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1.		What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time? (twitter.com/jonathansampson)
		1041 points by ingve on Aug 25, 2019 \| 320 comments
2.		Please Add RSS Support to Your Site (kevq.uk)
		904 points by kevq on Aug 27, 2019 \| 296 comments
3.		No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers (amazon.com)
		896 points by nkurz on Aug 27, 2019 \| 483 comments
4.		Time anxiety: is it too late? (nesslabs.com)
		518 points by anthilemoon on Aug 27, 2019 \| 167 comments
5.		Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets (nytimes.com)
		460 points by coloneltcb on Aug 27, 2019 \| 354 comments
6.		Show HN: Wave-based non-line-of-sight computational imaging in Julia (analytech-solutions.com)
		375 points by krrutkow on Aug 27, 2019 \| 71 comments
7.		Super Mario 64 has been decompiled (github.com/n64decomp)
		445 points by sjuut on Aug 26, 2019 \| 170 comments
8.		A book from Alan Turing and a mysterious piece of paper (stephenwolfram.com)
		316 points by zianwar on Aug 27, 2019 \| 90 comments
9.		Let's build houses for people, not cars (noparkinghere.com)
		577 points by dhritzkiv on Aug 27, 2019 \| 502 comments
10.		WeWork Gets Tax Rebate Meant for Its Small-Business Tenants (bloomberg.com)
		319 points by Turukawa on Aug 27, 2019 \| 108 comments
11.		Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?
		389 points by fluroblue on Aug 26, 2019 \| 89 comments
12.		Opioid crisis: Johnson and Johnson hit by landmark ruling (bbc.com)
		261 points by onemoresoop on Aug 26, 2019 \| 267 comments
13.		Useless Windows 10 Features (howtogeek.com)
		480 points by ducaale on Aug 26, 2019 \| 422 comments
14.		A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video] (ccc.de)
		241 points by Smudo on Aug 27, 2019 \| 156 comments
15.		Experimental USAF space plane breaks record for orbital spaceflight (techcrunch.com)
		212 points by lil-scamp on Aug 26, 2019 \| 108 comments
16.		Gamedev Tutorial: Trigonometry Basics – Sine and Cosine (allenchou.net)
		287 points by mariuz on Aug 26, 2019 \| 74 comments
17.		Helsinki Central Library chosen as the best new public library (oodihelsinki.fi)
		169 points by late on Aug 27, 2019 \| 50 comments
18.		Keeping Tesla Roadsters Alive Is Serious Work (roadandtrack.com)
		191 points by t23 on Aug 26, 2019 \| 204 comments
19.		Waymo’s Backseat Drivers: Confidential Data Reveals Self-Driving Taxi Hurdles (theinformation.com)
		142 points by ballmers_peak on Aug 26, 2019 \| 194 comments
20.		Presidio: Customizable data protection and PII data anonymization service (github.com/microsoft)
		103 points by yarapavan on Aug 27, 2019 \| 20 comments
21.		Ask HN: Recommended resources to learn the Linux kernel and OS theory?
		408 points by non-entity on Aug 27, 2019 \| 83 comments
22.		Show HN: Dat-keyserver: a distributed PGP keyserver based on the Dat protocol (github.com/tdjsnelling)
		106 points by tdjsnelling on Aug 27, 2019 \| 30 comments
23.		Chemists discover water microdroplets spontaneously produce hydrogen peroxide (phys.org)
		138 points by wglb on Aug 26, 2019 \| 59 comments
24.		Clever Functional Design (ferd.ca)
		130 points by gsempe on Aug 25, 2019 \| 13 comments
25.		Lessons we learned when debugging a scaling problem (about.gitlab.com)
		167 points by sahin on Aug 27, 2019 \| 66 comments
26.		Peloton S-1 (sec.gov)
		173 points by harryh on Aug 27, 2019 \| 205 comments
27.		Credit cards have a privacy problem (washingtonpost.com)
		238 points by mlb_hn on Aug 26, 2019 \| 174 comments
28.		Duckling: a Clojure library that parses text into structured data (wit.ai)
		121 points by getdreambits on Aug 27, 2019 \| 24 comments
29.		How the brain 'approximates' without counting (medicalxpress.com)
		109 points by dnetesn on Aug 26, 2019 \| 45 comments
30.		Processor Design: An Introduction (1998) (gamezero.com)
		131 points by rolph on Aug 27, 2019 \| 16 comments
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