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1.		Every Google result now looks like an ad (twitter.com/craigmod)
		3592 points by cmod on Jan 21, 2020 \| 972 comments
2.		Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (reuters.com)
		2272 points by n1000 on Jan 21, 2020 \| 696 comments
3.		Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it (deprocrastination.co)
		1636 points by vitabenes on Jan 21, 2020 \| 368 comments
4.		Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' (theguardian.com)
		834 points by mnem on Jan 21, 2020 \| 293 comments
5.		How to Kill a Startup Idea with Google Keyword Planner and AdWords: A Case Study (psl.com)
		568 points by treblig on Jan 21, 2020 \| 188 comments
6.		Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me (dijit.sh)
		454 points by dijit on Jan 21, 2020 \| 310 comments
7.		Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free (openculture.com)
		503 points by thisisastopsign on Jan 21, 2020 \| 84 comments
8.		Why Learn Awk? (2016) (jpalardy.com)
		420 points by Bender on Jan 21, 2020 \| 235 comments
9.		WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines (onezero.medium.com)
		310 points by pslattery on Jan 21, 2020 \| 96 comments
10.		WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 (winaero.com)
		419 points by pndy on Jan 21, 2020 \| 305 comments
11.		A small DIY air purifier (github.com/kels316)
		339 points by Rondom on Jan 21, 2020 \| 168 comments
12.		Epic Tells Customers It Will Stop Google Cloud Integrations (healthcareitnews.com)
		264 points by nsriv on Jan 20, 2020 \| 245 comments
13.		Friend of a Friend: The Facebook That Could Have Been (twobithistory.org)
		195 points by danhon on Jan 21, 2020 \| 58 comments
14.		How Germany is able to run the world’s second largest export economy (conradbastable.com)
		403 points by izhak on Jan 21, 2020 \| 317 comments
15.		ACM costs vs. arxiv.org costs (twitter.com/jeremyphoward)
		240 points by luu on Jan 21, 2020 \| 104 comments
16.		A 60 GHz phased array for $10 (hscott.net)
		252 points by blueintegral on Jan 21, 2020 \| 101 comments
17.		Show HN: Train a language model to talk like you (colab.research.google.com)
		209 points by MasterScrat on Jan 21, 2020 \| 32 comments
18.		A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage (washingtonpost.com)
		236 points by wallflower on Jan 21, 2020 \| 228 comments
19.		First Case of New Coronavirus Detected in U.S. (npr.org)
		315 points by adenner on Jan 21, 2020 \| 203 comments
20.		Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It (nateliason.com)
		288 points by yarapavan on Jan 21, 2020 \| 169 comments
21.		Amazon to ramp up counterfeit reporting to law enforcement (reuters.com)
		166 points by bookofjoe on Jan 21, 2020 \| 205 comments
22.		Why Rust closures are somewhat hard (stevedonovan.github.io)
		123 points by amelius on Jan 21, 2020 \| 85 comments
23.		Why do we fall into the rewrite trap? (justindfuller.com)
		201 points by iamjfu on Jan 21, 2020 \| 169 comments
24.		PHP in 2020 (stitcher.io)
		286 points by kyriakos on Jan 21, 2020 \| 268 comments
25.		Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil (nytimes.com)
		345 points by jmsflknr on Jan 21, 2020 \| 168 comments
26.		Grammars for Programming Languages (2018) (medium.com/mikhail.barash.mikbar)
		88 points by bo0tzz on Jan 20, 2020 \| 44 comments
27.		Beethoven’s audacious acts of musical risk-taking (spectator.co.uk)
		97 points by tintinnabula on Jan 20, 2020 \| 23 comments
28.		'Universal memory' research passes new milestone (techxplore.com)
		102 points by lelf on Jan 20, 2020 \| 34 comments
29.		Reverberations: An 8-bit approach to J.S. Bach (linusakesson.net)
		123 points by 8bitsrule on Jan 21, 2020 \| 22 comments
30.		Wine 5.0 (winehq.org)
		384 points by coldpie on Jan 21, 2020 \| 115 comments
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