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1.		Cloudflare S-1 (sec.gov)
		915 points by tpw212 on Aug 15, 2019 \| 351 comments
2.		The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist (npr.org)
		536 points by danso on Aug 15, 2019 \| 157 comments
3.		Amazon offered ‘Amazon’s Choice’ to vendors who bought ads and lowered prices (digiday.com)
		395 points by ilamont on Aug 15, 2019 \| 122 comments
4.		Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment (stripe.com)
		569 points by mhoad on Aug 15, 2019 \| 205 comments
5.		WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy (webkit.org)
		397 points by feross on Aug 14, 2019 \| 245 comments
6.		People Simply Empty Out (1986) (lettersofnote.com)
		399 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 15, 2019 \| 226 comments
7.		I wasn’t getting hired as a data scientist, so I sought data on who is (towardsdatascience.com)
		403 points by jonbaer on Aug 15, 2019 \| 101 comments
8.		AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans (theverge.com)
		410 points by smohnot on Aug 15, 2019 \| 289 comments
9.		Martini: Real-Time Terrain Mesh Generator (observablehq.com)
		339 points by mourner on Aug 15, 2019 \| 65 comments
10.		I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code (github.com/hoanhan101)
		450 points by hoanhan101 on Aug 15, 2019 \| 52 comments
11.		CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet (cutiepi.io)
		463 points by ducaale on Aug 15, 2019 \| 142 comments
12.		Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents (wsj.com)
		295 points by Bostonian on Aug 14, 2019 \| 71 comments
13.		America’s elderly seem more screen-obsessed than the young (economist.com)
		216 points by CPAhem on Aug 15, 2019 \| 101 comments
14.		Google Warns Developers That All New Android Apps Require 3 Days for Approval (choiceofgames.com)
		203 points by dfabulich on Aug 15, 2019 \| 112 comments
15.		Google Forcing Nest Cameras’ Visual Indicator Light To Be On (mattcrampton.com)
		185 points by revicon on Aug 14, 2019 \| 155 comments
16.		Chemists make first-ever ring of pure carbon (nature.com)
		157 points by headalgorithm on Aug 15, 2019 \| 62 comments
17.		Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances (amazon.com)
		141 points by ingve on Aug 15, 2019 \| 35 comments
18.		Hedonometer (hedonometer.org)
		206 points by mhb on Aug 15, 2019 \| 70 comments
19.		Static Analysis at Scale: An Instagram Story (instagram-engineering.com)
		137 points by YoavShapira on Aug 15, 2019 \| 34 comments
20.		Mapped: The world’s coal power plants (carbonbrief.org)
		168 points by acidburnNSA on Aug 14, 2019 \| 164 comments
21.		A bug I wish I hadn't caught (roganmurley.com)
		241 points by fagnerbrack on Aug 13, 2019 \| 94 comments
22.		Moravec's Paradox (wikipedia.org)
		155 points by jkuria on Aug 15, 2019 \| 87 comments
23.		Toptal suit against co-founder dismissed (pacermonitor.com)
		120 points by ivanech on Aug 15, 2019 \| 75 comments
24.		Rust 1.37.0 (rust-lang.org)
		393 points by pietroalbini on Aug 15, 2019 \| 183 comments
25.		The death of a weather satellite as seen by SDR (hackaday.com)
		92 points by guiambros on Aug 13, 2019 \| 20 comments
26.		Columnist asked researchers what they could find out from just his cell number (nytimes.com)
		143 points by sneeze-slayer on Aug 15, 2019 \| 111 comments
27.		WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera (theverge.com)
		352 points by artsandsci on Aug 15, 2019 \| 194 comments
28.		Google’s rivals opt out of search engine auction, calling it ‘anti-competitive’ (venturebeat.com)
		173 points by fourthark on Aug 15, 2019 \| 111 comments
29.		Which Is the Best John Le Carré Novel? (2014) (newyorker.com)
		68 points by keiferski on Aug 14, 2019 \| 35 comments
30.		Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos calls GE a ‘bigger fraud than Enron’ (cnbc.com)
		297 points by one2zero on Aug 15, 2019 \| 236 comments
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