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1.		Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps (theverge.com)
		882 points by rising-sky on Jan 31, 2019 \| 641 comments
2.		Product-building articles by PMs at major tech companies (find.xyz)
		430 points by itsrishabh on Jan 31, 2019 \| 101 comments
3.		The UAE’s secret hacking team of U.S. mercenaries (reuters.com)
		342 points by betolink on Jan 31, 2019 \| 150 comments
4.		U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers (wsj.com)
		469 points by godelmachine on Jan 31, 2019 \| 613 comments
5.		Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration (2017) (kentcdodds.com)
		331 points by AlexanderDhoore on Jan 31, 2019 \| 152 comments
6.		Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA (cloud.google.com)
		283 points by markoa on Jan 31, 2019 \| 154 comments
7.		How many .com domain names are unused? (singaporedatacompany.com)
		275 points by jekor on Jan 31, 2019 \| 207 comments
8.		Criminals Are Tapping into the Phone Network Backbone to Empty Bank Accounts (vice.com)
		244 points by secfirstmd on Jan 31, 2019 \| 153 comments
9.		Something mysterious is blocking car key fobs from working in an Alberta town (cbc.ca)
		224 points by drpgq on Jan 31, 2019 \| 186 comments
10.		Extramaze: Using Racket, PostgreSQL, AWS, but no ads or JavaScript (2018) (greghendershott.com)
		218 points by aeontech on Jan 31, 2019 \| 36 comments
11.		A Coder Who Became a Crime Boss (wired.com)
		291 points by Elof on Jan 30, 2019 \| 66 comments
12.		Stealing the Enemy's Urban Advantage: The Battle of Sadr City (usma.edu)
		246 points by jspencer508 on Jan 31, 2019 \| 207 comments
13.		Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset (2012) (troyhunt.com)
		201 points by colinprince on Jan 31, 2019 \| 108 comments
14.		UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019 (myuv.com)
		134 points by evanweaver on Jan 31, 2019 \| 133 comments
15.		A proposed API for full-memory encryption (lwn.net)
		149 points by l2dy on Jan 31, 2019 \| 40 comments
16.		Gödel's Theorem (bactra.org)
		143 points by bookofjoe on Jan 30, 2019 \| 95 comments
17.		Lombok makes Java cool again (grubhub.com)
		187 points by rdonovan on Jan 31, 2019 \| 234 comments
18.		How to teach programming to your loved ones [video] (ccc.de)
		158 points by n-izem on Jan 31, 2019 \| 44 comments
19.		A KGB agent shipped a Sidewinder missile by mail to Moscow (2017) (nationalinterest.org)
		239 points by rishabhd on Jan 31, 2019 \| 100 comments
20.		[dupe] Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales” for Its Monetized Games (usgamer.net)
		472 points by throwaway2048 on Jan 31, 2019 \| 298 comments
21.		Simulating blobs of fluid (peeke.nl)
		178 points by peeke on Jan 30, 2019 \| 25 comments
22.		Faster hash joiner with vectorized execution (cockroachlabs.com)
		120 points by jordanlewis on Jan 31, 2019 \| 19 comments
23.		The first synthetic element (nature.com)
		77 points by pseudolus on Jan 30, 2019 \| 2 comments
24.		Ask HN: Top three questions for a startup before accepting a job offer?
		301 points by wrestlerman on Jan 31, 2019 \| 118 comments
25.		Time Running Out for Beloved Mechanical Horse-Race Game in Vegas (atlasobscura.com)
		76 points by bcaulfield on Jan 30, 2019 \| 18 comments
26.		This is Your Brain Off Facebook - study offers glimpse of unplugging (nytimes.com)
		174 points by pseudolus on Jan 31, 2019 \| 68 comments
27.		NY Insurers Can Evaluate Social Media Use If They Can Prove Why It’s Needed (wsj.com)
		83 points by TuringNYC on Jan 30, 2019 \| 88 comments
28.		Rigetti launches the public beta of its Quantum Cloud Services (techcrunch.com)
		82 points by sahin on Jan 31, 2019 \| 22 comments
29.		CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR (tonic.ai)
		199 points by icoe on Jan 31, 2019 \| 167 comments
30.		Jean-Paul Sartre Had a Bad Mescaline Trip (2018) (openculture.com)
		67 points by lermontov on Jan 30, 2019 \| 16 comments
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