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1.		Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch (npr.org)
		1461 points by everybodyknows on March 7, 2021 \| 298 comments
2.		-2000 Lines of Code (2004) (folklore.org)
		646 points by goranmoomin on March 8, 2021 \| 256 comments
3.		“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” (twitter.com/timsweeneyepic)
		1010 points by linksbro on March 8, 2021 \| 312 comments
4.		MIPS Becomes RISC-V (eejournal.com)
		424 points by zimmerfrei on March 8, 2021 \| 215 comments
5.		Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via subsea cable (reuters.com)
		432 points by awiesenhofer on March 8, 2021 \| 439 comments
6.		Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (bloodknife.com)
		663 points by Avshalom on March 8, 2021 \| 665 comments
7.		Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes (bloomberg.com)
		514 points by lxm on March 8, 2021 \| 570 comments
8.		Excel Never Dies (notboring.co)
		429 points by iamacyborg on March 8, 2021 \| 300 comments
9.		Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life (avinayak.github.io)
		408 points by mseri on March 8, 2021 \| 57 comments
10.		What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years? [pdf] (columbia.edu)
		288 points by luu on March 7, 2021 \| 69 comments
11.		When the prison banned board games, we played chess in our minds (themarshallproject.org)
		292 points by danso on March 8, 2021 \| 250 comments
12.		Over 140k virus species in the human gut, half of which are new to science (sanger.ac.uk)
		213 points by majkinetor on March 8, 2021 \| 87 comments
13.		FairEmail: Open-source, privacy friendly email app for Android (faircode.eu)
		234 points by mpsq on March 8, 2021 \| 117 comments
14.		Game Theory (2007) (yale.edu)
		285 points by bezelbuttons on March 8, 2021 \| 43 comments
15.		Launch HN: Bristle (YC W21) – At-home microbiome test to improve oral health
		155 points by dannygrannick on March 8, 2021 \| 84 comments
16.		The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science (rogerpielkejr.substack.com)
		210 points by zmaten on March 8, 2021 \| 132 comments
17.		Lord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-Chip Ring Interconnect (arxiv.org)
		188 points by nixgeek on March 8, 2021 \| 55 comments
18.		Why I did not go to jail (2014) (a16z.com)
		307 points by Tomte on March 8, 2021 \| 142 comments
19.		A Solution to the RWP for Exam 1 – Stealing Power (2006) (unc.edu)
		77 points by mindcrime on March 7, 2021 \| 30 comments
20.		Remote workstations for discerning artists (netflixtechblog.com)
		132 points by el_duderino on March 8, 2021 \| 68 comments
21.		Instacart mulls direct listing in snub to IPOs (reuters.com)
		103 points by lxm on March 7, 2021 \| 62 comments
22.		Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet (technologyelevation.com)
		590 points by awb on March 8, 2021 \| 801 comments
23.		Launch HN: Runops (YC W21) – A better cloud shell for production apps
		97 points by andriosr on March 8, 2021 \| 23 comments
24.		Talking with your hands alters the perception of your words (bigthink.com)
		121 points by Hooke on March 8, 2021 \| 62 comments
25.		Interview with Patrick Collison (noahpinion.substack.com)
		186 points by jger15 on March 8, 2021 \| 53 comments
26.		The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo (arstechnica.com)
		360 points by feross on March 8, 2021 \| 308 comments
27.		A Basic Timeline of the Exchange Mass-Hack (krebsonsecurity.com)
		96 points by picture on March 8, 2021 \| 24 comments
28.		Conversations almost never end when both parties want them to: study (scientificamerican.com)
		125 points by curmudgeon22 on March 8, 2021 \| 72 comments
29.		Best practices can slow your application down (stackoverflow.blog)
		195 points by kettunen on March 8, 2021 \| 186 comments
30.		Amazon Assistant lets Amazon track your every move on the web (palant.info)
		178 points by staktrace on March 8, 2021 \| 63 comments
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