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1.		The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used (pluralistic.net)
		2666 points by samizdis on Sept 21, 2021 \| 1407 comments
2.		A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Age city in Jordan Valley (nature.com)
		653 points by olvy0 on Sept 21, 2021 \| 344 comments
3.		I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021 – how things have changed (airplane.dev)
		682 points by zuhayeer on Sept 21, 2021 \| 216 comments
4.		More Casio Watch Mods (n-o-d-e.net)
		415 points by susam on Sept 21, 2021 \| 160 comments
5.		TikTokers Are Trading Stocks by Copying What Members of Congress Do (npr.org)
		441 points by mooreds on Sept 21, 2021 \| 182 comments
6.		Manyverse – A social network off the grid (manyver.se)
		391 points by graderjs on Sept 21, 2021 \| 138 comments
7.		Taming Go’s memory usage, or how we avoided rewriting our client in Rust (akitasoftware.com)
		359 points by jeanyang on Sept 21, 2021 \| 219 comments
8.		The BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney (lunduke.substack.com)
		242 points by LarryDarrell on Sept 21, 2021 \| 66 comments
9.		Is BI dead? – On dismantling data's ship of Theseus (benn.substack.com)
		174 points by sebg on Sept 18, 2021 \| 116 comments
10.		Structural pattern matching in Python 3.10 (benhoyt.com)
		273 points by chmaynard on Sept 21, 2021 \| 147 comments
11.		Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friendly Pythonic Interfaces (github.com/pysimplegui)
		275 points by dragonsh on Sept 21, 2021 \| 43 comments
12.		What is this Gemini thing, and why am I excited about it? (2020) (drewdevault.com)
		248 points by als0 on Sept 20, 2021 \| 208 comments
13.		I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco (doctorow.medium.com)
		285 points by Arubis on Sept 21, 2021 \| 212 comments
14.		GitHub Actions: Ephemeral self-hosted runners and new webhooks for auto-scaling (github.blog)
		192 points by gazab on Sept 21, 2021 \| 72 comments
15.		Aubio, a C library for analyzing songs (github.com/aubio)
		133 points by khoobid_shoma on Sept 19, 2021 \| 29 comments
16.		A function decorator that rewrites the bytecode to enable goto in Python (github.com/snoack)
		197 points by sea6ear on Sept 21, 2021 \| 88 comments
17.		Former NSA Hacker Describes Being Recruited for UAE Spy Program (zetter.substack.com)
		194 points by jbegley on Sept 21, 2021 \| 78 comments
18.		Rust on the MOS 6502: Beyond Fibonacci (erdi.hu)
		165 points by gergoerdi on Sept 19, 2021 \| 39 comments
19.		Ruby Packer – Distribute Ruby code as a compiled binary (github.com/pmq20)
		153 points by burlesona on Sept 21, 2021 \| 33 comments
20.		Introduction to Hippo: The WebAssembly PaaS (deislabs.io)
		108 points by schmichael on Sept 21, 2021 \| 40 comments
21.		Arm AArch64 Adds Memcpy() Instructions (arm.com)
		158 points by universal_sinc on Sept 21, 2021 \| 94 comments
22.		Mathematician answers chess problem about attacking queens (quantamagazine.org)
		162 points by theafh on Sept 21, 2021 \| 35 comments
23.		Show HN: 7GUIs in Vanilla HTML, CSS, JavaScript (bradwoods.io)
		144 points by bradwoodsio on Sept 21, 2021 \| 56 comments
24.		The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker (2019) (atlasobscura.com)
		200 points by mkotowski on Sept 20, 2021 \| 49 comments
25.		Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress (benjojo.co.uk)
		139 points by todsacerdoti on Sept 20, 2021 \| 42 comments
26.		Ask HN: How do I easily catalog a couple thousand physical books?
		177 points by deanebarker on Sept 21, 2021 \| 121 comments
27.		The last days of Silicon Roundabout (newstatesman.com)
		65 points by lewisflude on Sept 20, 2021 \| 148 comments
28.		Six Degrees of Wikipedia (sixdegreesofwikipedia.com)
		175 points by sharkweek on Sept 20, 2021 \| 67 comments
29.		I like e-readers now (devinlogan.org)
		194 points by ivanech on Sept 19, 2021 \| 304 comments
30.		Laziness does not exist (2018) (humanparts.medium.com)
		183 points by edtechdev on Sept 18, 2021 \| 164 comments
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