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#1
The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates
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We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon
34 points by signa11 — 3 comments
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The August 17 outage
492 points by 0xedb — 559 comments
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I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers
715 points by Ariarule — 292 comments
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HTML Can Do That
772 points by encyclopedism — 185 comments
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Version Control for Everything
26 points by evakhoury — 14 comments
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The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)
28 points by wise_blood — 10 comments
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Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
482 points by abhisek — 410 comments
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Ox Alpha
130 points by mtokmak06 — 96 comments
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I should have loved biology (2020)
270 points by tyre — 104 comments
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Current Rankings

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

The August 17 outage

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

HTML Can Do That

Version Control for Everything

The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

Ox Alpha

I should have loved biology (2020)

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