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1.		Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler (edby.coffee)
		604 points by abc_tkys on Oct 4, 2020 \| 69 comments
2.		French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs (privateinternetaccess.com)
		714 points by seigando on Oct 4, 2020 \| 330 comments
3.		Algorithm discovers how six molecules could evolve into life’s building blocks (chemistryworld.com)
		390 points by gmays on Oct 4, 2020 \| 165 comments
4.		Shapez.io: open-source base building game inspired by Factorio (shapez.io)
		373 points by smusamashah on Oct 4, 2020 \| 114 comments
5.		Why I left my tenured academic job (reyammer.io)
		385 points by adamnemecek on Oct 4, 2020 \| 229 comments
6.		The mystery of why one ant species goes after larger foes (2018) (nationalgeographic.com)
		246 points by tosh on Oct 4, 2020 \| 123 comments
7.		Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (2017) (strongtowns.org)
		333 points by lifeisstillgood on Oct 4, 2020 \| 471 comments
8.		Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court [pdf] (justia.com)
		245 points by dctoedt on Oct 4, 2020 \| 425 comments
9.		Witeboard (witeboard.com)
		331 points by striking on Oct 4, 2020 \| 134 comments
10.		Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator (veryseriousblog.com)
		188 points by fanf2 on Oct 4, 2020 \| 65 comments
11.		Falling in love again with the haunting sounds of interwar Polish tango (collectorsweekly.com)
		144 points by tintinnabula on Oct 3, 2020 \| 36 comments
12.		Sonos is spying on me (and you) (gingerlime.com)
		291 points by gingerlime on Oct 4, 2020 \| 149 comments
13.		Lambda Calculus Diagrams (2015) (tromp.github.io)
		172 points by fanf2 on Oct 4, 2020 \| 32 comments
14.		Structural studies of the global networks exposed in the Panama papers (doi.org)
		193 points by nobody9999 on Oct 4, 2020 \| 95 comments
15.		Chibicc: A Small C Compiler (github.com/rui314)
		278 points by marcobambini on Oct 4, 2020 \| 44 comments
16.		On Being Bipolar (thewalrus.ca)
		212 points by pseudolus on Oct 3, 2020 \| 88 comments
17.		Paul Stamets on the interrelationship among mushrooms, consciousness, and nature (nautil.us)
		231 points by dnetesn on Oct 4, 2020 \| 152 comments
18.		Open-source self-hosted comments systems for static websites (lisakov.com)
		241 points by nuker on Oct 4, 2020 \| 70 comments
19.		What are Differential Equations and how do they work? (backreaction.blogspot.com)
		179 points by Santosh83 on Oct 4, 2020 \| 56 comments
20.		M17 Aims to Replace Proprietary Ham Radio Protocols (hackaday.com)
		138 points by emptybits on Oct 3, 2020 \| 42 comments
21.		Xen on Raspberry Pi 4 (xenproject.org)
		113 points by posix_me_less on Oct 4, 2020 \| 27 comments
22.		Pinocchio Dies, Bambi Gets Shot, and Other Changes to Disney Movies (2018) (saturdayeveningpost.com)
		124 points by hawkoy on Oct 4, 2020 \| 65 comments
23.		Peak Newsletter? That Was 80 Years Ago (wired.com)
		56 points by samclemens on Oct 2, 2020 \| 9 comments
24.		Self-medication by orangutans using bioactive properties of a plant (nature.com)
		119 points by panabee on Oct 3, 2020 \| 47 comments
25.		Dissecting the Gzip Format (2011) (infinitepartitions.com)
		81 points by WoodenChair on Oct 4, 2020 \| 9 comments
26.		Three Ways of DevOps (ermetic.com)
		77 points by kiyanwang on Oct 4, 2020 \| 21 comments
27.		40th Anniversary of the Ethernet (infoq.com)
		93 points by alblue on Oct 3, 2020 \| 25 comments
28.		Escaping the Index of Prohibited Books (laphamsquarterly.org)
		43 points by pepys on Oct 4, 2020 \| 3 comments
29.		The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) [video] (youtube.com)
		323 points by tosh on Oct 4, 2020 \| 54 comments
30.		Ask HN: How did you get started in tech and/or Linux?
		171 points by indigodaddy on Oct 3, 2020 \| 152 comments
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