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1.		This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine (secretgeek.github.io)
		952 points by Symmetry on Oct 19, 2020 \| 179 comments
2.		No-till no-herbicide farming system in trial since 1981 (rodaleinstitute.org)
		571 points by pimpampum on Oct 19, 2020 \| 281 comments
3.		Face ID and Touch ID for the Web (webkit.org)
		757 points by Austin_Conlon on Oct 19, 2020 \| 355 comments
4.		How Discord Won (ianvanagas.com)
		632 points by ivanagas on Oct 19, 2020 \| 588 comments
5.		Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition (p01.org)
		409 points by pekko on Oct 19, 2020 \| 122 comments
6.		First Bitcoin “mixer” penalized for violating anti-money laundering laws (fincen.gov)
		283 points by propter_hoc on Oct 19, 2020 \| 195 comments
7.		IKEA to buy back used furniture in recycling push (bbc.com)
		312 points by devy on Oct 19, 2020 \| 309 comments
8.		Discord Desktop App RCE (l0.cm)
		311 points by Wingy on Oct 19, 2020 \| 103 comments
9.		Better Git diff output for Ruby, Python, Elixir, Go (tekin.co.uk)
		302 points by Lammy on Oct 19, 2020 \| 51 comments
10.		Python For Feature Film (gfx.dev)
		260 points by dagmx on Oct 19, 2020 \| 65 comments
11.		Many of the root certificates on Windows are not needed (hexatomium.github.io)
		255 points by svenfaw on Oct 19, 2020 \| 113 comments
12.		The Centralized Internet Is Inevitable (palladiummag.com)
		192 points by undefined1 on Oct 19, 2020 \| 200 comments
13.		Rdrview – Firefox Reader View as a Linux command line tool (github.com/eafer)
		238 points by ashitlerferad on Oct 19, 2020 \| 61 comments
14.		Building a computer in Conway's game of life (nicolasloizeau.com)
		227 points by ctlachance on Oct 19, 2020 \| 66 comments
15.		Starting a physical product company? You’re gonna need a lawyer (medium.com/molson_hart)
		259 points by molsonhart on Oct 19, 2020 \| 158 comments
16.		Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters (startplaying.games)
		310 points by kntucker on Oct 19, 2020 \| 141 comments
17.		Real-Life Angel Investing Returns 2012–2016 (medium.com/yunfangjuan)
		198 points by alibova on Oct 18, 2020 \| 68 comments
18.		Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio] (lexfridman.com)
		247 points by binarynate on Oct 19, 2020 \| 137 comments
19.		How to better calculate churn rates (catchjs.com)
		166 points by cmogni1 on Oct 19, 2020 \| 40 comments
20.		Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes (gridsagegames.com)
		142 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 19, 2020 \| 30 comments
21.		Crowdsec: A Fail2Ban alternative written in Go (github.com/crowdsecurity)
		170 points by jaden on Oct 19, 2020 \| 93 comments
22.		No More Misunderstandings: Paraphrasing – When, Why, and How (smallbigideas.substack.com)
		117 points by amitt on Oct 19, 2020 \| 30 comments
23.		Neurosymbolic AI – Combining neural nets and symbolic AI (knowablemagazine.org)
		130 points by ralphc on Oct 19, 2020 \| 26 comments
24.		Pure sh bible – Posix sh alternatives to external processes (github.com/dylanaraps)
		137 points by IA21 on Oct 19, 2020 \| 56 comments
25.		A case for using punctuation in Slack (mitchjlee.com)
		173 points by dontmitch on Oct 19, 2020 \| 260 comments
26.		E. B. White’s “Plain Style” at 75 (publicbooks.org)
		98 points by silt on Oct 18, 2020 \| 49 comments
27.		Blokdots – Build interactive hardware prototypes visually (blokdots.com)
		154 points by bschne on Oct 19, 2020 \| 33 comments
28.		Cursed Elixir (evuez.github.io)
		149 points by udfalkso on Oct 18, 2020 \| 70 comments
29.		AI that scans a construction site can spot when things are falling behind (technologyreview.com)
		73 points by DamnInteresting on Oct 16, 2020 \| 47 comments
30.		Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson (2015) (raspberrypi.org)
		76 points by pkilgore on Oct 18, 2020 \| 3 comments
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