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1.		Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] (youtube.com)
		1663 points by malloreon on Feb 18, 2021 \| 495 comments
2.		Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August (arstechnica.com)
		1232 points by danbr on Feb 18, 2021 \| 601 comments
3.		There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company” (hunterwalk.medium.com)
		635 points by isolli on Feb 18, 2021 \| 313 comments
4.		Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders (starlink.com)
		755 points by sf_rob on Feb 18, 2021 \| 523 comments
5.		Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software (googleblog.com)
		376 points by littlestymaar on Feb 18, 2021 \| 236 comments
6.		Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it (imgur.com)
		1801 points by jandll on Feb 18, 2021 \| 812 comments
7.		Vertical farming does not save space (lowtechmagazine.com)
		277 points by oftenwrong on Feb 18, 2021 \| 441 comments
8.		The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem (garrettbattaglia.com)
		296 points by gwoplock on Feb 18, 2021 \| 529 comments
9.		1977: Zork (if50.substack.com)
		280 points by fanf2 on Feb 18, 2021 \| 91 comments
10.		Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half (nvidia.com)
		461 points by bcatanzaro on Feb 18, 2021 \| 737 comments
11.		Gleam 0.14 – Type-safe language for the Erlang VM (gleam.run)
		280 points by lpil on Feb 18, 2021 \| 51 comments
12.		Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D (skyline.github.com)
		288 points by alexellisuk on Feb 18, 2021 \| 89 comments
13.		Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising (reuters.com)
		256 points by batmaniam on Feb 18, 2021 \| 320 comments
14.		Bruce Blackburn, Designer of NASA Worm Logo, Has Died (nytimes.com)
		145 points by NaOH on Feb 18, 2021 \| 34 comments
15.		The Need to Remove Bad Management (pedestrianobservations.com)
		263 points by luu on Feb 17, 2021 \| 171 comments
16.		Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind (twilio.com)
		348 points by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF on Feb 18, 2021 \| 209 comments
17.		Migrating to SQLAlchemy 2.0 (sqlalchemy.org)
		198 points by brainless on Feb 18, 2021 \| 106 comments
18.		Global debt soars to 356% of GDP (axios.com)
		296 points by cwwc on Feb 18, 2021 \| 440 comments
19.		Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time (2013) (cam.ac.uk)
		189 points by freediver on Feb 18, 2021 \| 45 comments
20.		Python 3.x: RCE in Python applications that accept floats as untrusted input (mitre.org)
		217 points by bitshifta on Feb 18, 2021 \| 69 comments
21.		Bitfinex, the Italian network behind the boss that makes Bitcoin tremble (nicolaborzi.medium.com)
		208 points by graeme on Feb 18, 2021 \| 366 comments
22.		The Fantasy of Opting Out (mitpress.mit.edu)
		243 points by Fiveplus on Feb 18, 2021 \| 109 comments
23.		Who did the Anglo-Saxons think they were? (archaeology.co.uk)
		174 points by diodorus on Feb 18, 2021 \| 136 comments
24.		Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep (jemma.dev)
		140 points by mooreds on Feb 18, 2021 \| 15 comments
25.		StoneKnifeForth (With a Metacircular Compiler) (github.com/kragen)
		102 points by guerrilla on Feb 18, 2021 \| 52 comments
26.		How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars (ieee.org)
		234 points by hacksilver on Feb 18, 2021 \| 92 comments
27.		Il Maestro: Federico Fellini and the lost magic of cinema (harpers.org)
		97 points by ingve on Feb 16, 2021 \| 34 comments
28.		Open source chess developers warn about a commercial engine based on Stockfish (lichess.org)
		285 points by 1337shadow on Feb 18, 2021 \| 130 comments
29.		New Model M Is an American-Made Keyboard That Puts a Spring Back in Your Typing (tidbits.com)
		202 points by miles on Feb 18, 2021 \| 278 comments
30.		Dapr – Distributed Application Runtime (dapr.io)
		126 points by kiyanwang on Feb 17, 2021 \| 48 comments
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