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1.		U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests (npr.org)
		1986 points by fortran77 on Jan 6, 2021 \| 2422 comments
2.		What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry (bti360.com)
		1270 points by FauxDemure on Jan 6, 2021 \| 354 comments
3.		Memory access on the Apple M1 processor (lemire.me)
		372 points by luigi23 on Jan 6, 2021 \| 260 comments
4.		GNU Units (gnu.org)
		421 points by tosh on Jan 6, 2021 \| 203 comments
5.		How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (whyy.org)
		389 points by _Microft on Jan 6, 2021 \| 106 comments
6.		Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2 (bert.org)
		435 points by fanf2 on Jan 6, 2021 \| 115 comments
7.		Truck Art in Pakistan (2018) (mymodernmet.com)
		235 points by brudgers on Jan 5, 2021 \| 88 comments
8.		We Built a Facebook Inspector (themarkup.org)
		282 points by atg_abhishek on Jan 6, 2021 \| 70 comments
9.		Deep-learning text-to-speech tool for generating voices of various characters (15.ai)
		283 points by clxxx on Jan 6, 2021 \| 84 comments
10.		Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering?
		365 points by abdabab on Jan 5, 2021 \| 276 comments
11.		Facebook senior software engineer interview (daqo.medium.com)
		432 points by hpux on Jan 6, 2021 \| 504 comments
12.		Jim Keller moves to AI chip startup (reuters.com)
		281 points by vnorilo on Jan 6, 2021 \| 89 comments
13.		How WhatsApp works with other Facebook products (whatsapp.com)
		329 points by woliveirajr on Jan 6, 2021 \| 196 comments
14.		PeerJS – Simple peer-to-peer with WebRTC (peerjs.com)
		214 points by caminocorner on Jan 6, 2021 \| 97 comments
15.		Synchronized violin players reveal uniqueness of human networks (arstechnica.com)
		85 points by kawera on Jan 5, 2021 \| 16 comments
16.		Money laundering via author impersonation on Amazon? (krebsonsecurity.com)
		197 points by nixtaken on Jan 6, 2021 \| 122 comments
17.		New quantum algorithms finally crack nonlinear equations (quantamagazine.org)
		148 points by theastrowolfe on Jan 6, 2021 \| 33 comments
18.		27th International Obfuscated C Code Contest winners published (ioccc.org)
		212 points by beagle3 on Jan 5, 2021 \| 45 comments
19.		Debugging Lisp (2015) (malisper.me)
		117 points by wooby on Jan 6, 2021 \| 32 comments
20.		Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL (reslash.co)
		266 points by remotelyyours on Jan 6, 2021 \| 229 comments
21.		A new SaaS metric for demonstrating the ROI of community (orbit.love)
		117 points by someproduct on Jan 6, 2021 \| 13 comments
22.		US doctor forgives $650k in medical bills for cancer patients (bbc.com)
		277 points by williamsharris on Jan 6, 2021 \| 331 comments
23.		DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows 3.x and 9x emulation (dosbox-x.com)
		249 points by FlyMoreRockets on Jan 6, 2021 \| 89 comments
24.		Show HN: Experimental Semantic Code Explorer (bypaulshen.com)
		117 points by paulshen on Jan 6, 2021 \| 25 comments
25.		Designing Engineering Organizations (jacobian.org)
		141 points by dochtman on Jan 5, 2021 \| 39 comments
26.		Show HN: Build your own programming language in C++ (github.com/codr7)
		94 points by codr7 on Jan 5, 2021 \| 28 comments
27.		Assembly language, arcade games, YouTube: former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer (theregister.com)
		79 points by samizdis on Jan 6, 2021 \| 5 comments
28.		Locust – Open-source Load Testing Tool (locust.io)
		107 points by dedalus on Jan 5, 2021 \| 21 comments
29.		What I Use Instead of Google (kiramclean.com)
		294 points by kmclean on Jan 6, 2021 \| 208 comments
30.		Matomo: Open-source analytics platform (github.com/matomo-org)
		183 points by AbdHicham on Jan 5, 2021 \| 131 comments
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