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1.Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings (lapcatsoftware.com)
1320 points by arm on Oct 18, 2020 | 492 comments
2.Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are straight lines in spacetime (timhutton.github.io)
801 points by tim_hutton on Oct 18, 2020 | 433 comments
3.Egypt has managed to plant trees in the desert using wastewater (al-monitor.com)
380 points by dotcoma on Oct 18, 2020 | 113 comments
4.Analyzing the Design of Unusual Japanese Butter Tableware (core77.com)
403 points by kasbah on Oct 17, 2020 | 188 comments
5.Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being (theatlantic.com)
548 points by DarkContinent on Oct 18, 2020 | 316 comments
6.Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure (a16z.com)
431 points by soumyadeb on Oct 18, 2020 | 105 comments
7.A legislative path to an interoperable internet (eff.org)
304 points by wallflower on Oct 18, 2020 | 118 comments
8.Layoutit Grid – CSS Grids layouts made easy (layoutit.com)
338 points by parisianka on Oct 18, 2020 | 37 comments
9.How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017) (jvns.ca)
249 points by zdw on Oct 16, 2020 | 65 comments
10.Openproject: Open-source project management software (openproject.org)
240 points by simon04 on Oct 18, 2020 | 71 comments
11.Object Detection at 1840 FPS with TorchScript, TensorRT and DeepStream (paulbridger.com)
162 points by briggers on Oct 18, 2020 | 55 comments
12.Stealth – Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser (github.com/tholian-network)
195 points by URfejk on Oct 18, 2020 | 57 comments
13.The local timeline is the key to enjoying Mastodon (cfenollosa.com)
173 points by carlesfe on Oct 18, 2020 | 114 comments
14.LyX – The Document Processor (lyx.org)
195 points by ivanche on Oct 18, 2020 | 62 comments
15.The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights (economist.com)
270 points by lxm on Oct 18, 2020 | 330 comments
16.GardaWorld lost track of millions (tampabay.com)
143 points by danso on Oct 18, 2020 | 63 comments
17.Doing old things better vs. doing brand new things (a16z.com)
149 points by razin on Oct 18, 2020 | 46 comments
18.Eigentechno – Applying Principal Component Analysis to electronic music loops (uci.edu)
110 points by zorked on Oct 18, 2020 | 13 comments
19.Central Bank Digital Currencies are coming (twitter.com/raoulgmi)
170 points by sippingjippers on Oct 18, 2020 | 136 comments
20.House Hunting in France: A Once-in-a-Millennium Castle for $3.3M (nytimes.com)
150 points by hodgesrm on Oct 18, 2020 | 202 comments
21.Lisp from Nothing (t3x.org)
182 points by nils-m-holm on Oct 17, 2020 | 29 comments
22.Algorand Consensus Protocol (algorand.org)
63 points by nemoniac on Oct 17, 2020 | 18 comments
23.A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison: I am the captain of my soul (butwhatfor.substack.com)
108 points by stanrivers on Oct 18, 2020 | 73 comments
24.How Does a C Debugger Work? (2014) (0x972.info)
131 points by btashton on Oct 18, 2020 | 29 comments
25.An artist who does extreme close-ups of utility poles (atlasobscura.com)
60 points by fortran77 on Oct 17, 2020 | 16 comments
26.Why and How zk-Snark Works (2019) (arxiv.org)
140 points by michaelsbradley on Oct 18, 2020 | 52 comments
27.How to Clean Text Data at the Command Line (ezzeddinabdullah.com)
84 points by ethink on Oct 17, 2020 | 51 comments
28.Temporal: open-source microservices orchestration platform (temporal.io)
123 points by rgbrgb on Oct 18, 2020 | 52 comments
29.The curious case of Romanian broadband (medium.com/cgo-benchmark)
103 points by rarefied_tomato on Oct 17, 2020 | 60 comments
30.Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (2011) (corte.si)
80 points by danwills on Oct 17, 2020 | 15 comments

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