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1. Every Google result now looks like an ad (twitter.com/craigmod)
3592 points by cmod on Jan 21, 2020 | 972 comments
2. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (reuters.com)
2272 points by n1000 on Jan 21, 2020 | 696 comments
3. Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it (deprocrastination.co)
1636 points by vitabenes on Jan 21, 2020 | 368 comments
4. Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' (theguardian.com)
834 points by mnem on Jan 21, 2020 | 293 comments
5. How to Kill a Startup Idea with Google Keyword Planner and AdWords: A Case Study (psl.com)
568 points by treblig on Jan 21, 2020 | 188 comments
6. Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me (dijit.sh)
454 points by dijit on Jan 21, 2020 | 310 comments
7. Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free (openculture.com)
503 points by thisisastopsign on Jan 21, 2020 | 84 comments
8. Why Learn Awk? (2016) (jpalardy.com)
420 points by LinuxBender on Jan 21, 2020 | 235 comments
9. WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines (onezero.medium.com)
310 points by pslattery on Jan 21, 2020 | 96 comments
10. WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 (winaero.com)
419 points by pndy on Jan 21, 2020 | 305 comments
11. A small DIY air purifier (github.com/kels316)
339 points by Rondom on Jan 21, 2020 | 168 comments
12. Epic Tells Customers It Will Stop Google Cloud Integrations (healthcareitnews.com)
264 points by nsriv on Jan 20, 2020 | 245 comments
13. Friend of a Friend: The Facebook That Could Have Been (twobithistory.org)
195 points by danhon on Jan 21, 2020 | 58 comments
14. How Germany is able to run the world’s second largest export economy (conradbastable.com)
403 points by izhak on Jan 21, 2020 | 317 comments
15. ACM costs vs. arxiv.org costs (twitter.com/jeremyphoward)
240 points by luu on Jan 21, 2020 | 104 comments
16. A 60 GHz phased array for $10 (hscott.net)
252 points by blueintegral on Jan 21, 2020 | 101 comments
17. Show HN: Train a language model to talk like you (colab.research.google.com)
209 points by MasterScrat on Jan 21, 2020 | 32 comments
18. A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage (washingtonpost.com)
236 points by wallflower on Jan 21, 2020 | 228 comments
19. First Case of New Coronavirus Detected in U.S. (npr.org)
315 points by adenner on Jan 21, 2020 | 203 comments
20. Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It (nateliason.com)
288 points by yarapavan on Jan 21, 2020 | 169 comments
21. Amazon to ramp up counterfeit reporting to law enforcement (reuters.com)
166 points by bookofjoe on Jan 21, 2020 | 205 comments
22. Why Rust closures are somewhat hard (stevedonovan.github.io)
123 points by amelius on Jan 21, 2020 | 85 comments
23. Why do we fall into the rewrite trap? (justindfuller.com)
201 points by iamjfu on Jan 21, 2020 | 169 comments
24. PHP in 2020 (stitcher.io)
286 points by kyriakos on Jan 21, 2020 | 268 comments
25. Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil (nytimes.com)
345 points by jmsflknr on Jan 21, 2020 | 168 comments
26. Grammars for Programming Languages (2018) (medium.com/mikhail.barash.mikbar)
88 points by bo0tzz on Jan 20, 2020 | 44 comments
27. Beethoven’s audacious acts of musical risk-taking (spectator.co.uk)
97 points by tintinnabula on Jan 20, 2020 | 23 comments
28. 'Universal memory' research passes new milestone (techxplore.com)
102 points by lelf on Jan 20, 2020 | 34 comments
29. Reverberations: An 8-bit approach to J.S. Bach (linusakesson.net)
123 points by 8bitsrule on Jan 21, 2020 | 22 comments
30. Wine 5.0 (winehq.org)
384 points by coldpie on Jan 21, 2020 | 115 comments

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