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1.Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return (economist.com)
685 points by sidcool on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 578 comments [ext]
2.Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion (notion.so)
471 points by craigkerstiens on Oct 6, 2021 [ext] | 121 comments [ext]
3.AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next (object-storage-name-generator.com)
420 points by cloudfalcon on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 147 comments [ext]
4. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
4.The naughty username checking system used by Twitch (ghostbin.com)
565 points by PrincessJess on Oct 6, 2021 [ext] | 337 comments [ext]
5.Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules (arstechnica.com)
407 points by eastdakota on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 176 comments [ext]
6.Canyon.mid (canyonmid.com)
410 points by sph on Oct 6, 2021 [ext] | 163 comments [ext]
7. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
7.Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months (mbuffett.com)
331 points by marcusbuffett on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 192 comments [ext]
8.Eidos-Montréal Offices shifting to the 4 day work week (eidosmontreal.com)
265 points by uglygoblin on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
9.Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disadvantaged aspiring devs (underdogdevs.org)
243 points by auslegung on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
10. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
10.The Insane Innovation of TI Calculator Hobbyists (thirtythreeforty.net)
362 points by bkudria on Oct 6, 2021 [ext] | 125 comments [ext]
11.How to train large deep learning models as a startup (assemblyai.com)
273 points by dylanbfox on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
12.Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions? (bloomberg.com)
500 points by CPLX on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 475 comments [ext]
13. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments
13.Dutch watchdog finds Apple App Store payment rules anti-competitive (reuters.com)
371 points by d3nj4l on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 236 comments [ext]
14.Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy (fingerprintjs.com)
197 points by Daniel_sk on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
15. [dupe] Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions (support.mozilla.org)
748 points by mikro2nd on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 690 comments [ext]
16. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
16.A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms (2009) (rongarret.info)
306 points by xojoc on Oct 6, 2021 [ext] | 172 comments [ext]
17.A Git Implementation in Awk (github.com/djanderson)
274 points by rohitpaulk on Oct 6, 2021 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
18.Steve Jobs tried to convince Dell to license Mac software (cnet.com)
213 points by ksec on Oct 6, 2021 [ext] | 159 comments [ext]
19. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 120 days ago | hide | 105 comments
19.Gentle Introduction to Realtime Fluid Simulation for Programmers and Artists (shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com)
148 points by ArtWomb on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
20.Protein complex prediction with AlphaFold-Multimer (deepmind.com)
178 points by xbmcuser on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
21.Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga (2018) (nil.im)
102 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
22. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
22.Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users (metebalci.com)
232 points by notmine1337 on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
23.Show HN: MaryJane – Mjpeg server in 30 lines of async Python (github.com/bootrino)
104 points by andrewstuart on Oct 6, 2021 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
24.A partially-automated medium-throughput homemade cider press with lasers (biotinker.dev)
121 points by biotinker on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
25. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
25.A lesser known mechanism for alcohol tolerance (trevorklee.com)
191 points by klevertree on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 144 comments [ext]
26.Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it less (slate.com)
620 points by louisbarclay on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 264 comments [ext]
27.GitHub Advisory Database now powers NPM audit (github.blog)
98 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
28. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
28.Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019) (andrewkelley.me)
451 points by Tomte on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 160 comments [ext]
29.OS/360 on Hercules: Overview (2003) (conmicro.com)
67 points by Koshkin on Oct 6, 2021 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
30.Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment for Alzheimer's (nih.gov)
133 points by taf2 on Oct 7, 2021 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
31. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments

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