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1. An Opinionated Guide to Xargs (oilshell.org)
402 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 21, 2021 | 130 comments
2. Patterns in Confusing Explanations (jvns.ca)
566 points by pabs3 on Aug 21, 2021 | 159 comments
3. Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7 (2016) (simonschreibt.de)
323 points by homarp on Aug 21, 2021 | 55 comments
4. Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft (sqlite.org)
331 points by thunderbong on Aug 21, 2021 | 107 comments
5. EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning (eff.org)
549 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 21, 2021 | 209 comments
6. Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug” (twitter.com/jowens510)
643 points by radmuzom on Aug 21, 2021 | 15 comments
7. Tikz.net – Graphics with TikZ in LaTeX (tikz.net)
199 points by JohnHammersley on Aug 21, 2021 | 43 comments
8. Court rules California's Prop. 22 on Uber, Lyft drivers unconstitutional (sacbee.com)
312 points by ahurmazda on Aug 21, 2021 | 304 comments
9. Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major languages in 2021 (eatonphil.com)
190 points by eatonphil on Aug 21, 2021 | 145 comments
10. Janet Programming Language (janet-lang.org)
231 points by rcarmo on Aug 21, 2021 | 114 comments
11. GitHub Issues-only project management (placemark.io)
250 points by JonathanBuchh on Aug 21, 2021 | 123 comments
12. Collaborative filtering doesn't work for us (chatroulette.com)
157 points by andreyk on Aug 20, 2021 | 104 comments
13. IceFireDB: Distributed disk storage database based on Raft and Redis protocol (github.com/gitsrc)
152 points by thunderbong on Aug 21, 2021 | 70 comments
14. Generics enabled by default in Go tip (googlesource.com)
264 points by dcu on Aug 21, 2021 | 365 comments
15. I Don’t Want to Be Like a Family with My Co-Workers (thecut.com)
371 points by kakakiki on Aug 21, 2021 | 234 comments
16. Launch HN: Fella (YC W20) – Tackling men's obesity using medication and coaching
190 points by rich-cartwright on Aug 21, 2021 | 309 comments
17. Don't attach tooltips to document.body (atfzl.com)
230 points by atfzl on Aug 19, 2021 | 92 comments
18. Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (2015) (burntsushi.net)
174 points by ithkuil on Aug 20, 2021 | 10 comments
19. Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse (theguardian.com)
360 points by pseudolus on Aug 21, 2021 | 139 comments
20. Full-body tracking in VR using AprilTag markers (github.com/ju1ce)
117 points by podiki on Aug 20, 2021 | 15 comments
21. Facebook suppressed report that made it look bad (theverge.com)
275 points by underscore_ku on Aug 21, 2021 | 30 comments
22. Show HN: Duedilly.io – Accuracy of Reddit Trading Ideas (duedilly.io)
181 points by duedillyio on Aug 20, 2021 | 85 comments
23. Working in One Bit (dukope.itch.io)
153 points by polm23 on Aug 21, 2021 | 31 comments
24. Schema on write is better to live by (hrishioa.github.io)
93 points by hrishi on Aug 21, 2021 | 43 comments
25. Golang.org will be merged into go.dev (go.dev)
142 points by solarengineer on Aug 21, 2021 | 93 comments
26. An Introduction to AI Story Generation (thegradient.pub)
87 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Aug 21, 2021 | 18 comments
27. Thoughts of work invaded my life until I learned how to unplug (sciencemag.org)
257 points by Pikkie on Aug 21, 2021 | 113 comments
28. The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009) (trillian.mit.edu)
142 points by kmstout on Aug 21, 2021 | 83 comments
29. An inside look at the custom CPUs in Tesla's Dojo Supercomputer (semianalysis.com)
155 points by gautamcgoel on Aug 20, 2021 | 125 comments
30. The Secret Lives of Mosquitoes (smithsonianmag.com)
81 points by sohkamyung on Aug 21, 2021 | 69 comments

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