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31.		Swiss journalist re-implements ClearViewAI in two weeks with OS software (twitter.com/grssnbchr)
		147 points by dukoid on Feb 8, 2020 \| 55 comments
32.		Moore's Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, First Principles [video] (youtube.com)
		70 points by JabavuAdams on Feb 8, 2020 \| 6 comments
33.		Drop.lol – copy files over the network with WebRTC or TURN relays (drop.lol)
		129 points by goranmoomin on Feb 8, 2020 \| 28 comments
34.		Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure (forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly)
		182 points by weare138 on Feb 7, 2020 \| 181 comments
35.		The Sensitive Plant (laphamsquarterly.org)
		43 points by anarbadalov on Feb 6, 2020 \| 10 comments
36.		Say Goodbye to CoreOS (thenewstack.io)
		127 points by eaguyhn on Feb 8, 2020 \| 36 comments
37.		A fruit vendor's struggle to build a school for the village children (2012) (bbc.com)
		27 points by happy-go-lucky on Feb 6, 2020 \| 2 comments
38.		Federal agencies use cellphone location data for immigration enforcement (wsj.com)
		96 points by aaronbrethorst on Feb 7, 2020 \| 32 comments
39.		Philosophy as Math-Like Thinking (jessylin.com)
		70 points by gsjbjt on Feb 8, 2020 \| 33 comments
40.		Modern cloud architecture on AWS: server fleets and databases (jcolemorrison.com)
		87 points by colemorrison on Feb 8, 2020 \| 53 comments
41.		McDonald's app bug let people order for free in France (twitter.com/koba_des_neiges)
		118 points by rorocoeur on Feb 8, 2020 \| 84 comments
42.		Manifold: A model-agnostic visual debugging tool for machine learning (2019) (uber.com)
		68 points by pplonski86 on Feb 7, 2020 \| 5 comments
43.		Visa is planning the biggest changes to merchant fees in a decade (bloomberg.com)
		112 points by laurex on Feb 4, 2020 \| 130 comments
44.		Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer (2014) [video] (youtube.com)
		39 points by leeoniya on Feb 7, 2020 \| 4 comments
45.		Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineering problem?
		208 points by abrax3141 on Feb 7, 2020 \| 352 comments
46.		The United States of Franchising (theatlantic.com)
		34 points by samclemens on Feb 6, 2020 \| 5 comments
47.		What happens to all the old wind turbines? (bbc.co.uk)
		70 points by Kaibeezy on Feb 7, 2020 \| 76 comments
48.		System76 Launches Threadripper Workstations (system76.com)
		205 points by mivvy on Feb 8, 2020 \| 73 comments
49.		Colony is a platform for community collaboration (colony.io)
		64 points by joeyespo on Feb 8, 2020 \| 28 comments
50.		[flagged] Show HN: Fast Real-Time Anomaly Detection in Dynamic Graphs (github.com/bhatiasiddharth)
		118 points by siddharthbhatia on Feb 7, 2020 \| 22 comments
51.		Coronavirus: Five Brits in French ski chalet catch virus (bbc.com)
		139 points by kgwgk on Feb 8, 2020 \| 134 comments
52.		Understanding GauGAN Part 1 (paperspace.com)
		40 points by sebg on Feb 6, 2020 \| 5 comments
53.		AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Linux Performance (phoronix.com)
		106 points by jjuhl on Feb 8, 2020 \| 28 comments
54.		The comfortable life is killing us (medium.com/erikrittenberry)
		89 points by arbhassan on Feb 8, 2020 \| 97 comments
55.		A possible explanation for the mysterious ice circles in Lake Baikal (phys.org)
		24 points by dnetesn on Feb 6, 2020 \| 4 comments
56.		Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features (windowslatest.com)
		54 points by lelf on Feb 8, 2020 \| 92 comments
57.		Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants (bloomberg.com)
		122 points by jseliger on Feb 7, 2020 \| 138 comments
58.		Practical file system design with the Be File System (1999) [pdf] (nobius.org)
		47 points by kick on Feb 7, 2020 \| 2 comments
59.		Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux (github.com/valvesoftware)
		119 points by SomeSnail on Feb 8, 2020 \| 64 comments
60.		Good Experiment, Bad Experiment (reforge.com)
		25 points by xtacy on Feb 7, 2020 \| 4 comments
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