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1.		The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 (sha-mbles.github.io)
		928 points by ynezz on Jan 7, 2020 \| 352 comments
2.		Disinformation for hire: how a new breed of PR firms is selling lies online (buzzfeednews.com)
		479 points by edward on Jan 7, 2020 \| 269 comments
3.		Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? (kevinrooke.com)
		699 points by 123six on Jan 7, 2020 \| 671 comments
4.		Firefox 72.0 (mozilla.org)
		758 points by Shinkirou on Jan 7, 2020 \| 525 comments
5.		AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs (anandtech.com)
		432 points by neogodless on Jan 6, 2020 \| 307 comments
6.		Translating Quake 3 into Rust (immunant.com)
		456 points by K0nserv on Jan 7, 2020 \| 120 comments
7.		Using the hunger I experienced as a kid to teach mine about generosity (2019) (humanparts.medium.com)
		502 points by metafunctor on Jan 7, 2020 \| 194 comments
8.		Ask HN: Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s
		441 points by kemiller on Jan 7, 2020 \| 184 comments
9.		Electrical Ground Current Event Detected in Norway (spaceweather.com)
		316 points by duncancarroll on Jan 7, 2020 \| 98 comments
10.		Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool (lwn.net)
		265 points by lukastyrychtr on Jan 7, 2020 \| 174 comments
11.		Show HN: jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go (github.com/cube2222)
		217 points by cube2222 on Jan 7, 2020 \| 90 comments
12.		Our field isn't quite “artificial intelligence” – it's “cognitive automation” (twitter.com/fchollet)
		294 points by vo2maxer on Jan 7, 2020 \| 98 comments
13.		Let the Compiler Do the Work (cliffle.com)
		213 points by milliams on Jan 6, 2020 \| 60 comments
14.		Go Things I Love: Channels and Goroutines (justindfuller.com)
		192 points by iamjfu on Jan 6, 2020 \| 69 comments
15.		Pegasus Mail, 30 Years On (pmail.com)
		186 points by rhabarba on Jan 7, 2020 \| 46 comments
16.		The End of the Beginning (stratechery.com)
		202 points by nikbackm on Jan 7, 2020 \| 115 comments
17.		Laptop OEMs – make a proper high-end AMD laptop (basilgohar.com)
		236 points by basilgohar on Jan 7, 2020 \| 170 comments
18.		AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th (anandtech.com)
		252 points by erik on Jan 7, 2020 \| 249 comments
19.		Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers (latimes.com)
		386 points by rschnalzer on Jan 7, 2020 \| 485 comments
20.		Analyzing churn rates, free trials, and other metrics (jlongster.com)
		149 points by shinryuu on Jan 7, 2020 \| 16 comments
21.		Google files opening Supreme Court brief in Oracle v. Google copyright lawsuit (blog.google)
		163 points by alpb on Jan 7, 2020 \| 112 comments
22.		The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money (tandfonline.com)
		124 points by cryptowizard on Jan 7, 2020 \| 314 comments
23.		Why is Wednesday, November 17, 1858 the base time for OpenVMS? (stanford.edu)
		188 points by kristianp on Jan 6, 2020 \| 67 comments
24.		Flyte: A Cloud Native Machine Learning and Data Processing Platform (lyft.com)
		135 points by mgrover on Jan 7, 2020 \| 19 comments
25.		Urgent and Important – Rotate Your Amazon RDS, Aurora, and DocumentDB Certs (amazon.com)
		185 points by jeffbarr on Jan 7, 2020 \| 33 comments
26.		People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige (bennettnotes.com)
		378 points by _davebennett on Jan 6, 2020 \| 350 comments
27.		What people get wrong about Bertrand Russell (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
		106 points by lermontov on Jan 7, 2020 \| 79 comments
28.		Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) (fossil-scm.org)
		240 points by cnst on Jan 6, 2020 \| 550 comments
29.		On Facts and Thinking (reading.supply)
		89 points by ptbrodie on Jan 6, 2020 \| 11 comments
30.		Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives [pdf] (princeton.edu)
		419 points by plickdixon on Jan 7, 2020 \| 214 comments
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