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1.		Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID (github.com/w3ctag)
		2292 points by rvnx on Feb 4, 2020 \| 615 comments
2.		Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (discordapp.com)
		1582 points by Sikul on Feb 4, 2020 \| 642 comments
3.		The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (csail.mit.edu)
		1163 points by anishathalye on Feb 3, 2020 \| 196 comments
4.		I found a WhatsApp security flaw that allowed hackers to read the file system (perimeterx.com)
		555 points by ccmpx on Feb 4, 2020 \| 129 comments
5.		Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
		930 points by xcoding on Feb 4, 2020 \| 862 comments
6.		Reviving Sandstorm (sandstorm.io)
		491 points by anotherevan on Feb 4, 2020 \| 115 comments
7.		U.S. immigration policy has been a boon for the tech industry in Canada (npr.org)
		401 points by md8 on Feb 4, 2020 \| 407 comments
8.		A new hash algorithm for Git (lwn.net)
		465 points by Tomte on Feb 4, 2020 \| 233 comments
9.		Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016) (lizzie.io)
		267 points by sturza on Feb 4, 2020 \| 28 comments
10.		Mini projects built with VanillaJS. No frameworks or libraries (github.com/bradtraversy)
		417 points by jonifico on Feb 4, 2020 \| 164 comments
11.		C# Pattern Matching (docs.microsoft.com)
		231 points by brudgers on Feb 3, 2020 \| 209 comments
12.		Cards Against Humanity buys Clickhole, turning it into an employee-owned company (buzzfeednews.com)
		312 points by coloneltcb on Feb 3, 2020 \| 55 comments
13.		McKinsey, technocratic management, and structural inequality (theatlantic.com)
		255 points by cushychicken on Feb 4, 2020 \| 206 comments
14.		Bosch Smart glasses: A tiny laser array paints images directly onto your retina (ieee.org)
		400 points by deniscepko2 on Feb 4, 2020 \| 265 comments
15.		Mathematicians prove universal law of turbulence (quantamagazine.org)
		223 points by theafh on Feb 4, 2020 \| 34 comments
16.		Java 14 Feature Spotlight: Records (infoq.com)
		204 points by chhum on Feb 4, 2020 \| 148 comments
17.		The mysteries of aerodynamic lift (scientificamerican.com)
		228 points by Bender on Feb 4, 2020 \| 168 comments
18.		Intel axes Nervana just two months after launch (wikichip.org)
		167 points by rbanffy on Feb 4, 2020 \| 140 comments
19.		Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990 [video] (youtube.com)
		191 points by henning on Feb 4, 2020 \| 53 comments
20.		Allocator Designs (phil-opp.com)
		141 points by zbentley on Feb 3, 2020 \| 9 comments
21.		Asana files to go public via direct listing (techcrunch.com)
		159 points by doppp on Feb 4, 2020 \| 47 comments
22.		AI thinks like a corporation (2018) (economist.com)
		140 points by samclemens on Feb 3, 2020 \| 60 comments
23.		Microsoft's Three Browsers (textslashplain.com)
		114 points by thibautg on Feb 3, 2020 \| 103 comments
24.		The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night (vice.com)
		275 points by kitrose on Feb 4, 2020 \| 382 comments
25.		Programming an HP-15C (2013) (plover.com)
		86 points by luu on Feb 3, 2020 \| 59 comments
26.		Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November (9to5google.com)
		405 points by midef on Feb 4, 2020 \| 138 comments
27.		What It's Like to Work on League of Legends (builtin.com)
		81 points by cammm on Feb 4, 2020 \| 72 comments
28.		AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8280 in benchmark leak (hothardware.com)
		277 points by signa11 on Feb 4, 2020 \| 220 comments
29.		Unsmear: Convert to and from timescales with smeared leap seconds (github.com/google)
		51 points by fanf2 on Feb 3, 2020 \| 23 comments
30.		F# Pipeline Operator in JavaScript with Babel (codereform.com)
		114 points by galacticdessert on Feb 4, 2020 \| 94 comments
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