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1.		Female African elephants are evolving without tusks due to ivory poaching (theswaddle.com)
		512 points by amrrs on Oct 27, 2021 \| 298 comments
2.		GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim (github.com/github)
		540 points by orph on Oct 27, 2021 \| 431 comments
3.		Giant, free index to world's research papers released online (nature.com)
		477 points by webmaven on Oct 27, 2021 \| 121 comments
4.		New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012 (ifixit.com)
		718 points by tailspin2019 on Oct 27, 2021 \| 613 comments
5.		DIY Acoustic Camera (navat.substack.com)
		394 points by tomsonj on Oct 27, 2021 \| 163 comments
6.		Comparing SQLite, DuckDB and Arrow with UN trade data (pacha.dev)
		246 points by marcle on Oct 27, 2021 \| 79 comments
7.		Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners (techspot.com)
		450 points by CharlesW on Oct 27, 2021 \| 470 comments
8.		Kicad 6: new feature review for open source EDA tool (techexplorations.com)
		258 points by altrus on Oct 27, 2021 \| 95 comments
9.		Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font (codingfont.com)
		443 points by wentin on Oct 27, 2021 \| 218 comments
10.		Too many new papers may mean novel ideas rarely rack up citations (pnas.org)
		246 points by pseudolus on Oct 27, 2021 \| 229 comments
11.		Sand won’t save you this time (2008) (science.org)
		168 points by Tomte on Oct 26, 2021 \| 30 comments
12.		OpenTelemetry (opentelemetry.io)
		168 points by 9woc on Oct 26, 2021 \| 69 comments
13.		Paxos automatically determined safe and secure (umich.edu)
		159 points by rbanffy on Oct 27, 2021 \| 68 comments
14.		Notes from the Meeting on Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross (lukasz.langa.pl)
		248 points by rbanffy on Oct 26, 2021 \| 98 comments
15.		Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation (2020) (twobithistory.org)
		197 points by fagnerbrack on Oct 27, 2021 \| 208 comments
16.		Which stars can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet? (oup.com)
		138 points by colinprince on Oct 27, 2021 \| 46 comments
17.		Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung (npr.org)
		218 points by pseudolus on Oct 26, 2021 \| 210 comments
18.		SqueakJS – A Squeak VM in JavaScript (squeak.js.org)
		115 points by gjvc on Oct 27, 2021 \| 24 comments
19.		Go 1.18 will embed source version information into binaries (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		208 points by nnx on Oct 27, 2021 \| 91 comments
20.		Windows 11 Pro: about 11% slower than Linux on Intel Core i9 11900K (phoronix.com)
		345 points by marcodiego on Oct 27, 2021 \| 365 comments
21.		Project Stardust: A Photographer Scours Rooftops for Minuscule Cosmic Particles (thisiscolossal.com)
		73 points by Petiver on Oct 26, 2021 \| 6 comments
22.		Google exec challenges Berners-Lee (2006) (archive.org)
		91 points by ColinWright on Oct 24, 2021 \| 61 comments
23.		Why Lisp? (2015) (rongarret.info)
		157 points by oumua_don17 on Oct 26, 2021 \| 169 comments
24.		Replacing my Octopress blog with 200 lines of Babashka (michielborkent.nl)
		166 points by grzm on Oct 24, 2021 \| 27 comments
25.		How Debian cron handles DST transitions (healthchecks.io)
		87 points by zdw on Oct 27, 2021 \| 55 comments
26.		Riding the Writing Wave (perell.com)
		100 points by _fnhr on Oct 27, 2021 \| 54 comments
27.		$1.5B lithium deposit discovered in Maine; excavating it poses a legal challenge (themainemonitor.org)
		221 points by maxwell on Oct 27, 2021 \| 215 comments
28.		Launch HN: Eduflow (YC S17) – Async Social Learning
		58 points by utdiscant on Oct 27, 2021 \| 23 comments
29.		Facebook removed the news feed algorithm in an experiment (bigtechnology.substack.com)
		156 points by WookieRushing on Oct 27, 2021 \| 139 comments
30.		Stripe is kick-starting market for carbon removal (wsj.com)
		211 points by frumpish on Oct 26, 2021 \| 179 comments
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