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1.		An oral history of Bank Python (calpaterson.com)
		864 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 4, 2021 \| 325 comments
2.		HashiCorp – S1 (sec.gov)
		839 points by mootpt on Nov 4, 2021 \| 266 comments
3.		Timeline of the Human Condition (southampton.ac.uk)
		471 points by piotrgrudzien on Nov 4, 2021 \| 112 comments
4.		Finishing my first game while working full-time (jasont.co)
		467 points by ntide on Nov 4, 2021 \| 195 comments
5.		Our self imposed scarcity of nice places (strongtowns.org)
		485 points by Fricken on Nov 4, 2021 \| 549 comments
6.		Space Station 14 – Open-source remake of Space Station 13 (spacestation14.io)
		269 points by nonbirithm on Nov 4, 2021 \| 92 comments
7.		Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops (wired.co.uk)
		568 points by hakonbogen on Nov 4, 2021 \| 348 comments
8.		Gitlab servers are being exploited in DDoS attacks (therecord.media)
		312 points by intunderflow on Nov 4, 2021 \| 169 comments
9.		Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative
		265 points by vklmn on Nov 4, 2021 \| 110 comments
10.		GPD Pocket 3 – Handheld PC with KVM and RS-232 (gpd.hk)
		224 points by kbumsik on Nov 4, 2021 \| 122 comments
11.		Fuck.com (1997) (links.net)
		196 points by ca98am79 on Nov 4, 2021 \| 103 comments
12.		Fascine Mattresses: Basketry Gone Wild (lowtechmagazine.com)
		151 points by ggoo on Nov 4, 2021 \| 39 comments
13.		Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery (2019) (twitter.com/seamusblackley)
		168 points by bobbiechen on Nov 4, 2021 \| 70 comments
14.		I introduced my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to startx and xmonad (2012) (complete.org)
		205 points by 0des on Nov 4, 2021 \| 190 comments
15.		Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a barn burner (arstechnica.com)
		216 points by neogodless on Nov 4, 2021 \| 362 comments
16.		Show HN: Initiative.sh, an in-browser command line for D&D (initiative.sh)
		222 points by mikkelpaulson on Nov 4, 2021 \| 66 comments
17.		Goodbye CSS Modules, Hello TailwindCSS (polytomic.com)
		172 points by 01brett on Nov 4, 2021 \| 220 comments
18.		Trie in JavaScript: The data structure behind autocomplete (stackfull.dev)
		157 points by EntICOnc on Nov 2, 2021 \| 56 comments
19.		Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day (smithsonianmag.com)
		93 points by tosh on Nov 3, 2021 \| 64 comments
20.		Raft Consensus Protocol (consul.io)
		134 points by fredley on Nov 2, 2021 \| 51 comments
21.		Linux x86 program start up – How the heck do we get to main()? (2011) (dbp-consulting.com)
		187 points by rwmj on Nov 4, 2021 \| 21 comments
22.		Hierarchical transformers are more efficient language models (arxiv.org)
		91 points by beefman on Nov 4, 2021 \| 5 comments
23.		The Magnavox Odyssey was the first commercial home video game console (voxodyssey.com)
		86 points by jamesandthewolf on Nov 4, 2021 \| 44 comments
24.		Deconstructing the Postgres planner to find indexing opportunities (pganalyze.com)
		101 points by Tomte on Nov 3, 2021 \| 16 comments
25.		Knapsack algorithm in PostgreSQL source code (github.com/postgres)
		89 points by Maksadbek on Nov 3, 2021 \| 12 comments
26.		Making Emacs Popular Again (2020) (lwn.net)
		220 points by draven on Nov 4, 2021 \| 413 comments
27.		DevUtils: Offline Toolbox for Developers (devutils.app)
		178 points by kyawzazaw on Nov 2, 2021 \| 75 comments
28.		Podcasts are my new Wikipedia (listennotes.com)
		106 points by wrycoder on Nov 3, 2021 \| 102 comments
29.		Ford's $3900 electric crate motor and F-100 concept (cnbc.com)
		232 points by ufhghfggf on Nov 3, 2021 \| 343 comments
30.		Energy, and How to Get It (newyorker.com)
		87 points by preetamjinka on Nov 2, 2021 \| 66 comments
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