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1.		YouTube-dl's repository has been restored (github.blog)
		2636 points by fusl on Nov 16, 2020 \| 658 comments
2.		Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys (cryptographyengineering.com)
		583 points by Reventlov on Nov 16, 2020 \| 466 comments
3.		What Gödel Discovered (stopa.io)
		1000 points by stopachka on Nov 16, 2020 \| 259 comments
4.		[dupe] Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back (github.blog)
		1275 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 16, 2020 \| 1 comment
5.		Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut (2019) (vice.com)
		924 points by elorant on Nov 16, 2020 \| 291 comments
6.		Airbnb S-1 (sec.gov)
		595 points by xoxoy on Nov 16, 2020 \| 457 comments
7.		Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show (theguardian.com)
		780 points by m1 on Nov 16, 2020 \| 1328 comments
8.		Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security (reuters.com)
		498 points by longdefeat on Nov 16, 2020 \| 172 comments
9.		Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs (thenextweb.com)
		593 points by esolyt on Nov 16, 2020 \| 263 comments
10.		On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years (jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com)
		556 points by tibbar on Nov 16, 2020 \| 333 comments
11.		Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) (github.com/nbeaver)
		423 points by random_walker on Nov 15, 2020 \| 614 comments
12.		Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 2: Term Rewriting (stephendiehl.com)
		226 points by azhenley on Nov 16, 2020 \| 55 comments
13.		[dupe] Moderna's Covid vaccine shows nearly 95% protection (bbc.com)
		671 points by n_parks on Nov 16, 2020 \| 5 comments
14.		Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub Pages (github.com/nelsontky)
		355 points by nelsontky on Nov 16, 2020 \| 176 comments
15.		Psql command line tutorial and cheat sheet (tomcam.github.io)
		328 points by tomcam on Nov 16, 2020 \| 44 comments
16.		Only 17% of consumers believe personalized ads are ethical, survey says (2019) (forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier)
		315 points by mgh2 on Nov 16, 2020 \| 193 comments
17.		Once the disease of gluttonous aristocrats, gout is now tormenting the masses (nytimes.com)
		227 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Nov 15, 2020 \| 198 comments
18.		How and when to acquire SaaS users (themvpsprint.com)
		236 points by timjones on Nov 16, 2020 \| 97 comments
19.		Caltech Awards 10,000th PhD Degree (caltech.edu)
		220 points by 0xedb on Nov 16, 2020 \| 135 comments
20.		I failed to make LinkedIn fix their broken international domain URL parser (helmstedt.dk)
		222 points by helstegt on Nov 16, 2020 \| 89 comments
21.		A Spacetime Surprise: Time Isn’t Just Another Dimension (forbes.com/sites/startswithabang)
		271 points by chris_overseas on Nov 16, 2020 \| 173 comments
22.		What distinguishes great software engineers? (2019) [pdf] (washington.edu)
		305 points by 7d7n on Nov 16, 2020 \| 164 comments
23.		Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA (scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com)
		169 points by scarybeast on Nov 16, 2020 \| 39 comments
24.		Researchers’ AI aligns sheet music with MIDI audio (venturebeat.com)
		97 points by Bud on Nov 16, 2020 \| 64 comments
25.		Stolen irreplaceable books found under floor of Romanian house (bbc.com)
		171 points by xenocratus on Nov 15, 2020 \| 111 comments
26.		Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake (wsj.com)
		217 points by gscott on Nov 15, 2020 \| 445 comments
27.		Tools and Services I Use to Run My SaaS (jake.nyc)
		188 points by jakelazaroff on Nov 16, 2020 \| 47 comments
28.		Object-oriented programming: Some history, and challenges for the next 50 years [pdf] (pdx.edu)
		102 points by ingve on Nov 16, 2020 \| 99 comments
29.		Reflections on my first completed application in OCaml (ocaml.org)
		113 points by mseri on Nov 15, 2020 \| 41 comments
30.		Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac (macrumors.com)
		337 points by syrusakbary on Nov 15, 2020 \| 290 comments
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