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1.		Don’t be spooky (therealadam.com)
		556 points by mooreds on Nov 6, 2021 \| 219 comments
2.		How credit cards make money (kalzumeus.com)
		615 points by gregnavis on Nov 5, 2021 \| 430 comments
3.		An intact slave's room found in Pompeii's ruins (pompeiisites.org)
		362 points by agomez314 on Nov 6, 2021 \| 199 comments
4.		An Epic future for SPJ (haskell.org)
		365 points by Smaug123 on Nov 6, 2021 \| 169 comments
5.		Raspberry Pi Colocation (pi-colocation.com)
		205 points by 3xa on Nov 6, 2021 \| 144 comments
6.		Micro – a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor (micro-editor.github.io)
		324 points by thunderbong on Nov 6, 2021 \| 161 comments
7.		Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?
		340 points by zandorg on Nov 6, 2021 \| 264 comments
8.		AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-Led Initiatives (wptavern.com)
		388 points by decrypt on Nov 6, 2021 \| 165 comments
9.		What’s harder to find than microchips? The equipment that makes them (wsj.com)
		145 points by wallflower on Nov 6, 2021 \| 70 comments
10.		Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work (briananglin.me)
		236 points by anglinb on Nov 6, 2021 \| 199 comments
11.		Hundreds of ancient Maya sites hidden under Mexico reveal a mysterious blueprint (sciencealert.com)
		218 points by stareatgoats on Nov 6, 2021 \| 111 comments
12.		Big Tech Coding Interview Framework – Pt 1. Inspect (fangprep.substack.com)
		191 points by ckcheng on Nov 6, 2021 \| 144 comments
13.		Deno Deploy Demo: a multi-datacenter chat, client+server in 23 lines of TS (deno.com)
		186 points by ondras on Nov 6, 2021 \| 45 comments
14.		The tomato was feared in Europe for more than 200 years (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
		162 points by raldi on Nov 6, 2021 \| 182 comments
15.		Setting up Gmail in Doom Emacs using mbsync and mu4e (erichgrunewald.com)
		149 points by erwald on Nov 6, 2021 \| 49 comments
16.		After a part of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back (nautil.us)
		111 points by CapitalistCartr on Nov 4, 2021 \| 57 comments
17.		Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution (wsj.com)
		341 points by erentz on Nov 5, 2021 \| 345 comments
18.		Racket v8.3 (racket-lang.org)
		154 points by nikivi on Nov 6, 2021 \| 56 comments
19.		A 1958 UNIVAC airline reservation system (greenspun.com)
		119 points by finite_jest on Nov 5, 2021 \| 56 comments
20.		Cellular Automata in F# (isthisit.nz)
		94 points by de_keyboard on Nov 6, 2021 \| 15 comments
21.		ASCII Paint (alienmelon.com)
		78 points by smusamashah on Nov 6, 2021 \| 15 comments
22.		Ask HN: How were video games from the 90s so efficient?
		286 points by eezurr on Nov 6, 2021 \| 232 comments
23.		Nitrogen fertilizer shortage threatens to cut global crop yields – CF Industries (reuters.com)
		178 points by mensetmanusman on Nov 6, 2021 \| 217 comments
24.		Contract for Sale of Soul (liminalwarmth.com)
		94 points by abecedarius on Nov 5, 2021 \| 93 comments
25.		Slime molds’ complex ability to detect mass from a distance (harvardmagazine.com)
		99 points by bangonkeyboard on Nov 5, 2021 \| 42 comments
26.		OKRs vs. KPIs: understanding measurements for your SaaS business (userpilot.com)
		166 points by dundalk03 on Nov 6, 2021 \| 45 comments
27.		Keyoxide: A privacy-friendly platform to establish your decentralized identity (codeberg.org/keyoxide)
		135 points by decrypt on Nov 6, 2021 \| 58 comments
28.		Boo to the Boo-Hurrahs: how four Oxford women transformed philosophy (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
		52 points by apollinaire on Nov 5, 2021 \| 15 comments
29.		The fastest object diff library in JavaScript (github.com/asyncbanana)
		100 points by AsyncBanana on Nov 6, 2021 \| 44 comments
30.		DirectX 12 applications no longer working on 4th gen Intel processor graphics (intel.com)
		188 points by pantalaimon on Nov 6, 2021 \| 82 comments
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