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1.		Perfectly Cropped (tyler.io)
		1232 points by keehun on Oct 25, 2019 \| 553 comments
2.		Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract (nytimes.com)
		701 points by aaronbrethorst on Oct 25, 2019 \| 440 comments
3.		Gmail marking email from me as spam (mail-archive.com)
		475 points by cnst on Oct 25, 2019 \| 393 comments
4.		MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Computers That Didn't Work (ieee.org)
		359 points by harrygoldstein on Oct 24, 2019 \| 204 comments
5.		Don Valentine has died (sequoiacap.com)
		284 points by gatsby on Oct 25, 2019 \| 26 comments
6.		قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic (nas.sr)
		556 points by kick on Oct 25, 2019 \| 623 comments
7.		Supercritical CO2 is heavy like a liquid, with weird and useful properties (popula.com)
		212 points by firstbase on Oct 25, 2019 \| 55 comments
8.		My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be? (medium.com/help-me-heidi)
		644 points by rmason on Oct 25, 2019 \| 370 comments
9.		An Illustrated Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect (okta.com)
		431 points by jbigelow76 on Oct 25, 2019 \| 74 comments
10.		How SSH Port Became 22 (ssh.com)
		382 points by kawera on Oct 24, 2019 \| 81 comments
11.		Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the result of a query (github.com/pubkey)
		288 points by dsun180 on Oct 25, 2019 \| 122 comments
12.		Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline (gluebenchmark.com)
		303 points by alexwg on Oct 24, 2019 \| 235 comments
13.		Non-Green Plants (2013) (plantsandprejudice.wordpress.com)
		97 points by sillybilly on Oct 25, 2019 \| 15 comments
14.		Who Killed the Scrollbar? (ello.co)
		351 points by dredmorbius on Oct 25, 2019 \| 316 comments
15.		Netflix open-sources Polynote, an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook (medium.com/netflix-techblog)
		427 points by type_enthusiast on Oct 23, 2019 \| 85 comments
16.		Using Deep Learning to Predict the Olfactory Properties of Molecules (googleblog.com)
		140 points by dyslexit on Oct 25, 2019 \| 39 comments
17.		Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure (janestreet.com)
		186 points by lelf on Oct 25, 2019 \| 42 comments
18.		Metamath Zero, a bootstrapping theorem prover (arxiv.org)
		125 points by giomasce on Oct 25, 2019 \| 36 comments
19.		Calculus for the Curious (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		243 points by diodorus on Oct 24, 2019 \| 38 comments
20.		Reflections on My Career at Microsoft (medium.com/docjamesw)
		300 points by CPAhem on Oct 25, 2019 \| 159 comments
21.		Ants Are Practically Immune to Traffic Jams (sciencealert.com)
		191 points by laktak on Oct 25, 2019 \| 160 comments
22.		Python and OpenGL for Scientific Visualization (labri.fr)
		235 points by dsego on Oct 25, 2019 \| 24 comments
23.		Intel SPMD Program Compiler: A Compiler for High-Performance SIMD Programming (ispc.github.io)
		131 points by kick on Oct 25, 2019 \| 30 comments
24.		Focusmate – Virtual Coworking Helps You Get Things Done (focusmate.com)
		184 points by jeffshek on Oct 25, 2019 \| 62 comments
25.		Obscure Charges That Utility Companies Add to Bills (propublica.org)
		119 points by danso on Oct 24, 2019 \| 29 comments
26.		We tested Europe’s new lie detector for travelers and triggered a false positive (theintercept.com)
		226 points by rchaudhary on Oct 25, 2019 \| 114 comments
27.		Applying BERT models to Search (blog.google)
		165 points by moultano on Oct 25, 2019 \| 109 comments
28.		Show HN: Aim and Shoot – A game where your opponents are neural networks (github.com/victorqribeiro)
		118 points by atum47 on Oct 25, 2019 \| 33 comments
29.		Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance (sicpers.info)
		155 points by ingve on Oct 25, 2019 \| 49 comments
30.		Dagen H: the day Sweden switched from driving on the left to the right (2018) (drivemag.com)
		95 points by gscott on Oct 25, 2019 \| 53 comments
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