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Stories from July 8, 2021

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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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