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1.		Show HN: FFCreator-A fast short video processing library (github.com/tnfe)
		31 points by paysuee 1 hour ago \| hide \| 1 comment
2.		On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years (jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com)
		271 points by tibbar 6 hours ago \| hide \| 152 comments
3.		Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub Pages (github.com/nelsontky)
		11 points by nelsontky 23 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
4.		The Largest Commercial Cylindrical Slide Rule Has a Scale Length of 24m (acm.org)
		16 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
5.		A Spacetime Surprise: Time Isn’t Just Another Dimension (forbes.com/sites/startswithabang)
		107 points by chris_overseas 5 hours ago \| hide \| 48 comments
6.		Apple apps can bypass firewalls and VPNs – a potential security/privacy issue (thenextweb.com)
		226 points by esolyt 3 hours ago \| hide \| 79 comments
7.		Emacs in odd places (eigenbahn.com)
		16 points by catacombs 2 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
8.		Redpanda – A Kafka-compatible streaming platform for mission-critical workloads (vectorized.io)
		84 points by sorenbs 4 hours ago \| hide \| 30 comments
9.		The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin (wikipedia.org)
		107 points by keiferski 6 hours ago \| hide \| 20 comments
10.		Achieving 100Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server (acolyer.org)
		104 points by kungfudoi 7 hours ago \| hide \| 17 comments
11.		Once the disease of gluttonous aristocrats, gout is now tormenting the masses (nytimes.com)
		163 points by YeGoblynQueenne 10 hours ago \| hide \| 93 comments
12.		Stolen irreplaceable books found under floor of Romanian house (bbc.com)
		107 points by xenocratus 8 hours ago \| hide \| 59 comments
13.		Max Schrems hits Apple with complaints over ad-tracking device (bloomberg.com)
		64 points by markonen 2 hours ago \| hide \| 6 comments
14.		Every thought about giving and taking advice I’ve ever had (guzey.com)
		76 points by mooreds 8 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
15.		FreeCAD Simulator (github.com/crazyrobmiles)
		49 points by app4soft 7 hours ago \| hide \| 7 comments
16.		Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show (theguardian.com)
		64 points by m1 55 minutes ago \| hide \| 17 comments
17.		Only 17% of consumers believe personalized ads are ethical, survey says (2019) (forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier)
		190 points by mgh2 8 hours ago \| hide \| 126 comments
18.		Reflections on my first completed application in OCaml (ocaml.org)
		96 points by mseri 13 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
19.		The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection (thetruesize.com)
		491 points by parsecs 15 hours ago \| hide \| 224 comments
20.		Apple Addresses Privacy Concerns Surrounding App Authentication in macOS (macrumors.com)
		150 points by robin_reala 6 hours ago \| hide \| 113 comments
21.		A Short History of Romaji (dampfkraft.com)
		37 points by polm23 7 hours ago \| hide \| 24 comments
22.		What distinguishes great software engineers? (2019) [pdf] (washington.edu)
		228 points by 7d7n 10 hours ago \| hide \| 113 comments
23.		Invisible Science: The Scientization of the Ordinary (2016) (hedgehogreview.com)
		12 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
24.		Herman Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, and the Battle over “Citizen Kane” (newyorker.com)
		42 points by fortran77 10 hours ago \| hide \| 11 comments
25.		Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) (github.com/nbeaver)
		337 points by random_walker 15 hours ago \| hide \| 450 comments
26.		Google Is Already Experimenting with WebP2 as Successor to WebP Image Format (phoronix.com)
		4 points by varbhat 2 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
27.		A woman who is allergic to water (2016) (bbc.com)
		68 points by jelliclesfarm 9 hours ago \| hide \| 47 comments
28.		I hacked our government's COVID tracker, here's what I learned (rukshn.github.io)
		12 points by rukshn 1 hour ago \| hide \| 2 comments
29.		Facebook’s Project Aria Is Google Maps – For Your Entire Life (onezero.medium.com)
		50 points by simonebrunozzi 5 hours ago \| hide \| 35 comments
30.		Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution (interestingengineering.com)
		482 points by ignoramous 18 hours ago \| hide \| 325 comments
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