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1. Photos from inside a Typhoon class submarine (ru-submarine.livejournal.com)
610 points by hestefisk on Oct 31, 2020 | 367 comments
2. Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React (now.sh)
582 points by fibo on Oct 31, 2020 | 148 comments
3. Foundations of Software Engineering (cmu-313.github.io)
499 points by charlysl on Oct 31, 2020 | 125 comments
4. How to deal with extreme physical pain (hanselman.com)
568 points by LyalinDotCom on Oct 30, 2020 | 335 comments
5. Sean Connery has died (bbc.co.uk)
633 points by bitshifta on Oct 31, 2020 | 240 comments
6. An Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way (phys.org)
198 points by dnetesn on Oct 30, 2020 | 105 comments
7. A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (2018) (dampfkraft.com)
323 points by polm23 on Oct 31, 2020 | 130 comments
8. How to create minimal music with code in any programming language (zserge.com)
265 points by pmarin on Oct 30, 2020 | 78 comments
9. Jailbreaking Used Teslas (vice.com)
300 points by bound008 on Oct 31, 2020 | 284 comments
10. Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time (scientificamerican.com)
432 points by pseudolus on Oct 31, 2020 | 270 comments
11. Programmable Filament Gives Even Simple 3D Printers Multi-Material Capabilities (ieee.org)
118 points by headalgorithm on Oct 31, 2020 | 42 comments
12. AI model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through phone-recorded coughs (news.mit.edu)
228 points by agsamek on Oct 31, 2020 | 74 comments
13. Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to ‘night owl’ sleep disorder (universityofcalifornia.edu)
211 points by Hooke on Oct 29, 2020 | 167 comments
14. Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code (github.com/christianbundy)
332 points by jhardy54 on Oct 31, 2020 | 249 comments
15. Product-market fit for a B2B company (dayzero.substack.com)
138 points by kpowerinfinity on Oct 31, 2020 | 35 comments
16. Show HN: Web scraping that just works with OpenFaaS with Puppeteer (openfaas.com)
145 points by alexellisuk on Oct 31, 2020 | 15 comments
17. Distributed Systems Learning Notes (timilearning.com)
234 points by charlysl on Oct 31, 2020 | 13 comments
18. Inside the stacked RAM modules used in the Apple III (righto.com)
74 points by picture on Oct 31, 2020 | 27 comments
19. Metal Spheres Swarm Together to Create Freeform Modular Robots (ieee.org)
81 points by headalgorithm on Oct 31, 2020 | 46 comments
20. FPGAwars: Exploring the Open Side of the FPGAs (fpgawars.github.io)
121 points by MrXOR on Oct 30, 2020 | 46 comments
21. Precomp: Further compress files that are already compressed (github.com/schnaader)
59 points by marcopolis on Oct 31, 2020 | 25 comments
22. Tobler's First Law of Geography (wikipedia.org)
63 points by sebwi on Oct 30, 2020 | 17 comments
23. Java Concurrency – Understanding the Basics of Threads (turkogluc.com)
142 points by turkogluc on Oct 30, 2020 | 82 comments
24. No-Code and the IKEA Effect: Software lock-in evolved to make us never churn (capiche.com)
120 points by maguay on Oct 31, 2020 | 76 comments
25. Packaging Kubernetes for Debian (lwn.net)
112 points by pabs3 on Oct 31, 2020 | 109 comments
26. A Better Mousetrap – Converting WebPages to Web APIs (turnerj.com)
63 points by shanselman on Oct 31, 2020 | 21 comments
27. The Scientists Take Over: George Orwell Reviews “That Hideous Strength” (1945) (lewisiana.nl)
96 points by benbreen on Oct 30, 2020 | 57 comments
28. PG&E should be fined $166M for botched power shut-offs, watchdog says (latimes.com)
104 points by sir692 on Oct 31, 2020 | 91 comments
29. 2020's fastest-rising tech jobs? Programming language PHP leads the way (zdnet.com)
247 points by mg on Oct 31, 2020 | 262 comments
30. Why Are We Living in a Golden Age of Historical Fiction? (2019) (nytimes.com)
48 points by pepys on Oct 30, 2020 | 38 comments

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