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1.		Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go (jse.li)
		317 points by eat_veggies 5 hours ago \| hide \| 42 comments
2.		Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t need to? (2019) (mit.edu)
		226 points by Hooke 9 hours ago \| hide \| 125 comments
3.		Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression (archlinux.org)
		63 points by nloomans 4 hours ago \| hide \| 28 comments
4.		Locks, Mutexes, and Semaphores: Types of Synchronization Objects (justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk)
		83 points by peter_d_sherman 5 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
5.		Show HN: Terrastruct – A Diagramming Tool for Systems (terrastruct.com)
		50 points by alixanderwang 3 hours ago \| hide \| 20 comments
6.		Mutexes are faster than Spinlocks (matklad.github.io)
		344 points by erickt 13 hours ago \| hide \| 134 comments
7.		Including Illegal Activity in the U.S. National Economic Accounts [pdf] (bea.gov)
		50 points by benbreen 4 hours ago \| hide \| 17 comments
8.		Simple Proof to the Container with Most Water Problem (leimao.github.io)
		10 points by keyboardman 2 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
9.		Notes on Technical Writing (mkaz.blog)
		288 points by marcuskaz 13 hours ago \| hide \| 52 comments
10.		JobFunnel, a job website search aggregator (github.com)
		96 points by paulm7242 8 hours ago \| hide \| 13 comments
11.		Promiscuous cookies and their impending death via the SameSite policy (troyhunt.com)
		187 points by tomwas54 12 hours ago \| hide \| 68 comments
12.		The Eccentric Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer (2019) (medium.com)
		60 points by samclemens 7 hours ago \| hide \| 21 comments
13.		Rolling Stones tracks posted briefly on YouTube in attempt to extend copyright (theguardian.com)
		37 points by augustocallejas 2 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
14.		Fascia encases tissues and organs and may have widespread effects (washingtonpost.com)
		10 points by andrewl 3 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
15.		Webfs: A Filesystem Built on Top of the Web (github.com)
		69 points by FisherGuy44 7 hours ago \| hide \| 28 comments
16.		Ignore Sunk Costs (2009) (seths.blog)
		120 points by vincentstorme 10 hours ago \| hide \| 82 comments
17.		Show HN: Serverless 2020 in ASCII (github.com)
		13 points by alexellisuk 2 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
18.		A little-known US-Canada border dispute (bbc.com)
		33 points by tomohawk 6 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
19.		Microsoft Edge (Chromium) – Elevation of Privilege to Potential RCE (leucosite.com)
		162 points by wglb 13 hours ago \| hide \| 23 comments
20.		Show HN: Self-Published Book – “Data Science in Production”
		120 points by bweber 13 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
21.		No nuances, just buggy code (was: related to Spinlock implementation) (realworldtech.com)
		6 points by shaklee3 12 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
22.		Native American tribe insulates itself from CA blackouts with microgrid utility (washingtonpost.com)
		33 points by vo2maxer 3 hours ago \| hide \| 6 comments
23.		Hello World (drewdevault.com)
		165 points by ddevault 15 hours ago \| hide \| 109 comments
24.		A computer made from DNA can compute the square root of 900 (newscientist.com)
		72 points by EndXA 12 hours ago \| hide \| 44 comments
25.		Japanese Grammar in EBNF notation (learnjapanese.best)
		10 points by sova 2 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
26.		Ask HN: Are books worth it?
		412 points by miguelrochefort 13 hours ago \| hide \| 321 comments
27.		U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software (reuters.com)
		529 points by ckcheng 20 hours ago \| hide \| 187 comments
28.		Bruce Perens quits Open Source Initiative amid row over new crypto license (theregister.co.uk)
		58 points by jrepinc 6 hours ago \| hide \| 21 comments
29.		An instant classic about learning ancient Greek (newyorker.com)
		88 points by diodorus 11 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
30.		Lessons from six years as a solo consultant (embeddeduse.com)
		307 points by Edward9 16 hours ago \| hide \| 108 comments
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