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1. GM has signed an agreement to extract lithium from beneath the Salton Sea (autoweek.com)
339 points by toomanyrichies on July 17, 2021 | 180 comments
2. HaikuOS running on RISC-V hardware (HiFive Unmatched) (haiku-os.org)
306 points by iamnotarobotman on July 17, 2021 | 80 comments
3. What Went Wrong? (acm.org)
405 points by headalgorithm on July 17, 2021 | 145 comments
4. Ethereum London Mainnet Announcement (ethereum.org)
331 points by bpierre on July 15, 2021 | 139 comments
5. A Solarpunk Manifesto (re-des.org)
287 points by omnibrain on July 17, 2021 | 199 comments
6. Mysterious DNA sequences, known as ‘Borgs,’ recovered from California mud (sciencemag.org)
225 points by walterbell on July 17, 2021 | 62 comments
7. A Short Guide to Iraq (1943) (navy.mil)
300 points by quadhome on July 17, 2021 | 113 comments
8. The database ruins all good ideas (squarism.com)
251 points by kristianp on July 17, 2021 | 164 comments
9. TFTC (TIE Fighter Total Conversion) v1.0 (moddb.com)
293 points by omnibrain on July 17, 2021 | 103 comments
10. Last Mile Redis (fly.io)
260 points by pw on July 16, 2021 | 59 comments
11. Show HN: Gorse – An Out-of-the-box open-source Recommender System (gorse.io)
212 points by zhenghaoz on July 17, 2021 | 41 comments
12. dhcpleased(8) and resolvd(8) enabled in base, replacing dhclient(8) (undeadly.org)
117 points by zdw on July 17, 2021 | 77 comments
13. The Blurred Lines of Parasocial Relationships (every.to/cybernaut)
159 points by enigmatic02 on July 17, 2021 | 65 comments
14. The Computer Scientist Training AI to Think with Analogies (quantamagazine.org)
119 points by jonbaer on July 16, 2021 | 33 comments
15. Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf] (okbjgm.weebly.com)
108 points by enigmatic02 on July 17, 2021 | 10 comments
16. Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request (9to5mac.com)
362 points by basisword on July 16, 2021 | 113 comments
17. OpenAI disbands its robotics research team (venturebeat.com)
164 points by morty_s on July 16, 2021 | 119 comments
18. Elixir protocols vs. Clojure multimethods (mattmower.com)
160 points by sandbags on July 17, 2021 | 89 comments
19. To help gamers on Twitch, Dr. K balances mental health advice and medical ethics (npr.org)
174 points by lawrenceyan on July 16, 2021 | 71 comments
20. Google Maps updates 'dangerous' Ben Nevis route (bbc.co.uk)
89 points by rich_sasha on July 17, 2021 | 161 comments
21. Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want (shapecatcher.com)
101 points by dwynings on July 17, 2021 | 31 comments
22. Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is efficient by design (github.com/teampiped)
265 points by emanuelpina on July 17, 2021 | 230 comments
23. Design an Enclosure Using Photogrammetry (smartsolutions4home.com)
145 points by detaro on July 15, 2021 | 17 comments
24. Jet Li rejected The Matrix as he didn’t want his kung fu moves recorded (2018) (scmp.com)
181 points by danso on July 16, 2021 | 223 comments
25. Show HN: Make spaced-repetition flashcards (zorbi.cards)
118 points by deagler on July 17, 2021 | 62 comments
26. Full Throttle (filfre.net)
145 points by danso on July 16, 2021 | 59 comments
27. Show HN: A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation (github.com/pawl)
175 points by postpawl on July 17, 2021 | 119 comments
28. 12 Months, 850 Languages, 63 Fonts, No Waiting Or: Thank God for Google Noto (curiousnotions.com)
69 points by phblinn on July 17, 2021 | 28 comments
29. Accomplishments: Apple Macintosh Group (6/'83 – 8/'87) (byrdsight.com)
106 points by homarp on July 15, 2021 | 20 comments
30. 112 Gripes About the French (wikipedia.org)
408 points by samclemens on July 16, 2021 | 339 comments

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