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1.
Facebook Container for Firefox (mozilla.org)
1457 points by sushicalculus on Oct 21, 2020 | 425 comments
2.
PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network (reuters.com)
942 points by epaga on Oct 21, 2020 | 372 comments
3.
Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking (joshwcomeau.com)
608 points by joshwcomeau on Oct 21, 2020 | 137 comments
4.
Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland (swisscom.ch)
420 points by richx on Oct 21, 2020 | 349 comments
5.
The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3 (fb.com)
414 points by mostdefinite1 on Oct 21, 2020 | 139 comments
6.
1Password for Linux beta (1password.com)
413 points by FinnLeSueur on Oct 21, 2020 | 239 comments
7.
United States vs. Google (stratechery.com)
404 points by headalgorithm on Oct 21, 2020 | 335 comments
8.
SQLite now allows multiple recursive SELECT statements in a single recursive CTE (fossil-scm.org)
398 points by thunderbong on Oct 21, 2020 | 75 comments
9.
Study reveals restoration of retinal and visual function following gene therapy (uci.edu)
217 points by gmays on Oct 20, 2020 | 45 comments
10.
Discipline Doesn’t Scale (sicpers.info)
320 points by ingve on Oct 20, 2020 | 169 comments
11.
A brief introduction to BEAM (erlang.org)
224 points by codeadict on Oct 20, 2020 | 35 comments
12.
Just Write the Parser (tiarkrompf.github.io)
276 points by matt_d on Oct 20, 2020 | 82 comments
13.
Researchers discover new salivary glands in the human head (sciencealert.com)
339 points by smitty1e on Oct 21, 2020 | 199 comments
14.
Deep geothermal energy is poised for a big breakout (vox.com)
175 points by shubhamjain on Oct 21, 2020 | 138 comments
15.
BPF, XDP, Packet Filters and UDP (fly.io)
188 points by dochtman on Oct 21, 2020 | 50 comments
16.
Prologue: A web framework written in Nim (github.com/planety)
188 points by flywind on Oct 21, 2020 | 71 comments
17.
NYC’s new digital subway map (curbed.com)
132 points by nbaksalyar on Oct 20, 2020 | 109 comments
18.
FermiNet: Quantum Physics and Chemistry from First Principles (deepmind.com)
122 points by hardmaru on Oct 20, 2020 | 6 comments
19.
Behavioral nudges reduce failure to appear for court (science.sciencemag.org)
151 points by haltingproblem on Oct 21, 2020 | 149 comments
20.
What ORMs Have Taught Me: Just Learn SQL (2014) (wozniak.ca)
348 points by IA21 on Oct 21, 2020 | 291 comments
21.
The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (2009) (moserware.com)
190 points by _pn3l on Oct 20, 2020 | 35 comments
22.
Why Does the U.S. Have Three Electrical Grids? (ieee.org)
151 points by blendo on Oct 20, 2020 | 152 comments
23.
James Randi Has Died (randi.org)
616 points by omnibrain on Oct 21, 2020 | 84 comments
24.
Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP (2010) (arxiv.org)
214 points by DarkContinent on Oct 21, 2020 | 169 comments
25.
Lots of overnight tragedies, no overnight miracles (collaborativefund.com)
90 points by magnifique on Oct 21, 2020 | 28 comments
26.
Telecom auctions have failed India (bloombergquint.com)
84 points by haltingproblem on Oct 21, 2020 | 90 comments
27.
Adolphe Sax, Inventor of the Saxophone (dinant.be)
75 points by bobf on Oct 20, 2020 | 39 comments
28.
Mozilla Reaction to U.S. vs. Google (blog.mozilla.org)
232 points by doppp on Oct 21, 2020 | 270 comments
29.
Using const/let instead of var can make JavaScript code run 10× slower in Webkit (github.com/evanw)
237 points by davidbarker on Oct 21, 2020 | 179 comments
30.
Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19 (medrxiv.org)
250 points by luu on Oct 21, 2020 | 201 comments

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