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1.		How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades (washingtonpost.com)
		962 points by allard 11 months ago \| hide \| 330 comments
2.		Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell (sr.ht)
		814 points by kick 11 months ago \| hide \| 227 comments
3.		Where are all the animated SVGs? (getmotion.io)
		548 points by knowingathing 11 months ago \| hide \| 188 comments
4.		Firefox 73 (hacks.mozilla.org)
		631 points by i_am_not_elon 11 months ago \| hide \| 346 comments
5.		N26 will be leaving the UK (n26.com)
		529 points by vinnyglennon 11 months ago \| hide \| 507 comments
6.		Swift Playgrounds for macOS (apps.apple.com)
		434 points by rock_artist 11 months ago \| hide \| 228 comments
7.		Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?
		852 points by Shosty123 11 months ago \| hide \| 178 comments
8.		Apple Pay on pace to account for 10% of global card transactions (qz.com)
		351 points by prostoalex 11 months ago \| hide \| 419 comments
9.		“We already store data. In a database. It works well” (twitter.com/jimmy_wales)
		847 points by susam 11 months ago \| hide \| 351 comments
10.		Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine (piqnt.com)
		319 points by minxomat 11 months ago \| hide \| 60 comments
11.		SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python (nature.com)
		387 points by Anon84 11 months ago \| hide \| 98 comments
12.		A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians (roboflow.ai)
		412 points by yeldarb 11 months ago \| hide \| 191 comments
13.		Hard Drive Stats for 2019 (backblaze.com)
		355 points by sashk 11 months ago \| hide \| 163 comments
14.		The coming IP war over facts derived from books (abe-winter.github.io)
		211 points by awinter-py 11 months ago \| hide \| 97 comments
15.		I've screwed up plenty of things too (rachelbythebay.com)
		376 points by Lammy 11 months ago \| hide \| 149 comments
16.		Growing Neural Cellular Automata: A Differentiable Model of Morphogenesis (distill.pub)
		210 points by eyvindn 11 months ago \| hide \| 46 comments
17.		Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants (yap.chat)
		200 points by exolymph 11 months ago \| hide \| 63 comments
18.		Applying Mypy to real-world projects (calpaterson.com)
		127 points by rbanffy 11 months ago \| hide \| 23 comments
19.		Costco Capitalism (bryanlehrer.com)
		294 points by exolymph 11 months ago \| hide \| 288 comments
20.		Is a Dataframe Just a Table? (2019) [pdf] (plateau-workshop.org)
		193 points by luu 11 months ago \| hide \| 113 comments
21.		Pgcat – Enhanced PostgreSQL logical replication (github.com/kingluo)
		145 points by jinhualuo 11 months ago \| hide \| 21 comments
22.		Dissecting the Windows Defender Driver (n4r1b.netlify.com)
		91 points by el_duderino 11 months ago \| hide \| 10 comments
23.		Copyrighting melodies to avoid accidental infringement [video] (youtube.com)
		130 points by ChrisArchitect 11 months ago \| hide \| 109 comments
24.		Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business (patwalls.co)
		394 points by patwalls 11 months ago \| hide \| 130 comments
25.		Investigating the Performance Overhead of C++ Exceptions (pspdfkit.com)
		119 points by ingve 11 months ago \| hide \| 190 comments
26.		In Case You Ever Want to Unicycle 21,000 Miles (outsideonline.com)
		144 points by zdw 11 months ago \| hide \| 49 comments
27.		Airbus unveils 'blended wing body' plane design after secret flight tests (reuters.com)
		215 points by hhs 11 months ago \| hide \| 244 comments
28.		What does happiness at work mean? (adlrocha.substack.com)
		148 points by adlrocha 11 months ago \| hide \| 99 comments
29.		Applied Thinking for Intelligence Analysis: A Guide for Practitioners (2014) [pdf] (airforce.gov.au)
		145 points by yarapavan 11 months ago \| hide \| 5 comments
30.		The Rosetta Stone of Mathematics (2018) (nuscimag.com)
		76 points by ColinWright 11 months ago \| hide \| 10 comments
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