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1.The surreal experience of my first developer job (bennuttall.com)
743 points by benn_88 on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 261 comments [ext]
2.The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
459 points by jsnell on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 240 comments [ext]
3.Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance (bou.ke)
616 points by bouk on Aug 2, 2021 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
4. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
4.Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names (domainlanguage.com)
292 points by dang on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 126 comments [ext]
5.Ultra fast Thunderbolt NAS with Apple M1 and Linux (chrisbergeron.com)
220 points by cyberge99 on Aug 3, 2021 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
6.Ray Tracing Gems II available as free download (nvidia.com)
220 points by dagmx on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
7. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
7.Show HN: Till – Unblock and scale your web scrapers, with minimal code changes (github.com/datahenhq)
209 points by paramaw on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
8.Launch HN: Turion Space (YC S21) – Space debris removal and satellite servicing [ext]
200 points by rwesterdahl on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
9.This Can’t Go On (cold-takes.com)
254 points by rfw300 on Aug 3, 2021 [ext] | 258 comments [ext]
10. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
10.Uptime Lab's CM4 Blade Adds NVMe, TPM 2.0 to Raspberry Pi (jeffgeerling.com)
152 points by geerlingguy on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
11.NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings (nypost.com)
410 points by underseacables on Aug 3, 2021 [ext] | 1464 comments [ext]
12.Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads (dailydot.com)
435 points by jimgordon on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
13. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
13.Lisp in an “impossible” language, the most complex Malbolge program to date (github.com/kspalaiologos)
263 points by palaiologos on Aug 3, 2021 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
14.EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library (github.com/electronicarts)
144 points by optimalsolver on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
15.Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since dot-com bubble (reuters.com)
178 points by DLay on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 285 comments [ext]
16. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
16.The Real Story of Pixar (ieee.org)
223 points by Hell_World on Aug 3, 2021 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
17.Launch HN: Keyri (YC S21) – Secure smartphone-based passwordless authentication [ext]
69 points by thekeyper on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
18.Testing quantum mechanics in space (nature.com)
73 points by pseudolus on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
19. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
19.Simple Systems Have Less Downtime (2020) (gkogan.co)
303 points by gk1 on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 210 comments [ext]
20.Sparse Array Beamforming with a Phase Coherent 21-Channel RTL-SDR Array (rtl-sdr.com)
75 points by mindcrime on Aug 3, 2021 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
21.Show HN: Hookdeck – An infrastructure to consume webhooks (hookdeck.com)
126 points by alexbouchard on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
22. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
22.A Bestiary of Functions for Systems Designers (brunodias.dev)
123 points by polm23 on Aug 3, 2021 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
23.Verilog2Factorio: Web Demo (redcrafter.github.io)
136 points by linux_is_nice on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
24.Use Phoenix Channels (codecast.io)
146 points by clessg on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
25. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
25.Going mouseless (felipecortez.net)
176 points by FelipeCortez on Aug 3, 2021 [ext] | 177 comments [ext]
26.Where Do Models Go Wrong? Parameter-Space Saliency Maps for Explainability (arxiv.org)
84 points by lnyan on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
27.A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important (butwhatfor.substack.com)
118 points by stanrivers on Aug 2, 2021 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
28. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
28.A sewing page that never closed its font size HTML tags (archive.org)
367 points by cjlm on Aug 3, 2021 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
29.Are dynamic languages going to replace static languages? (2003) (artima.com)
91 points by susam on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 427 comments [ext]
30.The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream (wired.co.uk)
188 points by TigeriusKirk on Aug 3, 2021 [ext] | 265 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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