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1.		Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus (yanmaani.github.io)
		786 points by alg0rith on Nov 28, 2021 \| 796 comments
2.		Books that changed my career as a software engineer (julianogtz.github.io)
		626 points by julianogtz on Nov 28, 2021 \| 279 comments
3.		Indian academics throw weight behind Sci-Hub and LibGen in landmark case (trtworld.com)
		510 points by ofou on Nov 28, 2021 \| 89 comments
4.		Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote (youtube.com)
		442 points by brudgers on Nov 28, 2021 \| 234 comments
5.		My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos posted in less than 6 hours
		395 points by k4runa on Nov 27, 2021 \| 240 comments
6.		Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again (capiche.com)
		321 points by BrendanThompson on Nov 28, 2021 \| 267 comments
7.		The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered (righto.com)
		271 points by picture on Nov 28, 2021 \| 65 comments
8.		The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by (theaviationgeekclub.com)
		308 points by 11001100 on Nov 28, 2021 \| 132 comments
9.		Floating point visually explained (2017) (fabiensanglard.net)
		288 points by luisha on Nov 28, 2021 \| 57 comments
10.		Why are German numbers backwards? (german.stackexchange.com)
		288 points by tosh on Nov 28, 2021 \| 419 comments
11.		Show HN: 4K Desktop Wallpaper Generator (tanck.nl)
		258 points by roytanck on Nov 28, 2021 \| 75 comments
12.		RSS-proxy: create an RSS/ATOM or JSON feed of almost any website (github.com/damoeb)
		200 points by ingve on Nov 28, 2021 \| 25 comments
13.		A small Scheme implementation with AOT and incremental compilers that fits in 4K (github.com/udem-dlteam)
		118 points by eatonphil on Nov 28, 2021 \| 27 comments
14.		Show HN: Giving a 2D grid a 3D look – part 4 (victorribeiro.com)
		155 points by atum47 on Nov 28, 2021 \| 37 comments
15.		Venus on QEMU: Enabling the new virtual Vulkan driver (collabora.com)
		125 points by farmerbb on Nov 28, 2021 \| 21 comments
16.		Rare Greek Variables (gwern.net)
		124 points by walterbell on Nov 27, 2021 \| 78 comments
17.		Explainer: .DS_Store Files (eclecticlight.co)
		136 points by serhack_ on Nov 27, 2021 \| 90 comments
18.		Generate Musical Accompaniment with R (flujoo.github.io)
		97 points by hackoo on Nov 28, 2021 \| 26 comments
19.		Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning (otoro.net)
		109 points by hardmaru on Nov 28, 2021 \| 16 comments
20.		How to parse EVE Online chat logs (in Common Lisp) (michaeldresser.io)
		90 points by michaelmdresser on Nov 28, 2021 \| 23 comments
21.		Micro BGP Suite: The Swiss Army Knife of Routing Analysis (ripe.net)
		92 points by oedmarap on Nov 25, 2021 \| 4 comments
22.		Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? (covid-datascience.com)
		368 points by Anon84 on Nov 28, 2021 \| 230 comments
23.		Linus on Line Breaks (2020) (lkml.org)
		244 points by belter on Nov 28, 2021 \| 188 comments
24.		“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says (torrentfreak.com)
		252 points by TangerineDream on Nov 28, 2021 \| 270 comments
25.		A Case for Asynchronous Computer Architecture (2000) [pdf] (yale.edu)
		65 points by mahami on Nov 28, 2021 \| 57 comments
26.		GitHub Broken Download URLs (github.com/github)
		206 points by wyoh on Nov 28, 2021 \| 97 comments
27.		Update on Omicron (who.int)
		273 points by hh3k0 on Nov 28, 2021 \| 694 comments
28.		Z Library (z-lib.org)
		142 points by gh0std3v on Nov 28, 2021 \| 36 comments
29.		I returned my Remarkable2 (offbyone.us)
		183 points by zekenie on Nov 28, 2021 \| 227 comments
30.		Bison in Canada Discover Ancient Petroglyphs, Fulfilling an Indigenous Prophecy (smithsonianmag.com)
		74 points by pseudolus on Nov 27, 2021 \| 11 comments
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