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1.		Microsoft Tilecode (microsoft.github.io)
		425 points by Impossible on Oct 24, 2020 \| 60 comments
2.		I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps (varsity.co.uk)
		1242 points by yk42bb on Oct 24, 2020 \| 536 comments
3.		The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012) (boingboing.net)
		405 points by pdkl95 on Oct 23, 2020 \| 210 comments
4.		A small but complete JavaScript engine (bellard.org)
		438 points by marcobambini on Oct 23, 2020 \| 146 comments
5.		Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition (gresearch.co.uk)
		401 points by Smaug123 on Oct 24, 2020 \| 241 comments
6.		2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took 5 Years to Complete (petapixel.com)
		371 points by giuliomagnifico on Oct 24, 2020 \| 62 comments
7.		Falling five storeys from a New York rooftop changed my life (smh.com.au)
		327 points by danso on Oct 24, 2020 \| 149 comments
8.		GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015) (printf.net)
		314 points by mbroncano on Oct 23, 2020 \| 56 comments
9.		Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-end encryption (stingle.org)
		255 points by wh33zle on Oct 24, 2020 \| 160 comments
10.		BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell at ESP8266 price point (cnx-software.com)
		214 points by zdw on Oct 24, 2020 \| 58 comments
11.		Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project into Political Ad Targeting (wsj.com)
		317 points by bigpumpkin on Oct 23, 2020 \| 105 comments
12.		A New Map of All the Particles and Forces (quantamagazine.org)
		266 points by djordjecupic on Oct 24, 2020 \| 42 comments
13.		OldVersion.com software downloads for old versions of programs, drivers & games (oldversion.com)
		229 points by gscott on Oct 23, 2020 \| 53 comments
14.		Rust-GPU: Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU code (github.com/embarkstudios)
		197 points by zdw on Oct 23, 2020 \| 70 comments
15.		ØMQ – The Guide (2011) (zeromq.org)
		193 points by allending on Oct 24, 2020 \| 112 comments
16.		Porting Firecracker to a Raspberry Pi 4 (2019) (cloudkernels.net)
		138 points by k__ on Oct 24, 2020 \| 15 comments
17.		Beyond Cyberpunk: Towards a Solarpunk Future (thedorkweb.substack.com)
		182 points by headalgorithm on Oct 24, 2020 \| 84 comments
18.		Lessons from six months at Shopify (alexdanco.com)
		216 points by tim_sw on Oct 24, 2020 \| 106 comments
19.		Ungrammar (rust-analyzer.github.io)
		152 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 24, 2020 \| 14 comments
20.		Deprecating SHA1 (ietf.org)
		146 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 23, 2020 \| 109 comments
21.		My toothbrush streams gyroscope data (johannes-mittendorfer.com)
		158 points by zdw on Oct 24, 2020 \| 99 comments
22.		YouTube-dl source code encoded in two images (twitter.com/galacticfurball)
		325 points by arafsheikh on Oct 24, 2020 \| 106 comments
23.		A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee (2016) (blog.ycombinator.com)
		121 points by guiambros on Oct 24, 2020 \| 66 comments
24.		Quantum Tunnel Shows Particles Can Break the Speed of Light (quantamagazine.org)
		128 points by jonbaer on Oct 24, 2020 \| 104 comments
25.		How the bootstrap load made the historic Intel 8008 processor possible (righto.com)
		97 points by ink_13 on Oct 24, 2020 \| 29 comments
26.		GDB 10.1 (lists.gnu.org)
		155 points by lelf on Oct 24, 2020 \| 29 comments
27.		Ask HN: How do I improve my command of mathematical language?
		122 points by deboniscognitio on Oct 23, 2020 \| 46 comments
28.		Space Engine – The Universe Simulator (spaceengine.org)
		112 points by rosstex on Oct 24, 2020 \| 21 comments
29.		The Rome Toolchain: A linter, compiler, bundler, and more (github.com/rome)
		64 points by 0xedb on Oct 24, 2020 \| 33 comments
30.		A professionally printed fanzine for the Commodore 64 (freeze64.com)
		86 points by oumua_don17 on Oct 24, 2020 \| 6 comments
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