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1. How French Drains Work (practical.engineering)
755 points by chmaynard 69 days ago | 209 comments
2. East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses (theguardian.com)
512 points by n1b0m 69 days ago | 294 comments
3. Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments (roometron.com)
694 points by streakolay 68 days ago | 201 comments
4. Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy (icode4.coffee)
731 points by ndiddy 68 days ago | 97 comments
5. Prevention of HIV (science.org)
667 points by etiam 68 days ago | 308 comments
6. Puppeteer Support for Firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)
655 points by cpeterso 68 days ago | 90 comments
7. Show HN: BudgetFlow – Budget planning using interactive Sankey diagrams (budgetflow.cc)
275 points by mkrd 68 days ago | 95 comments
8. Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay (sfstandard.com)
634 points by crhulls 69 days ago | 1202 comments
9. Medieval (teenage.engineering)
880 points by beefman 69 days ago | 321 comments
10. Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright (sakisv.net)
467 points by sakisv 69 days ago | 210 comments
11. Official proposal for Type Unions in C# (github.com/dotnet)
308 points by Fervicus 68 days ago | 302 comments
12. Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood (ubc.ca)
183 points by throwaway2562 72 days ago | 73 comments
13. Why Polars rewrote its Arrow string data type (pola.rs)
226 points by fanf2 69 days ago | 67 comments
14. I turned an old phone into a NAS (xda-developers.com)
169 points by simonpure 70 days ago | 95 comments
15. Apple memory holed its broken promise for an OCSP opt-out (lapcatsoftware.com)
422 points by latexr 68 days ago | 108 comments
16. How Uber tests payments in production (alvaroduran.com)
227 points by ohduran 68 days ago | 144 comments
17. Blackhouses of Scotland (amusingplanet.com)
107 points by yamrzou 69 days ago | 44 comments
18. What are the Olympics shooting competitors wearing on their faces? (core77.com)
213 points by surprisetalk 68 days ago | 127 comments
19. Show HN: Play with an interactive heatmap of SF crime (and other cities) (safemap.io)
141 points by SafemapTecnolgs 68 days ago | 123 comments
20. MNT Pocket Reform first impressions and hardware (andypiper.co.uk)
146 points by andypiper 69 days ago | 54 comments
21. Gazette: Cloud-native millisecond-latency streaming (github.com/gazette)
139 points by danthelion 68 days ago | 52 comments
22. 1970 Clean Air Act was intended to cover carbon dioxide (yale.edu)
191 points by Brajeshwar 68 days ago | 200 comments
23. Tsung-Dao Lee, physicist who challenged a law of nature, has died (nytimes.com)
150 points by nsoonhui 69 days ago | 79 comments
24. The Private Life: On James Baldwin (theparisreview.org)
128 points by samclemens 68 days ago | 15 comments
25. Launch HN: Release (YC W20) – Orchestrate AI Infrastructure and Applications
73 points by tommy_mcclung 68 days ago | 39 comments
26. Judge Fines Ripple $125M, Bans Future Securities Law Violations (coindesk.com)
134 points by crhulls 68 days ago | 40 comments
27. Emotional about X11: I'm creating a pure X11 “emoji keyboard” (github.com/zirias)
131 points by Zirias 72 days ago | 94 comments
28. Exploiting authorization by nonce in WordPress plugins (nowotarski.info)
73 points by nelse 69 days ago | 41 comments
29. Python extensions should be lazy (gauge.sh)
115 points by 0x63_Problems 68 days ago | 63 comments
30. R5N - Obfuscated mesh routing on hostile networks. (gnunet.org)
106 points by tinydev 72 days ago | 14 comments

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