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1.		20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower (wikimedia.org)
		1388 points by IfOnlyYouKnew on Feb 8, 2021 \| 362 comments
2.		OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities (lyft.com)
		880 points by clarecorthell on Feb 9, 2021 \| 243 comments
3.		Algorithms by Jeff Erickson (illinois.edu)
		595 points by ngzhian on Feb 9, 2021 \| 152 comments
4.		New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies (legacysurvey.org)
		523 points by soheilpro on Feb 8, 2021 \| 252 comments
5.		Creeping as a Service (every.to/divinations)
		358 points by dshipper on Feb 9, 2021 \| 138 comments
6.		Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 2 (2020) (snoyman.com)
		258 points by anuragsoni on Feb 9, 2021 \| 170 comments
7.		Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform (lidskialf.net)
		373 points by miles on Feb 9, 2021 \| 95 comments
8.		The Queen has more power over British law than we thought (theguardian.com)
		376 points by anonymfus on Feb 9, 2021 \| 577 comments
9.		Thinking too much can be bad for you (2012) (economist.com)
		336 points by smk_ on Feb 9, 2021 \| 252 comments
10.		Haxe 4.2 (haxe.org)
		279 points by Gama11 on Feb 9, 2021 \| 102 comments
11.		José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir) [audio] (thinkingelixir.com)
		358 points by thibaut_barrere on Feb 9, 2021 \| 105 comments
12.		Browser Fuzzing at Mozilla (hacks.mozilla.org)
		232 points by g0xA52A2A on Feb 9, 2021 \| 25 comments
13.		No support Linux hosting shutting down from hack (nosupportlinuxhosting.com)
		354 points by ourmandave on Feb 9, 2021 \| 268 comments
14.		The World’s Aging Dams (yale.edu)
		220 points by robbybaron on Feb 9, 2021 \| 155 comments
15.		SDL Moves to GitHub (libsdl.org)
		292 points by Bl4ckb0ne on Feb 9, 2021 \| 266 comments
16.		Launch HN: SigNoz (YC W21) – Open-source alternative to DataDog
		226 points by pranay01 on Feb 9, 2021 \| 83 comments
17.		Python behind the scenes #8: how Python integers work (tenthousandmeters.com)
		163 points by rbanffy on Feb 9, 2021 \| 15 comments
18.		Looking at GSM security 30 years later (harrisonsand.com)
		142 points by 8sfLes on Feb 8, 2021 \| 40 comments
19.		Using computer vision to help win $1M in Mountain Dew's Super Bowl contest (roboflow.com)
		234 points by rocauc on Feb 8, 2021 \| 92 comments
20.		Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make repairs (thedrive.com)
		279 points by clouddrover on Feb 9, 2021 \| 151 comments
21.		Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round (reuters.com)
		235 points by mathattack on Feb 9, 2021 \| 411 comments
22.		Stop defacing quotes with brackets (slate.com)
		242 points by howsilly on Feb 8, 2021 \| 201 comments
23.		Fedora on the PinePhone: Pipewire Calling (odysee.com)
		139 points by ashitlerferad on Feb 9, 2021 \| 90 comments
24.		ReactOS Updates (reactos.org)
		226 points by jeditobe on Feb 9, 2021 \| 141 comments
25.		A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community (github.com/net4people)
		243 points by 1una on Feb 9, 2021 \| 275 comments
26.		Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data (bbc.com)
		327 points by bmcn2020 on Feb 9, 2021 \| 182 comments
27.		Dr. Geo: Interactive Geometry in Smalltalk (drgeo.eu)
		95 points by cableclasper on Feb 9, 2021 \| 8 comments
28.		HyperRogue: A puzzle roguelike in a non-Euclidean world (roguetemple.com)
		142 points by lnyan on Feb 9, 2021 \| 34 comments
29.		Google app analyzes selfies and finds doppelgangers in museum portraits (2018) (openculture.com)
		91 points by BerislavLopac on Feb 7, 2021 \| 62 comments
30.		Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustPilot review (bbc.com)
		292 points by pseudolus on Feb 9, 2021 \| 252 comments
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