| 1. | | Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert (bbc.co.uk) |
| 906 points by m1 on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 493 comments [ext] |
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| 2. | | Email a Dumpster Fire (hey.science) |
| 1049 points by bschne on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 326 comments [ext] |
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| 3. | | What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? (quora.com) |
| 419 points by Austin_Conlon on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 220 comments [ext] |
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The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me) |
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478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
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| 4. | | Jane Street Market Prediction ($100k Kaggle competition) (kaggle.com) |
| 357 points by tosh on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 208 comments [ext] |
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| 5. | | Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in (twitter.com/wolfiechristl) |
| 981 points by ColinWright on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 436 comments [ext] |
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| 6. | | Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices (cybernews.com) |
| 352 points by bmcn2020 on Nov 23, 2020 [ext] | 232 comments [ext] |
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Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com) |
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370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
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| 7. | | You might not need machine learning (nullprogram.com) |
| 437 points by chmaynard on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 193 comments [ext] |
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| 8. | | US internet speeds 91% faster in 2020 according to user speed tests (fairinternetreport.com) |
| 208 points by mootothemax on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 261 comments [ext] |
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| 9. | | Tips for Performant TypeScript (github.com/microsoft) |
| 281 points by nkjoep on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 113 comments [ext] |
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The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com) |
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195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
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| 10. | | On the bonkers color palette of Garfield comics (wondermark.com) |
| 329 points by zdw on Nov 23, 2020 [ext] | 118 comments [ext] |
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| 11. | | Learn difficult concepts with the ADEPT method (2014) (betterexplained.com) |
| 270 points by adamzerner on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 45 comments [ext] |
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| 12. | | How Rainbow Tables Work (kuliukas.com) |
| 124 points by susam on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 28 comments [ext] |
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The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com) |
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487 points by htx5127 609 days ago | hide | 15 comments
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| 13. | | P² quantile estimator – estimating the median without storing values (aakinshin.net) |
| 136 points by ciprian_craciun on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 48 comments [ext] |
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| 14. | | MyNOR: Single board computer that uses a single NOR gate as its ALU (mynor.org) |
| 232 points by sohkamyung on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 67 comments [ext] |
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| 15. | | The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare (twitter.com/anderssandberg) |
| 168 points by rendall on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 119 comments [ext] |
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The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality () |
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491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
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| 16. | | Progress bars still lie (utk.edu) |
| 201 points by pavehawk2007 on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 227 comments [ext] |
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| 17. | | FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet (github.com/sbz) |
| 190 points by vermaden on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 54 comments [ext] |
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| 18. | | The New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments (2016) (atlasobscura.com) |
| 209 points by meifun on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 60 comments [ext] |
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Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe) |
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429 points by pex8279 16 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
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| 19. | | Scaleway Stardust Instances (scaleway.com) |
| 124 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 71 comments [ext] |
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| 20. | | Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop (expanscape.com) |
| 193 points by 882542F3884314B on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 185 comments [ext] |
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| 21. | | AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (amazon.com) |
| 118 points by soamv on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 67 comments [ext] |
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When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev) |
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380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
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| 22. | | No surprises here – On the absence of information in today’s media (turningchaos.com) |
| 128 points by s3v on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 100 comments [ext] |
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| 23. | | Raspberry Pi Webcam (github.com/geerlingguy) |
| 172 points by geerlingguy on Nov 23, 2020 [ext] | 74 comments [ext] |
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| 24. | | IHP – A Haskell web framework (github.com/digitallyinduced) |
| 148 points by laobiz on Nov 23, 2020 [ext] | 39 comments [ext] |
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The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com) |
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216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
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| 25. | | Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached (ethereum.org) |
| 271 points by leesalminen on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 257 comments [ext] |
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| 26. | | TCP Performance problems related to Nagle’s Algorithm and Delayed ACK (2005) (stuartcheshire.org) |
| 133 points by lladnar on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 32 comments [ext] |
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| 27. | | Verilog to Minecraft Redstone Synthesizer (github.com/itsfrank) |
| 174 points by parkertomatoes on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 12 comments [ext] |
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How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com) |
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443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
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| 28. | | Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program [pdf] (1987) (stanford.edu) |
| 76 points by bryanrasmussen on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 30 comments [ext] |
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| 29. | | How to use Reddit to get your first users (spreadtheworld.net) |
| 205 points by xavier_ on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 148 comments [ext] |
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| 30. | | Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help (amazon.com) |
| 492 points by carllerche on Nov 24, 2020 [ext] | 325 comments [ext] |
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From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com) |
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110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
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