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1. U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests (npr.org)
1986 points by fortran77 on Jan 6, 2021 | 2422 comments
2. What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry (bti360.com)
1270 points by FauxDemure on Jan 6, 2021 | 354 comments
3. Memory access on the Apple M1 processor (lemire.me)
372 points by luigi23 on Jan 6, 2021 | 260 comments
4. GNU Units (gnu.org)
421 points by tosh on Jan 6, 2021 | 203 comments
5. How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (whyy.org)
389 points by _Microft on Jan 6, 2021 | 106 comments
6. Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2 (bert.org)
435 points by fanf2 on Jan 6, 2021 | 115 comments
7. Truck Art in Pakistan (2018) (mymodernmet.com)
235 points by brudgers on Jan 5, 2021 | 88 comments
8. We Built a Facebook Inspector (themarkup.org)
282 points by atg_abhishek on Jan 6, 2021 | 70 comments
9. Deep-learning text-to-speech tool for generating voices of various characters (15.ai)
283 points by clxxx on Jan 6, 2021 | 84 comments
10. Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering?
365 points by abdabab on Jan 5, 2021 | 276 comments
11. Facebook senior software engineer interview (daqo.medium.com)
432 points by hpux on Jan 6, 2021 | 504 comments
12. Jim Keller moves to AI chip startup (reuters.com)
281 points by vnorilo on Jan 6, 2021 | 89 comments
13. How WhatsApp works with other Facebook products (whatsapp.com)
329 points by woliveirajr on Jan 6, 2021 | 196 comments
14. PeerJS – Simple peer-to-peer with WebRTC (peerjs.com)
214 points by caminocorner on Jan 6, 2021 | 97 comments
15. Synchronized violin players reveal uniqueness of human networks (arstechnica.com)
85 points by kawera on Jan 5, 2021 | 16 comments
16. Money laundering via author impersonation on Amazon? (krebsonsecurity.com)
197 points by nixtaken on Jan 6, 2021 | 122 comments
17. New quantum algorithms finally crack nonlinear equations (quantamagazine.org)
148 points by theastrowolfe on Jan 6, 2021 | 33 comments
18. 27th International Obfuscated C Code Contest winners published (ioccc.org)
212 points by beagle3 on Jan 5, 2021 | 45 comments
19. Debugging Lisp (2015) (malisper.me)
117 points by wooby on Jan 6, 2021 | 32 comments
20. Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL (reslash.co)
266 points by remotelyyours on Jan 6, 2021 | 229 comments
21. A new SaaS metric for demonstrating the ROI of community (orbit.love)
117 points by someproduct on Jan 6, 2021 | 13 comments
22. US doctor forgives $650k in medical bills for cancer patients (bbc.com)
277 points by williamsharris on Jan 6, 2021 | 331 comments
23. DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows 3.x and 9x emulation (dosbox-x.com)
249 points by FlyMoreRockets on Jan 6, 2021 | 89 comments
24. Show HN: Experimental Semantic Code Explorer (bypaulshen.com)
117 points by paulshen on Jan 6, 2021 | 25 comments
25. Designing Engineering Organizations (jacobian.org)
141 points by dochtman on Jan 5, 2021 | 39 comments
26. Show HN: Build your own programming language in C++ (github.com/codr7)
94 points by codr7 on Jan 5, 2021 | 28 comments
27. Assembly language, arcade games, YouTube: former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer (theregister.com)
79 points by samizdis on Jan 6, 2021 | 5 comments
28. Locust – Open-source Load Testing Tool (locust.io)
107 points by dedalus on Jan 5, 2021 | 21 comments
29. What I Use Instead of Google (kiramclean.com)
294 points by kmclean on Jan 6, 2021 | 208 comments
30. Matomo: Open-source analytics platform (github.com/matomo-org)
183 points by AbdHicham on Jan 5, 2021 | 131 comments

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