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1.		Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 (nature.com)
		655 points by bcaulfield on Oct 20, 2021 \| 391 comments
2.		Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser (brave.com)
		738 points by skellertor on Oct 20, 2021 \| 534 comments
3.		About that time I had an outburst during the Y Combinator Interview (owlpal.substack.com)
		511 points by curiousowl on Oct 20, 2021 \| 248 comments
4.		We analyzed 425k favicons (iconmap.io)
		550 points by gurgeous on Oct 20, 2021 \| 128 comments
5.		Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score (geekbench.com)
		488 points by mv9 on Oct 20, 2021 \| 880 comments
6.		U.S. tightens export controls on items used in surveillance of private citizens (commerce.gov)
		289 points by transpute on Oct 20, 2021 \| 183 comments
7.		Playstation 3 Architecture (copetti.org)
		401 points by bangonkeyboard on Oct 20, 2021 \| 89 comments
8.		Vscode.dev (visualstudio.com)
		803 points by connor4312 on Oct 20, 2021 \| 260 comments
9.		Outdated, vulnerable open source components shipped with Windows 10 and 11 (seclists.org)
		283 points by CTOSian on Oct 19, 2021 \| 107 comments
10.		Simple Linux kernel memory corruption bug can lead to complete system compromise (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
		224 points by pabs3 on Oct 20, 2021 \| 111 comments
11.		New Optical Switch Up to 1000x Faster Than Transistors (ieee.org)
		267 points by ofou on Oct 19, 2021 \| 92 comments
12.		A talk with Walter Bright about Empire (madned.substack.com)
		228 points by mad_ned on Oct 20, 2021 \| 96 comments
13.		Optimizations Enabled by -ffast-Math (kristerw.github.io)
		209 points by bwidlar on Oct 20, 2021 \| 114 comments
14.		Leaded fuel reduced IQ of children born before 1990 (twitter.com/emollick)
		372 points by _fnqu on Oct 20, 2021 \| 324 comments
15.		The tight-knit time zone data maintenance community (onezero.medium.com)
		165 points by xrayarx on Oct 18, 2021 \| 123 comments
16.		Injury response to DNA damage in live tumor cells promotes antitumor immunity (science.org)
		110 points by bcaulfield on Oct 20, 2021 \| 7 comments
17.		Google, Mozilla Close to Finalizing Sanitizer API for Chrome and Firefox Browse (portswigger.net)
		187 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 20, 2021 \| 100 comments
18.		Getting the best out of OpenSCAD (calbryant.uk)
		118 points by naggie on Oct 20, 2021 \| 59 comments
19.		Bioelektryczność – Polish Robotics (1968) [video] (youtube.com)
		134 points by danielEM on Oct 20, 2021 \| 28 comments
20.		Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand (theguardian.com)
		331 points by schleck8 on Oct 20, 2021 \| 512 comments
21.		I couldn't debug the code because of my name (mikolaj-kaminski.com)
		258 points by mikasjp on Oct 18, 2021 \| 288 comments
22.		Hypertext Tools from the 80s (fibery.io)
		116 points by janandonly on Oct 18, 2021 \| 18 comments
23.		s/bash/zsh/g (arp242.net)
		191 points by zoidb on Oct 20, 2021 \| 237 comments
24.		Android Apps on Windows 11 (windows.com)
		137 points by TiredOfLife on Oct 20, 2021 \| 185 comments
25.		Investors use AI to analyse CEOs’ language patterns and tone (reuters.com)
		109 points by pseudolus on Oct 20, 2021 \| 76 comments
26.		Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics (2018) (stanford.edu)
		89 points by KhoomeiK on Oct 20, 2021 \| 119 comments
27.		All Atari Games (voxodyssey.com)
		129 points by jamesandthewolf on Oct 20, 2021 \| 60 comments
28.		Predicting spreadsheet formulas from semi-structured contexts (googleblog.com)
		69 points by theafh on Oct 20, 2021 \| 16 comments
29.		Trustworthy Computing in 2021 (ariadne.space)
		112 points by hasheddan on Oct 20, 2021 \| 29 comments
30.		Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers (stackoverflow.blog)
		152 points by nsoonhui on Oct 20, 2021 \| 145 comments
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