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1.		Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings (lapcatsoftware.com)
		1320 points by arm 3 months ago \| hide \| 492 comments
2.		Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are straight lines in spacetime (timhutton.github.io)
		801 points by tim_hutton 3 months ago \| hide \| 433 comments
3.		Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being (theatlantic.com)
		548 points by DarkContinent 3 months ago \| hide \| 316 comments
4.		Egypt has managed to plant trees in the desert using wastewater (al-monitor.com)
		380 points by dotcoma 3 months ago \| hide \| 113 comments
5.		Analyzing the Design of Unusual Japanese Butter Tableware (core77.com)
		403 points by kasbah 3 months ago \| hide \| 188 comments
6.		Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure (a16z.com)
		431 points by soumyadeb 3 months ago \| hide \| 105 comments
7.		A legislative path to an interoperable internet (eff.org)
		304 points by wallflower 3 months ago \| hide \| 118 comments
8.		Layoutit Grid – CSS Grids layouts made easy (layoutit.com)
		338 points by parisianka 3 months ago \| hide \| 37 comments
9.		How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017) (jvns.ca)
		249 points by zdw 3 months ago \| hide \| 65 comments
10.		The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights (economist.com)
		270 points by prostoalex 3 months ago \| hide \| 330 comments
11.		Openproject: Open-source project management software (openproject.org)
		240 points by simon04 3 months ago \| hide \| 71 comments
12.		Stealth – Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser (github.com/tholian-network)
		195 points by URfejk 3 months ago \| hide \| 57 comments
13.		Object Detection at 1840 FPS with TorchScript, TensorRT and DeepStream (paulbridger.com)
		162 points by briggers 3 months ago \| hide \| 55 comments
14.		The local timeline is the key to enjoying Mastodon (cfenollosa.com)
		173 points by carlesfe 3 months ago \| hide \| 114 comments
15.		LyX – The Document Processor (lyx.org)
		195 points by ivanche 3 months ago \| hide \| 62 comments
16.		GardaWorld lost track of millions (tampabay.com)
		143 points by danso 3 months ago \| hide \| 63 comments
17.		Doing old things better vs. doing brand new things (a16z.com)
		149 points by razin 3 months ago \| hide \| 46 comments
18.		Central Bank Digital Currencies are coming (twitter.com/raoulgmi)
		170 points by sippingjippers 3 months ago \| hide \| 136 comments
19.		Lisp from Nothing (t3x.org)
		182 points by nils-m-holm 3 months ago \| hide \| 29 comments
20.		House Hunting in France: A Once-in-a-Millennium Castle for $3.3M (nytimes.com)
		150 points by hodgesrm 3 months ago \| hide \| 202 comments
21.		Eigentechno – Applying Principal Component Analysis to electronic music loops (uci.edu)
		110 points by zorked 3 months ago \| hide \| 13 comments
22.		A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison: I am the captain of my soul (butwhatfor.substack.com)
		108 points by stanrivers 3 months ago \| hide \| 73 comments
23.		Why and How zk-Snark Works (2019) (arxiv.org)
		140 points by michaelsbradley 3 months ago \| hide \| 52 comments
24.		How Does a C Debugger Work? (2014) (0x972.info)
		131 points by btashton 3 months ago \| hide \| 29 comments
25.		Algorand Consensus Protocol (algorand.org)
		63 points by nemoniac 3 months ago \| hide \| 18 comments
26.		How to Clean Text Data at the Command Line (ezzeddinabdullah.com)
		84 points by ethink 3 months ago \| hide \| 51 comments
27.		An artist who does extreme close-ups of utility poles (atlasobscura.com)
		60 points by fortran77 3 months ago \| hide \| 16 comments
28.		Samsung phones force Mainland China DNS service upon Hong Kong WiFi users (headuck.com)
		209 points by signa11 3 months ago \| hide \| 58 comments
29.		Temporal: open-source microservices orchestration platform (temporal.io)
		123 points by rgbrgb 3 months ago \| hide \| 52 comments
30.		The curious case of Romanian broadband (medium.com/cgo-benchmark)
		103 points by rarefied_tomato 3 months ago \| hide \| 60 comments
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