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1.		A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013) (minimizedistraction.com)
		740 points by cratermoon on July 7, 2021 \| 271 comments
2.		Npm Audit: broken by design? (overreacted.io)
		872 points by wongmjane on July 7, 2021 \| 259 comments
3.		The James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review (asc-csa.gc.ca)
		411 points by guerrilla on July 7, 2021 \| 291 comments
4.		Data Structure Visualizations (usfca.edu)
		492 points by yurish on July 6, 2021 \| 19 comments
5.		Neurons unexpectedly encode information in the timing of their firing (quantamagazine.org)
		276 points by theafh on July 7, 2021 \| 108 comments
6.		Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising (vivaldi.com)
		487 points by velmu on July 7, 2021 \| 265 comments
7.		An Intern’s Guide to Trading (nasdaq.com)
		369 points by 6502nerdface on July 7, 2021 \| 80 comments
8.		Tencent deploys facial recognition to detect minors gaming at night (sixthtone.com)
		376 points by jonbaer on July 6, 2021 \| 419 comments
9.		How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? (quora.com)
		286 points by tomtung on July 7, 2021 \| 198 comments
10.		Reverse Engineer the BL602 WiFi Driver (lupyuen.github.io)
		190 points by zdw on July 7, 2021 \| 42 comments
11.		SVG favicons have some cool benefits (austingil.com)
		197 points by feross on July 7, 2021 \| 73 comments
12.		Breathing exercise lowers blood pressure better than working out, medication (studyfinds.org)
		298 points by throw1234651234 on July 6, 2021 \| 103 comments
13.		Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' in mice: study (leafie.co.uk)
		403 points by pmoriarty on July 7, 2021 \| 328 comments
14.		The first on-orbit fuel depot has been deployed (orbitalindex.com)
		174 points by tectonic on July 7, 2021 \| 51 comments
15.		Ideas in statistics that have powered AI (columbia.edu)
		204 points by MAXPOOL on July 7, 2021 \| 78 comments
16.		Apple's “iCloud Private Relay” broke risk based authentication (zitadel.ch)
		191 points by mffap on July 7, 2021 \| 202 comments
17.		What Does My Site Cost? (whatdoesmysitecost.com)
		378 points by shadowfaxRodeo on July 7, 2021 \| 295 comments
18.		The cost of the “new way to message on instagram” (2020) (eff.org)
		182 points by gmays on July 7, 2021 \| 164 comments
19.		Project Oberon Emulator in JavaScript and Java (schierlm.github.io)
		152 points by pjmlp on July 7, 2021 \| 40 comments
20.		AI bot trolls politicians with how much time they're looking at phones (mashable.com)
		230 points by sidcool on July 7, 2021 \| 113 comments
21.		Libimobiledevice – Open-source library to communicate with iOS devices natively (libimobiledevice.org)
		283 points by pabs3 on July 7, 2021 \| 80 comments
22.		First new VAX in 30 years? (netbsd.org)
		218 points by JoachimS on July 7, 2021 \| 89 comments
23.		Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology (georgestrakhov.com)
		212 points by georgestrakhov on July 5, 2021 \| 117 comments
24.		Launch HN: Evidently AI (YC S21) – Track and Debug ML Models in Production
		111 points by elenasamuylova on July 7, 2021 \| 17 comments
25.		Grafica Obscura – Collected Computer Graphics Hacks (1977-1996) (graficaobscura.com)
		160 points by Retr0id on July 7, 2021 \| 19 comments
26.		The humble water heater could be the savior of our energy infrastructure woes (salon.com)
		138 points by turtlegrids on July 6, 2021 \| 254 comments
27.		Apollo 11 implementation of Trigonometric functions (1969) (fermatslibrary.com)
		212 points by BerislavLopac on July 7, 2021 \| 40 comments
28.		Complex game worlds, simple text interfaces (2015) (egamebook.com)
		162 points by davegauer on July 7, 2021 \| 38 comments
29.		Fake Tesla, Apple stocks have started trading on blockchains (bloomberg.com)
		203 points by mgh2 on July 6, 2021 \| 347 comments
30.		Social Media Platforms as Common Carriers? [pdf] (ucla.edu)
		108 points by amadeuspagel on July 7, 2021 \| 88 comments
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