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1.		Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’ (quora.com)
		1181 points by enkiv2 on Aug 9, 2019 \| 260 comments
2.		Home Chip Fab (zeloof.xyz)
		566 points by JabavuAdams on Aug 9, 2019 \| 131 comments
3.		Who Owns Huawei? (ssrn.com)
		547 points by smacktoward on Aug 9, 2019 \| 312 comments
4.		Berlin’s Popular Shopping Streets Will Go Car-Free (citylab.com)
		415 points by jseliger on Aug 8, 2019 \| 182 comments
5.		Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights (blog.google)
		424 points by momentmaker on Aug 9, 2019 \| 211 comments
6.		9th Circuit says users can sue Facebook over unlawful use of facial recognition (aclu-il.org)
		373 points by datapolitical on Aug 8, 2019 \| 104 comments
7.		Coinbase: Responding to Firefox 0-days in the wild (coinbase.com)
		288 points by hi on Aug 9, 2019 \| 93 comments
8.		Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking sensitive data (techcrunch.com)
		181 points by ewood on Aug 9, 2019 \| 61 comments
9.		The Erlang Rationale (rvirding.blogspot.com)
		211 points by lelf on Aug 9, 2019 \| 38 comments
10.		Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data (bbc.co.uk)
		397 points by jfk13 on Aug 8, 2019 \| 232 comments
11.		Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, scans license plates (muckrock.com)
		125 points by danso on Aug 9, 2019 \| 88 comments
12.		Group sex app leaks locations, pics and personal details (pentestpartners.com)
		362 points by chovy on Aug 8, 2019 \| 138 comments
13.		Solar Powered Raspberry Pi Camera (kaspars.net)
		143 points by ingve on Aug 9, 2019 \| 68 comments
14.		Big Pharma is using faux generics to keep drug prices high, critics say (arstechnica.com)
		260 points by airstrike on Aug 9, 2019 \| 134 comments
15.		Holidays are good for workers and companies alike (economist.com)
		92 points by edward on Aug 9, 2019 \| 73 comments
16.		‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the Town Bully (thedailybeast.com)
		207 points by BobbyVsTheDevil on Aug 9, 2019 \| 251 comments
17.		Kubernetes Security Assessment [pdf] (github.com/kubernetes)
		255 points by Tomte on Aug 9, 2019 \| 63 comments
18.		What’s the difference between statistics and machine learning? (thestatsgeek.com)
		202 points by jwb133 on Aug 9, 2019 \| 93 comments
19.		Open-source firmware (mullvad.net)
		247 points by ericdanielski on Aug 9, 2019 \| 47 comments
20.		Rice University researchers propose a way to boost solar efficiency (polyarch.co)
		283 points by shry4ns on Aug 9, 2019 \| 120 comments
21.		The World’s Smartest Chimp Has Died (nytimes.com)
		67 points by uptown on Aug 9, 2019 \| 23 comments
22.		Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet (nature.com)
		457 points by sanxiyn on Aug 9, 2019 \| 547 comments
23.		Swap, swap, swap, and bad places to work (rachelbythebay.com)
		213 points by r4um on Aug 9, 2019 \| 119 comments
24.		Show HN: Tailwind.run – An Online Playground for Tailwind CSS (tailwind.run)
		181 points by utkarshkukreti on Aug 9, 2019 \| 95 comments
25.		Tech backlash has come to Stanford (slate.com)
		173 points by ForHackernews on Aug 8, 2019 \| 210 comments
26.		'It's crazy': Chase forgiving all debt owed by its Canada credit card customers (cbc.ca)
		184 points by electriclove on Aug 8, 2019 \| 118 comments
27.		History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of \| (reddit.com)
		152 points by lelf on Aug 6, 2019 \| 61 comments
28.		US Air Force pauses flights for over a hundred C-130s over ‘atypical’ cracking (defensenews.com)
		88 points by Jerry2 on Aug 9, 2019 \| 16 comments
29.		Personal Website for Programmers (github.com/naresh1318)
		169 points by naresh1318 on Aug 9, 2019 \| 109 comments
30.		A Conversation with the Team That Made Bread with Ancient Egyptian Yeast (eater.com)
		70 points by yawz on Aug 8, 2019 \| 16 comments
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