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1.		Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore (nuclearsecrecy.com)
		787 points by Fej on Dec 13, 2019 \| 289 comments
2.		Happy Hues – Curated colors in context (happyhues.co)
		606 points by m1guelpf on Dec 13, 2019 \| 110 comments
3.		The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug (twitter.com/_taylorswope)
		676 points by pkilgore on Dec 13, 2019 \| 185 comments
4.		Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search (forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster)
		502 points by labase19 on Dec 12, 2019 \| 269 comments
5.		Ask HN: What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens?
		373 points by CoffeeOnWrite on Dec 13, 2019 \| 227 comments
6.		Reputation management firms bury Google results by placing flattering content (wsj.com)
		301 points by eplanit on Dec 13, 2019 \| 128 comments
7.		Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS (gameanalytics.com)
		280 points by praveenscience on Dec 13, 2019 \| 97 comments
8.		Click Here to Kill (harpers.org)
		215 points by self on Dec 12, 2019 \| 107 comments
9.		BBC Sound Effects (acropolis.org.uk)
		183 points by tmalsburg2 on Dec 13, 2019 \| 38 comments
10.		A genomic predictor of lifespan in vertebrates (nature.com)
		117 points by Vaslo on Dec 13, 2019 \| 77 comments
11.		Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning [pdf] (cdn.openai.com)
		116 points by hongzi on Dec 13, 2019 \| 34 comments
12.		Httpserver.h: Single header library for writing non-blocking HTTP servers in C (github.com/jeremycw)
		332 points by jeremycw on Dec 12, 2019 \| 163 comments
13.		Terence Tao Proves Result on the Collatz Conjecture (quantamagazine.org)
		361 points by datashrimp on Dec 13, 2019 \| 153 comments
14.		Deep Learning Breakthrough Made by Rice University Scientists (arstechnica.com)
		112 points by Tomte on Dec 13, 2019 \| 33 comments
15.		Startup Growth and Venture Returns (angel.co)
		100 points by ed on Dec 12, 2019 \| 30 comments
16.		Cyc (wikipedia.org)
		357 points by mdszy on Dec 13, 2019 \| 173 comments
17.		Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Strategies (2017) (hbr.org)
		290 points by anthilemoon on Dec 12, 2019 \| 68 comments
18.		Show HN: LastingPaper – A Desktop App for Your E-Ink Kindle (lastingpaper.com)
		138 points by lvscar on Dec 13, 2019 \| 34 comments
19.		An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? (reddit.com)
		554 points by m0ck on Dec 13, 2019 \| 362 comments
20.		Probability Theory for Physically Based Rendering (ompf2.com)
		134 points by mariuz on Dec 13, 2019 \| 11 comments
21.		Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes (bloomberg.com)
		348 points by pseudolus on Dec 13, 2019 \| 430 comments
22.		How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll (atlasobscura.com)
		186 points by sohkamyung on Dec 13, 2019 \| 43 comments
23.		Basics of Compiler Design (2000) [pdf] (diku.dk)
		207 points by _mtkq on Dec 13, 2019 \| 34 comments
24.		Bill Atkinson: Reflections on the 40th anniversary of my joining Apple (folklore.org)
		219 points by kick on Dec 13, 2019 \| 78 comments
25.		Uni: Query the Unicode database from the CLI, with good support for emojis (github.com/arp242)
		111 points by oftenwrong on Dec 12, 2019 \| 29 comments
26.		America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971 (2008) (nih.gov)
		77 points by tintinnabula on Dec 13, 2019 \| 95 comments
27.		SuperShuttle is going out of business (latimes.com)
		166 points by lxm on Dec 13, 2019 \| 133 comments
28.		Reimagining the PhD (nadiaeghbal.com)
		211 points by imartin2k on Dec 13, 2019 \| 111 comments
29.		Rules of Machine Learning: Best Practices for ML Engineering [pdf] (zinkevich.org)
		188 points by yarapavan on Dec 13, 2019 \| 4 comments
30.		Intel Takes Lidar Indoors (zdnet.com)
		86 points by stambros on Dec 12, 2019 \| 41 comments
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