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1. Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” (support.google.com)
1330 points by temp8964 on July 16, 2021 | 1520 comments
2. Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch (sciencemag.org)
629 points by sohkamyung on July 16, 2021 | 231 comments
3. The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano? (alexanderpiano.nz)
884 points by kurthr on July 16, 2021 | 186 comments
4. Why we're blind to the color blue (calebkruse.com)
575 points by goodway on July 16, 2021 | 211 comments
5. Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $30B (reuters.com)
604 points by hi5eyes on July 15, 2021 | 170 comments
6. The case for banning non-competes (slowboring.com)
511 points by jseliger on July 16, 2021 | 332 comments
7. Open Insulin Foundation (openinsulin.org)
567 points by hmmx3 on July 16, 2021 | 243 comments
8. Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions (techpolicy.press)
242 points by andreyk on July 16, 2021 | 191 comments
9. Classified Challenger tank specs leaked online for videogame (ukdefencejournal.org.uk)
198 points by notmine1337 on July 16, 2021 | 107 comments
10. State Department to pay up to $10M for information on foreign cyberattacks (darkreading.com)
151 points by WaitWaitWha on July 16, 2021 | 54 comments
11. We will win the war for general-purpose computing (cheapskatesguide.org)
239 points by d_h_j on July 16, 2021 | 178 comments
12. What is the Axiom of Choice? (jaydaigle.net)
182 points by luu on July 14, 2021 | 167 comments
13. Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus? (charap.co)
183 points by yagizdegirmenci on July 14, 2021 | 48 comments
14. Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to minors in interrogations (npr.org)
435 points by pseudolus on July 16, 2021 | 303 comments
15. New generation artificial heart implanted in patient (dukehealth.org)
142 points by jacobrussell on July 16, 2021 | 74 comments
16. The Print Shop Club: Create Apple II Print Shop Printouts in the Browser (theprintshop.club)
160 points by empressplay on July 16, 2021 | 44 comments
17. How Dangerous Are Solar Storms? (backreaction.blogspot.com)
102 points by firebaze on July 16, 2021 | 54 comments
18. Show HN: I made an interactive anti-procrastination video course (deprocrastination.co)
214 points by vitabenes on July 16, 2021 | 155 comments
19. Launch HN: MergeQueue (YC S21) – Automate rebasing and merging for your codebase
122 points by spriha on July 16, 2021 | 57 comments
20. Hooking Candiru: Another mercenary spyware vendor comes into focus (citizenlab.ca)
192 points by colinprince on July 16, 2021 | 27 comments
21. Linear Circuit Design Handbook (2008) (analog.com)
101 points by mindcrime on July 16, 2021 | 37 comments
22. Is This Prime? (isthisprime.com)
196 points by jordigh on July 15, 2021 | 132 comments
23. Learn Something Old Every Day (os2museum.com)
94 points by kencausey on July 14, 2021 | 7 comments
24. Archaeologists “flabbergasted” to find Cerne Giant’s origins are medieval (arstechnica.com)
86 points by diodorus on July 15, 2021 | 47 comments
25. The Elements of Product Design (jamiemill.com)
80 points by edu on July 15, 2021 | 4 comments
26. ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox: open-source self-hosted web archiving (github.com/archivebox)
201 points by rcarmo on July 15, 2021 | 25 comments
27. Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” XVI: What Is the “Dark Forest” Hypothesis? (universetoday.com)
178 points by Hooke on July 15, 2021 | 320 comments
28. Facebook drops funding for interface that reads the brain (technologyreview.com)
120 points by infodocket on July 14, 2021 | 63 comments
29. Public Suffix List (publicsuffix.org)
76 points by aleyan on July 14, 2021 | 44 comments
30. A haunting new documentary about Anthony Bourdain (newyorker.com)
125 points by mitchbob on July 16, 2021 | 113 comments

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