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1.		HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permanent web (2015) (ipfs.io)
		510 points by Hakeemmidan on Oct 17, 2021 \| 325 comments
2.		Roger Hui has died (jsoftware.com)
		563 points by z0a on Oct 17, 2021 \| 44 comments
3.		NixOS on Framework Laptop (kvark.github.io)
		358 points by kvark on Oct 17, 2021 \| 245 comments
4.		Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files (obsidian.md)
		624 points by doener on Oct 17, 2021 \| 353 comments
5.		Python stands to lose its GIL, and gain a lot of speed (infoworld.com)
		343 points by bobajeff on Oct 17, 2021 \| 345 comments
6.		It's been 42 years since 'The Hitchhiker's Guide' answered the ultimate question (npr.org)
		418 points by geox on Oct 17, 2021 \| 131 comments
7.		The booming business of knitting together the world’s electricity grids (economist.com)
		213 points by BayAreaEscapee on Oct 17, 2021 \| 272 comments
8.		The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (2017) (allthatsinteresting.com)
		257 points by thatguy0900 on Oct 16, 2021 \| 86 comments
9.		An underwater mystery on Canada's coast (bbc.com)
		228 points by Thevet on Oct 17, 2021 \| 66 comments
10.		Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the seeking of a playing video (plopdown.video)
		319 points by spaceribs on Oct 17, 2021 \| 195 comments
11.		Automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux (github.com/adnanhodzic)
		252 points by chetangoti on Oct 17, 2021 \| 127 comments
12.		Why not “Why not WireGuard?” (2020) (tailscale.com)
		256 points by jitl on Oct 17, 2021 \| 101 comments
13.		Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing (notion.so)
		222 points by yarapavan on Oct 17, 2021 \| 32 comments
14.		What the Irish Ate Before Potatoes (bonappetit.com)
		195 points by vinnyglennon on Oct 16, 2021 \| 170 comments
15.		Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important carbon sink (nature.com)
		133 points by graderjs on Oct 17, 2021 \| 57 comments
16.		Simon Roper: the 23-year-old reconstructing the past for millions of viewers (newstatesman.com)
		180 points by ZeljkoS on Oct 16, 2021 \| 39 comments
17.		Ask a Librarian (loc.gov)
		176 points by Tomte on Oct 17, 2021 \| 34 comments
18.		Pursue High-Quality Leisure (deprocrastination.co)
		193 points by vitabenes on Oct 16, 2021 \| 96 comments
19.		Open Simulator (opensimulator.org)
		156 points by privong on Oct 16, 2021 \| 53 comments
20.		The unsolved mystery of the Earth blobs (2019) (eos.org)
		101 points by nopassrecover on Oct 17, 2021 \| 11 comments
21.		What Richard Feynman’s PhD Thesis Looks Like: A Video Introduction (2020) (openculture.com)
		133 points by paulpauper on Oct 16, 2021 \| 26 comments
22.		Hubble finds evidence of persistent water vapor in one hemisphere of Europa (phys.org)
		124 points by mrfusion on Oct 15, 2021 \| 40 comments
23.		Bubble sort slower with -O3 than -O2 with GCC (stackoverflow.com)
		163 points by asicsp on Oct 17, 2021 \| 54 comments
24.		Techmap: Find companies using technologies you love (techmap.io)
		100 points by joergrech on Oct 17, 2021 \| 47 comments
25.		New wave of strikes will test worker power (axios.com)
		163 points by harambae on Oct 17, 2021 \| 199 comments
26.		‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Google Earth Algorithm (decider.com)
		152 points by bwindsor on Oct 17, 2021 \| 81 comments
27.		How quickly do algorithms improve? (news.mit.edu)
		57 points by npalli on Oct 17, 2021 \| 20 comments
28.		Is nuclear power our best bet against climate change? (bostonreview.net)
		302 points by gumby on Oct 16, 2021 \| 604 comments
29.		The high-frequency trading arms race: frequent batch auctions (2015) (oup.com)
		138 points by philips4350 on Oct 17, 2021 \| 87 comments
30.		How I learned to program (danluu.com)
		174 points by swyx on Oct 16, 2021 \| 44 comments
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