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1.		Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit (theregister.com)
		981 points by anfilt on Feb 7, 2021 \| 496 comments
2.		Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked (twitter.com/demilogic)
		2023 points by benhurmarcel on Feb 8, 2021 \| 1174 comments
3.		Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update (malwarebytes.com)
		819 points by decrypt on Feb 8, 2021 \| 442 comments
4.		Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says (wtsp.com)
		579 points by bschne on Feb 8, 2021 \| 289 comments
5.		Rust Foundation: Hello, World (rust-lang.org)
		865 points by steveklabnik on Feb 8, 2021 \| 268 comments
6.		Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication (clerk.dev)
		582 points by colinclerk on Feb 8, 2021 \| 223 comments
7.		Don't Offer a Free Plan (nofreeplan.com)
		540 points by protoduction on Feb 8, 2021 \| 221 comments
8.		TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (2019) (propublica.org)
		807 points by anigbrowl on Feb 8, 2021 \| 199 comments
9.		State of the Common Lisp ecosystem, 2020 (lisp-journey.gitlab.io)
		311 points by lelf on Feb 8, 2021 \| 133 comments
10.		FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home (freedombox.org)
		265 points by rck on Feb 7, 2021 \| 75 comments
11.		Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time (brandur.org)
		291 points by craigkerstiens on Feb 8, 2021 \| 181 comments
12.		Graph theory, graph convolutional networks, knowledge graphs (albertazout.substack.com)
		211 points by simonebrunozzi on Feb 7, 2021 \| 15 comments
13.		GitHub experiencing issues with actions, pull requests, packages (githubstatus.com)
		214 points by Amorymeltzer on Feb 8, 2021 \| 93 comments
14.		Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer (liam-on-linux.livejournal.com)
		157 points by lproven on Feb 8, 2021 \| 119 comments
15.		Show HN: "Programming Algorithms in Lisp” Book (apress.com)
		232 points by vseloved on Feb 8, 2021 \| 33 comments
16.		South Africa suspends rollout of Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine (dw.com)
		294 points by samizdis on Feb 8, 2021 \| 296 comments
17.		Gradient Descent Models Are Kernel Machines (infoproc.blogspot.com)
		161 points by dilap on Feb 8, 2021 \| 50 comments
18.		Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar (thinkingthrough.substack.com)
		224 points by maddynator on Feb 8, 2021 \| 149 comments
19.		Change your MAC address with a shell script (2019) (josh.works)
		190 points by mooreds on Feb 8, 2021 \| 102 comments
20.		Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future (techcrunch.com)
		758 points by Cookingboy on Feb 8, 2021 \| 1297 comments
21.		Tusk – Short-lived anonymous feedback (tusk.page)
		156 points by n_david on Feb 8, 2021 \| 65 comments
22.		Launch HN: Jiga (YC W21) – Faster custom parts for hardware products
		111 points by Assafgeuz on Feb 8, 2021 \| 51 comments
23.		The Exclusive Website (exclusive.website)
		133 points by zuhayeer on Feb 8, 2021 \| 77 comments
24.		Launch HN: Infracost (YC W21) – open-source cloud cost estimator
		190 points by aliscott on Feb 8, 2021 \| 53 comments
25.		Creators of ORCA and their works embracing tech minimalism and software freedom (esoteric.codes)
		143 points by retang on Feb 7, 2021 \| 26 comments
26.		A gorilla who was brought up as a boy in an English village (medium.com/history-of-yesterday)
		184 points by simonebrunozzi on Feb 8, 2021 \| 138 comments
27.		Sense: A New Open-Source Video Understanding Framework for Deep Learning (github.com/twentybn)
		100 points by nahuak on Feb 6, 2021 \| 3 comments
28.		Parable of the Butler: A science-fiction pioneer finds posthumous fame (harpers.org)
		49 points by apollinaire on Feb 7, 2021 \| 16 comments
29.		The computers rejecting job applications (bbc.co.uk)
		198 points by mnw21cam on Feb 8, 2021 \| 251 comments
30.		TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks: Round 20 (techempower.com)
		89 points by pella on Feb 8, 2021 \| 90 comments
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