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1. My Resignation from the Intercept (greenwald.substack.com)
1441 points by yasp on Oct 29, 2020 | 1604 comments
2. I Violated a Code of Conduct (fast.ai)
1214 points by tosh on Oct 29, 2020 | 912 comments
3. The Laptev Sea hasn't frozen (economist.com)
478 points by xenocratus on Oct 29, 2020 | 526 comments
4. MDN Web Docs evolves: Lowdown on the upcoming new platform (hacks.mozilla.org)
335 points by headalgorithm on Oct 29, 2020 | 196 comments
5. Ruby on Rails in a week (simplethread.com)
497 points by Tenhundfeld on Oct 29, 2020 | 171 comments
6. FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals (krebsonsecurity.com)
475 points by picture on Oct 29, 2020 | 329 comments
7. Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab (tara.ai)
298 points by iba99 on Oct 29, 2020 | 136 comments
8. The Heart of RISC-V Development Is Unmatched (sifive.com)
252 points by guerby on Oct 29, 2020 | 171 comments
9. Image Scaling Attacks (embracethered.com)
431 points by wendythehacker on Oct 29, 2020 | 73 comments
10. Mall real estate company collected 5M images of shoppers (cbc.ca)
264 points by voisin on Oct 29, 2020 | 176 comments
11. The Remarkable Number 1/89 (2004) (ou.edu)
413 points by nonsapreiche on Oct 29, 2020 | 113 comments
12. What's in a Linux Executable? (fasterthanli.me)
359 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 29, 2020 | 64 comments
13. Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age (news.mit.edu)
269 points by hhs on Oct 28, 2020 | 139 comments
14. Vim-Mario: Mario on Vim (github.com/rbtnn)
241 points by tambourine_man on Oct 29, 2020 | 71 comments
15. Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos (github.com/3b1b)
283 points by doppp on Oct 29, 2020 | 19 comments
16. The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why (discovermagazine.com)
245 points by NoRagrets on Oct 28, 2020 | 103 comments
17. Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method (zettelkasten.de)
195 points by goranmoomin on Oct 28, 2020 | 73 comments
18. Show HN: Nhost – Open source Firebase alternative with GraphQL (nhost.io)
210 points by elitan on Oct 29, 2020 | 69 comments
19. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Sampling, Part 1: The Basics (2019) (tweag.io)
146 points by vonadz on Oct 28, 2020 | 21 comments
20. The ungentle joy of spider sex (knowablemagazine.org)
114 points by knowablemag on Oct 29, 2020 | 54 comments
21. Mailing lists are resistant to censorship (sourcehut.org)
205 points by ddevault on Oct 29, 2020 | 98 comments
22. Launch HN: Cohere (YC S20) – Real-time user support for web apps
193 points by yunyu on Oct 29, 2020 | 57 comments
23. Canadian military tested propaganda mission on Canadians that went off the rails (ottawacitizen.com)
185 points by pizza on Oct 28, 2020 | 123 comments
24. Bazel Build System Support for LLVM (github.com/google)
118 points by mshockwave on Oct 28, 2020 | 98 comments
25. Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission (axios.com)
403 points by cwwc on Oct 29, 2020 | 274 comments
26. figlet – a program for making large letters out of ordinary text (figlet.org)
164 points by pmoriarty on Oct 29, 2020 | 61 comments
27. eBPF Summit Day 1 Recap (cilium.io)
128 points by genbit on Oct 29, 2020 | 24 comments
28. Smash: An efficient compression algorithm for microcontrollers (segger.com)
83 points by g0xA52A2A on Oct 29, 2020 | 29 comments
29. Amazon Argues Users Don't Own Purchased Prime Video Content (hollywoodreporter.com)
308 points by _Microft on Oct 29, 2020 | 223 comments
30. Bullet Train: Open-source feature flagging (bullet-train.io)
111 points by kaishiro on Oct 28, 2020 | 30 comments

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