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

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