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1.		Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner (neilwithdata.com)
		1232 points by nsainsbury on Feb 23, 2020 \| 210 comments
2.		Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records (txti.es)
		698 points by iudqnolq on Feb 24, 2020 \| 407 comments
3.		Donald Knuth was framed (buttondown.email/hillelwayne)
		632 points by akalin on Feb 24, 2020 \| 180 comments
4.		Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
		695 points by dostoevsky on Feb 24, 2020 \| 244 comments
5.		T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer (googleblog.com)
		338 points by theafh on Feb 24, 2020 \| 66 comments
6.		“We found PayPal vulnerabilities and PayPal punished us for it” (cybernews.com)
		980 points by teslademigod1 on Feb 24, 2020 \| 328 comments
7.		Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, has died at 101 (nytimes.com)
		532 points by uptown on Feb 24, 2020 \| 68 comments
8.		Google interviewing process for software developer role in 2020 (habr.com)
		490 points by atomlib on Feb 24, 2020 \| 400 comments
9.		EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app (politico.eu)
		495 points by maxbaines on Feb 24, 2020 \| 278 comments
10.		Year Without a Summer (wikipedia.org)
		295 points by EndXA on Feb 24, 2020 \| 131 comments
11.		Offshoring roulette: lessons from outsourcing (2016) (troyhunt.com)
		207 points by throwaway3157 on Feb 24, 2020 \| 105 comments
12.		On Voice Coding (phillips.codes)
		316 points by buchuki on Feb 24, 2020 \| 182 comments
13.		RFC: Let's Disrupt Dating Apps (dvt.name)
		220 points by dvt on Feb 24, 2020 \| 368 comments
14.		Bastion – Highly-available distributed fault-tolerant runtime (github.com/bastion-rs)
		201 points by windor on Feb 24, 2020 \| 43 comments
15.		Ancient Roman Valves (2013) (valvemagazine.com)
		214 points by Jerry2 on Feb 24, 2020 \| 107 comments
16.		I built a DIY license plate reader with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning (towardsdatascience.com)
		178 points by GrassFedAltCoin on Feb 23, 2020 \| 75 comments
17.		Jailed Just-in-Time Compilation on iOS (saagarjha.com)
		165 points by tbodt on Feb 24, 2020 \| 14 comments
18.		A Visual Overview of Typography (2009) (thinkingwithtype.com)
		143 points by scghost on Feb 22, 2020 \| 9 comments
19.		Second Sock Syndrome (sheepamongwolves.net)
		188 points by nickdrozd on Feb 23, 2020 \| 33 comments
20.		The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly by one bot (vice.com)
		140 points by jxub on Feb 24, 2020 \| 84 comments
21.		Servers for an Accelerated Future (cloudflare.com)
		203 points by jgrahamc on Feb 24, 2020 \| 46 comments
22.		Holes in Bayesian Statistics (columbia.edu)
		107 points by myle on Feb 23, 2020 \| 38 comments
23.		Launch HN: Syndetic (YC W20) – Software for explaining datasets
		124 points by stevepike on Feb 24, 2020 \| 34 comments
24.		Legible Mathematics: Sketches of interactive arithmetic for programming (2014) (glench.com)
		116 points by throwaway3157 on Feb 24, 2020 \| 50 comments
25.		Haiku Alpha 1: Rebirth of legend (isometricleaves.wordpress.com)
		97 points by cosmojg on Feb 24, 2020 \| 14 comments
26.		Ballerina Programing Language (ballerina.io)
		135 points by rukshn on Feb 24, 2020 \| 50 comments
27.		The Original Sin of Software Metrics (2014) (infoq.com)
		80 points by kqr on Feb 23, 2020 \| 18 comments
28.		Famicom Party: Making NES Games in Assembly (famicom.party)
		129 points by ingve on Feb 23, 2020 \| 29 comments
29.		Paper Clay Air Humidifier (maximelouis.com)
		99 points by tonymarks on Feb 23, 2020 \| 71 comments
30.		Dispatch – Open-source release of Netflix's crisis management framework (medium.com/netflixtechblog)
		128 points by m0hit on Feb 24, 2020 \| 18 comments
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