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1.		The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection (thetruesize.com)
		556 points by picture on Nov 15, 2020 \| 266 comments
2.		Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution (interestingengineering.com)
		502 points by ignoramous on Nov 15, 2020 \| 356 comments
3.		An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms (jezzamon.com)
		421 points by bpierre on Nov 14, 2020 \| 52 comments
4.		Electrified wingsuit from BMW reaches 186MPH on first flight (robbreport.com)
		346 points by pseudolus on Nov 15, 2020 \| 191 comments
5.		BetterExplained: Clear, intuitive lessons about mathematics (betterexplained.com)
		340 points by parisianka on Nov 15, 2020 \| 28 comments
6.		Create Vintage Videos Using FFmpeg in 4 Simple Steps (ottverse.com)
		293 points by ponderingfish on Nov 15, 2020 \| 48 comments
7.		Ask HN: Are you depressed? (strawpoll.me)
		408 points by pcbro141 on Nov 15, 2020 \| 489 comments
8.		Sourcehut's Second Year in Alpha (sourcehut.org)
		318 points by goranmoomin on Nov 15, 2020 \| 148 comments
9.		Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails (frantic.im)
		350 points by goranmoomin on Nov 15, 2020 \| 184 comments
10.		Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System (github.com/iceychris)
		233 points by iceychris on Nov 15, 2020 \| 71 comments
11.		Poll: Have you experienced depressive symptoms over the past two weeks?
		300 points by miduil on Nov 15, 2020 \| 213 comments
12.		Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008) (paulgraham.com)
		158 points by gautamsomani on Nov 15, 2020 \| 67 comments
13.		Billion Dollar Startup Ideas [video] (youtube.com)
		195 points by redm on Nov 15, 2020 \| 116 comments
14.		Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter (npr.org)
		329 points by intrepidhero on Nov 15, 2020 \| 843 comments
15.		Better disposable coffee cups can be made with waste from sugar cane (economist.com)
		153 points by jkuria on Nov 15, 2020 \| 120 comments
16.		I Ripped Out a £6k Lighting System (robdobson.com)
		230 points by iamflimflam1 on Nov 15, 2020 \| 309 comments
17.		The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol (ietf.org)
		134 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Nov 15, 2020 \| 26 comments
18.		Drumbit – Online Drum Machine (drumbit.app)
		165 points by blindm on Nov 15, 2020 \| 37 comments
19.		What Is a Particle? (quantamagazine.org)
		126 points by raattgift on Nov 14, 2020
20.		The first open-source ventilator tested on human patients (github.com/makers-for-life)
		182 points by baptistejamin on Nov 15, 2020 \| 24 comments
21.		Ori Pocket Office (oriliving.com)
		176 points by troydavis on Nov 15, 2020 \| 67 comments
22.		Packrat Parsing: Simple, Powerful, Lazy, Linear Time [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
		99 points by gjvc on Nov 15, 2020 \| 24 comments
23.		Nearly 28M licensed Texas drivers hit by data breach (fox26houston.com)
		172 points by bdcravens on Nov 15, 2020 \| 106 comments
24.		On Taking Criticism (observationalhazard.com)
		72 points by WoodenChair on Nov 15, 2020 \| 25 comments
25.		The Best and Worst Microcontroller SDKs (memfault.com)
		101 points by ducktective on Nov 14, 2020 \| 78 comments
26.		Laser-Guided Lightning May Help Prevent Wildfires (breakingasia.com)
		80 points by kposehn on Nov 15, 2020 \| 55 comments
27.		Google made plans to target the EU official in charge of digital policy updates (arstechnica.com)
		181 points by sho_hn on Nov 15, 2020 \| 104 comments
28.		Open Source does not mean “Includes Free Support” (onyxbits.de)
		305 points by alexellisuk on Nov 15, 2020 \| 247 comments
29.		Ask HN: Am I too late for the “Data Science” wave?
		199 points by kylebenzle on Nov 15, 2020 \| 143 comments
30.		Herman Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, and the Battle over “Citizen Kane” (newyorker.com)
		51 points by fortran77 on Nov 15, 2020 \| 11 comments
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