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1.		Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes (washingtonpost.com)
		658 points by drfuchs on Nov 14, 2019 \| 392 comments
2.		Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy' (bbc.com)
		510 points by DarkContinent on Nov 15, 2019 \| 207 comments
3.		Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival (zdnet.com)
		741 points by cpeterso on Nov 15, 2019 \| 566 comments
4.		To motivate people, talk about the context of the work to be done (sametab.com)
		443 points by anacleto on Nov 15, 2019 \| 116 comments
5.		Eigenvectors from eigenvalues (terrytao.wordpress.com)
		529 points by bigpumpkin on Nov 15, 2019 \| 86 comments
6.		The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann (medium.com/cantors-paradise)
		636 points by jorgenveisdal on Nov 15, 2019 \| 319 comments
7.		NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS (tom7.org)
		199 points by tantalor on Nov 15, 2019 \| 33 comments
8.		If you're busy, you're doing something wrong (2011) (calnewport.com)
		499 points by unpredict on Nov 14, 2019 \| 162 comments
9.		Distilling knowledge from neural networks to build smaller and faster models (floydhub.com)
		230 points by alexamadoriml on Nov 15, 2019 \| 16 comments
10.		Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? (2017) (math.stackexchange.com)
		453 points by akakievich on Nov 15, 2019 \| 131 comments
11.		Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings (cnbc.com)
		416 points by stygiansonic on Nov 15, 2019 \| 548 comments
12.		Sourcehut's Year in Alpha (sourcehut.org)
		351 points by ddevault on Nov 15, 2019 \| 69 comments
13.		Hayabusa2 is leaving the asteroid Ryugu and heading back to Earth (syfy.com)
		298 points by sohkamyung on Nov 15, 2019 \| 67 comments
14.		Training algorithms on copyrighted data not illegal: US Supreme Court (towardsdatascience.com)
		327 points by alok-g on Nov 15, 2019 \| 46 comments
15.		Sea-Thru: A Method for Removing Water from Underwater Images (petapixel.com)
		340 points by cgranier on Nov 15, 2019 \| 74 comments
16.		TROS: IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers (righto.com)
		189 points by magnat on Nov 15, 2019 \| 36 comments
17.		Open-sourcing Clusterman, a cluster autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos (yelp.com)
		109 points by drmorr on Nov 15, 2019 \| 44 comments
18.		How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contractors for search results (msn.com)
		247 points by tysone on Nov 15, 2019 \| 177 comments
19.		Show HN: Faster UTF-8 validator (github.com/zwegner)
		122 points by zwegner on Nov 15, 2019 \| 55 comments
20.		Show HN: Scholarref tools – never deal with journal webpages again (adamsgaard.dk)
		127 points by admsg on Nov 15, 2019 \| 18 comments
21.		LLVM-tutor: collection of out-of-tree LLVM examples for teaching and learning (github.com/banach-space)
		109 points by matt_d on Nov 14, 2019 \| 3 comments
22.		A Pragmatic Approach to Thorny People Problems (witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com)
		151 points by DoreenMichele on Nov 14, 2019 \| 91 comments
23.		Homology (tungsteno.io)
		125 points by mathgenius on Nov 14, 2019 \| 26 comments
24.		Exploiting Intel’s Management Engine (homelinux.net)
		209 points by DyslexicAtheist on Nov 14, 2019 \| 52 comments
25.		What is the “two-drive trick” that can read Amiga disks on a PC? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
		151 points by _Microft on Nov 15, 2019 \| 43 comments
26.		GC Fun at Twitch (modularfinance.se)
		64 points by _raz on Nov 14, 2019 \| 43 comments
27.		Organice – Using Org mode from a smartphone or browser [video] (youtube.com)
		111 points by preek on Nov 14, 2019 \| 33 comments
28.		Against Economics (nybooks.com)
		136 points by kwindla on Nov 14, 2019 \| 191 comments
29.		Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube (github.com/omarroth)
		216 points by yarapavan on Nov 14, 2019 \| 132 comments
30.		The 80/24 Rule (ploeh.dk)
		170 points by nreece on Nov 15, 2019 \| 191 comments
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