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1.
Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration (pkl-lang.org)
930 points by bioballer 11 months ago | 564 comments
2.
A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
550 points by whatever3 11 months ago | 193 comments
3.
How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work? (space.stackexchange.com)
442 points by trashtensor 11 months ago | 261 comments
4.
Car insurance in America is too cheap (economist.com)
285 points by scythe 11 months ago | 847 comments
5.
A 1.55 R⊕ habitable-zone planet hosted by TOI-715 (oup.com)
243 points by taubek 11 months ago | 114 comments
6.
Over the edge: The use of design tactics to undermine browser choice (research.mozilla.org)
453 points by ChrisArchitect 11 months ago | 319 comments
7.
SeaweedFS fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files and datalake (github.com/seaweedfs)
328 points by thushanfernando 11 months ago | 123 comments
8.
Show HN: Simple demo of a cold boot attack using a Raspberry Pi (github.com/anfractuosity)
127 points by anfractuosity 11 months ago | 38 comments
9.
DIY MBA: My Reading List (2019) (chrisstoneman.medium.com)
211 points by yamrzou 11 months ago | 102 comments
10.
Low-Power Wi-Fi Extends Signals Up to 3 Kilometers (ieee.org)
166 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 73 comments
11.
Folk Computer (folk.computer)
165 points by schmudde 11 months ago | 53 comments
12.
Carl Weathers has died (bbc.co.uk)
374 points by zeristor 11 months ago | 66 comments
13.
TCC RISC-V Compiler Runs in the Web Browser (Thanks to Zig Compiler) (codeberg.page)
173 points by lupyuen 11 months ago | 50 comments
14.
Origami Simulator (origamisimulator.org)
261 points by diginova 11 months ago | 21 comments
15.
Show HN: Visualize the entropy of a codebase with a 3D force-directed graph (github.com/gabotechs)
180 points by gabimtme 11 months ago | 59 comments
16.
A decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting (research.google)
176 points by jasondavies 11 months ago | 64 comments
17.
The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (2019) (alexharri.com)
209 points by alexharri 11 months ago | 31 comments
18.
A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts (bhupesh.me)
214 points by bhupesh 11 months ago | 109 comments
19.
SI Units for Request Rate (two-wrongs.com)
111 points by DaveFlater 11 months ago | 91 comments
20.
Compiling Pattern Matching (compiler.club)
128 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 17 comments
21.
Notcurses: Blingful character graphics/TUI library (github.com/dankamongmen)
162 points by tosh 11 months ago | 45 comments
22.
Full $71M breakdown for The Village by M. Night Shyamalan (2003) [pdf] (wlmager.com)
232 points by cocacola1 11 months ago | 170 comments
23.
Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They're Also Listening to Trains (wired.com)
94 points by isaacfrond 11 months ago | 21 comments
24.
How Quora died (slate.com)
369 points by CharlesW 11 months ago | 403 comments
25.
Designer News is dead (solomon.io)
160 points by ohjeez 11 months ago | 46 comments
26.
iPod 'squeaks' betray software secrets (2005) (newscientist.com)
158 points by emigre 11 months ago | 51 comments
27.
Goodbye non-KISS appliances (willbush.dev)
286 points by willbush 11 months ago | 490 comments
28.
Significant features introduced for recent versions of Perl (shiar.nl)
131 points by asicsp 11 months ago | 94 comments
29.
Daunting papers/books and how to read them (mathoverflow.net)
88 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 27 comments
30.
How paid Wikipedia editors squeeze you dry (wikipedia.org)
197 points by akolbe 11 months ago | 98 comments

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