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1. Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning (github.com/billdietrich)
499 points by karlzt on Feb 27, 2021 | 338 comments
2. Free Land – Living Off Grid With No Money (offgridpermaculture.com)
390 points by SQL2219 on Feb 26, 2021 | 212 comments
3. A Vim Guide for Advanced Users (thevaluable.dev)
603 points by asicsp on Feb 27, 2021 | 172 comments
4. Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection (twitter.com/__jakub_g)
648 points by crazypython on Feb 26, 2021 | 235 comments
5. A single cell slime mold makes decisions without a central nervous system (tum.de)
171 points by gmays on Feb 27, 2021 | 76 comments
6. The curious case of the handlebar bag scam (cyclingtips.com)
202 points by Zhenya on Feb 27, 2021 | 159 comments
7. Are You Trading or Gambling? (investinglessons.substack.com)
372 points by christopherjgan on Feb 27, 2021 | 400 comments
8. Resources for chief technology officers, with the emphasis on startups (github.com/kuchin)
446 points by szimpl on Feb 27, 2021 | 54 comments
9. Smoothstep.io, a Shader Animation Tool (smoothstep.io)
156 points by bwidlar on Feb 25, 2021 | 11 comments
10. Arrow v1.0: After 8 years, even better dates and times for Python (github.com/arrow-py)
216 points by krisfremen on Feb 27, 2021 | 76 comments
11. Zluda: CUDA on Intel GPUs (github.com/vosen)
261 points by fho on Feb 25, 2021 | 77 comments
12. Amazon rainforest rock art 'depicts giant Ice Age creatures' (2020) (bbc.com)
109 points by Thevet on Feb 27, 2021 | 27 comments
13. Alternative shell with native support for JSON, YAML, TOML, CSV, etc. (github.com/lmorg)
181 points by hnlmorg on Feb 27, 2021 | 88 comments
14. Noweb – A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming (tufts.edu)
140 points by Tomte on Feb 27, 2021 | 53 comments
15. Bit (1.0) – a modern Git CLI in Go (github.com/chriswalz)
191 points by chriswalz on Feb 27, 2021 | 74 comments
16. Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine? (godotengine.org)
272 points by nafey on Feb 27, 2021 | 148 comments
17. SolarWinds CEO blames intern for password leak (cnn.com)
305 points by tnolet on Feb 27, 2021 | 214 comments
18. PureScript and Haskell (drewolson.org)
167 points by allenleein on Feb 26, 2021 | 60 comments
19. Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before (sciencemag.org)
90 points by sohkamyung on Feb 26, 2021 | 30 comments
20. Mining Ethereum on M1 Mac GPU (yifangu.com)
153 points by gyf304 on Feb 27, 2021 | 125 comments
21. Arithmetic dynamics combines insights from number theory and dynamical systems (quantamagazine.org)
84 points by nsoonhui on Feb 27, 2021
22. NFTs and a Thousand True Fans (a16z.com)
110 points by picture on Feb 27, 2021 | 154 comments
23. Wi-LE: Can WiFi replace Bluetooth? (2019) [pdf] (ucla.edu)
107 points by docuru on Feb 27, 2021 | 80 comments
24. 1991's PC technology was unbelievable (2011) (zdnet.com)
136 points by doener on Feb 27, 2021 | 235 comments
25. Graveyards Are Surprising Hotspots for Biodiversity (scientificamerican.com)
74 points by Vigier on Feb 25, 2021 | 15 comments
26. Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing? (wnep.com)
112 points by unnamed76ri on Feb 27, 2021 | 84 comments
27. Before You Memo() (overreacted.io)
87 points by feross on Feb 23, 2021 | 14 comments
28. Making hibernation work under Linux Lockdown (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
113 points by edward on Feb 27, 2021 | 64 comments
29. Launch HN: Spruce (YC W21) – OSS for User Owned and Provably Authentic Data
63 points by wyc on Feb 27, 2021 | 9 comments
30. Show HN: Lowdefy – Build internal tools with YAML on an open-source framework (lowdefy.com)
107 points by gervwyk on Feb 25, 2021 | 32 comments

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