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1.		Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint (reuters.com)
		656 points by mikesabbagh on Feb 17, 2021 \| 1198 comments
2.		What went wrong with the Texas power grid? (houstonchronicle.com)
		617 points by daenney on Feb 16, 2021 \| 1042 comments
3.		Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?
		740 points by AskHNremote2021 on Feb 17, 2021 \| 199 comments
4.		Always Bet on Text (2014) (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
		570 points by asyrafql on Feb 17, 2021 \| 338 comments
5.		Visualization of 40M Cell Towers (alpercinar.com)
		495 points by alprc on Feb 17, 2021 \| 146 comments
6.		IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run (architecturaldigest.com)
		376 points by RankingMember on Feb 17, 2021 \| 279 comments
7.		Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? (paygo.media)
		825 points by mrowland on Feb 17, 2021 \| 806 comments
8.		Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer (infoq.com)
		275 points by jonbaer on Feb 17, 2021 \| 75 comments
9.		RetroForth 2021.1 (forthworks.com)
		132 points by mindcrime on Feb 17, 2021 \| 52 comments
10.		Expanding our testing in San Francisco (waymo.com)
		251 points by ra7 on Feb 17, 2021 \| 243 comments
11.		Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR (2018) (xissufotoday.space)
		310 points by eternalban on Feb 17, 2021 \| 97 comments
12.		Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code (ray.so)
		384 points by thomaspaulmann on Feb 17, 2021 \| 123 comments
13.		Nx: Multi-dimensional tensors Elixir lib with multi-staged compilation (CPU/GPU) (github.com/elixir-nx)
		272 points by thibaut_barrere on Feb 17, 2021 \| 46 comments
14.		Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds (kill-the-newsletter.com)
		344 points by polm23 on Feb 17, 2021 \| 123 comments
15.		How this Ends (avc.com)
		311 points by simonebrunozzi on Feb 17, 2021 \| 411 comments
16.		An anniversary for great justice: Remembering “All Your Base” 20 years later (arstechnica.com)
		275 points by samizdis on Feb 16, 2021 \| 116 comments
17.		Malware in open-source web extensions (lwn.net)
		235 points by chmaynard on Feb 16, 2021 \| 90 comments
18.		Python Programming and Numerical Methods: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists (pythonnumericalmethods.berkeley.edu)
		267 points by happy-go-lucky on Feb 17, 2021 \| 90 comments
19.		UK to launch taxpayer-funded high-risk tech research agency exempt from FOI (thetimes.co.uk)
		193 points by cesarosum on Feb 17, 2021 \| 196 comments
20.		Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia (fb.com)
		370 points by justinv on Feb 17, 2021 \| 467 comments
21.		Soft Skills in Engineering Leadership (codingsans.com)
		244 points by womitt on Feb 17, 2021 \| 128 comments
22.		31.2˝ Color EPaper Display (eink.com)
		242 points by max_ on Feb 17, 2021 \| 241 comments
23.		What World War I Can Teach Us about Misjudging Tech and Social Change (2020) (carnegie.org)
		102 points by apollinaire on Feb 17, 2021 \| 124 comments
24.		GitHub Deceased User Policy (docs.github.com)
		244 points by bobbiechen on Feb 17, 2021 \| 105 comments
25.		'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry' (bbc.com)
		359 points by RickJWagner on Feb 17, 2021 \| 573 comments
26.		Zooko's Triangle (wikipedia.org)
		153 points by dedalus on Feb 17, 2021 \| 54 comments
27.		A Trip into FreeBSD (christine.website)
		146 points by tutfbhuf on Feb 14, 2021 \| 115 comments
28.		Blitz.js Now in Beta (Batteries Included Framework Built on Next.js) (blitzjs.com)
		262 points by flybayer on Feb 17, 2021 \| 78 comments
29.		Show HN: 3D Meshes of Signed Distance Functions in Python (github.com/fogleman)
		157 points by fogleman on Feb 15, 2021 \| 51 comments
30.		Pixar in a Box: the art of storytelling (khanacademy.org)
		240 points by amin on Feb 17, 2021 \| 87 comments
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