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1.		MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies (reuters.com)
		975 points by ArtTimeInvestor on Feb 11, 2021 \| 875 comments
2.		Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test (cbc.ca)
		792 points by walterbell on Feb 11, 2021 \| 587 comments
3.		Beej's Guide to Network Programming (1994-2020) (beej.us)
		993 points by ColinWright on Feb 11, 2021 \| 165 comments
4.		Why I Built Litestream (litestream.io)
		703 points by benbjohnson on Feb 11, 2021 \| 176 comments
5.		Kubernetes Failure Stories (k8s.af)
		545 points by jakozaur on Feb 11, 2021 \| 192 comments
6.		System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard with Open Source Code (github.com/system76)
		536 points by nitinreddy88 on Feb 11, 2021 \| 325 comments
7.		LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe (every.to/divinations)
		448 points by Benlights on Feb 10, 2021 \| 291 comments
8.		Running unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia (googlesource.com)
		197 points by lyssue on Feb 11, 2021 \| 144 comments
9.		Podman: A Daemonless Container Engine (podman.io)
		321 points by lobo_tuerto on Feb 11, 2021 \| 241 comments
10.		What Do You Agree to When You Accept All Cookies (conradakunga.com)
		329 points by kaboro on Feb 11, 2021 \| 163 comments
11.		Idioms for the D Programming Language (p0nce.github.io)
		158 points by crazypython on Feb 11, 2021 \| 81 comments
12.		Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev environment (themouseless.dev)
		353 points by thanato0s on Feb 10, 2021 \| 217 comments
13.		From First Principles: Why Scala? (lihaoyi.com)
		286 points by lihaoyi on Feb 11, 2021 \| 329 comments
14.		Google is now telling users its apps are out of date. No updates are available (spencerdailey.com)
		323 points by spenvo on Feb 10, 2021 \| 171 comments
15.		Why Wasn't Ruby 3 Faster? (fastruby.io)
		216 points by stanislavb on Feb 10, 2021 \| 171 comments
16.		Do Things that Don't Scale (2013) (paulgraham.com)
		177 points by panphora on Feb 10, 2021 \| 31 comments
17.		Migrating a JavaScript Library from JavaScript to WebAssembly (q42.nl)
		210 points by jasperk on Feb 9, 2021 \| 66 comments
18.		Tell HN: A case of negative SEO I caught on my service and how I dealt with it
		278 points by santah on Feb 11, 2021 \| 88 comments
19.		Pravetz Computers (wikipedia.org)
		171 points by incomplete on Feb 11, 2021 \| 50 comments
20.		Launch HN: Chorus Meditation (YC W21) – Meditation for Non-Meditators
		103 points by aliabramovitz on Feb 11, 2021 \| 104 comments
21.		Rust 1.50 (rust-lang.org)
		378 points by _xrjp on Feb 11, 2021 \| 139 comments
22.		How Fat Does a Fat Binary Need to Be? (justine.lol)
		171 points by jart on Feb 11, 2021 \| 67 comments
23.		Nyströmformer: A Nyström-Based Algorithm for Approximating Self-Attention (arxiv.org)
		85 points by tmfi on Feb 11, 2021 \| 2 comments
24.		Amsterdam displaces London as Europe's top stocks centre after Brexit (reuters.com)
		345 points by Someone on Feb 11, 2021 \| 300 comments
25.		Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993) (latimes.com)
		155 points by donohoe on Feb 11, 2021 \| 100 comments
26.		Launch HN: Cord (YC W21) – training data toolbox for computer vision
		64 points by ulrikhansen54 on Feb 11, 2021 \| 25 comments
27.		WTF Python: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets (github.com/satwikkansal)
		359 points by srathi on Feb 11, 2021 \| 162 comments
28.		Employee #1: Reddit (2016) (blog.ycombinator.com)
		144 points by bemmu on Feb 11, 2021 \| 111 comments
29.		Larry Flynt has died (bbc.com)
		235 points by SirLJ on Feb 11, 2021 \| 144 comments
30.		TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019) (propublica.org)
		410 points by paulpauper on Feb 11, 2021 \| 306 comments
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