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1.		The 2002 mandate for internal communication systems at Amazon (sametab.com)
		634 points by anacleto on Oct 1, 2019 \| 176 comments
2.		EU brings in 'right to repair' rules for appliances (bbc.com)
		665 points by pseudolus on Oct 1, 2019 \| 412 comments
3.		Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles? (twitter.com/theandymaturin)
		918 points by pflenker on Oct 1, 2019 \| 280 comments
4.		Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)
		380 points by whoishiring on Oct 1, 2019 \| 893 comments
5.		Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests (reddit.com)
		628 points by nodea2345 on Oct 1, 2019 \| 913 comments
6.		Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers (france24.com)
		289 points by keydutch on Oct 1, 2019 \| 188 comments
7.		Sonos smart speaker controller API and CLI written in Rust (github.com/mlang)
		200 points by mlang23 on Oct 1, 2019 \| 106 comments
8.		Africa Is Building an A.I. Industry That Doesn’t Look Like Silicon Valley (onezero.medium.com)
		377 points by imartin2k on Oct 1, 2019 \| 85 comments
9.		Amazon and Apple are building rival networks that know where everything is (wired.co.uk)
		187 points by MilnerRoute on Sept 29, 2019 \| 83 comments
10.		Belgian startup Magnax has found a way to mass-produce the axial-flux motor (ieee.org)
		378 points by sohkamyung on Oct 1, 2019 \| 120 comments
11.		Japanese pagers to issue last beeps on Tuesday, ending 50-year run (japantimes.co.jp)
		291 points by ytch on Oct 1, 2019 \| 126 comments
12.		Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour (geekwire.com)
		253 points by starpilot on Oct 1, 2019 \| 347 comments
13.		New Studies Warn of Cataclysmic Solar Superstorms (scientificamerican.com)
		147 points by hourislate on Oct 1, 2019 \| 73 comments
14.		The Founder Dating Playbook (firstround.com)
		164 points by feifan on Oct 1, 2019 \| 43 comments
15.		Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2019)
		173 points by whoishiring on Oct 1, 2019 \| 363 comments
16.		Great apes appear to have “theory of mind” (inverse.com)
		237 points by mr_tyzik on Oct 1, 2019 \| 136 comments
17.		I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media (nytimes.com)
		373 points by wellactually on Oct 1, 2019 \| 263 comments
18.		Early-career setback and future career impact (nature.com)
		133 points by hhs on Oct 1, 2019 \| 26 comments
19.		Secrecy, overclassification, and the the CIA’s hidden history (muckrock.com)
		130 points by danso on Oct 1, 2019 \| 43 comments
20.		Jet fuel from thin air: Aviation's hope or hype? (bbc.com)
		97 points by theklub on Oct 1, 2019 \| 93 comments
21.		We Are All Confident Idiots (2014) (psmag.com)
		203 points by who-knows on Oct 1, 2019 \| 130 comments
22.		Global Illumination in WebGL (playcanv.as)
		211 points by mrmaxm on Oct 1, 2019 \| 78 comments
23.		Conventional Commits: A specification for structured commit messages (conventionalcommits.org)
		157 points by BenjaminCoe on Oct 1, 2019 \| 95 comments
24.		Fixing Getrandom() (lwn.net)
		132 points by Tomte on Sept 30, 2019 \| 157 comments
25.		My Time at Snap (medium.com/marko_tupper)
		481 points by tsm on Oct 1, 2019 \| 247 comments
26.		20,000 Startup Ideas (unawaz.github.io)
		461 points by overlords on Sept 30, 2019 \| 178 comments
27.		Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Know Him (medium.com/whoisylvia)
		511 points by lelf on Oct 1, 2019 \| 515 comments
28.		Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No Refrigeration (bristol.ac.uk)
		240 points by ArtWomb on Oct 1, 2019 \| 120 comments
29.		Cargo Cult Science (1974) (caltech.edu)
		142 points by fipar on Sept 30, 2019 \| 33 comments
30.		DigitalOcean block storage is down (digitalocean.com)
		165 points by kaendfinger on Sept 30, 2019 \| 83 comments
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