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1. The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 (daringfireball.net)
624 points by h9n on Jan 28, 2020 | 602 comments
2. Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers (eff.org)
595 points by panarky on Jan 28, 2020 | 299 comments
3. Microsoft Application Inspector (github.com/microsoft)
419 points by pjmlp on Jan 28, 2020 | 61 comments
4. Porting Quake to the iPod Classic (fwei.tk)
260 points by Ivoah on Jan 27, 2020 | 26 comments
5. U.S. Gov Privacy Watchdog Under Pressure to Recommend Facial Recognition Ban (thehill.com)
252 points by infodocket on Jan 27, 2020 | 109 comments
6. Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results (apple.com)
286 points by chollida1 on Jan 28, 2020 | 243 comments
7. Disk Prices on Amazon (diskprices.com)
363 points by apsec112 on Jan 27, 2020 | 222 comments
8. First Maine inmate enrolled in graduate school conducts research in prison (portlandphoenix.me)
196 points by bifrost on Jan 28, 2020 | 195 comments
9. KnightOS was an interesting operating system (drewdevault.com)
292 points by akalin on Jan 27, 2020 | 60 comments
10. Thunderbird’s New Home (thunderbird.net)
298 points by sashk on Jan 28, 2020 | 158 comments
11. Scotland to use 100% renewables on time to host 2020 climate summit (reneweconomy.com.au)
247 points by solarengineer on Jan 28, 2020 | 151 comments
12. Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (1995) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
248 points by ptx on Jan 28, 2020 | 234 comments
13. Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards (1843magazine.com)
298 points by b0b10101 on Jan 28, 2020 | 158 comments
14. Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your old devices?
376 points by thrwaway69 on Jan 28, 2020 | 256 comments
15. Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is the Real Problem (eff.org)
246 points by jrepinc on Jan 28, 2020 | 73 comments
16. Installing NextStep OS (OpenStep) in VirtualBox (2018) (stuffjasondoes.com)
195 points by gjvc on Jan 27, 2020 | 61 comments
17. Picardy Third (wikipedia.org)
119 points by tintinnabula on Jan 27, 2020 | 70 comments
18. Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything (googleblog.com)
177 points by theafh on Jan 28, 2020 | 104 comments
19. My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec (infinitediaries.net)
334 points by morid1n on Jan 28, 2020 | 276 comments
20. Launch HN: Deviceplane (YC W20) – Update and Manage Devices Running Linux
185 points by joshwget on Jan 28, 2020 | 63 comments
21. Ted versus The Media Lab [video] (youtube.com)
278 points by abtinf on Jan 28, 2020 | 150 comments
22. How a Cruise Ship Makes 30k Meals Every Day [video] (youtube.com)
170 points by peter_d_sherman on Jan 27, 2020 | 92 comments
23. Optacon (wikipedia.org)
92 points by bangonkeyboard on Jan 27, 2020 | 32 comments
24. The Shapes of Code (fluentcpp.com)
144 points by jandeboevrie on Jan 27, 2020 | 68 comments
25. Replicache: Easy Offline-First for Existing Applications (replicache.dev)
111 points by aboodman on Jan 28, 2020 | 22 comments
26. The greatest migration: the history and mystery of Polynesian navigation (2019) (news.harvard.edu)
75 points by Thevet on Jan 28, 2020 | 45 comments
27. How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”? (daringfireball.net)
307 points by cpach on Jan 28, 2020 | 323 comments
28. AWS Security Documentation, by Category (amazon.com)
116 points by Terretta on Jan 28, 2020 | 12 comments
29. Beware the Mean (stephen.sh)
94 points by sjwhitworth on Jan 27, 2020 | 36 comments
30. Novel coronavirus complete genome from the Wuhan outbreak available in GenBank (nih.gov)
135 points by mikhailfranco on Jan 28, 2020 | 89 comments

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