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1. There’s no speed limit (2009) (sive.rs)
671 points by melling on Aug 17, 2022 | 278 comments
2. A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal (nytimes.com)
949 points by dklsf on Aug 21, 2022 | 559 comments
3. Nobody wants to teach anymore (jessicalexicus.medium.com)
666 points by grej on Aug 21, 2022 | 966 comments
4. Good conversations have lots of doorknobs (experimentalhistory.substack.com)
585 points by worldvoyageur on Aug 21, 2022 | 147 comments
5. LibGen's Bloat Problem (liberalgeneral.neocities.org)
286 points by liberalgeneral on Aug 21, 2022 | 143 comments
6. Turning SQLite into a Distributed Database (univalence.me)
347 points by losfair on Aug 21, 2022 | 71 comments
7. The Church of Interruption (2018) (sambleckley.com)
250 points by wallflower on Aug 21, 2022 | 95 comments
8. Why don’t we do email verification in reverse? (yossarian.net)
298 points by splash123 on Aug 21, 2022 | 321 comments
9. A demo of GPT-3's ability to understand long instructions (twitter.com/goodside)
161 points by monort on Aug 20, 2022 | 74 comments
10. New evidence shows water separates into two different liquids at low temperature (birmingham.ac.uk)
169 points by voisin on Aug 21, 2022 | 94 comments
11. Hacker News Official API (github.com/hackernews)
500 points by marchupfield on Aug 21, 2022 | 131 comments
12. How can we develop transformative tools for thought? (2019) [pdf] (numinous.productions)
127 points by stopachka on Aug 20, 2022 | 53 comments
13. Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you (brew.fm)
128 points by bartproost on Aug 20, 2022 | 62 comments
14. Outdoor Sound Propagation in the U.S. Civil War (1999) (wesclark.com)
111 points by sdenton4 on Aug 21, 2022 | 52 comments
15. The Creedence Clearwater Revival Revival (newyorker.com)
110 points by tintinnabula on Aug 20, 2022 | 100 comments
16. HBO Max pulls nearly 200 ‘Sesame Street’ episodes (nytimes.com)
245 points by carride on Aug 21, 2022 | 290 comments
17. Uacme: ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal dependencies (github.com/ndilieto)
121 points by robalni on Aug 21, 2022 | 91 comments
18. A golden age of consumer convenience is passing (ft.com)
135 points by RickJWagner on Aug 17, 2022 | 224 comments
19. Gojq: Pure Go Implementation of Jq (github.com/itchyny)
153 points by laqq3 on Aug 21, 2022 | 74 comments
20. The Excellent Schemer (code-magazine.com)
136 points by signa11 on Aug 21, 2022 | 25 comments
21. On Being Busy (aadilali.com)
133 points by aadillpickle on Aug 19, 2022 | 75 comments
22. Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee?
259 points by akudha on Aug 21, 2022 | 258 comments
23. Software-defined satellite enters commercial service (spacedaily.com)
98 points by olvy0 on Aug 19, 2022 | 15 comments
24. Did Bach “invent” the rules of music theory? (michaelberrymusic.com)
99 points by revorad on Aug 17, 2022 | 64 comments
25. Physically Based: A Database of PBR Values for Real-World Materials (80.lv)
121 points by ibobev on Aug 17, 2022 | 46 comments
26. Flang: LLVM’s Fortran Front End (llvm.org)
88 points by amirmasoudabdol on Aug 19, 2022 | 7 comments
27. Halo system link still holds up more than 20 years later (theverge.com)
152 points by bookofjoe on Aug 17, 2022 | 59 comments
28. Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only tip of the iceberg (yahoo.com)
230 points by danboarder on Aug 21, 2022 | 395 comments
29. We switched to cursor-based pagination (moderntreasury.com)
120 points by qin on Aug 17, 2022 | 114 comments
30. Stanford engineers present new chip that ramps up AI computing efficiency (stanford.edu)
101 points by rbanffy on Aug 21, 2022 | 30 comments

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