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1.		Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization (josephg.com)
		625 points by xnx 1 day ago \| hide \| 131 comments
2.		Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020) (locusmag.com)
		392 points by olvy0 1 day ago \| hide \| 250 comments
3.		We Still Don’t Get Things Done (wired.com)
		382 points by gk1 2 days ago \| hide \| 164 comments
4.		Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages (phiresky.netlify.app)
		529 points by isnotchicago 1 day ago \| hide \| 69 comments
5.		The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered with failure (reuters.com)
		328 points by laurex 1 day ago \| hide \| 317 comments
6.		Ssheven: A modern SSH client for Mac OS 7-9 (github.com/cy384)
		323 points by Aloha 21 hours ago \| hide \| 125 comments
7.		Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend (github.com/langjam)
		259 points by ingve 22 hours ago \| hide \| 117 comments
8.		Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment (cosmosmagazine.com)
		290 points by MichaelMoser123 1 day ago \| hide \| 150 comments
9.		Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases (amazon.com)
		217 points by daenz 23 hours ago \| hide \| 88 comments
10.		Where has all the productivity gone? (johndcook.com)
		217 points by wellpast 1 day ago \| hide \| 195 comments
11.		The Retrocomputing Archive (retroarchive.org)
		123 points by elvis70 1 day ago \| hide \| 21 comments
12.		Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby (sorbet.org)
		256 points by jez 1 day ago \| hide \| 77 comments
13.		Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (2009) (restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com)
		123 points by benbreen 1 day ago \| hide \| 106 comments
14.		Show HN: Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C (twitter.com/ilyakurdyukov)
		218 points by jpegqs 1 day ago \| hide \| 93 comments
15.		As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an “attention recession” (economist.com)
		150 points by elsewhen 1 day ago \| hide \| 183 comments
16.		I, Token: The untold story of the hole in Bitcoin's heart (brettscott.substack.com)
		100 points by SirLJ 1 day ago \| hide \| 148 comments
17.		The dark side of entrepreneurship (aom.org)
		175 points by rustoo 2 days ago \| hide \| 79 comments
18.		Txiki.js: Tiny JavaScript runtime built with QuickJS and libuv (github.com/saghul)
		89 points by juancampa 22 hours ago \| hide \| 25 comments
19.		Typos, tricks and misprints (aeon.co)
		74 points by erehweb 1 day ago \| hide \| 34 comments
20.		TheBoard: Collaborative Whiteboard powered by matrix protocol and infrastucture (github.com/toger5)
		125 points by ingve 1 day ago \| hide \| 18 comments
21.		Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX (arstechnica.com)
		232 points by _Microft 23 hours ago \| hide \| 228 comments
22.		Lumen: Alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly (github.com/lumen)
		144 points by brainless 1 day ago \| hide \| 19 comments
23.		Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? (bbc.co.uk)
		207 points by gixo 1 day ago \| hide \| 479 comments
24.		Ask HN: Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly?
		209 points by hypnotist 1 day ago \| hide \| 106 comments
25.		Has the lead-crime hypothesis been debunked? (jabberwocking.com)
		124 points by monort 1 day ago \| hide \| 169 comments
26.		Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap (2011) (gingerybookstore.com)
		148 points by Tomte 1 day ago \| hide \| 52 comments
27.		PM orders internet blocked for anyone spreading info that might frighten people (chiangmaione.com)
		206 points by troydavis 1 day ago \| hide \| 94 comments
28.		One-Thousand Year-Old Plants (nytimes.com)
		73 points by SubiculumCode 1 day ago \| hide \| 20 comments
29.		Unix – The Hole Hawg of Operating Systems (1999) (team.net)
		106 points by walterbell 1 day ago \| hide \| 83 comments
30.		London’s Crossrail Is a $21B Test of Virtual Modeling (2016) (ieee.org)
		76 points by edward 1 day ago \| hide \| 55 comments
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