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1. Microsoft Tilecode (microsoft.github.io)
425 points by Impossible on Oct 24, 2020 | 60 comments
2. I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps (varsity.co.uk)
1242 points by yk42bb on Oct 24, 2020 | 536 comments
3. The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012) (boingboing.net)
405 points by pdkl95 on Oct 23, 2020 | 210 comments
4. A small but complete JavaScript engine (bellard.org)
438 points by marcobambini on Oct 23, 2020 | 146 comments
5. Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition (gresearch.co.uk)
401 points by Smaug123 on Oct 24, 2020 | 241 comments
6. 2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took 5 Years to Complete (petapixel.com)
371 points by giuliomagnifico on Oct 24, 2020 | 62 comments
7. Falling five storeys from a New York rooftop changed my life (smh.com.au)
327 points by danso on Oct 24, 2020 | 149 comments
8. GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015) (printf.net)
314 points by mbroncano on Oct 23, 2020 | 56 comments
9. Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-end encryption (stingle.org)
255 points by wh33zle on Oct 24, 2020 | 160 comments
10. BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell at ESP8266 price point (cnx-software.com)
214 points by zdw on Oct 24, 2020 | 58 comments
11. Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project into Political Ad Targeting (wsj.com)
317 points by bigpumpkin on Oct 23, 2020 | 105 comments
12. A New Map of All the Particles and Forces (quantamagazine.org)
266 points by djordjecupic on Oct 24, 2020 | 42 comments
13. OldVersion.com software downloads for old versions of programs, drivers & games (oldversion.com)
229 points by gscott on Oct 23, 2020 | 53 comments
14. Rust-GPU: Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU code (github.com/embarkstudios)
197 points by zdw on Oct 23, 2020 | 70 comments
15. ØMQ – The Guide (2011) (zeromq.org)
193 points by allending on Oct 24, 2020 | 112 comments
16. Porting Firecracker to a Raspberry Pi 4 (2019) (cloudkernels.net)
138 points by k__ on Oct 24, 2020 | 15 comments
17. Beyond Cyberpunk: Towards a Solarpunk Future (thedorkweb.substack.com)
182 points by headalgorithm on Oct 24, 2020 | 84 comments
18. Lessons from six months at Shopify (alexdanco.com)
216 points by tim_sw on Oct 24, 2020 | 106 comments
19. Ungrammar (rust-analyzer.github.io)
152 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 24, 2020 | 14 comments
20. Deprecating SHA1 (ietf.org)
146 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 23, 2020 | 109 comments
21. My toothbrush streams gyroscope data (johannes-mittendorfer.com)
158 points by zdw on Oct 24, 2020 | 99 comments
22. YouTube-dl source code encoded in two images (twitter.com/galacticfurball)
325 points by arafsheikh on Oct 24, 2020 | 106 comments
23. A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee (2016) (blog.ycombinator.com)
121 points by guiambros on Oct 24, 2020 | 66 comments
24. Quantum Tunnel Shows Particles Can Break the Speed of Light (quantamagazine.org)
128 points by jonbaer on Oct 24, 2020 | 104 comments
25. How the bootstrap load made the historic Intel 8008 processor possible (righto.com)
97 points by ink_13 on Oct 24, 2020 | 29 comments
26. GDB 10.1 (lists.gnu.org)
155 points by lelf on Oct 24, 2020 | 29 comments
27. Ask HN: How do I improve my command of mathematical language?
122 points by deboniscognitio on Oct 23, 2020 | 46 comments
28. Space Engine – The Universe Simulator (spaceengine.org)
112 points by rosstex on Oct 24, 2020 | 21 comments
29. The Rome Toolchain: A linter, compiler, bundler, and more (github.com/rome)
64 points by 0xedb on Oct 24, 2020 | 33 comments
30. A professionally printed fanzine for the Commodore 64 (freeze64.com)
86 points by oumua_don17 on Oct 24, 2020 | 6 comments

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