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61.		[flagged] Iowa Caucuses, the Blob, and the Democratic Party Cartel (mattstoller.substack.com)
		112 points by simonpure on Feb 5, 2020 \| 116 comments
62.		Backdoor mechanism still active in devices using HiSilicon chips (zdnet.com)
		71 points by LogicRiver on Feb 5, 2020 \| 3 comments
63.		NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Ends 16-Year Mission (nytimes.com)
		36 points by cyanbane on Feb 4, 2020 \| 8 comments
64.		What's Gone Wrong in Schooling? (perell.com)
		55 points by nkurz on Feb 4, 2020 \| 61 comments
65.		Can software leaders use metrics without damaging culture? (linearb.io)
		47 points by davetwichell on Feb 4, 2020 \| 27 comments
66.		Code Shame: Sharing your embarrassing code (brendonbody.com)
		40 points by bbody on Feb 4, 2020 \| 33 comments
67.		Dark Mode vs. Light Mode (nngroup.com)
		51 points by colinprince on Feb 5, 2020 \| 56 comments
68.		January 2020 warmest on record: EU climate service (phys.org)
		74 points by perfunctory on Feb 5, 2020 \| 81 comments
69.		Why did Vikings have 'Allah' embroidered into funeral clothes? (bbc.com)
		52 points by tosh on Feb 5, 2020 \| 47 comments
70.		Dino, an open source XMPP client (dino.im)
		47 points by djsumdog on Feb 5, 2020 \| 4 comments
71.		Tool to Help Journalists Spot Doctored Images Is Unveiled by Jigsaw (nytimes.com)
		39 points by rbanffy on Feb 5, 2020 \| 9 comments
72.		No City Hates Its Landlords Like Berlin Does (bloomberg.com)
		48 points by JumpCrisscross on Feb 5, 2020 \| 55 comments
73.		Red meat and processed food 'not back on the menu' according to new review (nhs.uk)
		32 points by open-source-ux on Feb 5, 2020 \| 55 comments
74.		AT&T, T-Mobile sold real-time location data: Make a legal claim under their ToS (myradvocate.com)
		64 points by mjkornbl on Feb 5, 2020 \| 10 comments
75.		Dell’s 2019 XPS 13 DE: As close as we currently get to Linux-computing nirvana (arstechnica.com)
		75 points by Tomte on Feb 5, 2020 \| 54 comments
76.		Wind turbine blades can’t be recycled, so they’re piling up in landfills (bloomberg.com)
		58 points by melling on Feb 5, 2020 \| 98 comments
77.		[flagged] The world's first Bitcoin-settled index futures (mushino.com)
		22 points by andrew_m on Feb 5, 2020 \| 24 comments
78.		The T2D3 Path to SaaS Growth and $1B Valuation (fusebill.com)
		16 points by Jupe on Feb 5, 2020 \| 4 comments
79.		Rich people can't build social networks (hua.substack.com)
		30 points by huac on Feb 5, 2020 \| 11 comments
80.		PostgreSQL for Those Who Can’t Even (conery.io)
		60 points by craigkerstiens on Feb 5, 2020 \| 4 comments
81.		Quantumly Generated Random Bytes in Racket (gus-massa.blogspot.com)
		10 points by gus_massa on Feb 4, 2020
82.		Casper lowers IPO price range, implying valuation of just over $500M (marketwatch.com)
		32 points by hhs on Feb 5, 2020 \| 24 comments
83.		The moment of embalming: T. S. Eliot’s love letters – a report from the archive (the-tls.co.uk)
		8 points by apollinaire on Feb 5, 2020 \| 1 comment
84.		Early climate models successfully predicted global warming (nature.com)
		26 points by eaguyhn on Feb 5, 2020 \| 5 comments
85.		Pluralsight Free Weekend Feb 2020 (pluralsight.com)
		15 points by praveenscience on Feb 5, 2020 \| 5 comments
86.		E-field-based 3D gesture-recognition chip (edn.com)
		6 points by archivist1 on Feb 4, 2020 \| 7 comments
87.		Google admits it sent private videos in Google Photos to strangers (theverge.com)
		32 points by laktak on Feb 5, 2020 \| 1 comment
88.		Brain-melting Unity demo becoming reality-creating puzzle game (nwn.blogs.com)
		28 points by Kroeler on Feb 4, 2020 \| 4 comments
89.		Amazon finally closes above $1t (bloomberg.com)
		22 points by doctoroctogon on Feb 5, 2020
90.		Show HN: Simple JavaScript VPN detection using timezones (simple-vpn-detector.netlify.com)
		19 points by nsamala on Feb 5, 2020 \| 24 comments
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