by capableweb on Feb 29, 2020 | 33 comments
26. A quick primer on type traits in modern C++ (internalpointers.com)
118 points by tblr on Feb 28, 2020 | 34 comments
27. Apple Just Disabled Clearview AI's iPhone App for Breaking Rules on Distribution (buzzfeednews.com)
193 points by jbegley on Feb 29, 2020 | 152 comments
28. Show HN: Visualizing the transmission between you and base stations (github.com/chonyy)
75 points by chony on Feb 29, 2020 | 9 comments
29. If your cipher were secure, this image wouldn't have repeating patterns (2015) (ietf.org)
210 points by EthanHeilman on Feb 28, 2020 | 153 comments
30. A backup rotation filter for the Unix shell (sr.ht)
97 points by closeneough on Feb 28, 2020 | 32 comments

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