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1.		Why Google Did Android (tbray.org)
		552 points by zdw on Feb 10, 2020 \| 348 comments
2.		Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu (softpedia.com)
		1047 points by milankragujevic on Feb 10, 2020 \| 559 comments
3.		Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years (phoronix.com)
		714 points by alexellisuk on Feb 9, 2020 \| 246 comments
4.		Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece (openculture.com)
		450 points by vo2maxer on Feb 10, 2020 \| 129 comments
5.		Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model (microsoft.com)
		367 points by XnoiVeX on Feb 10, 2020 \| 139 comments
6.		Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? (mattstoller.substack.com)
		491 points by chottocharaii on Feb 10, 2020 \| 367 comments
7.		Performant Front-End Architecture (debugbear.com)
		305 points by mostlystatic on Feb 10, 2020 \| 114 comments
8.		JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming Language (ucc.asn.au)
		355 points by mindB on Feb 10, 2020 \| 221 comments
9.		“I made an operating system UI within Unity” (reddit.com)
		316 points by mariuz on Feb 10, 2020 \| 176 comments
10.		Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps (medium.com/veeralpatel)
		296 points by thereyougo on Feb 10, 2020 \| 327 comments
11.		I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers via Amazon.ca (twitter.com/meslin)
		502 points by jellicle on Feb 9, 2020 \| 190 comments
12.		Ask HN: How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Resource?
		360 points by rxsel on Feb 10, 2020 \| 76 comments
13.		Microsoft Zero and DeepSpeed: Memory Efficient Large Neural Network Training (microsoft.com)
		218 points by bobrenjc93 on Feb 10, 2020 \| 20 comments
14.		Memory Bandwidth Napkin Math (forrestthewoods.com)
		269 points by Epholys on Feb 10, 2020 \| 54 comments
15.		Fax on the beach: The audacious, visionary, calamitous iPad of the 90s (inputmag.com)
		128 points by anarbadalov on Feb 10, 2020 \| 86 comments
16.		A new model and dataset for long-range memory (deepmind.com)
		166 points by atg_abhishek on Feb 10, 2020 \| 13 comments
17.		A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports (blogs.sciencemag.org)
		123 points by hprotagonist on Feb 10, 2020 \| 77 comments
18.		Visual 6502 in JavaScript (visual6502.org)
		155 points by kijduse on Feb 10, 2020 \| 20 comments
19.		Mondragon Corporation (wikipedia.org)
		442 points by taurath on Feb 10, 2020 \| 283 comments
20.		Creating Org mode sparse trees in Emacs and organice (200ok.ch)
		118 points by preek on Feb 9, 2020 \| 13 comments
21.		Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?
		253 points by abrax3141 on Feb 10, 2020 \| 560 comments
22.		Audit Initiated of FAA's Pilot Training Requirements (dot.gov)
		65 points by infodocket on Feb 10, 2020 \| 40 comments
23.		Flashsort (wikipedia.org)
		141 points by misja111 on Feb 9, 2020 \| 31 comments
24.		Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax (justice.gov)
		408 points by jayess on Feb 10, 2020 \| 317 comments
25.		A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught? (technologyreview.com)
		168 points by havella on Feb 10, 2020 \| 145 comments
26.		Cyborgs and Space (1960) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
		79 points by Hooke on Feb 9, 2020 \| 10 comments
27.		Show HN: Free GeoJSON editor to visualize, download or convert into many formats (geoman.io)
		214 points by etagenyeti on Feb 10, 2020 \| 25 comments
28.		ROCA: Resource-oriented Client Architecture – an alternative to SPAs (roca-style.org)
		97 points by pvorb on Feb 9, 2020 \| 21 comments
29.		Facebook Workplace co-founder launches downtime fire alarm Kintaba (techcrunch.com)
		84 points by quartz on Feb 10, 2020 \| 47 comments
30.		Personal info of 6M Israelis leaked after Likud uploads voter info (jpost.com)
		162 points by known on Feb 10, 2020 \| 81 comments
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