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1. A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher (niemanlab.org)
461 points by samclemens on Feb 6, 2021 | 81 comments
2. A visual guide to SSH tunnels (robotmoon.com)
963 points by brendanfalk on Feb 7, 2021 | 80 comments
3. Soldat: a 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game (github.com/soldat)
410 points by albertzeyer on Feb 7, 2021 | 121 comments
4. Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (github.com/jonasstrehle)
402 points by qtoxic on Feb 7, 2021 | 81 comments
5. Taxonomies of Visual Programming (1990) [pdf] (cmu.edu)
107 points by mr_tyzic on Feb 7, 2021 | 48 comments
6. Solar-assisted fabrication of large-scale, patternable transparent wood (cbc.ca)
310 points by lazycrazyowl on Feb 7, 2021 | 156 comments
7. ‘Smallest reptile on earth’ discovered in Madagascar (bbc.com)
244 points by pseudolus on Feb 5, 2021 | 63 comments
8. An F-117 pilot and the officer who shot him down meet, 15 years later (2013) (rd.com)
324 points by yutyut on Feb 7, 2021 | 168 comments
9. Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (wisc.edu)
324 points by ingve on Feb 7, 2021 | 28 comments
10. Mezzano: Operating system written in Common Lisp (github.com/froggey)
224 points by ingve on Feb 6, 2021 | 68 comments
11. RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990) (ietf.org)
220 points by rdpintqogeogsaa on Feb 7, 2021 | 121 comments
12. Show HN: Stamp turns a folder into a plain text file and a file into a folder (github.com/treenotation)
195 points by breck on Feb 7, 2021 | 87 comments
13. The Phrase “Kilroy Was Here” (2017) (thoughtco.com)
149 points by Vaslo on Feb 7, 2021 | 47 comments
14. Faux86: A portable, open-source 8086 emulator for bare metal Raspberry Pi (2019) (github.com/jhhoward)
137 points by wicket on Feb 7, 2021 | 32 comments
15. DVD-Drive Based Laser Scanning Microscope (loetlabor-jena.de)
157 points by zimmerfrei on Feb 7, 2021 | 7 comments
16. The Feminine Physique: On Women's Bodybuilding (believermag.com)
190 points by unpredict on Feb 7, 2021 | 348 comments
17. Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix (nixers.net)
179 points by zdw on Feb 7, 2021 | 113 comments
18. Foraging humans, mammals and birds who live in the same place behave similarly (bristol.ac.uk)
116 points by nonpolitical on Feb 7, 2021 | 21 comments
19. FreeBSD 13.0 Beta1 Now Available (freebsd.org)
193 points by vermaden on Feb 6, 2021 | 110 comments
20. Why We Fight over Fiction (overcomingbias.com)
96 points by exolymph on Feb 6, 2021 | 57 comments
21. Self-Directed Pandas Crash Course (kellyfoulk.herokuapp.com)
109 points by luu on Feb 6, 2021 | 41 comments
22. Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and other features (github.com/neo-mc)
152 points by URfejk on Feb 7, 2021 | 71 comments
23. The new reading stack (macwright.com)
196 points by Tomte on Feb 5, 2021 | 71 comments
24. Solar flare-style rocket thruster ‘could send astronauts to outer solar system’ (imeche.org)
82 points by dTal on Feb 7, 2021 | 32 comments
25. Violentmonkey – An open source userscript manager (violentmonkey.github.io)
124 points by homarp on Feb 7, 2021 | 71 comments
26. Frontex Files (frontexfiles.eu)
207 points by ruph123 on Feb 7, 2021 | 103 comments
27. How many early human species existed on Earth? (livescience.com)
91 points by Hooke on Feb 7, 2021 | 36 comments
28. Rethinking Sanakirja (pijul.org)
71 points by lelf on Feb 6, 2021 | 16 comments
29. The Downside to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks (nytimes.com)
174 points by ksec on Feb 6, 2021 | 147 comments
30. Things JRR Tolkien has never said, done, written or had anything to do with (thetolkienist.com)
138 points by BerislavLopac on Feb 7, 2021 | 52 comments

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