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1.		My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison (twitter.com/jessicamckellar)
		1040 points by danso on Oct 1, 2020 \| 622 comments
2.		Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
		426 points by whoishiring on Oct 1, 2020 \| 807 comments
3.		USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess (debugger.medium.com)
		590 points by gozzoo on Oct 1, 2020 \| 605 comments
4.		We learn faster when we aren’t told what choices to make (scientificamerican.com)
		496 points by headalgorithm on Oct 1, 2020 \| 167 comments
5.		Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator (kovidgoyal.net)
		385 points by Gedxx on Sept 30, 2020 \| 195 comments
6.		My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf (reddit.com)
		536 points by frans on Oct 1, 2020 \| 238 comments
7.		Industrial Literacy (rootsofprogress.org)
		330 points by sien on Oct 1, 2020 \| 192 comments
8.		Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device to Act Like a Neuron (ieee.org)
		260 points by headalgorithm on Oct 1, 2020 \| 108 comments
9.		Code scanning for security vulnerabilities now available (github.blog)
		298 points by gibbon15 on Oct 1, 2020 \| 109 comments
10.		Car seats as contraception (ssrn.com)
		377 points by longdefeat on Oct 1, 2020 \| 329 comments
11.		Stellar Explosion in Earth's Proximity (phys.org)
		235 points by dnetesn on Oct 1, 2020 \| 83 comments
12.		A Brief Guide to OTP in Elixir (serokell.io)
		242 points by NaeosPsy on Sept 30, 2020 \| 97 comments
13.		Extracting firmware from embedded devices [pdf] (github.com/koutto)
		215 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 1, 2020 \| 55 comments
14.		Actionsflow – IFTTT/Zapier free alternative based on GitHub Actions (github.com/actionsflow)
		194 points by theowenyoung on Oct 1, 2020 \| 73 comments
15.		Purism's AweSIM – monthly plan for Librem5 including unlimited data (puri.sm)
		179 points by krimeo on Oct 1, 2020 \| 120 comments
16.		Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2020)
		175 points by whoishiring on Oct 1, 2020 \| 280 comments
17.		Understanding How UUIDs Are Generated (digitalbunker.dev)
		169 points by aryamansharda on Sept 30, 2020 \| 60 comments
18.		Commodore 64 Program Discovered on 35-Year Old Vinyl Album (2019) (popcultureretrorama.com)
		208 points by clockworksoul on Sept 30, 2020 \| 62 comments
19.		Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: Let expressions (bernsteinbear.com)
		131 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 1, 2020 \| 39 comments
20.		3270font: A Font for the Nostalgic (github.com/rbanffy)
		184 points by lelf on Oct 1, 2020 \| 82 comments
21.		Students Left Behind by Remote Learning (newyorker.com)
		163 points by mitchbob on Sept 28, 2020 \| 424 comments
22.		Founders and Executives of Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange BitMEX Charged (justice.gov)
		172 points by xoxoy on Oct 1, 2020 \| 141 comments
23.		NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity at a Personal Scale (nist.gov)
		118 points by lelf on Sept 29, 2020 \| 55 comments
24.		How Normal Am I? (hownormalami.eu)
		393 points by innot on Sept 30, 2020 \| 208 comments
25.		An Elementary Introduction to Information Geometry [pdf] (mdpi.com)
		133 points by Anon84 on Sept 30, 2020 \| 38 comments
26.		YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K, but historians want them to stop (wired.co.uk)
		242 points by headalgorithm on Oct 1, 2020 \| 325 comments
27.		D-Wave announces general availability of first quantum computer for business (dwavesys.com)
		128 points by lelf on Sept 30, 2020 \| 77 comments
28.		Bare Metal Programming on Raspberry Pi 3 (github.com/bztsrc)
		142 points by oumua_don17 on Sept 30, 2020 \| 29 comments
29.		Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread' (foodandwine.com)
		361 points by walterbell on Oct 1, 2020 \| 253 comments
30.		C++ the Good Parts (2014) (infoq.com)
		156 points by zerofrancisco on Oct 1, 2020 \| 246 comments
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