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1. Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain (smithsonianmag.com)
1115 points by ChrisArchitect on Feb 25, 2020 | 123 comments
2. Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs (blog.mozilla.org)
648 points by Vinnl on Feb 25, 2020 | 757 comments
3. To get good, go after the metagame (commoncog.com)
726 points by shadowsun7 on Feb 25, 2020 | 296 comments
4. An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (2012) (betterexplained.com)
709 points by PNWChris on Feb 25, 2020 | 102 comments
5. MSPaint in JavaScript (jspaint.app)
512 points by whalesalad on Feb 25, 2020 | 125 comments
6. We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80% (tuananh.net)
514 points by talonx on Feb 25, 2020 | 293 comments
7. Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference (nih.gov)
406 points by KanilStang on Feb 25, 2020 | 347 comments
8. Amazon Common Software for Devices (amazon.com)
158 points by foobar9001 on Feb 25, 2020 | 87 comments
9. Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together (archive.org)
278 points by edward on Feb 25, 2020 | 161 comments
10. Defeating a Laptop's BIOS Password (github.com/skysafe)
357 points by Avery3R on Feb 25, 2020 | 96 comments
11. Fuchsia Programming Language Policy (googlesource.com)
308 points by farmerbb on Feb 25, 2020 | 297 comments
12. Functional Programming in OCaml (cornell.edu)
258 points by gstipi on Feb 24, 2020 | 58 comments
13. FastMRI leverages adversarial training to remove image artifacts (facebook.com)
95 points by olibaw on Feb 25, 2020 | 52 comments
14. Where Sci-Hub Is (now.sh)
306 points by garner on Feb 24, 2020 | 173 comments
15. PCILeech (github.com/ufrisk)
230 points by peter_d_sherman on Feb 25, 2020 | 43 comments
16. “Theire Soe Admirable Herbe”: How the English Found Cannabis (publicdomainreview.org)
86 points by benbreen on Feb 25, 2020 | 13 comments
17. What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it debuted in 1995 (2017) (medium.com/dailyjs)
140 points by philnash on Feb 23, 2020 | 235 comments
18. Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3 (2018) (astralcode.blogspot.com)
263 points by adamnemecek on Feb 24, 2020 | 33 comments
19. Mutable Instruments' Eurorack Modules (github.com/pichenettes)
201 points by krig on Feb 25, 2020 | 99 comments
20. Securing Firefox with WebAssembly (hacks.mozilla.org)
244 points by edmorley on Feb 25, 2020 | 75 comments
21. Modern, functional Common Lisp: myths and best practices (ambrevar.xyz)
226 points by Ambrevar on Feb 25, 2020 | 155 comments
22. In Britain, even jails have a class system (theatlantic.com)
191 points by pepys on Feb 25, 2020 | 173 comments
23. Waymo’s Hiring Binge (theinformation.com)
142 points by muzz on Feb 25, 2020 | 146 comments
24. My favorite Erlang program (2013) (joearms.github.io)
184 points by cprecioso on Feb 25, 2020 | 54 comments
25. Recovering Fossil Data on IBM 8” Floppies [video] (youtube.com)
72 points by zdw on Feb 23, 2020 | 25 comments
26. An interview with Paul Graham on writing (writingroutines.com)
187 points by razin on Feb 24, 2020 | 63 comments
27. When Data Do Not Conform to Rows and Columns: Diagnosing Disease by T-Cells (github.com/jostmey)
79 points by jostmey on Feb 24, 2020 | 18 comments
28. How to Design Mobile Apps for One-Hand Usage (smashingmagazine.com)
181 points by sitajay on Feb 24, 2020 | 72 comments
29. Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal (github.com/liamg)
99 points by liamg on Feb 25, 2020 | 43 comments
30. Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi (techcrunch.com)
549 points by pseudolus on Feb 25, 2020 | 195 comments

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