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1. Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus (yanmaani.github.io)
786 points by alg0rith on Nov 28, 2021 | 796 comments
2. Books that changed my career as a software engineer (julianogtz.github.io)
626 points by julianogtz on Nov 28, 2021 | 279 comments
3. Indian academics throw weight behind Sci-Hub and LibGen in landmark case (trtworld.com)
510 points by ofou on Nov 28, 2021 | 89 comments
4. Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote (youtube.com)
442 points by brudgers on Nov 28, 2021 | 234 comments
5. My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos posted in less than 6 hours
395 points by k4runa on Nov 27, 2021 | 240 comments
6. Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again (capiche.com)
321 points by BrendanThompson on Nov 28, 2021 | 267 comments
7. The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered (righto.com)
271 points by picture on Nov 28, 2021 | 65 comments
8. The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by (theaviationgeekclub.com)
308 points by 11001100 on Nov 28, 2021 | 132 comments
9. Floating point visually explained (2017) (fabiensanglard.net)
288 points by luisha on Nov 28, 2021 | 57 comments
10. Why are German numbers backwards? (german.stackexchange.com)
288 points by tosh on Nov 28, 2021 | 419 comments
11. Show HN: 4K Desktop Wallpaper Generator (tanck.nl)
258 points by roytanck on Nov 28, 2021 | 75 comments
12. RSS-proxy: create an RSS/ATOM or JSON feed of almost any website (github.com/damoeb)
200 points by ingve on Nov 28, 2021 | 25 comments
13. A small Scheme implementation with AOT and incremental compilers that fits in 4K (github.com/udem-dlteam)
118 points by eatonphil on Nov 28, 2021 | 27 comments
14. Show HN: Giving a 2D grid a 3D look – part 4 (victorribeiro.com)
155 points by atum47 on Nov 28, 2021 | 37 comments
15. Venus on QEMU: Enabling the new virtual Vulkan driver (collabora.com)
125 points by farmerbb on Nov 28, 2021 | 21 comments
16. Rare Greek Variables (gwern.net)
124 points by walterbell on Nov 27, 2021 | 78 comments
17. Explainer: .DS_Store Files (eclecticlight.co)
136 points by serhack_ on Nov 27, 2021 | 90 comments
18. Generate Musical Accompaniment with R (flujoo.github.io)
97 points by hackoo on Nov 28, 2021 | 26 comments
19. Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning (otoro.net)
109 points by hardmaru on Nov 28, 2021 | 16 comments
20. How to parse EVE Online chat logs (in Common Lisp) (michaeldresser.io)
90 points by michaelmdresser on Nov 28, 2021 | 23 comments
21. Micro BGP Suite: The Swiss Army Knife of Routing Analysis (ripe.net)
92 points by oedmarap on Nov 25, 2021 | 4 comments
22. Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? (covid-datascience.com)
368 points by Anon84 on Nov 28, 2021 | 230 comments
23. Linus on Line Breaks (2020) (lkml.org)
244 points by belter on Nov 28, 2021 | 188 comments
24. “The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says (torrentfreak.com)
252 points by TangerineDream on Nov 28, 2021 | 270 comments
25. A Case for Asynchronous Computer Architecture (2000) [pdf] (yale.edu)
65 points by mahami on Nov 28, 2021 | 57 comments
26. GitHub Broken Download URLs (github.com/github)
206 points by wyoh on Nov 28, 2021 | 97 comments
27. Update on Omicron (who.int)
273 points by hh3k0 on Nov 28, 2021 | 694 comments
28. Z Library (z-lib.org)
142 points by gh0std3v on Nov 28, 2021 | 36 comments
29. I returned my Remarkable2 (offbyone.us)
183 points by zekenie on Nov 28, 2021 | 227 comments
30. Bison in Canada Discover Ancient Petroglyphs, Fulfilling an Indigenous Prophecy (smithsonianmag.com)
74 points by pseudolus on Nov 27, 2021 | 11 comments

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