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1.		Downsides to working at a tech giant (garrytan.com)
		700 points by razin on Dec 23, 2019 \| 559 comments
2.		Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens (reuters.com)
		659 points by pseudolus on Dec 23, 2019 \| 609 comments
3.		Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal (github.com/ffwff)
		542 points by hootbootscoot on Dec 23, 2019 \| 251 comments
4.		UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create (undraw.co)
		775 points by pixelN on Dec 22, 2019 \| 75 comments
5.		Working for a startup makes less sense (zainamro.com)
		572 points by zainamro on Dec 23, 2019 \| 378 comments
6.		Open-Source Spotify App (github.com/thasianx)
		345 points by thasian on Dec 23, 2019 \| 110 comments
7.		People who tend to be optimistic are likelier to live to 85 or more: study (npr.org)
		294 points by dhimes on Dec 22, 2019 \| 183 comments
8.		Federal study confirms racial bias of many facial-recognition systems (washingtonpost.com)
		158 points by longdefeat on Dec 19, 2019 \| 116 comments
9.		Evolutionary history and why physical activity is important for brain health (scientificamerican.com)
		284 points by lxm on Dec 23, 2019 \| 123 comments
10.		Radeon Open Compute 3.0 (github.com/radeonopencompute)
		208 points by mroche on Dec 22, 2019 \| 55 comments
11.		Million WebSockets and Go (2017) (gbws.io)
		210 points by riobard on Dec 23, 2019 \| 34 comments
12.		Ram Dass has died (tricycle.org)
		372 points by okareaman on Dec 23, 2019 \| 192 comments
13.		How to Create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube in WebGL (tympanus.net)
		253 points by cardimart on Dec 23, 2019 \| 23 comments
14.		Simpler UI Logic With Finite State Machines (terodox.tech)
		185 points by terodox on Dec 23, 2019 \| 53 comments
15.		The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land (bloomberg.com)
		129 points by pseudolus on Dec 23, 2019 \| 255 comments
16.		WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets (github.com/satwikkansal)
		396 points by throwaway_shame on Dec 23, 2019 \| 185 comments
17.		The Year in Biology (quantamagazine.org)
		107 points by theafh on Dec 23, 2019 \| 2 comments
18.		Researchers have identified 100 mysteriously disappeared stars in the night sky (sciencealert.com)
		189 points by nabla9 on Dec 23, 2019 \| 172 comments
19.		Show HN: Linux driver for the Xbox One wireless dongle (github.com/medusalix)
		158 points by Medusalix on Dec 22, 2019 \| 22 comments
20.		Randomize HN: Removing the vote threshold for getting to the front page (danluu.com)
		117 points by goranmoomin on Dec 23, 2019 \| 54 comments
21.		Typing inside of the default WSL terminal feels amazing (2018) (github.com/microsoft)
		332 points by hnbreak on Dec 23, 2019 \| 117 comments
22.		Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game (2015) (scientificamerican.com)
		114 points by julianshapiro on Dec 22, 2019 \| 42 comments
23.		Show HN: Timelite, a simple time tracking solution (github.com/overshard)
		109 points by overshard on Dec 22, 2019 \| 34 comments
24.		Okay, Maybe Proofs Aren't Dying After All (scientificamerican.com)
		104 points by lelf on Dec 22, 2019 \| 12 comments
25.		Windows 0-day exploit used in Operation WizardOpium (securelist.com)
		128 points by peter_d_sherman on Dec 23, 2019 \| 23 comments
26.		Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows (github.com/spectresystems)
		89 points by GordonS on Dec 23, 2019 \| 53 comments
27.		Reviewing Bad Schematics as EE Interview Tactic (cushychicken.github.io)
		104 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc on Dec 23, 2019 \| 107 comments
28.		China Is About to Fire Up Its HL-2M Tokamak (newsweek.com)
		150 points by off_by_one on Dec 22, 2019 \| 162 comments
29.		Efficient cache for gigabytes of data written in Go (github.com/allegro)
		153 points by alexellisuk on Dec 20, 2019 \| 67 comments
30.		How Crisco Made Americans Believers in Industrial Food (smithsonianmag.com)
		104 points by pseudolus on Dec 23, 2019 \| 185 comments
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