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1.		Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years (wikimediafoundation.org)
		662 points by EndXA on Jan 26, 2020 \| 258 comments
2.		Responsive Pixel Art (essenmitsosse.de)
		624 points by fctorial on Jan 26, 2020 \| 50 comments
3.		SQLite Is Serverless (sqlite.org)
		501 points by alexellisuk on Jan 26, 2020 \| 440 comments
4.		In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average (gallup.com)
		558 points by rahuldottech on Jan 26, 2020 \| 168 comments
5.		Why does gigabit internet via coax cable not offer symmetrical speed like fiber? (superuser.com)
		354 points by personjerry on Jan 25, 2020 \| 113 comments
6.		UBC study links living near highways to risk of neurological disorders (vancouversun.com)
		233 points by ingve on Jan 26, 2020 \| 107 comments
7.		Umbra: an ACID-compliant database built for in-memory analytics speed (umbra-db.com)
		227 points by pbowyer on Jan 26, 2020 \| 100 comments
8.		Distri: 20x faster initramfs (initrd) from scratch (stapelberg.ch)
		215 points by based2 on Jan 26, 2020 \| 64 comments
9.		The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets (thehustle.co)
		318 points by Anon84 on Jan 26, 2020 \| 268 comments
10.		State of Independent SaaS [pdf] (static1.squarespace.com)
		255 points by DavideP86 on Jan 26, 2020 \| 79 comments
11.		Pi Connects Colliding Blocks to a Quantum Search Algorithm (nautil.us)
		189 points by rudrarch on Jan 26, 2020 \| 23 comments
12.		South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' sale of .amazon (theregister.co.uk)
		281 points by tejado on Jan 26, 2020 \| 184 comments
13.		Make resilient Go servers using timeouts, deadlines and context cancellation (ieftimov.com)
		229 points by signa11 on Jan 26, 2020 \| 40 comments
14.		The Infinite Loop That Wasn't (mgba.io)
		275 points by tambre on Jan 26, 2020 \| 35 comments
15.		Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programming for iOS or Android?
		237 points by toron123 on Jan 26, 2020 \| 159 comments
16.		GPT-2 and the Nature of Intelligence (thegradient.pub)
		125 points by stenlix on Jan 25, 2020 \| 56 comments
17.		Learn to write a simple OS kernel with keyboard/screen support (2014) (github.com/arjun024)
		164 points by razerblader7 on Jan 26, 2020 \| 23 comments
18.		Carbon Capture and Storage is necessary to keep global warming below 2°C (oslo.no)
		191 points by hunglee2 on Jan 26, 2020 \| 208 comments
19.		Gravity: Upstream Kubernetes packaging tools (github.com/gravitational)
		98 points by gk1 on Jan 26, 2020 \| 39 comments
20.		Arduino-copilot makes it easy to use Haskell to program an Arduino (joeyh.name)
		75 points by dwb on Jan 25, 2020 \| 44 comments
21.		Ambitions for a Unix Shell (oilshell.org)
		116 points by luu on Jan 26, 2020 \| 86 comments
22.		PFAS “Forever Chemicals” and Nordic Ski Wax (outsideonline.com)
		136 points by dtagames on Jan 26, 2020 \| 59 comments
23.		MSL: A New Programming Language for Text Editing and Fact Verification [pdf] (mimix.io)
		95 points by dtagames on Jan 26, 2020 \| 25 comments
24.		Coyotes Poised to Infiltrate South America (smithsonianmag.com)
		56 points by pseudolus on Jan 25, 2020 \| 63 comments
25.		Restack: Full-Stack ReasonML (github.com/dysinger)
		141 points by ingve on Jan 25, 2020 \| 36 comments
26.		Chord Transformations and Beethoven (2011) [pdf] (wisconsin.edu)
		57 points by miobrien on Jan 25, 2020 \| 16 comments
27.		Report on the Bezos Phone Hack [pdf] (documentcloud.org)
		213 points by bb88 on Jan 26, 2020 \| 66 comments
28.		List of Epidemics (wikipedia.org)
		78 points by kashnote on Jan 26, 2020 \| 38 comments
29.		Royal Ordnance Factory Bishopton (2009) (catchingphotons.co.uk)
		38 points by watchdogtimer on Jan 26, 2020 \| 4 comments
30.		The Flute of Shame (openculture.com)
		49 points by fortran77 on Jan 26, 2020 \| 29 comments
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