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1. Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler (edby.coffee)
604 points by abc_tkys on Oct 4, 2020 | 69 comments
2. French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs (privateinternetaccess.com)
714 points by seigando on Oct 4, 2020 | 330 comments
3. Algorithm discovers how six molecules could evolve into life’s building blocks (chemistryworld.com)
390 points by gmays on Oct 4, 2020 | 165 comments
4. Shapez.io: open-source base building game inspired by Factorio (shapez.io)
373 points by smusamashah on Oct 4, 2020 | 114 comments
5. Why I left my tenured academic job (reyammer.io)
385 points by adamnemecek on Oct 4, 2020 | 229 comments
6. The mystery of why one ant species goes after larger foes (2018) (nationalgeographic.com)
246 points by tosh on Oct 4, 2020 | 123 comments
7. Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (2017) (strongtowns.org)
333 points by lifeisstillgood on Oct 4, 2020 | 471 comments
8. Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court [pdf] (justia.com)
245 points by dctoedt on Oct 4, 2020 | 425 comments
9. Witeboard (witeboard.com)
331 points by striking on Oct 4, 2020 | 134 comments
10. Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator (veryseriousblog.com)
188 points by fanf2 on Oct 4, 2020 | 65 comments
11. Falling in love again with the haunting sounds of interwar Polish tango (collectorsweekly.com)
144 points by tintinnabula on Oct 3, 2020 | 36 comments
12. Sonos is spying on me (and you) (gingerlime.com)
291 points by gingerlime on Oct 4, 2020 | 149 comments
13. Lambda Calculus Diagrams (2015) (tromp.github.io)
172 points by fanf2 on Oct 4, 2020 | 32 comments
14. Structural studies of the global networks exposed in the Panama papers (doi.org)
193 points by nobody9999 on Oct 4, 2020 | 95 comments
15. Chibicc: A Small C Compiler (github.com/rui314)
278 points by marcobambini on Oct 4, 2020 | 44 comments
16. On Being Bipolar (thewalrus.ca)
212 points by pseudolus on Oct 3, 2020 | 88 comments
17. Paul Stamets on the interrelationship among mushrooms, consciousness, and nature (nautil.us)
231 points by dnetesn on Oct 4, 2020 | 152 comments
18. Open-source self-hosted comments systems for static websites (lisakov.com)
241 points by nuker on Oct 4, 2020 | 70 comments
19. What are Differential Equations and how do they work? (backreaction.blogspot.com)
179 points by Santosh83 on Oct 4, 2020 | 56 comments
20. M17 Aims to Replace Proprietary Ham Radio Protocols (hackaday.com)
138 points by emptybits on Oct 3, 2020 | 42 comments
21. Xen on Raspberry Pi 4 (xenproject.org)
113 points by posix_me_less on Oct 4, 2020 | 27 comments
22. Pinocchio Dies, Bambi Gets Shot, and Other Changes to Disney Movies (2018) (saturdayeveningpost.com)
124 points by hawkoy on Oct 4, 2020 | 65 comments
23. Peak Newsletter? That Was 80 Years Ago (wired.com)
56 points by samclemens on Oct 2, 2020 | 9 comments
24. Self-medication by orangutans using bioactive properties of a plant (nature.com)
119 points by panabee on Oct 3, 2020 | 47 comments
25. Dissecting the Gzip Format (2011) (infinitepartitions.com)
81 points by WoodenChair on Oct 4, 2020 | 9 comments
26. Three Ways of DevOps (ermetic.com)
77 points by kiyanwang on Oct 4, 2020 | 21 comments
27. 40th Anniversary of the Ethernet (infoq.com)
93 points by alblue on Oct 3, 2020 | 25 comments
28. Escaping the Index of Prohibited Books (laphamsquarterly.org)
43 points by pepys on Oct 4, 2020 | 3 comments
29. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) [video] (youtube.com)
323 points by tosh on Oct 4, 2020 | 54 comments
30. Ask HN: How did you get started in tech and/or Linux?
171 points by indigodaddy on Oct 3, 2020 | 152 comments

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