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1.		The modern packager’s security nightmare (gentoo.org)
		320 points by summm on Feb 20, 2021 \| 274 comments
2.		Choose Boring Technology (2015) (boringtechnology.club)
		603 points by asyrafql on Feb 21, 2021 \| 361 comments
3.		NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Using the Falcon Heavy (universetoday.com)
		382 points by CapitalistCartr on Feb 20, 2021 \| 310 comments
4.		OpenBSD boots multi-user on Apple M1 hardware (marc.info)
		307 points by zdw on Feb 20, 2021 \| 200 comments
5.		Please do not put IP addresses into DNS MX records (hboeck.de)
		228 points by hannob on Feb 21, 2021 \| 176 comments
6.		The Beirut Bank Job (2017) (darknetdiaries.com)
		280 points by mleonhard on Feb 21, 2021 \| 43 comments
7.		Silent Running: The sci-fi that predicted modern crises (bbc.com)
		218 points by bobkrusty on Feb 21, 2021 \| 60 comments
8.		A Dishonest, Indifferent, and Toxic Culture (huixiangvoice.medium.com)
		459 points by brzozowski on Feb 21, 2021 \| 187 comments
9.		Activists who embrace nuclear power (newyorker.com)
		249 points by pseudolus on Feb 21, 2021 \| 586 comments
10.		Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate (tomshardware.com)
		280 points by stambros on Feb 19, 2021 \| 506 comments
11.		Find the Hard Work You're Willing to Do (2018) (uni.edu)
		212 points by shagie on Feb 21, 2021 \| 76 comments
12.		Formalising Mathematics: An Introduction (xenaproject.wordpress.com)
		205 points by panic on Feb 21, 2021 \| 116 comments
13.		Project Xanadu (wikipedia.org)
		132 points by alokrai on Feb 21, 2021 \| 82 comments
14.		Show HN: Ad Network for Sideprojects (tinyads.io)
		218 points by ezzato on Feb 21, 2021 \| 78 comments
15.		Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product (invisible-computers.com)
		139 points by konschubert on Feb 21, 2021 \| 167 comments
16.		Augmenting Human Intellect (1962) (dougengelbart.org)
		109 points by _zhqs on Feb 20, 2021 \| 42 comments
17.		Diplomacy: The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014) (grantland.com)
		139 points by ollieglass on Feb 21, 2021 \| 87 comments
18.		When Bitcoin miners take over a town (2018) (politico.eu)
		203 points by edward on Feb 21, 2021 \| 475 comments
19.		Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites (github.com/qeeqbox)
		413 points by hunvreus on Feb 21, 2021 \| 142 comments
20.		A Data Pipeline Is a Materialized View (nchammas.com)
		144 points by nchammas on Feb 21, 2021 \| 47 comments
21.		‘It just blew fire’: Kauai woman watched as an engine fell apart on flight 328 (hawaiinewsnow.com)
		92 points by lightlyused on Feb 21, 2021 \| 129 comments
22.		Apparent hackers behind Kia ransomware attack demand millions in Bitcoin (thedrive.com)
		225 points by ourmandave on Feb 21, 2021 \| 281 comments
23.		Linux Logo (1996) (lkml.org)
		147 points by baba_ramdev on Feb 21, 2021 \| 33 comments
24.		Streams – The Definitive Guide (web.dev)
		131 points by feross on Feb 19, 2021 \| 6 comments
25.		Commenting vs. Making (chiefofstuff.substack.com)
		306 points by tosh on Feb 21, 2021 \| 96 comments
26.		How my school gamed the stats (greaterwrong.com)
		148 points by optimalsolver on Feb 21, 2021 \| 158 comments
27.		California bill would decriminalize psychedelics (theguardian.com)
		198 points by lelf on Feb 20, 2021 \| 127 comments
28.		From coding bootcamp graduate to building distributed databases (richardartoul.medium.com)
		114 points by richieartoul on Feb 21, 2021 \| 44 comments
29.		Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii (atlasobscura.com)
		134 points by diodorus on Feb 21, 2021 \| 22 comments
30.		Importance of Conceptual Integrity in System Design (c2.com)
		99 points by zwliew on Feb 21, 2021 \| 31 comments
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