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1. The surreal experience of my first developer job (bennuttall.com)
743 points by benn_88 on Aug 4, 2021 | 261 comments
2. The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
459 points by jsnell on Aug 4, 2021 | 240 comments
3. Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance (bou.ke)
616 points by bouk on Aug 2, 2021 | 117 comments
4. Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names (domainlanguage.com)
292 points by dang on Aug 4, 2021 | 126 comments
5. Ultra fast Thunderbolt NAS with Apple M1 and Linux (chrisbergeron.com)
220 points by cyberge99 on Aug 3, 2021 | 99 comments
6. Ray Tracing Gems II available as free download (nvidia.com)
220 points by dagmx on Aug 4, 2021 | 31 comments
7. Show HN: Till – Unblock and scale your web scrapers, with minimal code changes (github.com/datahenhq)
209 points by paramaw on Aug 4, 2021 | 58 comments
8. Launch HN: Turion Space (YC S21) – Space debris removal and satellite servicing
200 points by rwesterdahl on Aug 4, 2021 | 111 comments
9. This Can’t Go On (cold-takes.com)
254 points by rfw300 on Aug 3, 2021 | 258 comments
10. Uptime Lab's CM4 Blade Adds NVMe, TPM 2.0 to Raspberry Pi (jeffgeerling.com)
152 points by geerlingguy on Aug 4, 2021 | 52 comments
11. NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings (nypost.com)
410 points by underseacables on Aug 3, 2021 | 1464 comments
12. Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads (dailydot.com)
435 points by jimgordon on Aug 4, 2021 | 77 comments
13. Lisp in an “impossible” language, the most complex Malbolge program to date (github.com/kspalaiologos)
263 points by palaiologos on Aug 3, 2021 | 73 comments
14. EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library (github.com/electronicarts)
144 points by optimalsolver on Aug 4, 2021 | 79 comments
15. Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since dot-com bubble (reuters.com)
178 points by DLay on Aug 4, 2021 | 285 comments
16. The Real Story of Pixar (ieee.org)
223 points by Hell_World on Aug 3, 2021 | 74 comments
17. Launch HN: Keyri (YC S21) – Secure smartphone-based passwordless authentication
69 points by thekeyper on Aug 4, 2021 | 90 comments
18. Testing quantum mechanics in space (nature.com)
73 points by pseudolus on Aug 4, 2021 | 52 comments
19. Simple Systems Have Less Downtime (2020) (gkogan.co)
303 points by gk1 on Aug 4, 2021 | 210 comments
20. Sparse Array Beamforming with a Phase Coherent 21-Channel RTL-SDR Array (rtl-sdr.com)
75 points by mindcrime on Aug 3, 2021 | 11 comments
21. Show HN: Hookdeck – An infrastructure to consume webhooks (hookdeck.com)
126 points by alexbouchard on Aug 4, 2021 | 31 comments
22. A Bestiary of Functions for Systems Designers (brunodias.dev)
123 points by polm23 on Aug 3, 2021 | 15 comments
23. Verilog2Factorio: Web Demo (redcrafter.github.io)
136 points by linux_is_nice on Aug 4, 2021 | 19 comments
24. Use Phoenix Channels (codecast.io)
146 points by clessg on Aug 4, 2021 | 47 comments
25. Going mouseless (felipecortez.net)
176 points by FelipeCortez on Aug 3, 2021 | 177 comments
26. Where Do Models Go Wrong? Parameter-Space Saliency Maps for Explainability (arxiv.org)
84 points by lnyan on Aug 4, 2021 | 6 comments
27. A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important (butwhatfor.substack.com)
118 points by stanrivers on Aug 2, 2021 | 91 comments
28. A sewing page that never closed its font size HTML tags (archive.org)
367 points by cjlm on Aug 3, 2021 | 79 comments
29. Are dynamic languages going to replace static languages? (2003) (artima.com)
91 points by susam on Aug 4, 2021 | 427 comments
30. The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream (wired.co.uk)
188 points by TigeriusKirk on Aug 3, 2021 | 265 comments

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