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2272
696
Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
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1636
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Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it
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834
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Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
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568
188
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521
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Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free
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420
235
Why Learn Awk? (2016)
https://blog.jpalardy.com/posts/why-learn-awk/
419
305
WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10
https://winaero.com/blog/wordpad-is-gettings-ads-in-windows-10/
418
645
How housing became the world’s biggest asset class
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403
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384
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Wine 5.0
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345
168
Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil
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339
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315
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First Case of New Coronavirus Detected in U.S.
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96
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303
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Tin Found in Israel from 3k Years Ago Comes from Cornwall
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296
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What is Rust and why is it so popular?
https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/01/20/what-is-rust-and-why-is-it-so-popular/
288
169
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https://www.nateliason.com/blog/roam
286
268
PHP in 2020
https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2020
279
Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
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252
101
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https://textslashplain.com/2020/01/19/retiring-internet-explorer/
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218
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US pressured Dutch Safety Board to downplay tech faults in 2009 Boeing 737 crash
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216
41
All ProtonVPN apps are now open source and audited
https://protonvpn.com/blog/open-source/
214
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-nuvia-lawsuit/apple-lawsuit-tests-if-an-employee-can-plan-rival-startup-while-on-payroll-idUSKBN1ZK16R
209
32
Show HN: Train a language model to talk like you
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1iHcQ8_K0cfRE3v8QX6FMKAzdSSGtf5IX
204
140
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https://coincenter.org/files/2020-01/delben-049-xml-final.pdf
201
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https://www.justindfuller.com/2020/01/why-do-we-fall-into-the-rewrite-trap/
195
58
Friend of a Friend: The Facebook That Could Have Been
https://twobithistory.org/2020/01/05/foaf.html
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156
Dark Horse Discord
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/21/business/boeing-737-max-production-halt/index.html
192
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https://www.outseta.com/posts/what-i-learned-at-buildium
19
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ehKtQeuZKnE9R0JUFuRsV6B82p9KYkLKF7cMA7nH2cA/edit?usp=sharing
166
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Amazon to ramp up counterfeit reporting to law enforcement
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-counterfeit/amazon-to-ramp-up-counterfeit-reporting-to-law-enforcement-idUSKBN1ZC25U
148
20
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_google_amp_bad_bad_bad/
65
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https://blog.pizzabox.computer/posts/hp712-nextstep-part-1/
137
Draft of German copyright reform proposes memes should only be up to 128 pixels
https://imgur.com/gallery/EOWUgv0
133
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The Hunt for the Fastest Zero
https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/01/20/zero.html
130
34
Stress hormones in our diet may be a missing link between food and wellness
https://www.worth.com/stress-is-edible-heres-how-we-can-avoid-it-in-our-food-system/
126
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https://tildes.net/
123
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https://stevedonovan.github.io/rustifications/2018/08/18/rust-closures-are-hard.html
122
49
NomadBSD
https://nomadbsd.org/
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Seq – A Language for Bioinformatics
https://seq-lang.org/
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