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1.		Ramanujan Surprises Again (2015) (maths.org)
		454 points by tmbsundar on Feb 16, 2020 \| 92 comments
2.		1-on-1 meeting questions (github.com/vgraupera)
		1030 points by yankit on Feb 16, 2020 \| 296 comments
3.		I Learned French in 12 Months (runwes.com)
		748 points by ingve on Feb 16, 2020 \| 312 comments
4.		FDA clears ‘world’s first’ portable, low-cost MRI (healthimaging.com)
		447 points by apsec112 on Feb 16, 2020 \| 130 comments
5.		South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux (fosslinux.com)
		447 points by bitxbitxbitcoin on Feb 16, 2020 \| 201 comments
6.		Defacto: Factorio-like game in the browser for the PICO-8 (lexaloffle.com)
		309 points by sxp on Feb 16, 2020 \| 71 comments
7.		Photographer sues Getty Images for $1B for being billed for her own photo (2016) (latimes.com)
		402 points by vezycash on Feb 16, 2020 \| 120 comments
8.		Dreamcast Emulator Redream 1.5.0 Progress Report (redream.io)
		183 points by tosh on Feb 16, 2020 \| 47 comments
9.		A 2,500-mile radius in Asia contains half the world's population (2017) (cntraveler.com)
		205 points by elsewhen on Feb 16, 2020 \| 209 comments
10.		Meme (Multitasking Extensible Messaging Environment): Multiuser Forth VR (1994) (archive.org)
		75 points by DonHopkins on Feb 16, 2020 \| 20 comments
11.		Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007) (lowendmac.com)
		130 points by ecliptik on Feb 16, 2020 \| 23 comments
12.		Show HN: Configurable Route Planning – Avoid left turns, areas and more (graphhopper.com)
		143 points by karussell on Feb 15, 2020 \| 44 comments
13.		Graph Neural Networks – An Overview (theaisummer.com)
		185 points by sergioskar on Feb 16, 2020 \| 28 comments
14.		Benford's Law (wikipedia.org)
		145 points by kjhughes on Feb 15, 2020 \| 93 comments
15.		Paperd.Ink – A hackable e-paper display (paperd.ink)
		242 points by robertlangdon on Feb 16, 2020 \| 83 comments
16.		Waterfox sold to System1, an ad company that bought a majority of Startpage (reddit.com)
		188 points by djsumdog on Feb 15, 2020 \| 85 comments
17.		Demystifying Differentiable Programming (2018) (arxiv.org)
		110 points by noelwelsh on Feb 16, 2020 \| 42 comments
18.		"This community is available in the app" (reddit.com)
		399 points by swat535 on Feb 16, 2020 \| 224 comments
19.		The Art of Powerful Questions (2003) [pdf] (umanitoba.ca)
		199 points by azizsaya on Feb 16, 2020 \| 14 comments
20.		The side effects of an unfinished internet (neilpatil.me)
		81 points by patil215 on Feb 15, 2020 \| 22 comments
21.		FDAAA Trials Tracker (trialstracker.net)
		76 points by olvy0 on Feb 16, 2020 \| 18 comments
22.		A Paper Algorithm Notation (2014) (canonical.org)
		61 points by kick on Feb 16, 2020 \| 30 comments
23.		Compiling PHP's Eval() to .NET (peachpie.io)
		73 points by pchp on Feb 16, 2020 \| 9 comments
24.		Did the early internet activists blow it? (slate.com)
		113 points by IAmEveryone on Feb 15, 2020 \| 104 comments
25.		Boredom is but a window to a sunny day beyond the gloom (aeon.co)
		105 points by Petiver on Feb 16, 2020 \| 25 comments
26.		Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work (1983) (hbr.org)
		93 points by luu on Feb 16, 2020 \| 18 comments
27.		How to Take Smart Notes (fortelabs.co)
		469 points by Anon84 on Feb 16, 2020 \| 111 comments
28.		Content takedown and users’ rights in India (theleaflet.in)
		53 points by rahuldottech on Feb 15, 2020 \| 9 comments
29.		Activate this ‘bracelet of silence,’ and Alexa can’t eavesdrop (nytimes.com)
		115 points by rmason on Feb 16, 2020 \| 133 comments
30.		Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (2016) (quantamagazine.org)
		117 points by yurisagalov on Feb 16, 2020 \| 52 comments
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