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1.		Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (coding-guidelines.com)
		780 points by walterclifford on Jan 18, 2021 \| 308 comments
2.		GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free (eleuther.ai)
		725 points by sieste on Jan 18, 2021 \| 252 comments
3.		I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (tjcx.me)
		851 points by swyx on Jan 18, 2021 \| 385 comments
4.		Tech companies are profiling us from before birth (mitpress.mit.edu)
		380 points by DamnInteresting on Jan 18, 2021 \| 138 comments
5.		Context switching costs more than we give it credit for (thinkingthrough.substack.com)
		590 points by maddynator on Jan 18, 2021 \| 352 comments
6.		That XOR Trick (2020) (florian.github.io)
		428 points by wagslane on Jan 18, 2021 \| 231 comments
7.		We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college (kansascity.com)
		539 points by amin on Jan 18, 2021 \| 396 comments
8.		HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know (rachelbythebay.com)
		730 points by atg_abhishek on Jan 18, 2021 \| 458 comments
9.		IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv (ieee.org)
		201 points by tosh on Jan 17, 2021 \| 30 comments
10.		Three reasons fungi are not plants (asm.org)
		220 points by chewbacha on Jan 18, 2021 \| 101 comments
11.		The embedded YouTube player told me what you were watching (xdavidhu.me)
		260 points by hackerpain on Jan 18, 2021 \| 104 comments
12.		Review broken products instead of new ones (buyforlife.com)
		244 points by hubraumhugo on Jan 17, 2021 \| 121 comments
13.		I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users (zdnet.com)
		250 points by GordonS on Jan 17, 2021 \| 158 comments
14.		Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies (turquoise.health)
		447 points by ageitgey on Jan 18, 2021 \| 374 comments
15.		Nobody lives here: Nearly 5M Census Blocks with zero population (2014) (mapsbynik.com)
		162 points by sndean on Jan 18, 2021 \| 103 comments
16.		The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000) (archive.org)
		201 points by mmastrac on Jan 18, 2021 \| 98 comments
17.		Software engineering is a learning process, working code is a side effect (lambdabytes.io)
		237 points by io_nathan on Jan 18, 2021 \| 74 comments
18.		MuseScore 3.6 (musescore.org)
		236 points by app4soft on Jan 17, 2021 \| 78 comments
19.		Jim Simons proved the textbooks wrong, almost (bloomberg.com)
		154 points by paulpauper on Jan 17, 2021 \| 90 comments
20.		A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes (github.com/micah5)
		344 points by rvieira on Jan 18, 2021 \| 75 comments
21.		Patient Regains Sight Following Artificial Cornea Implantation (prnewswire.com)
		406 points by muskminion on Jan 18, 2021 \| 75 comments
22.		Stromatolites: A Billion-Year-Old Living Organism (bbc.com)
		112 points by pseudolus on Jan 18, 2021 \| 30 comments
23.		Decluttering low-Earth orbit: It's time to tidy up space (economist.com)
		174 points by edward on Jan 18, 2021 \| 131 comments
24.		The Amiga 1000 Parceiro (amigalove.com)
		134 points by jdkee on Jan 18, 2021 \| 22 comments
25.		Can you treat loneliness by creating an imaginary friend? (nautil.us)
		188 points by pseudolus on Jan 18, 2021 \| 216 comments
26.		Safari 14 added WebExtensions support, so where are the extensions? (sixcolors.com)
		200 points by 1cvmask on Jan 17, 2021 \| 216 comments
27.		Technosolutionism Isn’t the Fix (hedgehogreview.com)
		117 points by pseudolus on Jan 18, 2021 \| 77 comments
28.		Why Combustion Is Exothermic (acs.org)
		136 points by jasonhansel on Jan 18, 2021 \| 65 comments
29.		Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing their diets (economist.com)
		213 points by Vindl on Jan 18, 2021 \| 260 comments
30.		Apple II Basic Bot (atari8bitbot.com)
		62 points by elvis70 on Jan 17, 2021 \| 18 comments
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