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1.		Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016) (cutle.fish)
		1002 points by aphextron on Feb 15, 2020 \| 281 comments
2.		The dystopian world of software engineering interviews (jarednelsen.dev)
		1027 points by asangha on Feb 15, 2020 \| 811 comments
3.		What made the 1960s CDC6600 supercomputer fast? (cpldcpu.wordpress.com)
		216 points by kken on Feb 15, 2020 \| 102 comments
4.		Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019) (weforum.org)
		417 points by saadalem on Feb 15, 2020 \| 500 comments
5.		ESbuild – A fast JavaScript bundler and minifier in Go (github.com/evanw)
		355 points by todotask on Feb 15, 2020 \| 133 comments
6.		Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle (joisig.com)
		554 points by joisig on Feb 15, 2020 \| 77 comments
7.		ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse (homehack.nl)
		372 points by app4soft on Feb 15, 2020 \| 191 comments
8.		How to take smart notes with Org mode (jethro.dev)
		296 points by noelwelsh on Feb 15, 2020 \| 72 comments
9.		Apple's long processor journey (liam-on-linux.livejournal.com)
		162 points by AndrewDucker on Feb 15, 2020 \| 83 comments
10.		These Lyrics Do Not Exist (theselyricsdonotexist.com)
		139 points by brogrammer2018 on Feb 15, 2020 \| 46 comments
11.		Ask HN: What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?
		496 points by programbreeding on Feb 14, 2020 \| 207 comments
12.		Plink-plonk.js – hear webpages render with DOM observer and audio API (gist.github.com)
		248 points by hicksyfern on Feb 14, 2020 \| 58 comments
13.		Microsoft cut off game maker's revenue stream, so he built his own replacement (cnbc.com)
		125 points by aluket on Feb 15, 2020 \| 59 comments
14.		Three Types of Data (brandons.me)
		109 points by brundolf on Feb 15, 2020 \| 23 comments
15.		RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India (cbc.ca)
		140 points by the_unknown on Feb 15, 2020 \| 61 comments
16.		From models of galaxies to atoms, simple AI shortcuts speed up simulations (sciencemag.org)
		85 points by DarkContinent on Feb 15, 2020 \| 36 comments
17.		Designing the most performant row-level security schema in Postgres (2018) (medium.com/cazzer)
		75 points by dfee on Feb 14, 2020 \| 10 comments
18.		DBLog: A Change-Data-Capture Framework (netflixtechblog.com)
		102 points by srijan4 on Feb 15, 2020 \| 13 comments
19.		Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling support (ivanceras.github.io)
		161 points by ivanceras on Feb 14, 2020 \| 33 comments
20.		Classification of the Principal Programming Paradigms (2009) (ucl.ac.be)
		116 points by oumua_don17 on Feb 14, 2020 \| 33 comments
21.		A 7KB AWS lambda Node.js library with zero runtime dependencies (npmjs.com)
		123 points by albertgao on Feb 14, 2020 \| 59 comments
22.		Auto-vectorization for the masses (2011) (leiradel.github.io)
		51 points by lelf on Feb 15, 2020 \| 19 comments
23.		Human Universals (2002) (depaul.edu)
		54 points by NoRagrets on Feb 15, 2020 \| 12 comments
24.		AutoFlip: an open-source framework for intelligent video reframing (googleblog.com)
		89 points by jonbaer on Feb 14, 2020 \| 10 comments
25.		Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets (docs.google.com)
		400 points by ollieglass on Feb 15, 2020 \| 331 comments
26.		On emulating hypervisors: a Samsung RKP case study (phrack.org)
		64 points by based2 on Feb 15, 2020 \| 1 comment
27.		Exploring the Web Speech API (voorhoede.nl)
		78 points by jbmoelker on Feb 14, 2020 \| 9 comments
28.		Astronomers want public funds for intelligent life search (bbc.co.uk)
		89 points by aluket on Feb 15, 2020 \| 100 comments
29.		Cancer medicine generates enormous revenues but marginal benefits for patients? (scientificamerican.com)
		186 points by jwblackwell on Feb 15, 2020 \| 123 comments
30.		The geology and geophysics of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth (science.sciencemag.org)
		41 points by robin_reala on Feb 14, 2020 \| 2 comments
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