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1. HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permanent web (2015) (ipfs.io)
510 points by Hakeemmidan on Oct 17, 2021 | 325 comments
2. Roger Hui has died (jsoftware.com)
563 points by z0a on Oct 17, 2021 | 44 comments
3. NixOS on Framework Laptop (kvark.github.io)
358 points by kvark on Oct 17, 2021 | 245 comments
4. Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files (obsidian.md)
624 points by doener on Oct 17, 2021 | 353 comments
5. Python stands to lose its GIL, and gain a lot of speed (infoworld.com)
343 points by bobajeff on Oct 17, 2021 | 345 comments
6. It's been 42 years since 'The Hitchhiker's Guide' answered the ultimate question (npr.org)
418 points by geox on Oct 17, 2021 | 131 comments
7. The booming business of knitting together the world’s electricity grids (economist.com)
213 points by BayAreaEscapee on Oct 17, 2021 | 272 comments
8. The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (2017) (allthatsinteresting.com)
257 points by thatguy0900 on Oct 16, 2021 | 86 comments
9. An underwater mystery on Canada's coast (bbc.com)
228 points by Thevet on Oct 17, 2021 | 66 comments
10. Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the seeking of a playing video (plopdown.video)
319 points by spaceribs on Oct 17, 2021 | 195 comments
11. Automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux (github.com/adnanhodzic)
252 points by chetangoti on Oct 17, 2021 | 127 comments
12. Why not “Why not WireGuard?” (2020) (tailscale.com)
256 points by jitl on Oct 17, 2021 | 101 comments
13. Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing (notion.so)
222 points by yarapavan on Oct 17, 2021 | 32 comments
14. What the Irish Ate Before Potatoes (bonappetit.com)
195 points by vinnyglennon on Oct 16, 2021 | 170 comments
15. Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important carbon sink (nature.com)
133 points by graderjs on Oct 17, 2021 | 57 comments
16. Simon Roper: the 23-year-old reconstructing the past for millions of viewers (newstatesman.com)
180 points by ZeljkoS on Oct 16, 2021 | 39 comments
17. Ask a Librarian (loc.gov)
176 points by Tomte on Oct 17, 2021 | 34 comments
18. Pursue High-Quality Leisure (deprocrastination.co)
193 points by vitabenes on Oct 16, 2021 | 96 comments
19. Open Simulator (opensimulator.org)
156 points by privong on Oct 16, 2021 | 53 comments
20. The unsolved mystery of the Earth blobs (2019) (eos.org)
101 points by nopassrecover on Oct 17, 2021 | 11 comments
21. What Richard Feynman’s PhD Thesis Looks Like: A Video Introduction (2020) (openculture.com)
133 points by paulpauper on Oct 16, 2021 | 26 comments
22. Hubble finds evidence of persistent water vapor in one hemisphere of Europa (phys.org)
124 points by mrfusion on Oct 15, 2021 | 40 comments
23. Bubble sort slower with -O3 than -O2 with GCC (stackoverflow.com)
163 points by asicsp on Oct 17, 2021 | 54 comments
24. Techmap: Find companies using technologies you love (techmap.io)
100 points by joergrech on Oct 17, 2021 | 47 comments
25. New wave of strikes will test worker power (axios.com)
163 points by harambae on Oct 17, 2021 | 199 comments
26. ‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Google Earth Algorithm (decider.com)
152 points by bwindsor on Oct 17, 2021 | 81 comments
27. How quickly do algorithms improve? (news.mit.edu)
57 points by npalli on Oct 17, 2021 | 20 comments
28. Is nuclear power our best bet against climate change? (bostonreview.net)
302 points by gumby on Oct 16, 2021 | 604 comments
29. The high-frequency trading arms race: frequent batch auctions (2015) (oup.com)
138 points by philips4350 on Oct 17, 2021 | 87 comments
30. How I learned to program (danluu.com)
174 points by swyx on Oct 16, 2021 | 44 comments

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