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1. Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video] (youtube.com)
959 points by BerislavLopac on Oct 16, 2020 | 238 comments
2. AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service (twitter.com/tim_nolet)
1466 points by tnolet on Oct 16, 2020 | 637 comments
3. Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims (bbc.com)
780 points by nkurz on Oct 15, 2020 | 1664 comments
4. So you want to build an embedded Linux system? (jaycarlson.net)
535 points by cushychicken on Oct 16, 2020 | 111 comments
5. Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod (lenire.com)
397 points by Mopolo on Oct 16, 2020 | 167 comments
6. Shasqi (YC W15) aims to make chemotherapy more powerful and less toxic (forbes.com/sites/katiejennings)
138 points by mejiaoneto on Oct 14, 2020 | 56 comments
7. Covid: Remdesivir 'has little or no effect' on survival, says WHO (bbc.co.uk)
369 points by VieEnCode on Oct 16, 2020 | 231 comments
8. ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable (github.com/c-smile)
497 points by c-smile on Oct 16, 2020 | 191 comments
9. Chewing Food More Thoroughly Results in Reduced Insulin Output (2013) (nih.gov)
279 points by leksak on Oct 16, 2020 | 124 comments
10. Cat Gap (wikipedia.org)
315 points by benbreen on Oct 16, 2020 | 48 comments
11. Zeptoseconds: New world record in short time measurement (goethe-university-frankfurt.de)
210 points by Tomte on Oct 16, 2020 | 92 comments
12. 40 Milliseconds of latency that just would not go away (rachelbythebay.com)
386 points by r4um on Oct 15, 2020 | 97 comments
13. Firms That Imploded Have Something in Common: Ernst and Young Audited Them (wsj.com)
289 points by JumpCrisscross on Oct 16, 2020 | 120 comments
14. What is expected of a engineering manager? (rlmflores.me)
257 points by rlmflores on Oct 15, 2020 | 127 comments
15. Porn, Zen, and .vimrc (koncevicius.lt)
204 points by _fnhr on Oct 16, 2020 | 128 comments
16. The Elroy Lamp: A transparent LCD lamp (2019) (kylescholz.com)
166 points by schappim on Oct 16, 2020 | 35 comments
17. We Tested Comma AI's OpenPilot (thedrive.com)
195 points by clouddrover on Oct 16, 2020 | 159 comments
18. Uninstall Nano Defender (resynth1943.net)
315 points by resynth1943 on Oct 16, 2020 | 80 comments
19. Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not their other language? (neurosciencenews.com)
139 points by lxm on Oct 16, 2020 | 210 comments
20. Babies' random choices become their preferences (jhu.edu)
211 points by colinprince on Oct 16, 2020 | 123 comments
21. A family of CRDTs supporting both State and Op based replication in Rust (github.com/rust-crdt)
131 points by cpard on Oct 15, 2020 | 14 comments
22. Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes (cloud.google.com)
172 points by TangerineDream on Oct 16, 2020 | 74 comments
23. Nim 1.4 (nim-lang.org)
278 points by narimiran on Oct 16, 2020 | 140 comments
24. Tasmota: Cloud-free open source smart home firmware for ESP8266 devices (tasmota.github.io)
193 points by noja on Oct 15, 2020 | 38 comments
25. FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service (freepn.org)
226 points by jtanderson on Oct 16, 2020 | 129 comments
26. Pianojacq, an easy way to learn to play the piano (jacquesmattheij.com)
227 points by SanderMak on Oct 16, 2020 | 179 comments
27. Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses (atlassian.com)
380 points by ameshkov on Oct 16, 2020 | 298 comments
28. Engineers, not racers, are the true drivers of success in motor sport (economist.com)
137 points by DyslexicAtheist on Oct 16, 2020 | 149 comments
29. Embracing Asynchronous Communication at Gitlab (about.gitlab.com)
140 points by yarapavan on Oct 16, 2020 | 44 comments
30. What if a pill can change your politics or religious beliefs? (scientificamerican.com)
165 points by bookofjoe on Oct 15, 2020 | 272 comments

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