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1. The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday (typesense.org)
2075 points by karterk on July 14, 2021 | 579 comments
2. WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM (github.com/diekmann)
527 points by popitter on July 14, 2021 | 89 comments
3. The worst volume control UI in the world (2017) (uxdesign.cc)
763 points by yankcrime on July 13, 2021 | 477 comments
4. Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac (helftone.com)
335 points by keehun on July 14, 2021 | 102 comments
5. Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown protest (mediaite.com)
495 points by sbuttgereit on July 14, 2021 | 451 comments
6. Goodbye, Fleets (blog.twitter.com)
369 points by mattyb on July 14, 2021 | 295 comments
7. Ghidra: A software reverse engineering suite of tools developed by the NSA (ghidra-sre.org)
361 points by NotSwift on July 13, 2021 | 142 comments
8. Sega sued for ‘rigged’ arcade machine (polygon.com)
340 points by danso on July 14, 2021 | 233 comments
9. A privacy war is raging inside the W3C (protocol.com)
376 points by bpierre on July 13, 2021 | 217 comments
10. Svgbob – Create a graphical representation of text diagrams (github.com/ivanceras)
249 points by pabs3 on July 14, 2021 | 34 comments
11. The art of asking nicely (ai-weirdness.ghost.io)
334 points by goranmoomin on July 12, 2021 | 53 comments
12. Mr. Rafieh’s Tehran Pencil Shop (ana.press)
232 points by NaOH on July 14, 2021 | 78 comments
13. A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement (theatlantic.com)
412 points by yamrzou on July 14, 2021 | 665 comments
14. The vital art of talking to strangers (economist.com)
249 points by abixb on July 12, 2021 | 277 comments
15. iOS zero-day let SolarWinds hackers compromise fully updated iPhones (arstechnica.com)
235 points by wil421 on July 14, 2021 | 75 comments
16. Launch HN: Onfolk (YC S21) – Modern HR and Payroll in One Place (For the UK)
113 points by 4thstreet on July 14, 2021 | 34 comments
17. Python for Excel: A Modern Environment for Automation and Data Analysis (xlwings.org)
196 points by teleforce on July 13, 2021 | 90 comments
18. Mike Levin on using bioelectricity to study how cells form (2019) (wyss.harvard.edu)
116 points by walterbell on July 13, 2021 | 21 comments
19. Electric aircraft set to take flight by 2026 under new agreements (united.com)
165 points by fdalvi on July 14, 2021 | 217 comments
20. Electrochromic nanostructures with high chromaticity and superior brightness (acs.org)
95 points by MrJagil on July 14, 2021 | 35 comments
21. Increasing HTTPS Adoption (chromium.org)
140 points by inian on July 14, 2021 | 194 comments
22. Nokia E63 phone converted into LoRa messenger (cnx-software.com)
151 points by RcrdBrt on July 12, 2021 | 47 comments
23. The Blender Studio Pipeline (blender.org)
154 points by Tomte on July 14, 2021 | 7 comments
24. The Failures That Made Ian Fleming (newrepublic.com)
73 points by jseliger on July 14, 2021 | 26 comments
25. The Triumvirate: Coal, Iron, and Steam (technicshistory.com)
73 points by cfmcdonald on July 13, 2021 | 12 comments
26. Optimizing inputs and becoming indistractable (sovereign-individual.xyz)
82 points by PascalPrecht on July 13, 2021 | 11 comments
27. Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 made a career out of it (twitter.com/jstoteraux)
410 points by luu on July 13, 2021 | 448 comments
28. Norman doors are everywhere (2016) [video] (youtube.com)
141 points by acmegeek on July 14, 2021 | 128 comments
29. A Storage Crisis (blogs.harvard.edu)
127 points by vikrum on July 14, 2021 | 195 comments
30. The Surprising Effectiveness of PPO in Cooperative Multi-Agent Games (bair.berkeley.edu)
67 points by jonbaer on July 14, 2021 | 21 comments

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