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1.An oral history of Bank Python (calpaterson.com)
864 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 4, 2021 | 325 comments
2.HashiCorp – S1 (sec.gov)
839 points by mootpt on Nov 4, 2021 | 266 comments
3.Timeline of the Human Condition (southampton.ac.uk)
471 points by piotrgrudzien on Nov 4, 2021 | 112 comments
4.Finishing my first game while working full-time (jasont.co)
467 points by ntide on Nov 4, 2021 | 195 comments
5.Our self imposed scarcity of nice places (strongtowns.org)
485 points by Fricken on Nov 4, 2021 | 549 comments
6.Space Station 14 – Open-source remake of Space Station 13 (spacestation14.io)
269 points by nonbirithm on Nov 4, 2021 | 92 comments
7.Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops (wired.co.uk)
568 points by hakonbogen on Nov 4, 2021 | 348 comments
8.Gitlab servers are being exploited in DDoS attacks (therecord.media)
312 points by intunderflow on Nov 4, 2021 | 169 comments
9.Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative
265 points by vklmn on Nov 4, 2021 | 110 comments
10.GPD Pocket 3 – Handheld PC with KVM and RS-232 (gpd.hk)
224 points by kbumsik on Nov 4, 2021 | 122 comments
11.Fuck.com (1997) (links.net)
196 points by ca98am79 on Nov 4, 2021 | 103 comments
12.Fascine Mattresses: Basketry Gone Wild (lowtechmagazine.com)
151 points by ggoo on Nov 4, 2021 | 39 comments
13.Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery (2019) (twitter.com/seamusblackley)
168 points by bobbiechen on Nov 4, 2021 | 70 comments
14.I introduced my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to startx and xmonad (2012) (complete.org)
205 points by 0des on Nov 4, 2021 | 190 comments
15.Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a barn burner (arstechnica.com)
216 points by neogodless on Nov 4, 2021 | 362 comments
16.Show HN: Initiative.sh, an in-browser command line for D&D (initiative.sh)
222 points by mikkelpaulson on Nov 4, 2021 | 66 comments
17.Goodbye CSS Modules, Hello TailwindCSS (polytomic.com)
172 points by 01brett on Nov 4, 2021 | 220 comments
18.Trie in JavaScript: The data structure behind autocomplete (stackfull.dev)
157 points by EntICOnc on Nov 2, 2021 | 56 comments
19.Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day (smithsonianmag.com)
93 points by tosh on Nov 3, 2021 | 64 comments
20.Raft Consensus Protocol (consul.io)
134 points by fredley on Nov 2, 2021 | 51 comments
21.Linux x86 program start up – How the heck do we get to main()? (2011) (dbp-consulting.com)
187 points by rwmj on Nov 4, 2021 | 21 comments
22.Hierarchical transformers are more efficient language models (arxiv.org)
91 points by beefman on Nov 4, 2021 | 5 comments
23.The Magnavox Odyssey was the first commercial home video game console (voxodyssey.com)
86 points by jamesandthewolf on Nov 4, 2021 | 44 comments
24.Deconstructing the Postgres planner to find indexing opportunities (pganalyze.com)
101 points by Tomte on Nov 3, 2021 | 16 comments
25.Knapsack algorithm in PostgreSQL source code (github.com/postgres)
89 points by Maksadbek on Nov 3, 2021 | 12 comments
26.Making Emacs Popular Again (2020) (lwn.net)
220 points by draven on Nov 4, 2021 | 413 comments
27.DevUtils: Offline Toolbox for Developers (devutils.app)
178 points by kyawzazaw on Nov 2, 2021 | 75 comments
28.Podcasts are my new Wikipedia (listennotes.com)
106 points by wrycoder on Nov 3, 2021 | 102 comments
29.Ford's $3900 electric crate motor and F-100 concept (cnbc.com)
232 points by ufhghfggf on Nov 3, 2021 | 343 comments
30.Energy, and How to Get It (newyorker.com)
87 points by preetamjinka on Nov 2, 2021 | 66 comments

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