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1. Don’t be spooky (therealadam.com)
556 points by mooreds on Nov 6, 2021 | 219 comments
2. How credit cards make money (kalzumeus.com)
615 points by gregnavis on Nov 5, 2021 | 430 comments
3. An intact slave's room found in Pompeii's ruins (pompeiisites.org)
362 points by agomez314 on Nov 6, 2021 | 199 comments
4. An Epic future for SPJ (haskell.org)
365 points by Smaug123 on Nov 6, 2021 | 169 comments
5. Raspberry Pi Colocation (pi-colocation.com)
205 points by 3xa on Nov 6, 2021 | 144 comments
6. Micro – a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor (micro-editor.github.io)
324 points by thunderbong on Nov 6, 2021 | 161 comments
7. Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?
340 points by zandorg on Nov 6, 2021 | 264 comments
8. AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-Led Initiatives (wptavern.com)
388 points by decrypt on Nov 6, 2021 | 165 comments
9. What’s harder to find than microchips? The equipment that makes them (wsj.com)
145 points by wallflower on Nov 6, 2021 | 70 comments
10. Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work (briananglin.me)
236 points by anglinb on Nov 6, 2021 | 199 comments
11. Hundreds of ancient Maya sites hidden under Mexico reveal a mysterious blueprint (sciencealert.com)
218 points by stareatgoats on Nov 6, 2021 | 111 comments
12. Big Tech Coding Interview Framework – Pt 1. Inspect (fangprep.substack.com)
191 points by ckcheng on Nov 6, 2021 | 144 comments
13. Deno Deploy Demo: a multi-datacenter chat, client+server in 23 lines of TS (deno.com)
186 points by ondras on Nov 6, 2021 | 45 comments
14. The tomato was feared in Europe for more than 200 years (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
162 points by raldi on Nov 6, 2021 | 182 comments
15. Setting up Gmail in Doom Emacs using mbsync and mu4e (erichgrunewald.com)
149 points by erwald on Nov 6, 2021 | 49 comments
16. After a part of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back (nautil.us)
111 points by CapitalistCartr on Nov 4, 2021 | 57 comments
17. Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution (wsj.com)
341 points by erentz on Nov 5, 2021 | 345 comments
18. Racket v8.3 (racket-lang.org)
154 points by nikivi on Nov 6, 2021 | 56 comments
19. A 1958 UNIVAC airline reservation system (greenspun.com)
119 points by finite_jest on Nov 5, 2021 | 56 comments
20. Cellular Automata in F# (isthisit.nz)
94 points by de_keyboard on Nov 6, 2021 | 15 comments
21. ASCII Paint (alienmelon.com)
78 points by smusamashah on Nov 6, 2021 | 15 comments
22. Ask HN: How were video games from the 90s so efficient?
286 points by eezurr on Nov 6, 2021 | 232 comments
23. Nitrogen fertilizer shortage threatens to cut global crop yields – CF Industries (reuters.com)
178 points by mensetmanusman on Nov 6, 2021 | 217 comments
24. Contract for Sale of Soul (liminalwarmth.com)
94 points by abecedarius on Nov 5, 2021 | 93 comments
25. Slime molds’ complex ability to detect mass from a distance (harvardmagazine.com)
99 points by bangonkeyboard on Nov 5, 2021 | 42 comments
26. OKRs vs. KPIs: understanding measurements for your SaaS business (userpilot.com)
166 points by dundalk03 on Nov 6, 2021 | 45 comments
27. Keyoxide: A privacy-friendly platform to establish your decentralized identity (codeberg.org)
135 points by decrypt on Nov 6, 2021 | 58 comments
28. Boo to the Boo-Hurrahs: how four Oxford women transformed philosophy (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
52 points by apollinaire on Nov 5, 2021 | 15 comments
29. The fastest object diff library in JavaScript (github.com/asyncbanana)
100 points by AsyncBanana on Nov 6, 2021 | 44 comments
30. DirectX 12 applications no longer working on 4th gen Intel processor graphics (intel.com)
188 points by pantalaimon on Nov 6, 2021 | 82 comments

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