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1.		How Dwarf Fortress is built (stackoverflow.blog)
		1130 points by andreareina on July 29, 2021 \| 388 comments
2.		The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway (alexskra.com)
		903 points by oarth on July 29, 2021 \| 346 comments
3.		Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud (cnbc.com)
		544 points by us0r on July 29, 2021 \| 502 comments
4.		Crafting Interpreters is available in print (craftinginterpreters.com)
		623 points by azhenley on July 29, 2021 \| 118 comments
5.		Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO (reuters.com)
		334 points by doppp on July 29, 2021 \| 342 comments
6.		Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information” (postimg.cc)
		669 points by URfejk on July 29, 2021 \| 620 comments
7.		Command line tools for productive programmers (earthly.dev)
		427 points by mooreds on July 29, 2021 \| 140 comments
8.		Calculus Made Easy (1910) (calculusmadeeasy.org)
		417 points by fortran77 on July 28, 2021 \| 97 comments
9.		Monkey Island PC-speaker music player (thanassis.space)
		315 points by ttsiodras on July 27, 2021 \| 114 comments
10.		So you want to self-publish books and courses on programming (css-tricks.com)
		194 points by lorendsr on July 29, 2021 \| 65 comments
11.		FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot (fsf.org)
		283 points by non_sequitur on July 29, 2021 \| 198 comments
12.		Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale (promethean.news)
		627 points by dv_dt on July 29, 2021 \| 360 comments
13.		Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir (elixir-lang.org)
		237 points by thibaut_barrere on July 29, 2021 \| 74 comments
14.		First detection of light from behind a black hole (stanford.edu)
		215 points by hhs on July 28, 2021 \| 7 comments
15.		Hacker downloads close to 300k personal ID photos from Estonian gov database (err.ee)
		284 points by chrismeller on July 29, 2021 \| 124 comments
16.		Undetectable quantum computation and communication for alien civilizations (arxiv.org)
		156 points by mathgenius on July 29, 2021 \| 83 comments
17.		The Playdate store is now open (play.date)
		210 points by ChrisArchitect on July 29, 2021 \| 185 comments
18.		Slate – A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors (github.com/ianstormtaylor)
		164 points by corentin88 on July 29, 2021 \| 49 comments
19.		Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017) (unix.stackexchange.com)
		413 points by yankcrime on July 29, 2021 \| 211 comments
20.		What the Heck is a Data Mesh? (cnr.sh)
		130 points by riccomini on July 29, 2021 \| 48 comments
21.		How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and 1956 (2017) [pdf] (yale.edu)
		112 points by Hooke on July 28, 2021 \| 34 comments
22.		Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty
		88 points by dang on July 29, 2021 \| 68 comments
23.		Low level is easy (2008) (yosefk.com)
		153 points by yagizdegirmenci on July 29, 2021 \| 101 comments
24.		A Large-Scale Security-Oriented Static Analysis of Python Packages in PyPI (arxiv.org)
		72 points by afrcnc on July 29, 2021 \| 25 comments
25.		Probably Are Gonna Need It: Application Security Edition (jacobian.org)
		137 points by goranmoomin on July 29, 2021 \| 24 comments
26.		Hunting a bug in the i40e Intel driver (epita.fr)
		92 points by todsacerdoti on July 29, 2021 \| 15 comments
27.		Announcing Vitess 11 (vitess.io)
		98 points by ksec on July 29, 2021 \| 46 comments
28.		Reprogramming a Sennheiser Microphone (vgnotepad.blogspot.com)
		123 points by drmacak on July 27, 2021 \| 20 comments
29.		Smell You Later: The Weird Science of How Sweat Attracts (thewalrus.ca)
		141 points by herbertl on July 29, 2021 \| 70 comments
30.		M4 as a templating language (2020) (chrisman.github.io)
		136 points by todsacerdoti on July 29, 2021 \| 112 comments
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