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1.		Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert (bbc.co.uk)
		906 points by m1 on Nov 24, 2020 \| 493 comments
2.		Email a Dumpster Fire (hey.science)
		1049 points by bschne on Nov 24, 2020 \| 326 comments
3.		What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? (quora.com)
		419 points by Austin_Conlon on Nov 24, 2020 \| 220 comments
4.		Jane Street Market Prediction ($100k Kaggle competition) (kaggle.com)
		357 points by tosh on Nov 24, 2020 \| 208 comments
5.		Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in (twitter.com/wolfiechristl)
		981 points by ColinWright on Nov 24, 2020 \| 436 comments
6.		Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices (cybernews.com)
		352 points by bmcn2020 on Nov 23, 2020 \| 232 comments
7.		You might not need machine learning (nullprogram.com)
		437 points by chmaynard on Nov 24, 2020 \| 193 comments
8.		US internet speeds 91% faster in 2020 according to user speed tests (fairinternetreport.com)
		208 points by mootothemax on Nov 24, 2020 \| 261 comments
9.		Tips for Performant TypeScript (github.com/microsoft)
		281 points by nkjoep on Nov 24, 2020 \| 113 comments
10.		On the bonkers color palette of Garfield comics (wondermark.com)
		329 points by zdw on Nov 23, 2020 \| 118 comments
11.		Learn difficult concepts with the ADEPT method (2014) (betterexplained.com)
		270 points by adamzerner on Nov 24, 2020 \| 45 comments
12.		How Rainbow Tables Work (kuliukas.com)
		124 points by susam on Nov 24, 2020 \| 28 comments
13.		P² quantile estimator – estimating the median without storing values (aakinshin.net)
		136 points by ciprian_craciun on Nov 24, 2020 \| 48 comments
14.		MyNOR: Single board computer that uses a single NOR gate as its ALU (mynor.org)
		232 points by sohkamyung on Nov 24, 2020 \| 67 comments
15.		The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare (twitter.com/anderssandberg)
		168 points by rendall on Nov 24, 2020 \| 119 comments
16.		Progress bars still lie (utk.edu)
		201 points by pavehawk2007 on Nov 24, 2020 \| 227 comments
17.		FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet (github.com/sbz)
		190 points by vermaden on Nov 24, 2020 \| 54 comments
18.		The New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
		209 points by meifun on Nov 24, 2020 \| 60 comments
19.		Scaleway Stardust Instances (scaleway.com)
		124 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Nov 24, 2020 \| 71 comments
20.		Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop (expanscape.com)
		193 points by 882542F3884314B on Nov 24, 2020 \| 185 comments
21.		AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (amazon.com)
		118 points by soamv on Nov 24, 2020 \| 67 comments
22.		No surprises here – On the absence of information in today’s media (turningchaos.com)
		128 points by s3v on Nov 24, 2020 \| 100 comments
23.		Raspberry Pi Webcam (github.com/geerlingguy)
		172 points by geerlingguy on Nov 23, 2020 \| 74 comments
24.		IHP – A Haskell web framework (github.com/digitallyinduced)
		148 points by laobiz on Nov 23, 2020 \| 39 comments
25.		Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached (ethereum.org)
		271 points by leesalminen on Nov 24, 2020 \| 257 comments
26.		TCP Performance problems related to Nagle’s Algorithm and Delayed ACK (2005) (stuartcheshire.org)
		133 points by lladnar on Nov 24, 2020 \| 32 comments
27.		Verilog to Minecraft Redstone Synthesizer (github.com/itsfrank)
		174 points by parkertomatoes on Nov 24, 2020 \| 12 comments
28.		Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program [pdf] (1987) (stanford.edu)
		76 points by bryanrasmussen on Nov 24, 2020 \| 30 comments
29.		How to use Reddit to get your first users (spreadtheworld.net)
		205 points by xavier_ on Nov 24, 2020 \| 148 comments
30.		Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help (amazon.com)
		492 points by carllerche on Nov 24, 2020 \| 325 comments
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