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1.		Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption (buzzfeednews.com)
		1325 points by minimaxir on Oct 3, 2019 \| 558 comments
2.		SQL queries don't start with SELECT (jvns.ca)
		905 points by protomyth on Oct 3, 2019 \| 253 comments
3.		Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store (theregister.co.uk)
		841 points by ycombonator on Oct 3, 2019 \| 505 comments
4.		EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study Law Enforcement Use (eff.org)
		518 points by slowhand09 on Oct 3, 2019 \| 66 comments
5.		Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
		942 points by billions on Oct 2, 2019 \| 831 comments
6.		Apple Successfully Implements OpenID Connect with Sign in with Apple (openid.net)
		534 points by atestu on Oct 3, 2019 \| 114 comments
7.		Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within the Linux Kernel (phoronix.com)
		603 points by pjmlp on Oct 3, 2019 \| 322 comments
8.		A Gentle Introduction to Bayes’ Theorem for Machine Learning (machinelearningmastery.com)
		305 points by headalgorithm on Oct 3, 2019 \| 35 comments
9.		Samsung ends mobile phone production in China (reuters.com)
		365 points by gok on Oct 3, 2019 \| 180 comments
10.		Do you have a problem? Write a compiler (oleg.fi)
		327 points by lelf on Oct 2, 2019 \| 139 comments
11.		Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
		434 points by louismerlin on Oct 3, 2019 \| 351 comments
12.		Auto-Antonyms (fun-with-words.com)
		300 points by rsj_hn on Oct 3, 2019 \| 229 comments
13.		Identifying a person through walls from video footage, using only WiFi (techxplore.com)
		195 points by lelf on Oct 1, 2019 \| 93 comments
14.		Statistics for Engineers: Applying statistical techniques to operations (2016) (acm.org)
		201 points by yarapavan on Oct 3, 2019 \| 10 comments
15.		Show HN: Scale Heaven – Browse and play any scale/chord, chord progression (scale-heaven.com)
		231 points by seanitzel on Oct 3, 2019 \| 61 comments
16.		Show HN: 8086/8088 assembler that runs over 8088 hardware with modern syntax (github.com/nanochess)
		132 points by nanochess on Oct 3, 2019 \| 19 comments
17.		Picolibc – Libc for Embedded Systems (keithp.com)
		118 points by homarp on Oct 3, 2019 \| 41 comments
18.		Ackermann Steering Geometry (wikipedia.org)
		118 points by huhtenberg on Oct 2, 2019 \| 27 comments
19.		New Cars’ Pedestrian-Safety Features Fail in Deadliest Situations (wsj.com)
		119 points by lnguyen on Oct 3, 2019 \| 248 comments
20.		The Myth of Commoditized Excellence (barryhawkins.com)
		164 points by jlward4th on Oct 1, 2019 \| 75 comments
21.		New ‘infrared vision’ technique can help with cancer immunotherapy (stanford.edu)
		105 points by EndXA on Oct 3, 2019 \| 5 comments
22.		Design patterns for hacking together prototypes: object dictionaries (utk.edu)
		107 points by azhenley on Sept 30, 2019 \| 28 comments
23.		An Update on Plugin Security (figma.com)
		141 points by thomaspark on Oct 3, 2019 \| 36 comments
24.		Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets (zdnet.com)
		136 points by wolvtech on Oct 3, 2019 \| 61 comments
25.		China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains (asiatimes.com)
		265 points by yskchu on Oct 3, 2019 \| 469 comments
26.		Show HN: Memos – Search engine for your screenshots and photos (memos.org)
		112 points by gsundeep on Oct 2, 2019 \| 47 comments
27.		Let me automate that for you: removing pain points from data pipeline setup (gc.com)
		80 points by fanf2 on Oct 1, 2019 \| 3 comments
28.		Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer (arxiv.org)
		191 points by tosh on Oct 2, 2019 \| 41 comments
29.		John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books (1685) (publicdomainreview.org)
		71 points by benbreen on Oct 3, 2019 \| 12 comments
30.		The true story of the Amazon door desk (2011) (glennf.com)
		79 points by PascLeRasc on Oct 2, 2019 \| 66 comments
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