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1.		GM has signed an agreement to extract lithium from beneath the Salton Sea (autoweek.com)
		339 points by toomanyrichies on July 17, 2021 \| 180 comments
2.		HaikuOS running on RISC-V hardware (HiFive Unmatched) (haiku-os.org)
		306 points by iamnotarobotman on July 17, 2021 \| 80 comments
3.		What Went Wrong? (acm.org)
		405 points by headalgorithm on July 17, 2021 \| 145 comments
4.		Ethereum London Mainnet Announcement (ethereum.org)
		331 points by bpierre on July 15, 2021 \| 139 comments
5.		A Solarpunk Manifesto (re-des.org)
		287 points by omnibrain on July 17, 2021 \| 199 comments
6.		Mysterious DNA sequences, known as ‘Borgs,’ recovered from California mud (sciencemag.org)
		225 points by walterbell on July 17, 2021 \| 62 comments
7.		A Short Guide to Iraq (1943) (navy.mil)
		300 points by quadhome on July 17, 2021 \| 113 comments
8.		The database ruins all good ideas (squarism.com)
		251 points by kristianp on July 17, 2021 \| 164 comments
9.		TFTC (TIE Fighter Total Conversion) v1.0 (moddb.com)
		293 points by omnibrain on July 17, 2021 \| 103 comments
10.		Last Mile Redis (fly.io)
		260 points by pw on July 16, 2021 \| 59 comments
11.		Show HN: Gorse – An Out-of-the-box open-source Recommender System (gorse.io)
		212 points by zhenghaoz on July 17, 2021 \| 41 comments
12.		dhcpleased(8) and resolvd(8) enabled in base, replacing dhclient(8) (undeadly.org)
		117 points by zdw on July 17, 2021 \| 77 comments
13.		The Blurred Lines of Parasocial Relationships (every.to/cybernaut)
		159 points by enigmatic02 on July 17, 2021 \| 65 comments
14.		The Computer Scientist Training AI to Think with Analogies (quantamagazine.org)
		119 points by jonbaer on July 16, 2021 \| 33 comments
15.		Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf] (okbjgm.weebly.com)
		108 points by enigmatic02 on July 17, 2021 \| 10 comments
16.		Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request (9to5mac.com)
		362 points by basisword on July 16, 2021 \| 113 comments
17.		OpenAI disbands its robotics research team (venturebeat.com)
		164 points by morty_s on July 16, 2021 \| 119 comments
18.		Elixir protocols vs. Clojure multimethods (mattmower.com)
		160 points by sandbags on July 17, 2021 \| 89 comments
19.		To help gamers on Twitch, Dr. K balances mental health advice and medical ethics (npr.org)
		174 points by lawrenceyan on July 16, 2021 \| 71 comments
20.		Google Maps updates 'dangerous' Ben Nevis route (bbc.co.uk)
		89 points by rich_sasha on July 17, 2021 \| 161 comments
21.		Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want (shapecatcher.com)
		101 points by dwynings on July 17, 2021 \| 31 comments
22.		Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is efficient by design (github.com/teampiped)
		265 points by emanuelpina on July 17, 2021 \| 230 comments
23.		Design an Enclosure Using Photogrammetry (smartsolutions4home.com)
		145 points by detaro on July 15, 2021 \| 17 comments
24.		Jet Li rejected The Matrix as he didn’t want his kung fu moves recorded (2018) (scmp.com)
		181 points by danso on July 16, 2021 \| 223 comments
25.		Show HN: Make spaced-repetition flashcards (zorbi.cards)
		118 points by deagler on July 17, 2021 \| 62 comments
26.		Full Throttle (filfre.net)
		145 points by danso on July 16, 2021 \| 59 comments
27.		Show HN: A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation (github.com/pawl)
		175 points by postpawl on July 17, 2021 \| 119 comments
28.		12 Months, 850 Languages, 63 Fonts, No Waiting Or: Thank God for Google Noto (curiousnotions.com)
		69 points by phblinn on July 17, 2021 \| 28 comments
29.		Accomplishments: Apple Macintosh Group (6/'83 – 8/'87) (byrdsight.com)
		106 points by homarp on July 15, 2021 \| 20 comments
30.		112 Gripes About the French (wikipedia.org)
		408 points by samclemens on July 16, 2021 \| 339 comments
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