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1.		The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender (thegrove3d.com)
		604 points by juretriglav on Oct 20, 2019 \| 49 comments
2.		Lesser Known Coding Fonts (vfoley.xyz)
		640 points by signa11 on Oct 20, 2019 \| 246 comments
3.		Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011) (kalzumeus.com)
		570 points by greyoda on Oct 20, 2019 \| 307 comments
4.		Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting Pwnagotchi 1.0.0 (evilsocket.net)
		336 points by dyslexit on Oct 20, 2019 \| 51 comments
5.		Compiling my own SPARC CPU inside a cheap FPGA (thanassis.space)
		266 points by ttsiodras on Oct 20, 2019 \| 127 comments
6.		Python at Scale: Strict Modules (instagram-engineering.com)
		388 points by apadmarao on Oct 17, 2019 \| 251 comments
7.		Practice Sight-Reading Music (sightreading.training)
		235 points by disqard on Oct 18, 2019 \| 45 comments
8.		Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?
		563 points by ryanmccullagh on Oct 20, 2019 \| 601 comments
9.		38 People are looking at this post right now (twitter.com/ophirharpaz)
		477 points by joeyespo on Oct 20, 2019 \| 189 comments
10.		Boeing Engineers Lost Control of the Company (perell.com)
		352 points by davidperell on Oct 20, 2019 \| 213 comments
11.		Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM (hansdegoede.livejournal.com)
		426 points by toma1k on Oct 20, 2019 \| 318 comments
12.		Today’s correction isn’t much like the dot-com bubble (theatlantic.com)
		238 points by akrain on Oct 20, 2019 \| 152 comments
13.		A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS (2018) (hacks.mozilla.org)
		196 points by absqueued on Oct 20, 2019 \| 124 comments
14.		F# RISC-V Instruction Set Formal Specification (github.com/mrlsd)
		122 points by adamnemecek on Oct 20, 2019 \| 16 comments
15.		Soundex – a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound (wikipedia.org)
		106 points by jstrieb on Oct 20, 2019 \| 41 comments
16.		Ancient Maya Farms Revealed by Laser Scanning (eos.org)
		57 points by vinayan3 on Oct 19, 2019 \| 11 comments
17.		Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World (stanford.edu)
		87 points by rfreytag on Oct 20, 2019 \| 6 comments
18.		Planetary 'autopsies' indicate worlds like Earth common in the cosmos (reuters.com)
		115 points by weare138 on Oct 20, 2019 \| 101 comments
19.		The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor' (2018) (theatlantic.com)
		143 points by agarden on Oct 19, 2019 \| 121 comments
20.		Igloo: A simple Windows automation tool (easyigloo.org)
		148 points by easyigloo on Oct 20, 2019 \| 33 comments
21.		Math Breakthrough Speeds Supercomputer Simulations (ucdavis.edu)
		106 points by EndXA on Oct 19, 2019 \| 24 comments
22.		Dr Sarah E. Hill: ‘A blind spot about how the pill influences women’s brains’ (theguardian.com)
		189 points by laurex on Oct 20, 2019 \| 98 comments
23.		A historian's critique of popular conceptions of witchcraft (athenaeumreview.org)
		89 points by collate on Oct 18, 2019 \| 33 comments
24.		Video Architecture Search (googleblog.com)
		119 points by theafh on Oct 17, 2019 \| 8 comments
25.		How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts (theintercept.com)
		289 points by elorant on Oct 20, 2019 \| 132 comments
26.		When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town (nytimes.com)
		55 points by danso on Oct 20, 2019 \| 18 comments
27.		The FBI Lost Our Son (wsj.com)
		147 points by alphabettsy on Oct 20, 2019 \| 69 comments
28.		Citizen Science Effort Seeks to Survey the Entire Great Barrier Reef (smithsonianmag.com)
		66 points by bryanrasmussen on Oct 20, 2019 \| 2 comments
29.		Alexa and Google Home expose users to vishing and eavesdropping (srlabs.de)
		178 points by kerm1t on Oct 20, 2019 \| 62 comments
30.		What should have been an IMG element became this (twitter.com/csswizardry)
		287 points by seapunk on Oct 20, 2019 \| 143 comments
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