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1.		How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer (markosaric.com)
		1238 points by markosaric on Dec 5, 2019 \| 539 comments
2.		Show HN: AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2 (aidungeon.io)
		584 points by nickwalton00 on Dec 5, 2019 \| 220 comments
3.		Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots (selfhostedsource.tech)
		656 points by techindex on Dec 5, 2019 \| 112 comments
4.		Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor (mattstoller.substack.com)
		781 points by jashkenas on Dec 5, 2019 \| 310 comments
5.		Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nearly all LaTeX package (github.com/swiftlatex)
		741 points by LegitGandalf on Dec 5, 2019 \| 114 comments
6.		Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?
		882 points by learnaholic on Dec 5, 2019 \| 209 comments
7.		The Amazon Builders' Library (amazon.com)
		469 points by mooreds on Dec 5, 2019 \| 48 comments
8.		Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up (bnef.com)
		375 points by howard941 on Dec 5, 2019 \| 318 comments
9.		The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazon-owned brand (vox.com)
		287 points by luu on Dec 3, 2019 \| 195 comments
10.		Apple Explains Mysterious iPhone 11 Location Requests (krebsonsecurity.com)
		299 points by feross on Dec 5, 2019 \| 162 comments
11.		How I Switched to Plan 9 (cat-v.org)
		313 points by Seirdy on Dec 4, 2019 \| 161 comments
12.		Inferring and hijacking VPN-tunneled TCP connections (seclists.org)
		320 points by jedisct1 on Dec 5, 2019 \| 126 comments
13.		Is Arm ready for server dominance? (scylladb.com)
		251 points by PeterCorless on Dec 5, 2019 \| 132 comments
14.		I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit (reddit.com)
		506 points by rahuldottech on Dec 5, 2019 \| 349 comments
15.		America’s Air Quality Worsens, Ending Years of Gains, Study Says (nytimes.com)
		294 points by luu on Dec 5, 2019 \| 128 comments
16.		A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier (vice.com)
		308 points by danso on Dec 5, 2019 \| 715 comments
17.		Get PostgreSQL Database Structure as a Detailed JavaScript Object (pg-structure.com)
		158 points by stephen on Dec 5, 2019 \| 29 comments
18.		A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments (learnk8s.io)
		240 points by Cantaro86 on Dec 5, 2019 \| 53 comments
19.		Arcade Game Typography (readonlymemory.vg)
		215 points by Impossible on Dec 5, 2019 \| 47 comments
20.		A Distributed Meeting Primer (randsinrepose.com)
		129 points by mooreds on Dec 4, 2019 \| 23 comments
21.		How “randomizers” are breathing new life into old games (arstechnica.com)
		197 points by Tomte on Dec 4, 2019 \| 78 comments
22.		Kill Sticky Headers (2013) (mcdiarmid.org)
		176 points by goranmoomin on Dec 4, 2019 \| 81 comments
23.		Busyness leads to bad decisions (bbc.com)
		210 points by hhs on Dec 3, 2019 \| 80 comments
24.		Snibgo's ImageMagick Pages (2014) (snibgo.com)
		106 points by siftrics on Dec 5, 2019 \| 7 comments
25.		FIND3: High-precision indoor positioning framework (github.com/schollz)
		109 points by tlrobinson on Dec 4, 2019 \| 28 comments
26.		The origins of GPS, and the pioneers who launched the system (2010) (gpsworld.com)
		97 points by fanf2 on Dec 4, 2019 \| 29 comments
27.		Selling Juicer (goddamnyouryan.com)
		152 points by timschu on Dec 4, 2019 \| 60 comments
28.		China gene-edited baby experiment 'may have created unintended mutations' (theguardian.com)
		117 points by pseudolus on Dec 5, 2019 \| 136 comments
29.		Software Security Is a Programming Languages Issue (2018) (pl-enthusiast.net)
		116 points by azhenley on Dec 4, 2019 \| 118 comments
30.		Global warming-induced migratory bird body size reduction and shape change (wiley.com)
		90 points by bookofjoe on Dec 5, 2019 \| 16 comments
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