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1.Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 (nature.com)
655 points by bcaulfield on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 391 comments [ext]
2.Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser (brave.com)
738 points by skellertor on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 534 comments [ext]
3.About that time I had an outburst during the Y Combinator Interview (owlpal.substack.com)
511 points by curiousowl on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 248 comments [ext]
4. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
4.We analyzed 425k favicons (iconmap.io)
550 points by gurgeous on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 128 comments [ext]
5.Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score (geekbench.com)
488 points by mv9 on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 880 comments [ext]
6.U.S. tightens export controls on items used in surveillance of private citizens (commerce.gov)
289 points by transpute on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 183 comments [ext]
7. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 1 day ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Playstation 3 Architecture (copetti.org)
401 points by bangonkeyboard on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
8.Vscode.dev (visualstudio.com)
803 points by connor4312 on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 260 comments [ext]
9.Outdated, vulnerable open source components shipped with Windows 10 and 11 (seclists.org)
283 points by CTOSian on Oct 19, 2021 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
10. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
10.Simple Linux kernel memory corruption bug can lead to complete system compromise (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
224 points by pabs3 on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
11.New Optical Switch Up to 1000x Faster Than Transistors (ieee.org)
267 points by ofou on Oct 19, 2021 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
12.A talk with Walter Bright about Empire (madned.substack.com)
228 points by mad_ned on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
13. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
13.Optimizations Enabled by -ffast-Math (kristerw.github.io)
209 points by bwidlar on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
14.Leaded fuel reduced IQ of children born before 1990 (twitter.com/emollick)
372 points by _fnqu on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 324 comments [ext]
15.The tight-knit time zone data maintenance community (onezero.medium.com)
165 points by xrayarx on Oct 18, 2021 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
16. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 253 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16.Injury response to DNA damage in live tumor cells promotes antitumor immunity (science.org)
110 points by bcaulfield on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
17.Google, Mozilla Close to Finalizing Sanitizer API for Chrome and Firefox Browse (portswigger.net)
187 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
18.Getting the best out of OpenSCAD (calbryant.uk)
118 points by naggie on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
19. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
19.Bioelektryczność – Polish Robotics (1968) [video] (youtube.com)
134 points by danielEM on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
20.Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand (theguardian.com)
331 points by schleck8 on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 512 comments [ext]
21.I couldn't debug the code because of my name (mikolaj-kaminski.com)
258 points by mikasjp on Oct 18, 2021 [ext] | 288 comments [ext]
22. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 1 day ago | hide | 47 comments
22.Hypertext Tools from the 80s (fibery.io)
116 points by janandonly on Oct 18, 2021 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
23.s/bash/zsh/g (arp242.net)
191 points by zoidb on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 237 comments [ext]
24.Android Apps on Windows 11 (windows.com)
137 points by TiredOfLife on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 185 comments [ext]
25. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
25.Investors use AI to analyse CEOs’ language patterns and tone (reuters.com)
109 points by pseudolus on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
26.Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics (2018) (stanford.edu)
89 points by KhoomeiK on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
27.All Atari Games (voxodyssey.com)
129 points by jamesandthewolf on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
28. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
28.Predicting spreadsheet formulas from semi-structured contexts (googleblog.com)
69 points by theafh on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
29.Trustworthy Computing in 2021 (ariadne.space)
112 points by hasheddan on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
30.Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers (stackoverflow.blog)
152 points by nsoonhui on Oct 20, 2021 [ext] | 145 comments [ext]
31. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments

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