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14551.

Measuring the size of the Earth by watching a shadow on a wall (solipsys.co.uk)

104 points by ColinWright on Jan 3, 2019 | 16 comments

14552.

WAL-G – fast archival and restoration for PostgreSQL (github.com)

104 points by bjoko on Feb 26, 2019 | 16 comments

14553.

Elasticsearch is a great example of a modern monolithic application (twitter.com)

104 points by DVassallo on Sep 8, 2019 | 16 comments

14554.

My Personal Linklog (msaavedra.com)

104 points by masaav on Nov 7, 2019 | 15 comments

14555.

Show HN: An experimental distributed SQL database from scratch in Go (github.com)

104 points by slicedbrandy on Dec 27, 2019 | 14 comments

14556.

Optimizing Magic Pocket for cold storage (blogs.dropbox.com)

104 points by el_duderino on May 6, 2019 | 13 comments

14557.

An on-going conversion of Scoopex's Amiga Hardware coding tutorials into C (github.com)

104 points by erickhill on Oct 21, 2019 | 13 comments

14558.

Okay, Maybe Proofs Aren't Dying After All (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

104 points by lelf on Dec 22, 2019 | 12 comments

14559.

Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (1994) (book.simply-logical.space)

104 points by pplonski86 on Apr 7, 2019 | 11 comments

14560.

SBCL20 in Vienna (lispblog.xach.com)

104 points by tosh on Dec 20, 2019 | 10 comments

14561.

The cerebellum is your “little brain”, and it does some pretty big things (scientificamerican.com)

104 points by LinuxBender on Jan 18, 2019 | 9 comments

14562.

Layers in Software: From Data to Value (blog.jessitron.com)

104 points by dedalus on Nov 5, 2019 | 9 comments

14563.

Bose headphones are basically a spyware on your head (reddit.com)

104 points by Classicaldj34 on Nov 27, 2019 | 9 comments

14564.

Hexagonal Cross Stitch (isohedral.ca)

104 points by ink_13 on Mar 24, 2019 | 7 comments

14565.

Difference Between Fault Tolerance, High Availability, Disaster Recovery (2014) (pbenson.net)

104 points by chynkm on Nov 14, 2019 | 6 comments

14566.

GraphQL Conf 2019 in a Nutshell – Some Takeaways (time2hack.com)

104 points by patelpankaj on Jun 24, 2019 | 5 comments

14567.

Vulcanizer: A Library for Operating Elasticsearch (githubengineering.com)

104 points by yarapavan on Mar 5, 2019 | 3 comments

14568.

Understanding zero-knowledge proofs through illustrated examples (blog.goodaudience.com)

104 points by based2 on Apr 13, 2019 | 3 comments

14569.

The Story of Tunnel 29 (bbc.co.uk)

104 points by pionerkotik on Nov 1, 2019 | 3 comments

14570.

Compiler basics (5): LLVM system calls (notes.eatonphil.com)

104 points by justinclift on Jun 23, 2019 | 1 comments

14571.

Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted (news.mit.edu)

103 points by Gedxx on Oct 21, 2019 | 201 comments

14572.

The world might run out of people (wired.com)

103 points by tombot on Feb 6, 2019 | 197 comments

14573.

Vietnam’s Richest Man Bets $2B to Sell Cars to Americans (bloomberg.com)

103 points by danso on Dec 9, 2019 | 160 comments

14574.

Apple's iPhone Shipments Plunge in China as Huawei Tightens Grip (bloomberg.com)

103 points by Leary on Feb 11, 2019 | 154 comments

14575.

The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing (nytimes.com)

103 points by MagicPropmaker on Apr 28, 2019 | 153 comments

14576.

Victims are often criminals, and that is a paradox American policing can’t solve (theoutline.com)

103 points by paulpauper on Aug 7, 2019 | 144 comments

14577.

Implement with Types, Not Your Brain (reasonablypolymorphic.com)

103 points by Tehnix on Jun 25, 2019 | 140 comments

14578.

Tracking logo found in Navy email to Navy Times amid leak investigation (militarytimes.com)