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1.		The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday (typesense.org)
		2075 points by karterk on July 14, 2021 \| 579 comments
2.		WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM (github.com/diekmann)
		527 points by popitter on July 14, 2021 \| 89 comments
3.		The worst volume control UI in the world (2017) (uxdesign.cc)
		763 points by yankcrime on July 13, 2021 \| 477 comments
4.		Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac (helftone.com)
		335 points by keehun on July 14, 2021 \| 102 comments
5.		Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown protest (mediaite.com)
		495 points by sbuttgereit on July 14, 2021 \| 451 comments
6.		Goodbye, Fleets (blog.twitter.com)
		369 points by mattyb on July 14, 2021 \| 295 comments
7.		Ghidra: A software reverse engineering suite of tools developed by the NSA (ghidra-sre.org)
		361 points by NotSwift on July 13, 2021 \| 142 comments
8.		Sega sued for ‘rigged’ arcade machine (polygon.com)
		340 points by danso on July 14, 2021 \| 233 comments
9.		A privacy war is raging inside the W3C (protocol.com)
		376 points by bpierre on July 13, 2021 \| 217 comments
10.		Svgbob – Create a graphical representation of text diagrams (github.com/ivanceras)
		249 points by pabs3 on July 14, 2021 \| 34 comments
11.		The art of asking nicely (ai-weirdness.ghost.io)
		334 points by goranmoomin on July 12, 2021 \| 53 comments
12.		Mr. Rafieh’s Tehran Pencil Shop (ana.press)
		232 points by NaOH on July 14, 2021 \| 78 comments
13.		A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement (theatlantic.com)
		412 points by rzk on July 14, 2021 \| 665 comments
14.		The vital art of talking to strangers (economist.com)
		249 points by abixb on July 12, 2021 \| 277 comments
15.		iOS zero-day let SolarWinds hackers compromise fully updated iPhones (arstechnica.com)
		235 points by wil421 on July 14, 2021 \| 75 comments
16.		Launch HN: Onfolk (YC S21) – Modern HR and Payroll in One Place (For the UK)
		113 points by 4thstreet on July 14, 2021 \| 34 comments
17.		Python for Excel: A Modern Environment for Automation and Data Analysis (xlwings.org)
		196 points by teleforce on July 13, 2021 \| 90 comments
18.		Mike Levin on using bioelectricity to study how cells form (2019) (wyss.harvard.edu)
		116 points by walterbell on July 13, 2021 \| 21 comments
19.		Electric aircraft set to take flight by 2026 under new agreements (united.com)
		165 points by fdalvi on July 14, 2021 \| 217 comments
20.		Electrochromic nanostructures with high chromaticity and superior brightness (acs.org)
		95 points by MrJagil on July 14, 2021 \| 35 comments
21.		Increasing HTTPS Adoption (chromium.org)
		140 points by inian on July 14, 2021 \| 194 comments
22.		Nokia E63 phone converted into LoRa messenger (cnx-software.com)
		151 points by RcrdBrt on July 12, 2021 \| 47 comments
23.		The Blender Studio Pipeline (blender.org)
		154 points by Tomte on July 14, 2021 \| 7 comments
24.		The Failures That Made Ian Fleming (newrepublic.com)
		73 points by jseliger on July 14, 2021 \| 26 comments
25.		The Triumvirate: Coal, Iron, and Steam (technicshistory.com)
		73 points by cfmcdonald on July 13, 2021 \| 12 comments
26.		Optimizing inputs and becoming indistractable (sovereign-individual.xyz)
		82 points by PascalPrecht on July 13, 2021 \| 11 comments
27.		Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 made a career out of it (twitter.com/jstoteraux)
		410 points by luu on July 13, 2021 \| 448 comments
28.		Norman doors are everywhere (2016) [video] (youtube.com)
		141 points by acmegeek on July 14, 2021 \| 128 comments
29.		A Storage Crisis (blogs.harvard.edu)
		127 points by vikrum on July 14, 2021 \| 195 comments
30.		The Surprising Effectiveness of PPO in Cooperative Multi-Agent Games (bair.berkeley.edu)
		67 points by jonbaer on July 14, 2021 \| 21 comments
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