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31.		Ask HN: What were the things you did that made the biggest impact at your work?
		255 points by arturw8i on Feb 1, 2020 \| 211 comments
32.		Clayton Christensen taught me patience, showed me love, confidence and hope (qz.com)
		71 points by behoove on Feb 1, 2020 \| 2 comments
33.		Arnold Schoenberg: Beauty and horror (the-tls.co.uk)
		43 points by hoffmannesque on Feb 1, 2020 \| 21 comments
34.		Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number
		91 points by davidajackson on Feb 1, 2020 \| 87 comments
35.		Fans of George Eliot are celebrating her bicentenary (standpointmag.co.uk)
		33 points by magda_wang on Feb 1, 2020 \| 1 comment
36.		Show HN: I made a site that helps you find LGBT+ Travel Rankings and Gay Laws (visalist.io)
		186 points by 1hakr on Feb 1, 2020 \| 116 comments
37.		A Painter Resurrects Louisiana’s Vanished Creole Culture (nytimes.com)
		48 points by samclemens on Jan 31, 2020 \| 7 comments
38.		Safety Meeting (thepointmag.com)
		61 points by mstats on Feb 1, 2020 \| 17 comments
39.		Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to Huawei (foreignpolicy.com)
		209 points by VieEnCode on Feb 1, 2020 \| 183 comments
40.		I had to get a background check for my job; the report is a 300 page pdf (twitter.com/kmlefranc)
		422 points by danso on Feb 1, 2020 \| 307 comments
41.		How to build apps pragmatically (alextoussaint.com)
		68 points by alextousss on Feb 1, 2020 \| 48 comments
42.		Show HN: FastComments (fastcomments.com)
		111 points by winrid on Feb 1, 2020 \| 67 comments
43.		How the BSO takes 100-plus musicians on tour halfway across the planet (2017) (wbur.org)
		30 points by wallflower on Jan 31, 2020 \| 14 comments
44.		What Exactly is Docker? (medium.com/burakkarakan)
		152 points by karakanb on Feb 1, 2020 \| 113 comments
45.		'Guaranteed hit' tech could be added to army’s next-gen squad weapon (military.com)
		77 points by sakopov on Feb 1, 2020 \| 128 comments
46.		Keybase: Public, Signed Files (keybase.pub)
		148 points by wener on Feb 1, 2020 \| 50 comments
47.		OpenSMTPD advisory dissected (poolp.org)
		45 points by Reventlov on Feb 1, 2020 \| 26 comments
48.		Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview (niemanlab.org)
		145 points by hhs on Jan 31, 2020 \| 125 comments
49.		Nearly a third of Indian startup founders surveyed are considering moving abroad (indiatimes.com)
		68 points by r_singh on Feb 1, 2020 \| 37 comments
50.		Amazon has 150M Prime members (engadget.com)
		76 points by elorant on Feb 1, 2020 \| 89 comments
51.		Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (arxiv.org)
		89 points by ArtWomb on Jan 31, 2020 \| 31 comments
52.		Netflix original series no longer get time to breathe (theverge.com)
		88 points by smacktoward on Jan 29, 2020 \| 115 comments
53.		MacBook Pro 16 Has a Fan Problem (om.co)
		110 points by jb1991 on Jan 31, 2020 \| 103 comments
54.		The real world is mutable – consequences for system design (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		39 points by ash on Jan 30, 2020 \| 40 comments
55.		James Joyce’s grandson and the death of the stubborn literary executor (theoutline.com)
		16 points by the-enemy on Feb 1, 2020 \| 2 comments
56.		A Russian satellite appears to be shadowing an American spy satellite (thedrive.com)
		92 points by gscott on Feb 1, 2020 \| 42 comments
57.		[dupe] A new bill could punish web platforms for using end-to-end encryption (theverge.com)
		89 points by elorant on Feb 1, 2020 \| 10 comments
58.		Michael Barbaro and the success of “The Daily” (nymag.com)
		31 points by seventyhorses on Feb 1, 2020 \| 24 comments
59.		A Marriage of Brahms and Wagner (standpointmag.co.uk)
		14 points by tintinnabula on Jan 31, 2020
60.		Ask HN: How do you maintain your medical record?
		65 points by SoulMan on Feb 1, 2020 \| 74 comments
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