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1.		Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads (krebsonsecurity.com)
		831 points by akeck on Feb 17, 2020 \| 297 comments
2.		An app can be a home-cooked meal (robinsloan.com)
		556 points by mkeeter on Feb 15, 2020 \| 130 comments
3.		How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016) (reasonablypolymorphic.com)
		688 points by falava on Feb 17, 2020 \| 57 comments
4.		What eight years of side projects have taught me (2019) (junglecoder.com)
		412 points by yumaikas on Feb 17, 2020 \| 90 comments
5.		Google/Trax – Understand and explore advanced deep learning (github.com/google)
		359 points by Bella-Xiang on Feb 17, 2020 \| 50 comments
6.		Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax (casual-effects.com)
		360 points by thunderbong on Feb 17, 2020 \| 108 comments
7.		Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront (sanderknape.com)
		257 points by SanderKnape on Feb 17, 2020 \| 273 comments
8.		Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?
		408 points by beatthatflight on Feb 17, 2020 \| 229 comments
9.		Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art (art42.net)
		277 points by valentinvieriu on Feb 16, 2020 \| 187 comments
10.		Vue.js: The Documentary (Trailer) [video] (youtube.com)
		309 points by nailer on Feb 17, 2020 \| 98 comments
11.		Let’s Build a Compiler (1995) (iecc.com)
		240 points by undreren on Feb 17, 2020 \| 41 comments
12.		Launch HN: Motion (YC W20) – defense against online distractions and addictions
		210 points by qiyuxuan96 on Feb 17, 2020 \| 125 comments
13.		Hacking my arm prosthesis to plug into a synth: thought-controlled music [video] (youtube.com)
		310 points by tomduncalf on Feb 16, 2020 \| 46 comments
14.		Writing Grant Applications (billwadge.wordpress.com)
		160 points by herodotus on Feb 16, 2020 \| 49 comments
15.		Max/MSP: A visual programming language for music and multimedia (wikipedia.org)
		128 points by zaiste on Feb 17, 2020 \| 65 comments
16.		An emulator for a Sun 2 workstation (github.com/lisper)
		101 points by fanf2 on Feb 17, 2020 \| 22 comments
17.		The Fantastic Mr. Dahl (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)
		51 points by indigodaddy on Feb 16, 2020 \| 22 comments
18.		Google ditches its free WiFi service in South Africa, three months after launch (businessinsider.co.za)
		207 points by infodocket on Feb 17, 2020 \| 148 comments
19.		Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record (timothymullican.com)
		138 points by olvy0 on Feb 17, 2020 \| 79 comments
20.		Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it (github.com/dwmkerr)
		289 points by dwmkerr on Feb 17, 2020 \| 153 comments
21.		GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization (github.com/rohanrhu)
		206 points by mariuz on Feb 17, 2020 \| 57 comments
22.		Team Structure for Software Reliability Within Organizations (blameless.com)
		125 points by kiyanwang on Feb 17, 2020 \| 50 comments
23.		Iota cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after wallet hack (zdnet.com)
		202 points by miked85 on Feb 17, 2020 \| 148 comments
24.		Barbara Newhall Follett (wikipedia.org)
		60 points by bhickey on Feb 16, 2020 \| 14 comments
25.		DisplayPort and 4K (coker.com.au)
		150 points by ecliptik on Feb 17, 2020 \| 278 comments
26.		A Brief Introduction to Ice-Penetrating Radar (2015) (lindzey.github.io)
		54 points by luu on Feb 16, 2020 \| 1 comment
27.		Move, simply (herbsutter.com)
		117 points by davidmckenna on Feb 17, 2020 \| 92 comments
28.		Thought Experiment: An Introductory Compilers Class (semantic-domain.blogspot.com)
		96 points by ingve on Feb 17, 2020 \| 22 comments
29.		Spore Prototypes (2008) (spore.com)
		105 points by rl3 on Feb 16, 2020 \| 39 comments
30.		Magic and Software Design (1993) (asktog.com)
		62 points by cstejerean on Feb 16, 2020 \| 9 comments
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