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1.		Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S. (apnews.com)
		3089 points by granzymes on Nov 7, 2020 \| 4576 comments
2.		Why not use GraphQL? (wundergraph.com)
		460 points by jensneuse on Nov 7, 2020 \| 456 comments
3.		Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health (arstechnica.com)
		532 points by nnx on Nov 7, 2020 \| 283 comments
4.		SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client (gitlab.com/fuck-capitalism)
		445 points by ffpip on Nov 7, 2020 \| 194 comments
5.		Marketers are addicted to bad data (jacquescorbytuech.com)
		360 points by iamacyborg on Nov 7, 2020 \| 113 comments
6.		Severe brain injury and paralysis temporarily reversed with a sleeping pill (sciencedirect.com)
		313 points by ptbello on Nov 7, 2020 \| 179 comments
7.		Mutt 2.0 Release Notes (mutt.org)
		281 points by jimiray on Nov 7, 2020 \| 76 comments
8.		Programs are a prison: Rethinking the building blocks of computing interfaces (djrobstep.com)
		225 points by vortex_ape on Nov 5, 2020 \| 189 comments
9.		DeepMath Conference 2020 – Conference on the Mathematical Theory of DNN's (deepmath-conference.com)
		139 points by wavelander on Nov 7, 2020 \| 31 comments
10.		Build your own professional-grade audio amp on the sort-of cheap (2018) (ieee.org)
		176 points by Tomte on Nov 7, 2020 \| 131 comments
11.		Singapore rears moquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria to combat dengue (reuters.com)
		87 points by elfgoh on Nov 7, 2020 \| 35 comments
12.		The impact of school shutdown on sleep in adolescents: a natural experiment (sciencedirect.com)
		141 points by luu on Nov 6, 2020 \| 57 comments
13.		Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing (please-unsubscribe.com)
		218 points by ryanmjacobs on Nov 7, 2020 \| 245 comments
14.		Learn how to design and defend an embedded Linux device (embeddedbits.org)
		131 points by sprado on Nov 7, 2020 \| 35 comments
15.		V8 has optimized new JavaScript language features (2018) (github.com/thlorenz)
		106 points by hbrundage on Nov 7, 2020 \| 48 comments
16.		Quine Relay (github.com/mame)
		119 points by _zhqs on Nov 7, 2020 \| 13 comments
17.		The Influence of Breathing on the Central Nervous System (nih.gov)
		160 points by whereistimbo on Nov 6, 2020 \| 51 comments
18.		Go in Production – Lessons Learned (tdom.dev)
		195 points by tdom on Nov 6, 2020 \| 104 comments
19.		The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) (worrydream.com)
		113 points by gjvc on Nov 7, 2020 \| 28 comments
20.		Look inside iPad Pro 11s Lidar Scanner (eetasia.com)
		148 points by _Microft on Nov 7, 2020 \| 67 comments
21.		Signs you might be a micromanager (unito.io)
		186 points by jamyot on Nov 6, 2020 \| 66 comments
22.		The Un-American Rule on VC's Legal Fees (lawofvc.substack.com)
		106 points by harveyesq on Nov 7, 2020 \| 58 comments
23.		The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 Basic (tomasp.net)
		151 points by mpweiher on Nov 6, 2020 \| 53 comments
24.		HDD Components Maker Hoya Describes 22TB and 24TB Hard Drives (tomshardware.com)
		94 points by rbanffy on Nov 6, 2020 \| 68 comments
25.		US Government Continues Encryption War (privacytools.io)
		242 points by freddyym on Nov 7, 2020 \| 86 comments
26.		Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake (semiaccurate.com)
		220 points by rwmj on Nov 6, 2020 \| 277 comments
27.		SQL.js: SQLite Compiled to JavaScript (sql.js.org)
		183 points by chmaynard on Nov 6, 2020 \| 38 comments
28.		UK Codemasters Sold to Take-Two Games (bbc.co.uk)
		108 points by shifty1 on Nov 7, 2020 \| 99 comments
29.		Don’t Forget About Associative Memories (thegradient.pub)
		73 points by headalgorithm on Nov 7, 2020 \| 4 comments
30.		Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions (martinpeck.com)
		246 points by martinpeck on Nov 7, 2020 \| 144 comments
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