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1.		DigitalOcean is laying off staff (techcrunch.com)
		816 points by progapandist on Jan 17, 2020 \| 399 comments
2.		A Sad Day for Rust (steveklabnik.com)
		1243 points by pjmlp on Jan 17, 2020 \| 991 comments
3.		An alternative argument for why women leave STEM (medium.com/kjmorenz)
		629 points by nabla9 on Jan 17, 2020 \| 700 comments
4.		EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces (reuters.com)
		591 points by doener on Jan 17, 2020 \| 201 comments
5.		Show HN: ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels with just SQL (github.com/forbesmyester)
		505 points by mattatkeyboard on Jan 17, 2020 \| 79 comments
6.		Startup Ideas 2020 (dcgross.com)
		359 points by saadalem on Jan 17, 2020 \| 165 comments
7.		Show HN: 1.5kb Microkernel for Ben Eater's 6502 Computer (github.com/janroesner)
		230 points by jroesner on Jan 17, 2020 \| 34 comments
8.		Boltzmann Brain (wikipedia.org)
		238 points by 6581 on Jan 17, 2020 \| 149 comments
9.		Show HN: Pinball Map – user-updated map of public pinball machines (pinballmap.com)
		203 points by ryantgtg on Jan 17, 2020 \| 85 comments
10.		Aussie firefighters save world's only groves of prehistoric Wollemi pines (npr.org)
		275 points by pseudolus on Jan 17, 2020 \| 100 comments
11.		AirPods Pro owners complain of worse noise cancellation after firmware updates (theverge.com)
		223 points by Borlands on Jan 17, 2020 \| 156 comments
12.		Inside the digital clock from a Soyuz spacecraft (righto.com)
		196 points by eaguyhn on Jan 17, 2020 \| 75 comments
13.		Ways of Implementing a System Call (x86.lol)
		250 points by lelf on Jan 15, 2020 \| 56 comments
14.		What DoorDash pays, after expenses, and what’s happening with tips (payup.wtf)
		388 points by cbzbc on Jan 16, 2020 \| 552 comments
15.		Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where? (bloomberg.com)
		193 points by nishantvyas on Jan 17, 2020 \| 684 comments
16.		Gathering Intel on Intel AVX-512 Transitions (travisdowns.github.io)
		126 points by matt_d on Jan 17, 2020 \| 48 comments
17.		Quindar Tones: the beeps heard in recordings of astronauts in space (jalopnik.com)
		172 points by NaOH on Jan 16, 2020 \| 62 comments
18.		Show HN: Darken – Darkmode Made Easy (github.com/colinespinas)
		133 points by Call_in on Jan 16, 2020 \| 60 comments
19.		Bacteria and sand engineered into living concrete (eurekalert.org)
		79 points by hhs on Jan 16, 2020 \| 22 comments
20.		Software certifications; a waste of time and money (2018) (tomaytotomato.com)
		174 points by mothsonasloth on Jan 17, 2020 \| 99 comments
21.		Show HN: Chatistics – Turn Telegram, WhatsApp, Messenger Chatlogs to DataFrames (masterscrat.github.io)
		119 points by MasterScrat on Jan 16, 2020 \| 25 comments
22.		Professors create free research-backed games to train your brain (nyu.edu)
		156 points by hhs on Jan 14, 2020 \| 57 comments
23.		Concrete Semantics (concrete-semantics.org)
		94 points by nextos on Jan 17, 2020 \| 17 comments
24.		The Perils of Constant Feedback (tjcx.me)
		79 points by tomjcleveland on Jan 17, 2020 \| 21 comments
25.		Efforts to change the Japanese culture of extreme work weeks (bbc.com)
		132 points by pseudolus on Jan 17, 2020 \| 114 comments
26.		PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon's tactics before House committee (mashable.com)
		273 points by ilamont on Jan 17, 2020 \| 178 comments
27.		How Tesla's battery costs impact its gross margins (trefis.com)
		88 points by apsec112 on Jan 16, 2020 \| 38 comments
28.		MIT 6.004: Computation Structures (6004.mit.edu)
		275 points by skovorodkin on Jan 15, 2020 \| 19 comments
29.		Superhuman and the Productivity Meta-Layer (julian.digital)
		98 points by julian_digital on Jan 17, 2020 \| 18 comments
30.		Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund (greenbiz.com)
		223 points by frankdenbow on Jan 17, 2020 \| 121 comments
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