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811.

Writing Software to Last 50 Years (bytes.yingw787.com)

165 points by signa11 on Jan 14, 2020 | 142 comments

812.

Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi (themarshallproject.org)

165 points by SQL2219 on Jan 12, 2020 | 127 comments

813.

The Myth of Self-Reliance: An encounter with Emerson’s essays (theparisreview.org)

165 points by prostoalex on Jan 23, 2020 | 112 comments

814.

Lisp Symbolics Macivory 3 with loaded software (twitter.com)

165 points by eecc on Jan 5, 2020 | 79 comments

815.

An Opinionated Guide to Machine Learning Research (joschu.net)

165 points by hardmaru on Jan 31, 2020 | 7 comments

816.

Tesla races past $100B in market valuation (reuters.com)

164 points by nerdkid93 on Jan 22, 2020 | 345 comments

817.

Web of Documents (2019) (blog.danieljanus.pl)

164 points by rauhl on Jan 22, 2020 | 91 comments

818.

Contractors use shell games to hide owners, cheat taxpayers (pogo.org)

164 points by black6 on Jan 8, 2020 | 68 comments

819.

Lessons Learned from Writing the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide (streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com)

164 points by DoreenMichele on Jan 15, 2020 | 52 comments

820.

Installing air filters in classrooms has large educational benefits? (vox.com)

164 points by rafaelc on Jan 9, 2020 | 48 comments

821.

Learn to write a simple OS kernel with keyboard/screen support (2014) (github.com)

164 points by razerblader7 on Jan 26, 2020 | 23 comments

822.

U.S. job openings post biggest drop in more than four years (reuters.com)

163 points by hhs on Jan 17, 2020 | 260 comments

823.

California wants to tax companies for executive pay ratio (foxbusiness.com)

163 points by onetimemanytime on Jan 18, 2020 | 224 comments

824.

U.S. wants the EU to accept chemical-washed chicken as part of trade deal (latimes.com)

163 points by ybahubali2018 on Jan 28, 2020 | 209 comments

825.

Magic Roundabout (Swindon) (en.wikipedia.org)

163 points by franze on Jan 23, 2020 | 194 comments

826.

Burnout: 'Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired' (bbc.co.uk)

163 points by pmoriarty on Jan 22, 2020 | 132 comments

827.

Google files opening Supreme Court brief in Oracle v. Google copyright lawsuit (blog.google)

163 points by alpb on Jan 7, 2020 | 112 comments

828.

Why does the Wuhan coronavirus genome end in 33 A’s? (bioinformatics.stackexchange.com)

163 points by jamiesonbecker on Jan 26, 2020 | 55 comments

829.

Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois (mailman.nanog.org)

163 points by cnst on Jan 7, 2020 | 53 comments

830.

Vulkan 1.2 (khronos.org)

163 points by c89X on Jan 16, 2020 | 42 comments

831.

SystemE: A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp (github.com)

162 points by jjwiseman on Jan 22, 2020 | 103 comments

832.

Forced migration to Google Sheets API v4 (gmass.co)

162 points by danso on Jan 15, 2020 | 68 comments

833.

Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore (hbr.org)

161 points by poliX on Jan 4, 2020 | 119 comments

834.

Preliminary analysis of 11 Novel Coronavirus genomes from the Wuhan outbreak (virological.org)

161 points by partingshots on Jan 24, 2020 | 89 comments

835.

Vaping-related lung injuries primarily linked to black-market products (cei.org)

161 points by lysp on Jan 17, 2020 | 81 comments

836.

India’s about to hand people data Americans can only dream of (bloomberg.com)

161 points by haltingproblem on Jan 13, 2020 | 18 comments

837.

In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky (countercurrents.org)