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1.		Dotfile madness (0x46.net)
		1146 points by boreq on Feb 2, 2019 \| 514 comments
2.		Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, the Last of the Itaniums (anandtech.com)
		193 points by ch_123 on Feb 2, 2019 \| 204 comments
3.		Sex censorship killed the internet we love (engadget.com)
		627 points by coding123 on Feb 2, 2019 \| 493 comments
4.		More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision (bloomberg.com)
		387 points by pseudolus on Feb 2, 2019 \| 330 comments
5.		A Python Interpreter Written in Rust (github.com/rustpython)
		430 points by rch on Feb 2, 2019 \| 194 comments
6.		What Impossible Meant to Feynman (nautil.us)
		325 points by dnetesn on Feb 2, 2019 \| 42 comments
7.		Insurance Company Says NotPetya Is an “Act of War”, Refuses to Pay (senseient.com)
		295 points by marklyon on Feb 2, 2019 \| 251 comments
8.		Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway (apenwarr.ca)
		312 points by zdw on Feb 1, 2019 \| 109 comments
9.		McKinsey Advised Purdue Pharma How to ‘Turbocharge’ Opioid Sales, Lawsuit Says (nytimes.com)
		230 points by seapunk on Feb 2, 2019 \| 68 comments
10.		Google Play Store Now Open for Progressive Web Apps (medium.com/firt)
		256 points by jbuild on Feb 1, 2019 \| 78 comments
11.		Uber’s transit offering just went live in Denver (techcrunch.com)
		138 points by lxm on Feb 1, 2019 \| 95 comments
12.		A Design Flaw Behind MacBook Pro’s “Stage Light” Effect [video] (youtube.com)
		260 points by dsego on Feb 2, 2019 \| 153 comments
13.		Be Careful about 23andMe’s Health Test (nytimes.com)
		173 points by tysone on Feb 2, 2019 \| 99 comments
14.		RenTech Created the Ultimate, Tax-Free IRA Account for Employees (bloomberg.com)
		85 points by throwawaymath on Feb 2, 2019 \| 123 comments
15.		Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace (joyfulbikeshedding.com)
		139 points by signa11 on Feb 2, 2019 \| 11 comments
16.		Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR (cnet.com)
		67 points by mstats on Feb 2, 2019 \| 57 comments
17.		Aztec Political Thought (2013) (abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com)
		136 points by benbreen on Feb 2, 2019 \| 31 comments
18.		China unveils draft law to allow fully foreign-owned enterprises (thehindubusinessline.com)
		142 points by beefman on Feb 2, 2019 \| 67 comments
19.		Ensuring a Level Playing Field for Rideshare (lyft.com)
		70 points by mlthoughts2018 on Feb 2, 2019 \| 38 comments
20.		A model to simulate how ideas move from one academic institution to another (scientificamerican.com)
		52 points by ibhosszu on Feb 1, 2019 \| 8 comments
21.		Who Were the Pinkertons? (slate.com)
		45 points by smacktoward on Feb 1, 2019 \| 37 comments
22.		One Man's Quest to Prove Vermont Has Terrible Cell Service (npr.org)
		88 points by evo_9 on Feb 1, 2019 \| 46 comments
23.		The cloud skills shortage and the unemployed army of the certified (itnext.io)
		195 points by rajeshmr on Feb 2, 2019 \| 163 comments
24.		DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show (2009) (nytimes.com)
		154 points by apo on Feb 2, 2019 \| 28 comments
25.		Openwrt 18.06.2 released (openwrt.org)
		181 points by ausjke on Feb 2, 2019 \| 129 comments
26.		New U.S. Experiments Aim to Create Gene-Edited Human Embryos (npr.org)
		55 points by bcaulfield on Feb 2, 2019 \| 28 comments
27.		$190M missing after crypto exchange Quadriga CEO dies (theglobeandmail.com)
		182 points by scosman on Feb 2, 2019 \| 125 comments
28.		A Kenyan Engineer Who Created Gloves That Turn Sign Language into Speech (becauseofthemwecan.com)
		108 points by MaysonL on Feb 2, 2019 \| 25 comments
29.		Helping to Build Cloudflare, Part 2: The Worst Two Weeks (cloudflare.com)
		158 points by jgrahamc on Feb 2, 2019 \| 20 comments
30.		Digital identity has three layers, and you can only protect one of them (qz.com)
		103 points by longdefeat on Feb 2, 2019 \| 31 comments
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