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1.		Digital books wear out faster than physical books (archive.org)
		777 points by Amorymeltzer on Nov 15, 2022 \| 435 comments
2.		Robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less chemicals [video] (youtube.com)
		793 points by zikohh on Nov 16, 2022 \| 303 comments
3.		Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile (reason.com)
		759 points by leephillips on Nov 16, 2022 \| 726 comments
4.		Electric ferry uses a long extension cord [video] (youtube.com)
		338 points by zdw on Nov 15, 2022 \| 224 comments
5.		Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta) (galactica.org)
		409 points by crorella on Nov 15, 2022 \| 358 comments
6.		Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons (evernote.com)
		384 points by taldo on Nov 16, 2022 \| 344 comments
7.		Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year (tomforb.es)
		502 points by orf on Nov 16, 2022 \| 201 comments
8.		Laying myself off from Amazon (daniel.do)
		394 points by dimmke on Nov 16, 2022 \| 358 comments
9.		Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to identify leaks (twitter.com/pnikosis)
		520 points by BerislavLopac on Nov 16, 2022 \| 429 comments
10.		What’s so great about functional programming anyway? (jrsinclair.com)
		402 points by redbell on Nov 16, 2022 \| 569 comments
11.		All companies are fucked up (jonpauluritis.com)
		385 points by jppope on Nov 15, 2022 \| 124 comments
12.		Ask HN: Alternative ways to make money with coding and system skills?
		496 points by tayo42 on Nov 16, 2022 \| 282 comments
13.		Psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid (frontiersin.org)
		326 points by limbicsystem on Nov 16, 2022 \| 332 comments
14.		CPSC calls for full recall of all Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards (cpsc.gov)
		275 points by alden5 on Nov 16, 2022 \| 404 comments
15.		Show HN: Pomodoro with friends (pomochat.com)
		177 points by seydor on Nov 16, 2022 \| 72 comments
16.		A small fleet of CubeStats joins three mannequins, fungus, algae on Artemis-1 (ieee.org)
		120 points by Amorymeltzer on Nov 16, 2022 \| 29 comments
17.		Who needs MLflow when you have SQLite? (ploomber.io)
		252 points by edublancas on Nov 16, 2022 \| 110 comments
18.		Building a private LoRa network (2017) (mbed.com)
		219 points by Tomte on Nov 16, 2022 \| 73 comments
19.		Amazon’s distributed computing manifesto (1998) (allthingsdistributed.com)
		247 points by werner on Nov 16, 2022 \| 53 comments
20.		Python 3.12.0 is to remove long-deprecated items (python.org)
		264 points by BerislavLopac on Nov 16, 2022 \| 252 comments
21.		Ask HN: Anyone go through Montessori education until age 12 (end of grade 6)?
		253 points by boringg on Nov 16, 2022 \| 251 comments
22.		Liblithium: A lightweight and portable cryptography library (github.com/teslamotors)
		94 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 16, 2022 \| 48 comments
23.		Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor (2017) (ieee.org)
		127 points by YakBizzarro on Nov 15, 2022 \| 36 comments
24.		Pakistan's lost city of 40k people (bbc.com)
		184 points by pseudolus on Nov 16, 2022 \| 62 comments
25.		Hand of Irulegi: ancient artefact could help trace origins of Basque language (theguardian.com)
		116 points by benbreen on Nov 16, 2022 \| 92 comments
26.		Spurious Splines (inconvergent.net)
		76 points by thesephist on Nov 14, 2022 \| 14 comments
27.		ZX Spectrum BASIC programming (1983) (worldofspectrum.net)
		138 points by guytv on Nov 16, 2022 \| 53 comments
28.		Researchers thought this was a bug (Borwein integrals) [video] (youtube.com)
		110 points by andersource on Nov 15, 2022 \| 18 comments
29.		The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad? (economist.com)
		185 points by sohkamyung on Nov 16, 2022 \| 592 comments
30.		Overhyping hydrogen as a fuel (nature.com)
		159 points by samizdis on Nov 16, 2022 \| 279 comments
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