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1.		Wacom tablets track every app you open (robertheaton.com)
		1594 points by krithix on Feb 5, 2020 \| 449 comments
2.		What's SAP? (retool.com)
		1221 points by dvdhsu on Feb 5, 2020 \| 600 comments
3.		Surveillance on UK council websites [pdf] (brave.com)
		562 points by pier25 on Feb 5, 2020 \| 145 comments
4.		Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers (zdnet.com)
		367 points by spzx on Feb 4, 2020 \| 231 comments
5.		Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin (twitter.com/aissn)
		694 points by Aissen on Feb 4, 2020 \| 323 comments
6.		Scaling to 100k Users (alexpareto.com)
		650 points by sckwishy on Feb 5, 2020 \| 186 comments
7.		Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015) (github.com/p8952)
		543 points by sturza on Feb 5, 2020 \| 196 comments
8.		Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums (bbc.com)
		683 points by SJSque on Feb 5, 2020 \| 587 comments
9.		Nature will publish peer review reports as a trial (nature.com)
		239 points by aaavl2821 on Feb 5, 2020 \| 105 comments
10.		Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android (netflixtechblog.com)
		295 points by discreditable on Feb 5, 2020 \| 135 comments
11.		Anatomy of a Rental Phishing Scam (jeffreyladish.com)
		335 points by landfish on Feb 5, 2020 \| 149 comments
12.		0day vulnerability in firmware for HiSilicon-based DVRs, NVRs and IP cameras (habr.com)
		347 points by mcsoft on Feb 5, 2020 \| 118 comments
13.		macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated (developer.apple.com)
		337 points by ameshkov on Feb 5, 2020 \| 328 comments
14.		Using neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4k quality (arstechnica.com)
		349 points by eyegor on Feb 4, 2020 \| 158 comments
15.		Website data leaks pose greater risks than most people realize (seas.harvard.edu)
		194 points by tonicb on Feb 5, 2020 \| 31 comments
16.		ZZ is a modern formally provable dialect of C (github.com/aep)
		266 points by the_duke on Feb 5, 2020 \| 153 comments
17.		End-of-Life Announcement for CoreOS Container Linux (coreos.com)
		180 points by thebeardisred on Feb 5, 2020 \| 78 comments
18.		The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves (quantamagazine.org)
		136 points by theafh on Feb 5, 2020 \| 41 comments
19.		Unix System Programming with Standard ML (2001) [pdf] (mlton.org)
		142 points by vector_spaces on Feb 5, 2020 \| 47 comments
20.		Using ‘radioactive data’ to detect if a data set was used for training (facebook.com)
		162 points by olibaw on Feb 5, 2020 \| 26 comments
21.		The mysterious disappearance of Google's click metric (zdnet.com)
		136 points by PolandKid on Feb 5, 2020 \| 61 comments
22.		Learn X in Y minutes Where X=Prolog (learnxinyminutes.com)
		130 points by rbanffy on Feb 4, 2020 \| 53 comments
23.		Attacking Ruby on Rails applications (2016) (phrack.org)
		131 points by bryan_cooper on Feb 5, 2020 \| 37 comments
24.		Sometimes, requiring explanability is counterproductive (facebook.com)
		148 points by metahost on Feb 5, 2020 \| 105 comments
25.		Petri Nets Are Monoids (1990) [pdf] (core.ac.uk)
		72 points by boshomi on Feb 4, 2020 \| 28 comments
26.		Space Frigates (spacefrigates.com)
		182 points by nbrempel on Feb 5, 2020 \| 106 comments
27.		Over 550 videos of 870 talks from FOSDEM 2020 have now been uploaded (fosdem.org)
		401 points by jonatron on Feb 5, 2020 \| 55 comments
28.		AT&T Hobbit (wikipedia.org)
		92 points by kick on Feb 4, 2020 \| 21 comments
29.		Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) (dougseven.com)
		120 points by redredhathat on Feb 5, 2020 \| 33 comments
30.		Show HN: Hacker News Trends (eliot-jones.com)
		137 points by UglyToad on Feb 4, 2020 \| 68 comments
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