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1. Female African elephants are evolving without tusks due to ivory poaching (theswaddle.com)
512 points by amrrs on Oct 27, 2021 | 298 comments
2. GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim (github.com/github)
540 points by orph on Oct 27, 2021 | 431 comments
3. Giant, free index to world's research papers released online (nature.com)
477 points by webmaven on Oct 27, 2021 | 121 comments
4. New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012 (ifixit.com)
718 points by tailspin2019 on Oct 27, 2021 | 613 comments
5. DIY Acoustic Camera (navat.substack.com)
394 points by tomsonj on Oct 27, 2021 | 163 comments
6. Comparing SQLite, DuckDB and Arrow with UN trade data (pacha.dev)
246 points by marcle on Oct 27, 2021 | 79 comments
7. Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners (techspot.com)
450 points by CharlesW on Oct 27, 2021 | 470 comments
8. Kicad 6: new feature review for open source EDA tool (techexplorations.com)
258 points by altrus on Oct 27, 2021 | 95 comments
9. Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font (codingfont.com)
443 points by wentin on Oct 27, 2021 | 218 comments
10. Too many new papers may mean novel ideas rarely rack up citations (pnas.org)
246 points by pseudolus on Oct 27, 2021 | 229 comments
11. Sand won’t save you this time (2008) (science.org)
168 points by Tomte on Oct 26, 2021 | 30 comments
12. OpenTelemetry (opentelemetry.io)
168 points by 9woc on Oct 26, 2021 | 69 comments
13. Paxos automatically determined safe and secure (umich.edu)
159 points by rbanffy on Oct 27, 2021 | 68 comments
14. Notes from the Meeting on Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross (lukasz.langa.pl)
248 points by rbanffy on Oct 26, 2021 | 98 comments
15. Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation (2020) (twobithistory.org)
197 points by fagnerbrack on Oct 27, 2021 | 208 comments
16. Which stars can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet? (oup.com)
138 points by colinprince on Oct 27, 2021 | 46 comments
17. Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung (npr.org)
218 points by pseudolus on Oct 26, 2021 | 210 comments
18. SqueakJS – A Squeak VM in JavaScript (squeak.js.org)
115 points by gjvc on Oct 27, 2021 | 24 comments
19. Go 1.18 will embed source version information into binaries (utcc.utoronto.ca)
208 points by nnx on Oct 27, 2021 | 91 comments
20. Windows 11 Pro: about 11% slower than Linux on Intel Core i9 11900K (phoronix.com)
345 points by marcodiego on Oct 27, 2021 | 365 comments
21. Project Stardust: A Photographer Scours Rooftops for Minuscule Cosmic Particles (thisiscolossal.com)
73 points by Petiver on Oct 26, 2021 | 6 comments
22. Google exec challenges Berners-Lee (2006) (archive.org)
91 points by ColinWright on Oct 24, 2021 | 61 comments
23. Why Lisp? (2015) (rongarret.info)
157 points by oumua_don17 on Oct 26, 2021 | 169 comments
24. Replacing my Octopress blog with 200 lines of Babashka (michielborkent.nl)
166 points by grzm on Oct 24, 2021 | 27 comments
25. How Debian cron handles DST transitions (healthchecks.io)
87 points by zdw on Oct 27, 2021 | 55 comments
26. Riding the Writing Wave (perell.com)
100 points by _fnhr on Oct 27, 2021 | 54 comments
27. $1.5B lithium deposit discovered in Maine; excavating it poses a legal challenge (themainemonitor.org)
221 points by maxwell on Oct 27, 2021 | 215 comments
28. Launch HN: Eduflow (YC S17) – Async Social Learning
58 points by utdiscant on Oct 27, 2021 | 23 comments
29. Facebook removed the news feed algorithm in an experiment (bigtechnology.substack.com)
156 points by WookieRushing on Oct 27, 2021 | 139 comments
30. Stripe is kick-starting market for carbon removal (wsj.com)
211 points by frumpish on Oct 26, 2021 | 179 comments

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