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1.		The surreal experience of my first developer job (bennuttall.com)
		743 points by benn_88 on Aug 4, 2021 \| 261 comments
2.		The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
		459 points by jsnell on Aug 4, 2021 \| 240 comments
3.		Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance (bou.ke)
		616 points by bouk on Aug 2, 2021 \| 117 comments
4.		Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names (domainlanguage.com)
		292 points by dang on Aug 4, 2021 \| 126 comments
5.		Ultra fast Thunderbolt NAS with Apple M1 and Linux (chrisbergeron.com)
		220 points by cyberge99 on Aug 3, 2021 \| 99 comments
6.		Ray Tracing Gems II available as free download (nvidia.com)
		220 points by dagmx on Aug 4, 2021 \| 31 comments
7.		Show HN: Till – Unblock and scale your web scrapers, with minimal code changes (github.com/datahenhq)
		209 points by paramaw on Aug 4, 2021 \| 58 comments
8.		Launch HN: Turion Space (YC S21) – Space debris removal and satellite servicing
		200 points by rwesterdahl on Aug 4, 2021 \| 111 comments
9.		This Can’t Go On (cold-takes.com)
		254 points by rfw300 on Aug 3, 2021 \| 258 comments
10.		Uptime Lab's CM4 Blade Adds NVMe, TPM 2.0 to Raspberry Pi (jeffgeerling.com)
		152 points by geerlingguy on Aug 4, 2021 \| 52 comments
11.		NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings (nypost.com)
		410 points by underseacables on Aug 3, 2021 \| 1464 comments
12.		Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads (dailydot.com)
		435 points by jimgordon on Aug 4, 2021 \| 77 comments
13.		Lisp in an “impossible” language, the most complex Malbolge program to date (github.com/kspalaiologos)
		263 points by palaiologos on Aug 3, 2021 \| 73 comments
14.		EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library (github.com/electronicarts)
		144 points by optimalsolver on Aug 4, 2021 \| 79 comments
15.		Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since dot-com bubble (reuters.com)
		178 points by DLay on Aug 4, 2021 \| 285 comments
16.		The Real Story of Pixar (ieee.org)
		223 points by Hell_World on Aug 3, 2021 \| 74 comments
17.		Launch HN: Keyri (YC S21) – Secure smartphone-based passwordless authentication
		69 points by thekeyper on Aug 4, 2021 \| 90 comments
18.		Testing quantum mechanics in space (nature.com)
		73 points by pseudolus on Aug 4, 2021 \| 52 comments
19.		Simple Systems Have Less Downtime (2020) (gkogan.co)
		303 points by gk1 on Aug 4, 2021 \| 210 comments
20.		Sparse Array Beamforming with a Phase Coherent 21-Channel RTL-SDR Array (rtl-sdr.com)
		75 points by mindcrime on Aug 3, 2021 \| 11 comments
21.		Show HN: Hookdeck – An infrastructure to consume webhooks (hookdeck.com)
		126 points by alexbouchard on Aug 4, 2021 \| 31 comments
22.		A Bestiary of Functions for Systems Designers (brunodias.dev)
		123 points by polm23 on Aug 3, 2021 \| 15 comments
23.		Verilog2Factorio: Web Demo (redcrafter.github.io)
		136 points by linux_is_nice on Aug 4, 2021 \| 19 comments
24.		Use Phoenix Channels (codecast.io)
		146 points by clessg on Aug 4, 2021 \| 47 comments
25.		Going mouseless (felipecortez.net)
		176 points by FelipeCortez on Aug 3, 2021 \| 177 comments
26.		Where Do Models Go Wrong? Parameter-Space Saliency Maps for Explainability (arxiv.org)
		84 points by lnyan on Aug 4, 2021 \| 6 comments
27.		A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important (butwhatfor.substack.com)
		118 points by stanrivers on Aug 2, 2021 \| 91 comments
28.		A sewing page that never closed its font size HTML tags (archive.org)
		367 points by cjlm on Aug 3, 2021 \| 79 comments
29.		Are dynamic languages going to replace static languages? (2003) (artima.com)
		91 points by susam on Aug 4, 2021 \| 427 comments
30.		The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream (wired.co.uk)
		188 points by TigeriusKirk on Aug 3, 2021 \| 265 comments
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