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1.		Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?
		1127 points by Deutscher on Dec 19, 2022 \| 726 comments
2.		Spotifyd (github.com/spotifyd)
		733 points by fahrradflucht on Dec 19, 2022 \| 231 comments
3.		Productivity Blocker (productivityblocker.com)
		635 points by JohnHendrix on Dec 17, 2022 \| 146 comments
4.		Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll (twitter.com/elonmusk)
		756 points by calcifer on Dec 18, 2022 \| 720 comments
5.		Did insurance fire brigades let uninsured buildings burn? (tomscott.com)
		379 points by zinekeller on Dec 19, 2022 \| 407 comments
6.		Cook whole grains like popcorn (2018) (treehugger.com)
		315 points by brudgers on Dec 19, 2022 \| 107 comments
7.		Evidence that the evolution of mammals began in the Southern Hemisphere (australiangeographic.com.au)
		286 points by kalimanzaro on Dec 19, 2022 \| 145 comments
8.		Video codec in 100 lines of Rust (tempus-ex.com)
		306 points by kevmo314 on Dec 19, 2022 \| 45 comments
9.		Enhance Speech from Adobe – Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio (adobe.com)
		340 points by modinfo on Dec 19, 2022 \| 123 comments
10.		EABitTricks.h (github.com/electronicarts)
		283 points by mmastrac on Dec 18, 2022 \| 107 comments
11.		Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?
		361 points by heywhatupboys on Dec 19, 2022 \| 325 comments
12.		Pollution cleanup method destroys toxic “forever chemicals” (ucr.edu)
		317 points by voisin on Dec 19, 2022 \| 80 comments
13.		‘Perpetual broths’ that simmer for decades (atlasobscura.com)
		241 points by drdee on Dec 18, 2022 \| 173 comments
14.		Nuclear physicist explains why fusion ignition is hailed as a major breakthrough (theconversation.com)
		285 points by nkurz on Dec 18, 2022 \| 280 comments
15.		Tandem solar cell achieves 32.5 percent efficiency (helmholtz-berlin.de)
		212 points by quakeguy on Dec 19, 2022 \| 94 comments
16.		Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber (uber.com)
		291 points by phgn on Dec 18, 2022 \| 230 comments
17.		How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? (technologyreview.com)
		253 points by DamnInteresting on Dec 19, 2022 \| 140 comments
18.		Binance's books are a black box, filings show, as it tries to rally confidence (reuters.com)
		353 points by joenathanone on Dec 19, 2022 \| 383 comments
19.		Digitally sign PDF files from your commandline – open-pdf-sign (github.com/open-pdf-sign)
		252 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 19, 2022 \| 77 comments
20.		GCC now includes Modula-2 and Rust. Do they work on OpenBSD? (briancallahan.net)
		196 points by solene on Dec 19, 2022 \| 37 comments
21.		Show HN: Infisical – open-source secrets manager (github.com/infisical)
		232 points by vmatsiiako on Dec 19, 2022 \| 97 comments
22.		Structuring Clojure applications (yogthos.net)
		198 points by nefreat on Dec 19, 2022 \| 63 comments
23.		Hydrogel interfaces for merging humans and machines (nature.com)
		117 points by panabee on Dec 19, 2022 \| 27 comments
24.		A minor memorial for Leo Laporte’s terrestrial AM radio show (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
		97 points by classichasclass on Dec 18, 2022 \| 87 comments
25.		Reinventing backend subsetting at Google (acm.org)
		110 points by yarapavan on Dec 18, 2022 \| 21 comments
26.		A math problem generator (github.com/lukew3)
		145 points by mindcrime on Dec 19, 2022 \| 45 comments
27.		How many computers are in your computer? (2021) (gwern.net)
		162 points by peter_d_sherman on Dec 19, 2022 \| 44 comments
28.		What AMC’s streaming troubles say about the greater TV industry (nytimes.com)
		99 points by lxm on Dec 18, 2022 \| 210 comments
29.		Converting my PhD thesis into HTML (2021) (desfontain.es)
		96 points by distcs on Dec 19, 2022 \| 102 comments
30.		Code Design Decision – Always throw custom exceptions (github.com/getparthenon)
		96 points by that_guy_iain on Dec 19, 2022 \| 87 comments
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