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1. Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection (bbc.co.uk)
1887 points by isp on Nov 9, 2020 | 1148 comments
2. No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This (github.com/marak)
1070 points by ingve on Nov 9, 2020 | 938 comments
3. The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place inside your printer (eff.org)
457 points by MilnerRoute on Nov 9, 2020 | 313 comments
4. Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a Software Developer (zwbetz.com)
644 points by zwbetz on Nov 9, 2020 | 254 comments
5. Voters overwhelmingly back community broadband in Chicago and Denver (vice.com)
639 points by danso on Nov 9, 2020 | 229 comments
6. McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu (usatoday.com)
476 points by elsewhen on Nov 9, 2020 | 556 comments
7. How Go helped save HealthCare.gov (changelog.com)
371 points by ra7 on Nov 9, 2020 | 148 comments
8. Amazon Review Scam (twitter.com/cperciva)
579 points by StreamBright on Nov 9, 2020 | 317 comments
9. What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and why do we care if they are open source? (bunniestudios.com)
275 points by picture on Nov 9, 2020 | 89 comments
10. A fun website that simulates fluid (paveldogreat.github.io)
314 points by svikashk on Nov 9, 2020 | 47 comments
11. The Tao of Programming (1987) (mit.edu)
269 points by jasim on Nov 9, 2020 | 63 comments
12. How to Recalculate a Spreadsheet (lord.io)
298 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 9, 2020 | 72 comments
13. I now have an Oculus paperweight (reddit.com)
567 points by elsewhen on Nov 9, 2020 | 207 comments
14. Let’s Build a Video Card (eater.net)
267 points by captn3m0 on Nov 9, 2020 | 46 comments
15. Using Pokémon to detect scientific misinformation (the-scientist.com)
207 points by wizeman on Nov 8, 2020 | 47 comments
16. How Python bytecode is executed (tenthousandmeters.com)
179 points by r4victor on Nov 8, 2020 | 16 comments
17. How to GraphQL with Ruby, Rails, Active Record, and No N+1 (evilmartians.com)
171 points by progapandist on Nov 9, 2020 | 84 comments
18. Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams (gather.town)
311 points by eambutu on Nov 9, 2020 | 161 comments
19. Dog – A command-line DNS client written in Rust (github.com/ogham)
255 points by guessmyname on Nov 9, 2020 | 81 comments
20. Cool Machine Learning Books (matpalm.com)
248 points by ridddle on Nov 9, 2020 | 16 comments
21. Analyzing the Limits of Connection Scalability in Postgres (microsoft.com)
112 points by ozgune on Nov 9, 2020 | 19 comments
22. A Pico-8 story: How the fantasy console unlocked Frédéric Souchu’s dreams (nanark.medium.com)
151 points by pmarin on Nov 8, 2020 | 38 comments
23. Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visualization (probablydance.com)
206 points by vitplister on Nov 8, 2020 | 446 comments
24. A Theory of Universal Learning [pdf] (princeton.edu)
93 points by emre on Nov 9, 2020 | 3 comments
25. Start with pen and paper (sethetter.com)
164 points by sethetter on Nov 9, 2020 | 89 comments
26. Soviet Lun-Class Ekranoplan Ground Effect Vehicle (wikipedia.org)
77 points by teruakohatu on Nov 8, 2020 | 26 comments
27. Reverse-engineering the carry-lookahead circuit in the Intel 8008 processor (righto.com)
78 points by robin_reala on Nov 8, 2020 | 23 comments
28. XuanTie C906 based Allwinner RISC-V processor to power $12 Linux SBC's (cnx-software.com)
140 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 9, 2020 | 77 comments
29. Apple requests to remove WebAssembly support in a-Shell (twitter.com/a_shell_ios)
212 points by syrusakbary on Nov 9, 2020 | 104 comments
30. Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011) (scientificamerican.com)
195 points by 3131s on Nov 9, 2020 | 230 comments

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