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1. Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust (github.com/jpochyla)
1138 points by tim-- on Aug 16, 2021 | 422 comments
2. Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion (scitation.org)
564 points by furcyd on Aug 17, 2021 | 292 comments
3. Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web
1216 points by somebee on Aug 17, 2021 | 345 comments
4. A shot to prevent Lyme disease could be on its way (outsideonline.com)
595 points by Kaibeezy on Aug 17, 2021 | 421 comments
5. Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine (them.us)
851 points by Saint_Genet on Aug 17, 2021 | 469 comments
6. Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror (matthieud.me)
362 points by maattdd on Aug 17, 2021 | 68 comments
7. Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government (techcrunch.com)
568 points by jrepinc on Aug 17, 2021 | 229 comments
8. Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?
547 points by neolog on Aug 17, 2021 | 263 comments
9. Helvetica Now Variable (monotype.com)
320 points by bpierre on Aug 17, 2021 | 189 comments
10. Zink (OpenGL over Vulkan) allocator improves performance in 1000% in some games (freedesktop.org)
220 points by marcodiego on Aug 17, 2021 | 65 comments
11. The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) (utexas.edu)
368 points by woopwoop on Aug 16, 2021 | 164 comments
12. A simple way to build collaborative web apps (zjy.cloud)
239 points by thezjy on Aug 17, 2021 | 69 comments
13. Something is killing gray whales (latimes.com)
217 points by lxm on Aug 16, 2021 | 136 comments
14. Speeding up atan2f (mazzo.li)
245 points by rostayob on Aug 17, 2021 | 103 comments
15. Show HN: Tara 2.0 – Fast Jira alternative with automation based on Git events (tara.ai)
153 points by iba99 on Aug 17, 2021 | 96 comments
16. Will the rich world’s worker deficit last? (economist.com)
191 points by lxm on Aug 17, 2021 | 423 comments
17. How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss such an obvious bug? (desystemize.substack.com)
176 points by luu on Aug 17, 2021 | 85 comments
18. Google Groups kills RSS support without notice (theregister.com)
319 points by samizdis on Aug 16, 2021 | 128 comments
19. Complexity theory puts limits on performance of gradient descent (quantamagazine.org)
150 points by programd on Aug 17, 2021 | 67 comments
20. A Gentle Introduction to Tensors (2014) [pdf] (wustl.edu)
134 points by michaelsbradley on Aug 17, 2021 | 51 comments
21. You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020) (benkuhn.net)
415 points by _ttg on Aug 17, 2021 | 127 comments
22. Pompeii’s fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public (theguardian.com)
132 points by diodorus on Aug 17, 2021 | 41 comments
23. South Kensington station's escalator replacement project (ianvisits.co.uk)
242 points by edward on Aug 17, 2021 | 106 comments
24. Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7
91 points by dang on Aug 17, 2021 | 135 comments
25. Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control (medicalxpress.com)
96 points by lxm on Aug 16, 2021 | 7 comments
26. Mastodon now a non-profit organisation (joinmastodon.org)
346 points by decrypt on Aug 17, 2021 | 95 comments
27. Global deforestation peaked in the 1980s (ourworldindata.org)
171 points by _Microft on Aug 17, 2021 | 96 comments
28. The Wendelstein 7-X concept proves its efficiency (mpg.de)
201 points by Tomte on Aug 17, 2021 | 39 comments
29. Bad News (harpers.org)
223 points by jbegley on Aug 17, 2021 | 236 comments
30. The ATS Programming Language (ats-lang.org)
99 points by rak1507 on Aug 17, 2021 | 36 comments

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