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1.		Brad Cox has died (legacy.com)
		884 points by carlosrg on Jan 22, 2021 \| 190 comments
2.		Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time (u-tokyo.ac.jp)
		664 points by rbanffy on Jan 22, 2021 \| 125 comments
3.		Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client (pidgin.im)
		687 points by smusamashah on Jan 22, 2021 \| 453 comments
4.		Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part II (rosenzweig.io)
		574 points by dddddaviddddd on Jan 22, 2021 \| 188 comments
5.		Still alive (astralcodexten.substack.com)
		898 points by Lewton on Jan 21, 2021 \| 342 comments
6.		Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain (swp.org.uk)
		534 points by jimmy2020 on Jan 22, 2021 \| 519 comments
7.		Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment (hisham.hm)
		379 points by ingve on Jan 22, 2021 \| 323 comments
8.		Show HN: Iconduck – 100k open source icons, downloadable and searchable (iconduck.com)
		528 points by onassar on Jan 22, 2021 \| 74 comments
9.		How hard should I push myself? (every.to/p)
		322 points by dshipper on Jan 22, 2021 \| 197 comments
10.		Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption (theguardian.com)
		314 points by xps on Jan 22, 2021 \| 655 comments
11.		Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall since WWII (bbc.com)
		216 points by Bender on Jan 22, 2021 \| 267 comments
12.		.NET GC Internals mini-series (tooslowexception.com)
		198 points by GordonS on Jan 22, 2021 \| 74 comments
13.		PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances (percona.com)
		208 points by timf on Jan 22, 2021 \| 62 comments
14.		Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned (economist.com)
		165 points by klelatti on Jan 22, 2021 \| 156 comments
15.		Auto-Redistrict – automatically creates electoral districts (autoredistrict.org)
		116 points by Corrado on Jan 22, 2021 \| 148 comments
16.		Access Control for GitHub Pages (github.blog)
		184 points by jbredeche on Jan 22, 2021 \| 44 comments
17.		Wild lynx could be reintroduced into Scottish Highlands (theguardian.com)
		116 points by edward on Jan 21, 2021 \| 103 comments
18.		Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites (multy.me)
		128 points by Etheon on Jan 22, 2021 \| 60 comments
19.		Rqlite: The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite (github.com/rqlite)
		231 points by pavanyara on Jan 22, 2021 \| 84 comments
20.		Show HN: 128-bit, roughly-ordered, URL-safe UUIDs (github.com/anthonynsimon)
		205 points by m1245 on Jan 22, 2021 \| 137 comments
21.		Tales of Favicons and Caches: Persistent Tracking in Modern Browsers [pdf] (uic.edu)
		179 points by amenghra on Jan 22, 2021 \| 53 comments
22.		Wehe – Check Your ISP for Net Neutrality Violations (meddle.mobi)
		132 points by simonpure on Jan 22, 2021 \| 79 comments
23.		Study Reveals Immune Driver of Brain Aging (stanford.edu)
		232 points by oedmarap on Jan 22, 2021 \| 133 comments
24.		Why isn't differential dataflow more popular? (scattered-thoughts.net)
		228 points by jamii on Jan 22, 2021 \| 120 comments
25.		Loon’s final flight (x.company)
		285 points by sarthakjshetty on Jan 22, 2021 \| 250 comments
26.		Valetudo is a cloud-free web interface for robot vacuum cleaners (cnx-software.com)
		84 points by dmayle on Jan 21, 2021 \| 20 comments
27.		Show HN: Git News – Social News website for developers and GitHub fans (gitnews.tech)
		117 points by nimit95 on Jan 22, 2021 \| 58 comments
28.		Libvirt: Adoption of GLib library to replace GNULIB and home grown code (berrange.com)
		79 points by adgnaf on Jan 21, 2021 \| 65 comments
29.		Monarch butterfly population in California spirals to another record low (xerces.org)
		188 points by lxm on Jan 22, 2021 \| 65 comments
30.		Gist.cafe – Execute Gists of Python Node Deno C# Dart Swift Go Kotlin Java VB F# (gist.cafe)
		115 points by mythz on Jan 22, 2021 \| 39 comments
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