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1651.

Thief Stole Payroll Data for Thousands of Facebook Employees (bloomberg.com)

70 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 13, 2019 | 29 comments

1652.

Bugged Planet (buggedplanet.info)

70 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 31, 2019 | 26 comments

1653.

Show HN: Referlist – Increase email sign-ups via word of mouth referrals

70 points by parthi on Dec 3, 2019 | 25 comments

1654.

The Mortals Behind China’s ‘God Songs’ (sixthtone.com)

70 points by cow9 on Dec 12, 2019 | 21 comments

1655.

In Turkey, Keeping a Language of Whistles Alive (nytimes.com)

70 points by sinak on Dec 4, 2019 | 17 comments

1656.

AWS DeepComposer (aws.amazon.com)

70 points by mychael on Dec 2, 2019 | 15 comments

1657.

Hempcrete – eco-friendly material in Australian homes (abc.net.au)

70 points by clouddrover on Dec 8, 2019 | 15 comments

1658.

Making AI Philosophical Again: On Philip E. Agre’s Legacy (2014) (continentcontinent.cc)

70 points by nkurz on Dec 17, 2019 | 15 comments

1659.

Coding Machines (2009) (teamten.com)

70 points by vermilingua on Dec 12, 2019 | 14 comments

1660.

SQL Performance Explained, the tuning book for developers, is free today (sql-performance-explained.com)

70 points by MarkusWinand on Dec 2, 2019 | 13 comments

1661.

Albert Hofmann's archives shed light on the dawn of the psychedelic era (2018) (vice.com)

70 points by apollinaire on Dec 22, 2019 | 13 comments

1662.

String Algorithms in Lisp (lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com)

70 points by tosh on Dec 7, 2019 | 12 comments

1663.

Why was SCTP selected for WebRTC’s data channel? (2014) (bloggeek.me)

70 points by fortran77 on Dec 25, 2019 | 11 comments

1664.

Collaborative Software That’s Wary of the Cloud (wired.com)

70 points by mpweiher on Dec 7, 2019 | 10 comments

1665.

Generative adversarial networks: What GANs are and how they’ve evolved (venturebeat.com)

70 points by adwmayer on Dec 26, 2019 | 7 comments

1666.

China wants Canada to shut up. That’s why we shouldn’t (theglobeandmail.com)

70 points by hckr_nj on Dec 8, 2019 | 4 comments

1667.

Guido van Rossum Exits Python Steering Council (discuss.python.org)

70 points by bakery2k on Dec 27, 2019 | 4 comments

1668.

AGI Has Been Delayed (rodneybrooks.com)

69 points by chubot on Dec 4, 2019 | 97 comments

1669.

Today is Esperanto Book Day – why I learned it (2018) (martinrue.com)

69 points by martinrue on Dec 15, 2019 | 78 comments

1670.

Why Aren't Shoes Preventing Running Injuries? (2014) (theatlantic.com)

69 points by luu on Dec 24, 2019 | 70 comments

1671.

Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018) (blog.timescale.com)

69 points by akulkarni on Dec 24, 2019 | 61 comments

1672.

Indoor CO2 could cut our capacity for complex, strategic thinking: study (news.yahoo.com)

69 points by belltaco on Dec 23, 2019 | 55 comments

1673.

Simulated data: the great equalizer in the AI race? (medium.com)

69 points by cbrun on Dec 19, 2019 | 54 comments

1674.

Never Use toString() for Behaviour (java.christmas)

69 points by sindrebn on Dec 4, 2019 | 49 comments

1675.

Designing a service for password-less temporary access to resources (medium.com)

69 points by ostastny on Dec 28, 2019 | 21 comments

1676.

Loudspeakers used to make dead coral reefs sound healthy, so fish flock to them (washingtonpost.com)

69 points by jrs235 on Dec 2, 2019 | 20 comments

1677.

GPS Is Going Places (arstechnica.com)

69 points by Tomte on Dec 26, 2019 | 20 comments

1678.

Interview with Facebook's Head of AI (wired.com)

69 points by hongzi on Dec 5, 2019 | 16 comments

1679.

DFS, poker, basketball, Starcraft and strong opinions, weakly held (davidtran.me)

69 points by dtran on Dec 25, 2019 | 12 comments

1680.

An extended bout of warm wet weather 232M years ago (nature.com)

69 points by sohkamyung on Dec 4, 2019 | 9 comments