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1. My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison (twitter.com/jessicamckellar)
1040 points by danso on Oct 1, 2020 | 622 comments
2. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
426 points by whoishiring on Oct 1, 2020 | 809 comments
3. USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess (debugger.medium.com)
590 points by gozzoo on Oct 1, 2020 | 605 comments
4. We learn faster when we aren’t told what choices to make (scientificamerican.com)
496 points by headalgorithm on Oct 1, 2020 | 167 comments
5. Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator (kovidgoyal.net)
385 points by Gedxx on Sept 30, 2020 | 195 comments
6. My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf (reddit.com)
536 points by frans on Oct 1, 2020 | 238 comments
7. Industrial Literacy (rootsofprogress.org)
330 points by sien on Oct 1, 2020 | 192 comments
8. Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device to Act Like a Neuron (ieee.org)
260 points by headalgorithm on Oct 1, 2020 | 108 comments
9. Code scanning for security vulnerabilities now available (github.blog)
298 points by gibbon15 on Oct 1, 2020 | 109 comments
10. Car seats as contraception (ssrn.com)
377 points by longdefeat on Oct 1, 2020 | 329 comments
11. Stellar Explosion in Earth's Proximity (phys.org)
235 points by dnetesn on Oct 1, 2020 | 83 comments
12. A Brief Guide to OTP in Elixir (serokell.io)
242 points by NaeosPsy on Sept 30, 2020 | 97 comments
13. Extracting firmware from embedded devices [pdf] (github.com/koutto)
215 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 1, 2020 | 55 comments
14. Actionsflow – IFTTT/Zapier free alternative based on GitHub Actions (github.com/actionsflow)
194 points by theowenyoung on Oct 1, 2020 | 73 comments
15. Purism's AweSIM – monthly plan for Librem5 including unlimited data (puri.sm)
179 points by krimeo on Oct 1, 2020 | 120 comments
16. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2020)
175 points by whoishiring on Oct 1, 2020 | 288 comments
17. Understanding How UUIDs Are Generated (digitalbunker.dev)
169 points by aryamansharda on Sept 30, 2020 | 60 comments
18. Commodore 64 Program Discovered on 35-Year Old Vinyl Album (2019) (popcultureretrorama.com)
208 points by clockworksoul on Sept 30, 2020 | 62 comments
19. Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: Let expressions (bernsteinbear.com)
131 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 1, 2020 | 39 comments
20. 3270font: A Font for the Nostalgic (github.com/rbanffy)
184 points by lelf on Oct 1, 2020 | 82 comments
21. Students Left Behind by Remote Learning (newyorker.com)
163 points by mitchbob on Sept 28, 2020 | 424 comments
22. Founders and Executives of Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange BitMEX Charged (justice.gov)
172 points by xoxoy on Oct 1, 2020 | 141 comments
23. NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity at a Personal Scale (nist.gov)
118 points by lelf on Sept 29, 2020 | 55 comments
24. How Normal Am I? (hownormalami.eu)
393 points by innot on Sept 30, 2020 | 208 comments
25. An Elementary Introduction to Information Geometry [pdf] (mdpi.com)
133 points by Anon84 on Sept 30, 2020 | 38 comments
26. YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K, but historians want them to stop (wired.co.uk)
242 points by headalgorithm on Oct 1, 2020 | 325 comments
27. D-Wave announces general availability of first quantum computer for business (dwavesys.com)
128 points by lelf on Sept 30, 2020 | 77 comments
28. Bare Metal Programming on Raspberry Pi 3 (github.com/bztsrc)
142 points by oumua_don17 on Sept 30, 2020 | 29 comments
29. Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread' (foodandwine.com)
361 points by walterbell on Oct 1, 2020 | 253 comments
30. C++ the Good Parts (2014) (infoq.com)
156 points by zerofrancisco on Oct 1, 2020 | 246 comments

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