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1.		Show HN: Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader (github.com/rand-net)
		473 points by rand_net on Feb 14, 2021 \| 173 comments
2.		Half Doses of Moderna Vaccine Produce Neutralizing Antibodies (marginalrevolution.com)
		339 points by elsewhen on Feb 14, 2021 \| 391 comments
3.		Extruding Ice from Steel Fences and Pipes with Diurnal Freeze/Thaw (2008) (ilstu.edu)
		261 points by yosamino on Feb 13, 2021 \| 21 comments
4.		Write a Shell in C (brennan.io)
		276 points by mindcrime on Feb 13, 2021 \| 80 comments
5.		Learn Functional Programming Visually (david-peter.de)
		354 points by polyrand on Feb 14, 2021 \| 65 comments
6.		DeepMind achieves SOTA image recognition with 8.7x faster training (arxiv.org)
		291 points by highfrequency on Feb 14, 2021 \| 83 comments
7.		The complexity that lives in the GUI (royalsloth.eu)
		361 points by yes_but_no on Feb 14, 2021 \| 214 comments
8.		Julia 1.6: what has changed since Julia 1.0? (oxinabox.net)
		262 points by Sukera on Feb 14, 2021 \| 207 comments
9.		“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain? (blackshaw.substack.com)
		369 points by whoooooo123 on Feb 14, 2021 \| 732 comments
10.		Statement on New York Times Article (astralcodexten.substack.com)
		866 points by jger15 on Feb 14, 2021 \| 411 comments
11.		Nyuzi – An Experimental Open-Source FPGA GPGPU Processor (github.com/jbush001)
		165 points by peter_d_sherman on Feb 14, 2021 \| 68 comments
12.		(Very) Basic Intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (qvault.io)
		222 points by wagslane on Feb 14, 2021 \| 41 comments
13.		Graphics Programming Weekly (jendrikillner.com)
		179 points by E-Reverance on Feb 14, 2021 \| 29 comments
14.		On navigating a large codebase (royalsloth.eu)
		274 points by mooreds on Feb 14, 2021 \| 135 comments
15.		What was the original reason for the design of AT&T assembly syntax? (2017) (stackoverflow.com)
		108 points by luu on Feb 13, 2021 \| 58 comments
16.		Data Laced with History: Causal Trees and Operational CRDTs (2018) (archagon.net)
		103 points by mcovalt on Feb 13, 2021 \| 10 comments
17.		Jet.jl: A WIP compile time type checker for Julia (github.com/aviatesk)
		146 points by amkkma on Feb 14, 2021 \| 19 comments
18.		Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated (lareviewofbooks.org)
		208 points by pseudolus on Feb 13, 2021 \| 308 comments
19.		Fluxus – A 3D game engine for live-coding worlds into existence (pawfal.org)
		182 points by _zhqs on Feb 14, 2021 \| 23 comments
20.		Racket v8.0 (racket-lang.org)
		276 points by azhenley on Feb 14, 2021 \| 41 comments
21.		GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered: re3 (github.com/gtamodding)
		433 points by blewboarwastake on Feb 14, 2021 \| 154 comments
22.		A second look at "no code" tools (2019) (webflow.com)
		139 points by tosh on Feb 14, 2021 \| 154 comments
23.		Distribution of JVM Desktop Applications (frankel.ch)
		133 points by nfrankel on Feb 14, 2021 \| 122 comments
24.		Malaysia Has Turned Lion Dancing into a Gravity-Defying Extreme Sport (atlasobscura.com)
		147 points by clockworksoul on Feb 12, 2021 \| 23 comments
25.		1921 Duesenberg Model A Belonged to the Same Family for Almost a Century (thedrive.com)
		77 points by clouddrover on Feb 14, 2021 \| 31 comments
26.		RethinkDNS – monitor app activity, block ads and firewall apps on Android (bravedns.com)
		128 points by URfejk on Feb 14, 2021 \| 77 comments
27.		K-9 Mail is looking for funding (k9mail.app)
		379 points by BubuIIC on Feb 14, 2021 \| 138 comments
28.		Amber Smalltalk (amber-lang.net)
		121 points by owenm on Feb 14, 2021 \| 12 comments
29.		No Qualified Immunity for Cops Who Made Stuff Up to Justify Phone Seizure (techdirt.com)
		234 points by pmiller2 on Feb 14, 2021 \| 140 comments
30.		The Legendary Study That Embarrassed Wine Experts (2014) (realclearscience.com)
		121 points by Tomte on Feb 14, 2021 \| 173 comments
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