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1. Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other (nytimes.com)
650 points by piker on Oct 9, 2020 | 191 comments
2. Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B (forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad)
533 points by harryzhang on Oct 9, 2020 | 93 comments
3. Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository (simonwillison.net)
471 points by simonw on Oct 9, 2020 | 95 comments
4. Y Combinator Failed Startups (failory.com)
415 points by nicocerdeira on Oct 9, 2020 | 184 comments
5. New study suggests handwriting engages the brain more than typing (ctvnews.ca)
280 points by lxm on Oct 8, 2020 | 151 comments
6. ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion' (techspot.com)
681 points by illuminated on Oct 9, 2020 | 370 comments
7. Memory safe ‘curl’ for a more secure internet (haxx.se)
407 points by kingkilr on Oct 9, 2020 | 204 comments
8. Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Quest 2 is anticompetitive (vrfinal.com)
370 points by vrfinal on Oct 9, 2020 | 174 comments
9. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
251 points by proberts on Oct 9, 2020 | 259 comments
10. A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival (holistics.io)
256 points by huy on Oct 9, 2020 | 123 comments
11. JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technical computing (juliamono.netlify.app)
280 points by cosmojg on Oct 9, 2020 | 68 comments
12. If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wage would be $24 an hour (commondreams.org)
486 points by deegles on Oct 9, 2020 | 438 comments
13. How Much Vitamin D Is Too Much? A Case Report and Review of the Literature (nih.gov)
199 points by voisin on Oct 9, 2020 | 147 comments
14. Additional steps we're taking ahead of the 2020 US Election (blog.twitter.com)
234 points by tosh on Oct 9, 2020 | 351 comments
15. Iron, How Did They Make It, Part IVa: Steel Yourself (acoup.blog)
218 points by picture on Oct 9, 2020 | 30 comments
16. Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competitors: antitrust committee (cnbc.com)
399 points by notRobot on Oct 9, 2020 | 174 comments
17. Show HN: I reverse engineered my cable modem and turned it into an SDR (stdw.github.io)
357 points by 0x00000000 on Oct 8, 2020 | 70 comments
18. Compiler for the M language of the French DGFiP (inria.fr)
208 points by testcross on Oct 9, 2020 | 63 comments
19. A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company (coinbase.com)
288 points by gyre007 on Oct 8, 2020 | 733 comments
20. “35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” (reddit.com)
483 points by dnlbtlr on Oct 9, 2020 | 378 comments
21. Complete BBC Micro Games Archive (bbcmicro.co.uk)
130 points by tosh on Oct 9, 2020 | 48 comments
22. Some onions were too sexy for Facebook (bbc.com)
177 points by tosh on Oct 9, 2020 | 175 comments
23. Memcmp being wrongly stripped like strcmp (gcc.gnu.org)
250 points by luu on Oct 7, 2020 | 66 comments
24. The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language (arstechnica.com)
284 points by nikbackm on Oct 9, 2020 | 212 comments
25. Sid Meier's Memoir (sidmeiersmemoir.com)
198 points by animationwill on Oct 9, 2020 | 59 comments
26. So you want to contact Brian Eno? (2000) (hyperreal.org)
133 points by danwills on Oct 8, 2020 | 78 comments
27. Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls (petapixel.com)
293 points by srirangr on Oct 9, 2020 | 192 comments
28. Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently (theverge.com)
525 points by 0xedb on Oct 9, 2020 | 268 comments
29. Last Resort Font (github.com/unicode-org)
179 points by lelf on Oct 9, 2020 | 47 comments
30. Rich Comment Blocks in Clojure (betweentwoparens.com)
143 points by tosh on Oct 8, 2020 | 45 comments

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