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1.		Reverse engineering my router's firmware with binwalk (embeddedbits.org)
		717 points by sprado on Feb 6, 2020 \| 87 comments
2.		FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format (flif.info)
		691 points by scotteh on Feb 6, 2020 \| 249 comments
3.		Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol (armis.com)
		364 points by pimterry on Feb 6, 2020 \| 138 comments
4.		Ask HN: Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?
		766 points by Voxoff on Feb 6, 2020 \| 250 comments
5.		Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study (inc.com)
		727 points by simonebrunozzi on Feb 6, 2020 \| 455 comments
6.		SEO case study: 8k to 200k monthly organic traffic (apollodigital.io)
		460 points by noelceta on Feb 6, 2020 \| 98 comments
7.		Free OpenStreetMap tile library: watercolor, black and white, terrain (stamen.com)
		455 points by DoreenMichele on Feb 6, 2020 \| 84 comments
8.		CS246: Mining Massive Data Sets (stanford.edu)
		322 points by Anon84 on Feb 6, 2020 \| 72 comments
9.		SurfingAttack: attack on voice assistants using ultrasonic guided wave (surfingattack.github.io)
		198 points by seiters on Feb 6, 2020 \| 42 comments
10.		Writing a triple polyglot script (nkanaev.github.io)
		96 points by nkanaev on Feb 6, 2020 \| 19 comments
11.		Chip industry had worst sales year since dot-com bubble burst (bloomberg.com)
		164 points by baybal2 on Feb 5, 2020 \| 102 comments
12.		Show HN: My ML applications book, which HN helped me write (sample chapter) [pdf] (mlpowered.com)
		272 points by e_ameisen on Feb 5, 2020 \| 37 comments
13.		Show HN: Camp Fire – chat with people within a radius (campfire.rest)
		151 points by nemasu on Feb 5, 2020 \| 75 comments
14.		The secret of academic success, or fun filled failure if you prefer (billwadge.wordpress.com)
		239 points by herodotus on Feb 6, 2020 \| 93 comments
15.		Turning Off Autoplaying Previews (netflix.com)
		533 points by dylan604 on Feb 6, 2020 \| 234 comments
16.		Babashka – A Clojure for the grey areas of Bash (github.com/borkdude)
		238 points by tosh on Feb 6, 2020 \| 65 comments
17.		More than a thousand scientists have built the most detailed picture of cancer (bbc.com)
		160 points by hhs on Feb 5, 2020 \| 37 comments
18.		Lessons from the history of attacks on secure hash functions (2019) (electriccoin.co)
		91 points by erwan on Feb 6, 2020 \| 13 comments
19.		Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born (nber.org)
		270 points by harias on Feb 6, 2020 \| 252 comments
20.		Boeing identifies new software problem on grounded 737 Max (bloomberg.com)
		253 points by rafaelm on Feb 6, 2020 \| 220 comments
21.		Jeffrey Epstein's mystery bank came alive after his death (nytimes.com)
		362 points by AndrewBissell on Feb 5, 2020 \| 172 comments
22.		The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) [pdf] (algorithmicbotany.org)
		131 points by _mtkq on Feb 5, 2020 \| 12 comments
23.		Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism?
		358 points by zuzuleinen on Feb 6, 2020 \| 384 comments
24.		Lasers etch a 'perfect' solar energy absorber (rochester.edu)
		147 points by clouddrover on Feb 6, 2020 \| 31 comments
25.		Inertial Locking Box (2013) (tessmyers.com)
		139 points by luu on Feb 6, 2020 \| 26 comments
26.		Building WebGPU with Rust [video] (fosdem.org)
		143 points by adamnemecek on Feb 5, 2020 \| 46 comments
27.		Aging Canadian government computer systems at risk of 'critical failure' (cbc.ca)
		105 points by ChrisArchitect on Feb 3, 2020 \| 79 comments
28.		A Dog of Flanders (wikipedia.org)
		71 points by tosh on Feb 6, 2020 \| 54 comments
29.		Alphabet earnings show Google Cloud on $10B run rate (techcrunch.com)
		211 points by simula67 on Feb 6, 2020 \| 208 comments
30.		Improving my productivity as a working programmer (2017) (malisper.me)
		234 points by dailymorn on Feb 6, 2020 \| 133 comments
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