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1. The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection (thetruesize.com)
556 points by picture on Nov 15, 2020 | 266 comments
2. Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution (interestingengineering.com)
502 points by ignoramous on Nov 15, 2020 | 356 comments
3. An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms (jezzamon.com)
421 points by bpierre on Nov 14, 2020 | 52 comments
4. Electrified wingsuit from BMW reaches 186MPH on first flight (robbreport.com)
346 points by pseudolus on Nov 15, 2020 | 191 comments
5. BetterExplained: Clear, intuitive lessons about mathematics (betterexplained.com)
340 points by parisianka on Nov 15, 2020 | 28 comments
6. Create Vintage Videos Using FFmpeg in 4 Simple Steps (ottverse.com)
293 points by ponderingfish on Nov 15, 2020 | 48 comments
7. Ask HN: Are you depressed? (strawpoll.me)
408 points by pcbro141 on Nov 15, 2020 | 489 comments
8. Sourcehut's Second Year in Alpha (sourcehut.org)
318 points by goranmoomin on Nov 15, 2020 | 148 comments
9. Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails (frantic.im)
350 points by goranmoomin on Nov 15, 2020 | 184 comments
10. Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System (github.com/iceychris)
233 points by iceychris on Nov 15, 2020 | 71 comments
11. Poll: Have you experienced depressive symptoms over the past two weeks?
300 points by miduil on Nov 15, 2020 | 213 comments
12. Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008) (paulgraham.com)
158 points by gautamsomani on Nov 15, 2020 | 67 comments
13. Billion Dollar Startup Ideas [video] (youtube.com)
195 points by redm on Nov 15, 2020 | 117 comments
14. Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter (npr.org)
329 points by intrepidhero on Nov 15, 2020 | 843 comments
15. Better disposable coffee cups can be made with waste from sugar cane (economist.com)
153 points by jkuria on Nov 15, 2020 | 120 comments
16. I Ripped Out a £6k Lighting System (robdobson.com)
230 points by iamflimflam1 on Nov 15, 2020 | 309 comments
17. The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol (ietf.org)
134 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Nov 15, 2020 | 26 comments
18. Drumbit – Online Drum Machine (drumbit.app)
165 points by blindm on Nov 15, 2020 | 37 comments
19. What Is a Particle? (quantamagazine.org)
126 points by raattgift on Nov 14, 2020
20. The first open-source ventilator tested on human patients (github.com/makers-for-life)
182 points by baptistejamin on Nov 15, 2020 | 24 comments
21. Ori Pocket Office (oriliving.com)
176 points by troydavis on Nov 15, 2020 | 67 comments
22. Packrat Parsing: Simple, Powerful, Lazy, Linear Time [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
99 points by gjvc on Nov 15, 2020 | 24 comments
23. Nearly 28M licensed Texas drivers hit by data breach (fox26houston.com)
172 points by bdcravens on Nov 15, 2020 | 106 comments
24. On Taking Criticism (observationalhazard.com)
72 points by WoodenChair on Nov 15, 2020 | 25 comments
25. The Best and Worst Microcontroller SDKs (memfault.com)
101 points by ducktective on Nov 14, 2020 | 78 comments
26. Laser-Guided Lightning May Help Prevent Wildfires (breakingasia.com)
80 points by kposehn on Nov 15, 2020 | 55 comments
27. Google made plans to target the EU official in charge of digital policy updates (arstechnica.com)
181 points by sho_hn on Nov 15, 2020 | 104 comments
28. Open Source does not mean “Includes Free Support” (onyxbits.de)
305 points by alexellisuk on Nov 15, 2020 | 247 comments
29. Ask HN: Am I too late for the “Data Science” wave?
199 points by kylebenzle on Nov 15, 2020 | 143 comments
30. Herman Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, and the Battle over “Citizen Kane” (newyorker.com)
51 points by fortran77 on Nov 15, 2020 | 11 comments

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