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1. ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name (stackoverflow.com)
406 points by kdeldycke on Oct 17, 2020 | 299 comments
2. Chaos Ink (scottdarby.com)
390 points by parisianka on Oct 17, 2020 | 82 comments
3. Welcome to the Old Internet Again (theoldnet.com)
424 points by doener on Oct 17, 2020 | 192 comments
4. Excel warriors who save governments and companies from spreadsheet errors (wired.co.uk)
258 points by mortenlarsen on Oct 15, 2020 | 186 comments
5. We deleted the production database by accident (keepthescore.co)
446 points by caspii on Oct 17, 2020 | 426 comments
6. Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash (github.com/charmbracelet)
283 points by tobypadilla on Oct 17, 2020 | 69 comments
7. Lecture notes on RISC-V assembly (utk.edu)
160 points by azhenley on Oct 17, 2020 | 8 comments
8. Optical tracking and laser-induced mortality of insects during flight (nature.com)
162 points by elsewhen on Oct 17, 2020 | 120 comments
9. Baumol Effect (wikipedia.org)
123 points by dedalus on Oct 17, 2020 | 99 comments
10. Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls (2016) (nih.gov)
143 points by studius on Oct 17, 2020 | 40 comments
11. XFS File-System with Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem to the Year 2486 (phoronix.com)
166 points by programd on Oct 17, 2020 | 66 comments
12. Interoperability Between Swift and C++ (github.com/apple)
123 points by DeusExMachina on Oct 17, 2020 | 75 comments
13. Google Coral Dev Board mini SBC is now available for $100 (cnx-software.com)
149 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 17, 2020 | 104 comments
14. Thoughts on Conway's Law and the Software Stack (2019) (jessfraz.com)
99 points by absolute100 on Oct 17, 2020 | 24 comments
15. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992) (github.com/norvig)
173 points by dunefox on Oct 17, 2020 | 32 comments
16. The Nikon Small World Competition (nikonsmallworld.com)
166 points by ivank on Oct 16, 2020 | 25 comments
17. Pippi and the Moomins (aeon.co)
133 points by samclemens on Oct 16, 2020 | 57 comments
18. Lessons from Bug Hunters Who've Found 400 Bugs in Popular DBMSs (pingcap.com)
151 points by gesaint on Oct 17, 2020 | 2 comments
19. Easy-wg-quick – Creates WireGuard configuration for hub and peers with ease (github.com/burghardt)
90 points by ZnZirconium on Oct 17, 2020 | 30 comments
20. The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation (nytimes.com)
208 points by pseudolus on Oct 17, 2020 | 395 comments
21. Groundbreaking discovery finally proves rain can move mountains (phys.org)
103 points by lelf on Oct 16, 2020 | 19 comments
22. Themed days, Timeboxing and why you should use them (jamalx31.com)
67 points by jamalx31 on Oct 17, 2020 | 50 comments
23. How to put machine learning models into production (stackoverflow.blog)
120 points by Aaronmacaron on Oct 15, 2020 | 34 comments
24. How to Hide from a Drone (theconversation.com)
140 points by hbcondo714 on Oct 16, 2020 | 116 comments
25. Charles Lindbergh is the reason the U.S. doesn't have cameras in the courtroom (slate.com)
104 points by prismatic on Oct 16, 2020 | 97 comments
26. Together: New version of Jami (alternative to Zoom and Jitsi) (jami.net)
140 points by asicsp on Oct 17, 2020 | 46 comments
27. Scientists Create Living Concrete (nytimes.com)
77 points by lxm on Oct 16, 2020 | 28 comments
28. Neural Databases (arxiv.org)
124 points by fabrizio_italia on Oct 16, 2020 | 30 comments
29. How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer (medium.com/the-developers-journey)
324 points by mehdi-farsi on Oct 17, 2020 | 184 comments
30. John Cocke, the father of RISC architecture (ibm.com)
58 points by gjvc on Oct 15, 2020 | 14 comments

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