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1. We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments (caretaker.com)
818 points by rdgthree on July 8, 2021 | 577 comments
2. The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014) (rexegg.com)
582 points by signa11 on July 8, 2021 | 191 comments
3. All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot (twitter.com/noradotcodes)
1017 points by fredley on July 8, 2021 | 707 comments
4. Building a data team at a mid-stage startup (erikbern.com)
607 points by squarecog on July 8, 2021 | 89 comments
5. Compiling Rust is NP-hard (p4.team)
417 points by lovasoa on July 8, 2021 | 210 comments
6. Juul bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal (prospect.org)
501 points by i_love_limes on July 8, 2021 | 386 comments
7. Runway – Create impossible video (runwayml.com)
402 points by smusamashah on July 7, 2021 | 78 comments
8. List of Special Elevator Modes (elevation.fandom.com)
326 points by altrus on July 8, 2021 | 207 comments
9. Death rates are declining for many common cancers in the U.S., report finds (statnews.com)
213 points by mpweiher on July 8, 2021 | 92 comments
10. Why geothermal isn't ubiquitous and how it might get that way (eth.link)
167 points by Osiris30 on July 8, 2021 | 149 comments
11. Difftastic: Syntax-aware structured diff tool (github.com/wilfred)
297 points by ingve on July 8, 2021 | 61 comments
12. Hoard-of-bitfonts: bitmap fonts from disused operating systems (github.com/robhagemans)
202 points by lnyan on July 8, 2021 | 39 comments
13. You need Software Developers to believe in your project (2020) (iism.org)
249 points by replyifuagree on July 8, 2021 | 261 comments
14. Sub-zero water splitting marks a new dawn for solar hydrogen production (chemistryworld.com)
193 points by yusuf_giftworks on July 8, 2021 | 70 comments
15. Apple's camera design choices from the iPhone 6S Plus to the 12 Pro Max [pdf] (systemplus.fr)
226 points by giuliomagnifico on July 8, 2021 | 119 comments
16. YouTube algorithm recommends videos that violate its own policies: study (foundation.mozilla.org)
263 points by Liriel on July 7, 2021 | 208 comments
17. Corona Game: A simulation of how Covid-19 spreads (koronahra.cz)
238 points by pmontra on July 7, 2021 | 234 comments
18. EleutherAI One Year Retrospective (eleuther.ai)
142 points by tehsauce on July 8, 2021 | 43 comments
19. Inside a 20-Watt Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier from Apollo (righto.com)
145 points by chmaynard on July 8, 2021 | 36 comments
20. TimeTrack Raspberry Pi (city-of-bloomington.github.io)
145 points by ethanpil on July 8, 2021 | 105 comments
21. Show HN: A simple lazy Python calculation engine, with spreadsheet demo (github.com/bsdz)
123 points by bsdz on July 8, 2021 | 31 comments
22. Launch HN: Hera (YC S21) – macOS app to prepare, join and take notes in meetings
116 points by brunovegreville on July 8, 2021 | 115 comments
23. Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules (reuters.com)
178 points by shivbhatt on July 8, 2021 | 201 comments
24. TCP Fast Open? Not so fast (apnic.net)
159 points by todsacerdoti on July 6, 2021 | 20 comments
25. Mozilla rolls out DoH to Canadian users of Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
231 points by tristor on July 8, 2021 | 333 comments
26. Manual for a popular facial recognition tool shows how much the software tracks (themarkup.org)
121 points by type0 on July 7, 2021 | 77 comments
27. Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art (atlasobscura.com)
148 points by samizdis on July 8, 2021 | 110 comments
28. A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight (2016) (arxiv.org)
182 points by ra7 on July 8, 2021 | 155 comments
29. JSPatcher, a web-based visual editor to build JavaScript and WebAudio apps (webaudioconf2021.com)
87 points by MaanuAir on July 6, 2021 | 12 comments
30. Phorge: A community-maintained fork of Phabricator (phorge.it)
123 points by Redoubts on July 8, 2021 | 26 comments

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