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1. This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine (secretgeek.github.io)
952 points by Symmetry on Oct 19, 2020 | 179 comments
2. No-till no-herbicide farming system in trial since 1981 (rodaleinstitute.org)
571 points by pimpampum on Oct 19, 2020 | 281 comments
3. Face ID and Touch ID for the Web (webkit.org)
757 points by Austin_Conlon on Oct 19, 2020 | 355 comments
4. How Discord Won (ianvanagas.com)
632 points by ivanagas on Oct 19, 2020 | 588 comments
5. Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition (p01.org)
409 points by pekko on Oct 19, 2020 | 122 comments
6. First Bitcoin “mixer” penalized for violating anti-money laundering laws (fincen.gov)
283 points by propter_hoc on Oct 19, 2020 | 195 comments
7. IKEA to buy back used furniture in recycling push (bbc.com)
312 points by devy on Oct 19, 2020 | 309 comments
8. Discord Desktop App RCE (l0.cm)
311 points by Wingy on Oct 19, 2020 | 103 comments
9. Better Git diff output for Ruby, Python, Elixir, Go (tekin.co.uk)
302 points by Lammy on Oct 19, 2020 | 51 comments
10. Python For Feature Film (gfx.dev)
260 points by dagmx on Oct 19, 2020 | 65 comments
11. Many of the root certificates on Windows are not needed (hexatomium.github.io)
255 points by svenfaw on Oct 19, 2020 | 113 comments
12. The Centralized Internet Is Inevitable (palladiummag.com)
192 points by undefined1 on Oct 19, 2020 | 200 comments
13. Rdrview – Firefox Reader View as a Linux command line tool (github.com/eafer)
238 points by ashitlerferad on Oct 19, 2020 | 61 comments
14. Building a computer in Conway's game of life (nicolasloizeau.com)
227 points by ctlachance on Oct 19, 2020 | 66 comments
15. Starting a physical product company? You’re gonna need a lawyer (medium.com/molson_hart)
259 points by molsonhart on Oct 19, 2020 | 158 comments
16. Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters (startplaying.games)
310 points by kntucker on Oct 19, 2020 | 141 comments
17. Real-Life Angel Investing Returns 2012–2016 (medium.com/yunfangjuan)
198 points by alibova on Oct 18, 2020 | 68 comments
18. Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio] (lexfridman.com)
247 points by binarynate on Oct 19, 2020 | 137 comments
19. How to better calculate churn rates (catchjs.com)
166 points by cmogni1 on Oct 19, 2020 | 40 comments
20. Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes (gridsagegames.com)
142 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 19, 2020 | 30 comments
21. Crowdsec: A Fail2Ban alternative written in Go (github.com/crowdsecurity)
170 points by jaden on Oct 19, 2020 | 93 comments
22. No More Misunderstandings: Paraphrasing – When, Why, and How (smallbigideas.substack.com)
117 points by amitt on Oct 19, 2020 | 30 comments
23. Neurosymbolic AI – Combining neural nets and symbolic AI (knowablemagazine.org)
130 points by ralphc on Oct 19, 2020 | 26 comments
24. Pure sh bible – Posix sh alternatives to external processes (github.com/dylanaraps)
137 points by IA21 on Oct 19, 2020 | 56 comments
25. A case for using punctuation in Slack (mitchjlee.com)
173 points by dontmitch on Oct 19, 2020 | 260 comments
26. E. B. White’s “Plain Style” at 75 (publicbooks.org)
98 points by silt on Oct 18, 2020 | 49 comments
27. Blokdots – Build interactive hardware prototypes visually (blokdots.com)
154 points by bschne on Oct 19, 2020 | 33 comments
28. Cursed Elixir (evuez.github.io)
149 points by udfalkso on Oct 18, 2020 | 70 comments
29. AI that scans a construction site can spot when things are falling behind (technologyreview.com)
73 points by DamnInteresting on Oct 16, 2020 | 47 comments
30. Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson (2015) (raspberrypi.org)
76 points by pkilgore on Oct 18, 2020 | 3 comments

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