| 1. | | The surreal experience of my first developer job (bennuttall.com) |
| 743 points by benn_88 on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 261 comments [ext] |
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| 2. | | The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl) |
| 459 points by jsnell on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 240 comments [ext] |
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| 3. | | Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance (bou.ke) |
| 616 points by bouk on Aug 2, 2021 [ext] | 117 comments [ext] |
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A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com) |
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488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
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| 4. | | Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names (domainlanguage.com) |
| 292 points by dang on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 126 comments [ext] |
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| 5. | | Ultra fast Thunderbolt NAS with Apple M1 and Linux (chrisbergeron.com) |
| 220 points by cyberge99 on Aug 3, 2021 [ext] | 99 comments [ext] |
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| 6. | | Ray Tracing Gems II available as free download (nvidia.com) |
| 220 points by dagmx on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 31 comments [ext] |
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The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality () |
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491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| 9. | | This Can’t Go On (cold-takes.com) |
| 254 points by rfw300 on Aug 3, 2021 [ext] | 258 comments [ext] |
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The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com) |
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376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| 12. | | Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads (dailydot.com) |
| 435 points by jimgordon on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 77 comments [ext] |
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When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev) |
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380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
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| 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] |
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| 14. | | EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library (github.com/electronicarts) |
| 144 points by optimalsolver on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 79 comments [ext] |
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| 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] |
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The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com) |
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216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
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| 16. | | The Real Story of Pixar (ieee.org) |
| 223 points by Hell_World on Aug 3, 2021 [ext] | 74 comments [ext] |
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| 17. | | Launch HN: Keyri (YC S21) – Secure smartphone-based passwordless authentication [ext] |
| 69 points by thekeyper on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 90 comments [ext] |
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| 18. | | Testing quantum mechanics in space (nature.com) |
| 73 points by pseudolus on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 52 comments [ext] |
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A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu) |
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129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
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| 19. | | Simple Systems Have Less Downtime (2020) (gkogan.co) |
| 303 points by gk1 on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 210 comments [ext] |
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| 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] |
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| 21. | | Show HN: Hookdeck – An infrastructure to consume webhooks (hookdeck.com) |
| 126 points by alexbouchard on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 31 comments [ext] |
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Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com) |
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244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
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| 22. | | A Bestiary of Functions for Systems Designers (brunodias.dev) |
| 123 points by polm23 on Aug 3, 2021 [ext] | 15 comments [ext] |
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| 23. | | Verilog2Factorio: Web Demo (redcrafter.github.io) |
| 136 points by linux_is_nice on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 19 comments [ext] |
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| 24. | | Use Phoenix Channels (codecast.io) |
| 146 points by clessg on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 47 comments [ext] |
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From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com) |
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98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
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| 25. | | Going mouseless (felipecortez.net) |
| 176 points by FelipeCortez on Aug 3, 2021 [ext] | 177 comments [ext] |
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com) |
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43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
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| 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] |
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| 29. | | Are dynamic languages going to replace static languages? (2003) (artima.com) |
| 91 points by susam on Aug 4, 2021 [ext] | 427 comments [ext] |
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| 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] |
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The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com) |
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