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1.		An Opinionated Guide to Xargs (oilshell.org)
		402 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 21, 2021 \| 130 comments
2.		Patterns in Confusing Explanations (jvns.ca)
		566 points by pabs3 on Aug 21, 2021 \| 159 comments
3.		Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7 (2016) (simonschreibt.de)
		323 points by homarp on Aug 21, 2021 \| 55 comments
4.		Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft (sqlite.org)
		331 points by thunderbong on Aug 21, 2021 \| 107 comments
5.		EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning (eff.org)
		549 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 21, 2021 \| 209 comments
6.		Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug” (twitter.com/jowens510)
		643 points by radmuzom on Aug 21, 2021 \| 15 comments
7.		Tikz.net – Graphics with TikZ in LaTeX (tikz.net)
		199 points by JohnHammersley on Aug 21, 2021 \| 43 comments
8.		Court rules California's Prop. 22 on Uber, Lyft drivers unconstitutional (sacbee.com)
		312 points by ahurmazda on Aug 21, 2021 \| 304 comments
9.		Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major languages in 2021 (eatonphil.com)
		190 points by eatonphil on Aug 21, 2021 \| 145 comments
10.		The Janet Programming Language (janet-lang.org)
		231 points by rcarmo on Aug 21, 2021 \| 114 comments
11.		GitHub Issues-only project management (placemark.io)
		250 points by JonathanBuchh on Aug 21, 2021 \| 123 comments
12.		Collaborative filtering doesn't work for us (chatroulette.com)
		157 points by andreyk on Aug 20, 2021 \| 104 comments
13.		IceFireDB: Distributed disk storage database based on Raft and Redis protocol (github.com/gitsrc)
		152 points by thunderbong on Aug 21, 2021 \| 70 comments
14.		Generics enabled by default in Go tip (googlesource.com)
		264 points by dcu on Aug 21, 2021 \| 365 comments
15.		I Don’t Want to Be Like a Family with My Co-Workers (thecut.com)
		371 points by kakakiki on Aug 21, 2021 \| 234 comments
16.		Launch HN: Fella (YC W20) – Tackling men's obesity using medication and coaching
		190 points by rich-cartwright on Aug 21, 2021 \| 309 comments
17.		Don't attach tooltips to document.body (atfzl.com)
		230 points by atfzl on Aug 19, 2021 \| 92 comments
18.		Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (2015) (burntsushi.net)
		174 points by ithkuil on Aug 20, 2021 \| 10 comments
19.		Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse (theguardian.com)
		360 points by pseudolus on Aug 21, 2021 \| 139 comments
20.		Full-body tracking in VR using AprilTag markers (github.com/ju1ce)
		117 points by podiki on Aug 20, 2021 \| 15 comments
21.		Facebook suppressed report that made it look bad (theverge.com)
		275 points by underscore_ku on Aug 21, 2021 \| 30 comments
22.		Show HN: Duedilly.io – Accuracy of Reddit Trading Ideas (duedilly.io)
		181 points by duedillyio on Aug 20, 2021 \| 85 comments
23.		Working in One Bit (dukope.itch.io)
		153 points by polm23 on Aug 21, 2021 \| 31 comments
24.		Schema on write is better to live by (hrishioa.github.io)
		93 points by hrishi on Aug 21, 2021 \| 43 comments
25.		Golang.org will be merged into go.dev (go.dev)
		142 points by solarengineer on Aug 21, 2021 \| 93 comments
26.		An Introduction to AI Story Generation (thegradient.pub)
		87 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Aug 21, 2021 \| 18 comments
27.		Thoughts of work invaded my life until I learned how to unplug (sciencemag.org)
		257 points by Pikkie on Aug 21, 2021 \| 113 comments
28.		The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009) (trillian.mit.edu)
		142 points by kmstout on Aug 21, 2021 \| 83 comments
29.		An inside look at the custom CPUs in Tesla's Dojo Supercomputer (semianalysis.com)
		155 points by gautamcgoel on Aug 20, 2021 \| 125 comments
30.		The Secret Lives of Mosquitoes (smithsonianmag.com)
		81 points by sohkamyung on Aug 21, 2021 \| 69 comments
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