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1.		Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection (bbc.co.uk)
		1887 points by isp on Nov 9, 2020 \| 1148 comments
2.		No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This (github.com/marak)
		1070 points by ingve on Nov 9, 2020 \| 938 comments
3.		The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place inside your printer (eff.org)
		457 points by MilnerRoute on Nov 9, 2020 \| 313 comments
4.		Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a Software Developer (zwbetz.com)
		644 points by zwbetz on Nov 9, 2020 \| 254 comments
5.		Voters overwhelmingly back community broadband in Chicago and Denver (vice.com)
		639 points by danso on Nov 9, 2020 \| 229 comments
6.		McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu (usatoday.com)
		476 points by elsewhen on Nov 9, 2020 \| 556 comments
7.		How Go helped save HealthCare.gov (changelog.com)
		371 points by ra7 on Nov 9, 2020 \| 148 comments
8.		Amazon Review Scam (twitter.com/cperciva)
		579 points by StreamBright on Nov 9, 2020 \| 317 comments
9.		What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and why do we care if they are open source? (bunniestudios.com)
		275 points by picture on Nov 9, 2020 \| 89 comments
10.		A fun website that simulates fluid (paveldogreat.github.io)
		314 points by svikashk on Nov 9, 2020 \| 47 comments
11.		The Tao of Programming (1987) (mit.edu)
		269 points by jasim on Nov 9, 2020 \| 63 comments
12.		How to Recalculate a Spreadsheet (lord.io)
		298 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 9, 2020 \| 72 comments
13.		I now have an Oculus paperweight (reddit.com)
		567 points by elsewhen on Nov 9, 2020 \| 207 comments
14.		Let’s Build a Video Card (eater.net)
		267 points by captn3m0 on Nov 9, 2020 \| 46 comments
15.		Using Pokémon to detect scientific misinformation (the-scientist.com)
		207 points by wizeman on Nov 8, 2020 \| 47 comments
16.		How Python bytecode is executed (tenthousandmeters.com)
		179 points by r4victor on Nov 8, 2020 \| 16 comments
17.		How to GraphQL with Ruby, Rails, Active Record, and No N+1 (evilmartians.com)
		171 points by progapandist on Nov 9, 2020 \| 84 comments
18.		Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams (gather.town)
		311 points by eambutu on Nov 9, 2020 \| 161 comments
19.		Dog – A command-line DNS client written in Rust (github.com/ogham)
		255 points by guessmyname on Nov 9, 2020 \| 81 comments
20.		Cool Machine Learning Books (matpalm.com)
		248 points by ridddle on Nov 9, 2020 \| 16 comments
21.		Analyzing the Limits of Connection Scalability in Postgres (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
		112 points by ozgune on Nov 9, 2020 \| 19 comments
22.		A Pico-8 story: How the fantasy console unlocked Frédéric Souchu’s dreams (nanark.medium.com)
		151 points by pmarin on Nov 8, 2020 \| 38 comments
23.		Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visualization (probablydance.com)
		206 points by vitplister on Nov 8, 2020 \| 446 comments
24.		A Theory of Universal Learning [pdf] (princeton.edu)
		93 points by emre on Nov 9, 2020 \| 3 comments
25.		Start with pen and paper (sethetter.com)
		164 points by sethetter on Nov 9, 2020 \| 89 comments
26.		Soviet Lun-Class Ekranoplan Ground Effect Vehicle (wikipedia.org)
		77 points by teruakohatu on Nov 8, 2020 \| 26 comments
27.		Reverse-engineering the carry-lookahead circuit in the Intel 8008 processor (righto.com)
		78 points by robin_reala on Nov 8, 2020 \| 23 comments
28.		XuanTie C906 based Allwinner RISC-V processor to power $12 Linux SBC's (cnx-software.com)
		140 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 9, 2020 \| 77 comments
29.		Apple requests to remove WebAssembly support in a-Shell (twitter.com/a_shell_ios)
		212 points by syrusakbary on Nov 9, 2020 \| 104 comments
30.		Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011) (scientificamerican.com)
		195 points by 3131s on Nov 9, 2020 \| 230 comments
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