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1.		No evidence that testosterone reduces cognitive empathy (upenn.edu)
		427 points by elorant on Oct 2, 2019 \| 236 comments
2.		The vultures of Spain skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy (twitter.com/turbanminor)
		542 points by isp on Oct 1, 2019 \| 101 comments
3.		Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS (arstechnica.com)
		645 points by Deinos on Oct 1, 2019 \| 434 comments
4.		Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet (netblocks.org)
		560 points by anigbrowl on Oct 2, 2019 \| 304 comments
5.		New In Postgres 12: Generated Columns (pgdash.io)
		516 points by craigkerstiens on Oct 2, 2019 \| 190 comments
6.		Ocean plastic waste probably comes from ships, report says (afp.com)
		373 points by elorant on Oct 2, 2019 \| 291 comments
7.		Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices (techcrunch.com)
		372 points by aminecodes on Oct 2, 2019 \| 291 comments
8.		Show HN: Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project (stavros.io)
		442 points by stavros on Oct 2, 2019 \| 91 comments
9.		How a double-free bug in WhatsApp turns to remote code execution (awakened1712.github.io)
		416 points by wyldfire on Oct 2, 2019 \| 120 comments
10.		Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019 (ycombinator.com)
		371 points by andygcook on Oct 2, 2019 \| 156 comments
11.		Making a RISC-V Operating System Using Rust (utk.edu)
		300 points by fogus on Oct 2, 2019 \| 46 comments
12.		Schwab Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commissions (aboutschwab.com)
		274 points by lxm on Oct 2, 2019 \| 275 comments
13.		This To That (thistothat.com)
		386 points by thunderbong on Sept 30, 2019 \| 92 comments
14.		How much faster is Redis at storing a blob of JSON compared to Postgres? (peterbe.com)
		224 points by Manozco on Oct 2, 2019 \| 114 comments
15.		What are the most indispensable books for indie hackers? (indiehackers.com)
		301 points by ChanningAllen on Oct 2, 2019 \| 61 comments
16.		Small Trial Reverses a Year of Alzheimer's Cognitive Decline in Just Two Months (sciencealert.com)
		254 points by lelf on Sept 30, 2019 \| 81 comments
17.		Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way? (syfy.com)
		222 points by Santosh83 on Oct 2, 2019 \| 100 comments
18.		The IBM Pentium 4 64-Bit CPU (cpushack.com)
		207 points by sohkamyung on Oct 2, 2019 \| 78 comments
19.		Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing (astro.golf)
		232 points by mrspatula on Oct 2, 2019 \| 113 comments
20.		Unsung Beauty of Analog Devices Datasheets (neil.computer)
		173 points by neilpanchal on Sept 30, 2019 \| 65 comments
21.		Tiny Acquires Meteor (techcrunch.com)
		165 points by doppp on Oct 2, 2019 \| 56 comments
22.		The myth of the teacher pay gap? (nationalaffairs.com)
		144 points by autokill on Oct 1, 2019 \| 301 comments
23.		40k-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found (2015) (digitaljournal.com)
		158 points by blfr on Sept 29, 2019 \| 36 comments
24.		A New R6RS Scheme Compiler (weinholt.se)
		182 points by widdershins on Oct 2, 2019 \| 57 comments
25.		Taichi: A Language for High-Performance Computation on Spatially Sparse Data [pdf] (taichi.graphics)
		78 points by matt_d on Oct 2, 2019 \| 9 comments
26.		Solving the Wrong Problem (2011) (azarask.in)
		142 points by dedalus on Oct 2, 2019 \| 42 comments
27.		Visa, Mastercard, Others Reconsider Involvement in Facebook's Libra Network (wsj.com)
		184 points by JumpCrisscross on Oct 2, 2019 \| 109 comments
28.		The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody and predictions (nature.com)
		208 points by sohkamyung on Oct 2, 2019 \| 110 comments
29.		Bulgaria is the world’s fastest-shrinking country (bbc.com)
		316 points by clouddrover on Sept 30, 2019 \| 295 comments
30.		Intel slashes prices in face of AMD competition (anandtech.com)
		202 points by taspeotis on Oct 2, 2019 \| 159 comments
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