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1.		Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning (github.com/billdietrich)
		499 points by karlzt on Feb 27, 2021 \| 338 comments
2.		Free Land – Living Off Grid With No Money (offgridpermaculture.com)
		390 points by SQL2219 on Feb 26, 2021 \| 212 comments
3.		A Vim Guide for Advanced Users (thevaluable.dev)
		603 points by asicsp on Feb 27, 2021 \| 172 comments
4.		Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection (twitter.com/__jakub_g)
		648 points by crazypython on Feb 26, 2021 \| 235 comments
5.		A single cell slime mold makes decisions without a central nervous system (tum.de)
		171 points by gmays on Feb 27, 2021 \| 76 comments
6.		The curious case of the handlebar bag scam (cyclingtips.com)
		202 points by Zhenya on Feb 27, 2021 \| 159 comments
7.		Are You Trading or Gambling? (investinglessons.substack.com)
		372 points by christopherjgan on Feb 27, 2021 \| 400 comments
8.		Resources for chief technology officers, with the emphasis on startups (github.com/kuchin)
		446 points by szimpl on Feb 27, 2021 \| 54 comments
9.		Smoothstep.io, a Shader Animation Tool (smoothstep.io)
		156 points by bwidlar on Feb 25, 2021 \| 11 comments
10.		Arrow v1.0: After 8 years, even better dates and times for Python (github.com/arrow-py)
		216 points by krisfremen on Feb 27, 2021 \| 76 comments
11.		Zluda: CUDA on Intel GPUs (github.com/vosen)
		261 points by fho on Feb 25, 2021 \| 77 comments
12.		Amazon rainforest rock art 'depicts giant Ice Age creatures' (2020) (bbc.com)
		109 points by Thevet on Feb 27, 2021 \| 27 comments
13.		Alternative shell with native support for JSON, YAML, TOML, CSV, etc. (github.com/lmorg)
		181 points by hnlmorg on Feb 27, 2021 \| 88 comments
14.		Noweb – A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming (tufts.edu)
		140 points by Tomte on Feb 27, 2021 \| 53 comments
15.		Bit (1.0) – a modern Git CLI in Go (github.com/chriswalz)
		191 points by chriswalz on Feb 27, 2021 \| 74 comments
16.		Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine? (godotengine.org)
		272 points by nafey on Feb 27, 2021 \| 148 comments
17.		SolarWinds CEO blames intern for password leak (cnn.com)
		305 points by tnolet on Feb 27, 2021 \| 214 comments
18.		PureScript and Haskell (drewolson.org)
		167 points by allenleee on Feb 26, 2021 \| 60 comments
19.		Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before (sciencemag.org)
		90 points by sohkamyung on Feb 26, 2021 \| 30 comments
20.		Mining Ethereum on M1 Mac GPU (yifangu.com)
		153 points by gyf304 on Feb 27, 2021 \| 125 comments
21.		Arithmetic dynamics combines insights from number theory and dynamical systems (quantamagazine.org)
		84 points by nsoonhui on Feb 27, 2021
22.		NFTs and a Thousand True Fans (a16z.com)
		110 points by picture on Feb 27, 2021 \| 154 comments
23.		Wi-LE: Can WiFi replace Bluetooth? (2019) [pdf] (ucla.edu)
		107 points by docuru on Feb 27, 2021 \| 80 comments
24.		1991's PC technology was unbelievable (2011) (zdnet.com)
		136 points by doener on Feb 27, 2021 \| 235 comments
25.		Graveyards Are Surprising Hotspots for Biodiversity (scientificamerican.com)
		74 points by Vigier on Feb 25, 2021 \| 15 comments
26.		Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing? (wnep.com)
		112 points by unnamed76ri on Feb 27, 2021 \| 84 comments
27.		Before You Memo() (overreacted.io)
		87 points by feross on Feb 23, 2021 \| 14 comments
28.		Making hibernation work under Linux Lockdown (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
		113 points by edward on Feb 27, 2021 \| 64 comments
29.		Launch HN: Spruce (YC W21) – OSS for User Owned and Provably Authentic Data
		63 points by wyc on Feb 27, 2021 \| 9 comments
30.		Show HN: Lowdefy – Build internal tools with YAML on an open-source framework (lowdefy.com)
		107 points by gervwyk on Feb 25, 2021 \| 32 comments
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