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1.		ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name (stackoverflow.com)
		406 points by kdeldycke on Oct 17, 2020 \| 299 comments
2.		Chaos Ink (scottdarby.com)
		390 points by parisianka on Oct 17, 2020 \| 82 comments
3.		Welcome to the Old Internet Again (theoldnet.com)
		424 points by doener on Oct 17, 2020 \| 192 comments
4.		Excel warriors who save governments and companies from spreadsheet errors (wired.co.uk)
		258 points by mortenlarsen on Oct 15, 2020 \| 186 comments
5.		We deleted the production database by accident (keepthescore.co)
		446 points by caspii on Oct 17, 2020 \| 426 comments
6.		Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash (github.com/charmbracelet)
		283 points by tobypadilla on Oct 17, 2020 \| 69 comments
7.		Lecture notes on RISC-V assembly (utk.edu)
		160 points by azhenley on Oct 17, 2020 \| 8 comments
8.		Optical tracking and laser-induced mortality of insects during flight (nature.com)
		162 points by elsewhen on Oct 17, 2020 \| 120 comments
9.		Baumol Effect (wikipedia.org)
		123 points by dedalus on Oct 17, 2020 \| 99 comments
10.		Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls (2016) (nih.gov)
		143 points by studius on Oct 17, 2020 \| 40 comments
11.		XFS File-System with Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem to the Year 2486 (phoronix.com)
		166 points by programd on Oct 17, 2020 \| 66 comments
12.		Interoperability Between Swift and C++ (github.com/apple)
		123 points by DeusExMachina on Oct 17, 2020 \| 75 comments
13.		Google Coral Dev Board mini SBC is now available for $100 (cnx-software.com)
		149 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 17, 2020 \| 104 comments
14.		Thoughts on Conway's Law and the Software Stack (2019) (jessfraz.com)
		99 points by absolute100 on Oct 17, 2020 \| 24 comments
15.		Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992) (github.com/norvig)
		173 points by dunefox on Oct 17, 2020 \| 32 comments
16.		The Nikon Small World Competition (nikonsmallworld.com)
		166 points by ivank on Oct 16, 2020 \| 25 comments
17.		Pippi and the Moomins (aeon.co)
		133 points by samclemens on Oct 16, 2020 \| 57 comments
18.		Lessons from Bug Hunters Who've Found 400 Bugs in Popular DBMSs (pingcap.com)
		151 points by gesaint on Oct 17, 2020 \| 2 comments
19.		Easy-wg-quick – Creates WireGuard configuration for hub and peers with ease (github.com/burghardt)
		90 points by ZnZirconium on Oct 17, 2020 \| 30 comments
20.		The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation (nytimes.com)
		208 points by pseudolus on Oct 17, 2020 \| 395 comments
21.		Groundbreaking discovery finally proves rain can move mountains (phys.org)
		103 points by lelf on Oct 16, 2020 \| 19 comments
22.		Themed days, Timeboxing and why you should use them (jamalx31.com)
		67 points by jamalx31 on Oct 17, 2020 \| 50 comments
23.		How to put machine learning models into production (stackoverflow.blog)
		120 points by Aaronmacaron on Oct 15, 2020 \| 34 comments
24.		How to Hide from a Drone (theconversation.com)
		140 points by hbcondo714 on Oct 16, 2020 \| 116 comments
25.		Charles Lindbergh is the reason the U.S. doesn't have cameras in the courtroom (slate.com)
		104 points by prismatic on Oct 16, 2020 \| 97 comments
26.		Together: New version of Jami (alternative to Zoom and Jitsi) (jami.net)
		140 points by asicsp on Oct 17, 2020 \| 46 comments
27.		Scientists Create Living Concrete (nytimes.com)
		77 points by lxm on Oct 16, 2020 \| 28 comments
28.		Neural Databases (arxiv.org)
		124 points by fabrizio_italia on Oct 16, 2020 \| 30 comments
29.		How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer (medium.com/the-developers-journey)
		324 points by mehdi-farsi on Oct 17, 2020 \| 184 comments
30.		John Cocke, the father of RISC architecture (ibm.com)
		58 points by gjvc on Oct 15, 2020 \| 14 comments
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