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1.		Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14 (1971) (rollingstone.com)
		382 points by astdb on Feb 18, 2020 \| 111 comments
2.		Kickstarter employees vote to unionize (vice.com)
		910 points by danso on Feb 18, 2020 \| 1092 comments
3.		New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta (cloud.google.com)
		343 points by cvallejo on Feb 18, 2020 \| 139 comments
4.		Help the Graphics team track down an interesting WebRender bug (mozillagfx.wordpress.com)
		427 points by Santosh83 on Feb 18, 2020 \| 154 comments
5.		Don't touch my clipboard (alexanderell.is)
		718 points by otras on Feb 18, 2020 \| 312 comments
6.		7k-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered (ctvnews.ca)
		281 points by shafkathullah on Feb 18, 2020 \| 130 comments
7.		Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it (understandlegacycode.com)
		397 points by ahuth on Feb 17, 2020 \| 121 comments
8.		Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's extradition hearing (slashdot.org)
		512 points by akvadrako on Feb 17, 2020 \| 349 comments
9.		Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets (techcrunch.com)
		372 points by ajaviaad on Feb 18, 2020 \| 258 comments
10.		How Spotify ran a large Google Dataflow job for Wrapped 2019 (spotify.com)
		269 points by jhatax on Feb 18, 2020 \| 89 comments
11.		The new business of AI and how it’s different from traditional software (a16z.com)
		398 points by gk1 on Feb 18, 2020 \| 210 comments
12.		C4: C in Four Functions (2014) (github.com/rswier)
		436 points by azhenley on Feb 18, 2020 \| 131 comments
13.		Real Time Person Removal from Complex Video (github.com/jasonmayes)
		429 points by aliabd on Feb 18, 2020 \| 142 comments
14.		Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running (twitter.com/foone)
		417 points by edward on Feb 18, 2020 \| 185 comments
15.		Home Office tells man, 101, his parents must confirm ID (theguardian.com)
		248 points by georgecmu on Feb 18, 2020 \| 75 comments
16.		Sherbet: An Ergonomic Gaming Keypad (billiam.org)
		326 points by zdw on Feb 18, 2020 \| 83 comments
17.		Gravitational-lensing measurements push Hubble-constant discrepancy past 5σ (scitation.org)
		155 points by digital55 on Feb 18, 2020 \| 33 comments
18.		Heart doctors 'held back stent death data' (bbc.com)
		149 points by olvy0 on Feb 18, 2020 \| 32 comments
19.		Reid Hoffman's $30M bet: Send partners, not cash, to startups (angel.co)
		197 points by e2e4 on Feb 18, 2020 \| 125 comments
20.		Ray Tracing Essentials, Part 1: Basics of Ray Tracing (nvidia.com)
		231 points by mariuz on Feb 17, 2020 \| 40 comments
21.		Running servers and services well is not trivial (2018) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		156 points by kiyanwang on Feb 17, 2020 \| 74 comments
22.		Detexify: LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition (2009) (kirelabs.org)
		144 points by lohfu on Feb 18, 2020 \| 28 comments
23.		Prosecutors allege Micfo obtained 800k IPv4 addresses illegally (wsj.com)
		77 points by ammaristotle on Feb 18, 2020 \| 78 comments
24.		Code and data for The Economist's Big Mac index (github.com/theeconomist)
		138 points by mkirchner on Feb 17, 2020 \| 27 comments
25.		The Myth of Architect as Chess Master (bennorthrop.com)
		73 points by yarapavan on Feb 17, 2020 \| 70 comments
26.		Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications (amazon.science)
		141 points by andrioni on Feb 18, 2020 \| 16 comments
27.		How Bezos built his data machine (bbc.co.uk)
		126 points by colinprince on Feb 18, 2020 \| 40 comments
28.		Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the APIs you use
		125 points by cameroncooper on Feb 18, 2020 \| 48 comments
29.		'Ghost ship' washes up on Irish coast (bbc.co.uk)
		128 points by RijilV on Feb 18, 2020 \| 97 comments
30.		On Design Thinking (nplusonemag.com)
		150 points by luu on Feb 17, 2020 \| 27 comments
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