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1.		Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other (nytimes.com)
		650 points by piker on Oct 9, 2020 \| 191 comments
2.		Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B (forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad)
		533 points by harryzhang on Oct 9, 2020 \| 93 comments
3.		Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository (simonwillison.net)
		471 points by simonw on Oct 9, 2020 \| 95 comments
4.		Y Combinator Failed Startups (failory.com)
		415 points by nicocerdeira on Oct 9, 2020 \| 184 comments
5.		New study suggests handwriting engages the brain more than typing (ctvnews.ca)
		280 points by lxm on Oct 8, 2020 \| 151 comments
6.		ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion' (techspot.com)
		681 points by illuminated on Oct 9, 2020 \| 370 comments
7.		Memory safe ‘curl’ for a more secure internet (haxx.se)
		407 points by kingkilr on Oct 9, 2020 \| 204 comments
8.		Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Quest 2 is anticompetitive (vrfinal.com)
		370 points by vrfinal on Oct 9, 2020 \| 174 comments
9.		I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
		251 points by proberts on Oct 9, 2020 \| 259 comments
10.		A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival (holistics.io)
		256 points by huy on Oct 9, 2020 \| 123 comments
11.		JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technical computing (juliamono.netlify.app)
		280 points by cosmojg on Oct 9, 2020 \| 68 comments
12.		If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wage would be $24 an hour (commondreams.org)
		486 points by deegles on Oct 9, 2020 \| 438 comments
13.		How Much Vitamin D Is Too Much? A Case Report and Review of the Literature (nih.gov)
		199 points by voisin on Oct 9, 2020 \| 147 comments
14.		Additional steps we're taking ahead of the 2020 US Election (blog.twitter.com)
		234 points by tosh on Oct 9, 2020 \| 351 comments
15.		Iron, How Did They Make It, Part IVa: Steel Yourself (acoup.blog)
		218 points by picture on Oct 9, 2020 \| 30 comments
16.		Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competitors: antitrust committee (cnbc.com)
		399 points by notRobot on Oct 9, 2020 \| 174 comments
17.		Show HN: I reverse engineered my cable modem and turned it into an SDR (stdw.github.io)
		357 points by 0x00000000 on Oct 8, 2020 \| 70 comments
18.		Compiler for the M language of the French DGFiP (inria.fr)
		208 points by testcross on Oct 9, 2020 \| 63 comments
19.		A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company (coinbase.com)
		288 points by gyre007 on Oct 8, 2020 \| 733 comments
20.		“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” (reddit.com)
		483 points by dnlbtlr on Oct 9, 2020 \| 378 comments
21.		Complete BBC Micro Games Archive (bbcmicro.co.uk)
		130 points by tosh on Oct 9, 2020 \| 48 comments
22.		Some onions were too sexy for Facebook (bbc.com)
		177 points by tosh on Oct 9, 2020 \| 175 comments
23.		Memcmp being wrongly stripped like strcmp (gcc.gnu.org)
		250 points by luu on Oct 7, 2020 \| 66 comments
24.		The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language (arstechnica.com)
		284 points by nikbackm on Oct 9, 2020 \| 212 comments
25.		Sid Meier's Memoir (sidmeiersmemoir.com)
		198 points by animationwill on Oct 9, 2020 \| 59 comments
26.		So you want to contact Brian Eno? (2000) (hyperreal.org)
		133 points by danwills on Oct 8, 2020 \| 78 comments
27.		Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls (petapixel.com)
		293 points by srirangr on Oct 9, 2020 \| 192 comments
28.		Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently (theverge.com)
		525 points by 0xedb on Oct 9, 2020 \| 268 comments
29.		Last Resort Font (github.com/unicode-org)
		179 points by lelf on Oct 9, 2020 \| 47 comments
30.		Rich Comment Blocks in Clojure (betweentwoparens.com)
		143 points by tosh on Oct 8, 2020 \| 45 comments
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