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1.		The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 (daringfireball.net)
		624 points by h9n on Jan 28, 2020 \| 602 comments
2.		Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers (eff.org)
		595 points by panarky on Jan 28, 2020 \| 299 comments
3.		Microsoft Application Inspector (github.com/microsoft)
		419 points by pjmlp on Jan 28, 2020 \| 61 comments
4.		Porting Quake to the iPod Classic (fwei.tk)
		260 points by Ivoah on Jan 27, 2020 \| 26 comments
5.		U.S. Gov Privacy Watchdog Under Pressure to Recommend Facial Recognition Ban (thehill.com)
		252 points by infodocket on Jan 27, 2020 \| 109 comments
6.		Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results (apple.com)
		286 points by chollida1 on Jan 28, 2020 \| 243 comments
7.		Disk Prices on Amazon (diskprices.com)
		363 points by apsec112 on Jan 27, 2020 \| 222 comments
8.		First Maine inmate enrolled in graduate school conducts research in prison (portlandphoenix.me)
		196 points by bifrost on Jan 28, 2020 \| 195 comments
9.		KnightOS was an interesting operating system (drewdevault.com)
		292 points by akalin on Jan 27, 2020 \| 60 comments
10.		Thunderbird’s New Home (thunderbird.net)
		298 points by sashk on Jan 28, 2020 \| 158 comments
11.		Scotland to use 100% renewables on time to host 2020 climate summit (reneweconomy.com.au)
		247 points by solarengineer on Jan 28, 2020 \| 151 comments
12.		Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (1995) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
		248 points by ptx on Jan 28, 2020 \| 234 comments
13.		Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards (1843magazine.com)
		298 points by b0b10101 on Jan 28, 2020 \| 158 comments
14.		Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your old devices?
		376 points by thrwaway69 on Jan 28, 2020 \| 256 comments
15.		Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is the Real Problem (eff.org)
		246 points by jrepinc on Jan 28, 2020 \| 73 comments
16.		Installing NextStep OS (OpenStep) in VirtualBox (2018) (stuffjasondoes.com)
		195 points by gjvc on Jan 27, 2020 \| 61 comments
17.		Picardy Third (wikipedia.org)
		119 points by tintinnabula on Jan 27, 2020 \| 70 comments
18.		Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything (googleblog.com)
		177 points by theafh on Jan 28, 2020 \| 104 comments
19.		My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec (infinitediaries.net)
		334 points by morid1n on Jan 28, 2020 \| 276 comments
20.		Launch HN: Deviceplane (YC W20) – Update and Manage Devices Running Linux
		185 points by joshwget on Jan 28, 2020 \| 63 comments
21.		Ted versus The Media Lab [video] (youtube.com)
		278 points by abtinf on Jan 28, 2020 \| 150 comments
22.		How a Cruise Ship Makes 30k Meals Every Day [video] (youtube.com)
		170 points by peter_d_sherman on Jan 27, 2020 \| 92 comments
23.		Optacon (wikipedia.org)
		92 points by bangonkeyboard on Jan 27, 2020 \| 32 comments
24.		The Shapes of Code (fluentcpp.com)
		144 points by jandeboevrie on Jan 27, 2020 \| 68 comments
25.		Replicache: Easy Offline-First for Existing Applications (replicache.dev)
		111 points by aboodman on Jan 28, 2020 \| 22 comments
26.		The greatest migration: the history and mystery of Polynesian navigation (2019) (news.harvard.edu)
		75 points by Thevet on Jan 28, 2020 \| 45 comments
27.		How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”? (daringfireball.net)
		307 points by cpach on Jan 28, 2020 \| 323 comments
28.		AWS Security Documentation, by Category (amazon.com)
		116 points by Terretta on Jan 28, 2020 \| 12 comments
29.		Beware the Mean (stephen.sh)
		94 points by sjwhitworth on Jan 27, 2020 \| 36 comments
30.		Novel coronavirus complete genome from the Wuhan outbreak available in GenBank (nih.gov)
		135 points by mikhailfranco on Jan 28, 2020 \| 89 comments
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