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1.		Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches (sciencemag.org)
		307 points by chippy on July 21, 2021 \| 128 comments
2.		Kubernetes is our generation's Multics (oilshell.org)
		589 points by genericlemon24 on July 21, 2021 \| 538 comments
3.		Planning and estimating large-scale software projects (tomrussell.co.uk)
		328 points by kalleth on July 21, 2021 \| 136 comments
4.		Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle (techspot.com)
		536 points by miles on July 21, 2021 \| 592 comments
5.		Airbnb raises violent crime rates in cities as residents are pushed out (euronews.com)
		375 points by privateprofile on July 21, 2021 \| 319 comments
6.		Software engineering research is a train wreck (buttondown.email/hillelwayne)
		372 points by martincmartin on July 20, 2021 \| 166 comments
7.		Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone (linkedin.com)
		369 points by andygmb on July 21, 2021 \| 234 comments
8.		Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres (cnn.com)
		241 points by flowerlad on July 21, 2021 \| 805 comments
9.		Twike (wikipedia.org)
		275 points by legerdemain on July 21, 2021 \| 195 comments
10.		Programmatic Video Editing with Python (github.com/zulko)
		257 points by selvan on July 21, 2021 \| 42 comments
11.		BBEdit 14 (barebones.com)
		287 points by chmaynard on July 21, 2021 \| 159 comments
12.		Using WebAssembly threads from C, C++ and Rust (web.dev)
		183 points by belter on July 21, 2021 \| 89 comments
13.		Spanish police seize large drone used to carry drugs from Morocco (elpais.com)
		234 points by shsachdev on July 21, 2021 \| 171 comments
14.		Intel Distribution for Python (intel.com)
		139 points by EntICOnc on July 21, 2021 \| 82 comments
15.		Good Riddance, TurboTax. Americans Need a Real ‘Free File’ Program (nytimes.com)
		348 points by abawany on July 21, 2021 \| 248 comments
16.		Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for communication (matrix.org)
		522 points by Arathorn on July 21, 2021 \| 140 comments
17.		I built my first serverless robot and won $1000 (towardsdev.com)
		145 points by thomasj on July 21, 2021 \| 29 comments
18.		Julia's multiple dispatch explained with Pokemons (moll.dev)
		161 points by xiaodai on July 21, 2021 \| 108 comments
19.		Vulkan Memory Allocator (gpuopen.com)
		126 points by fctorial on July 21, 2021 \| 108 comments
20.		Clojure builds as an amalgamation of orthogonal parts (fogus.me)
		122 points by fogus on July 20, 2021 \| 96 comments
21.		A monorepo misconception – atomic cross-project commits (snellman.net)
		102 points by askl on July 21, 2021 \| 102 comments
22.		Launch HN: Epsilon3 (YC S21) – Software for spacecraft and complex operations
		149 points by llcrabtree on July 21, 2021 \| 62 comments
23.		Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017) (nih.gov)
		271 points by chalst on July 21, 2021 \| 243 comments
24.		Getting 'Steinached' was all the rage in Roaring ’20s (2017) (mcgill.ca)
		87 points by Vigier on July 20, 2021 \| 50 comments
25.		THW: Germany′s army of volunteers for disaster relief (dw.com)
		210 points by Tomte on July 21, 2021 \| 124 comments
26.		The undiscovered country: Can suicide be predicted? (harpers.org)
		76 points by lermontov on July 20, 2021 \| 145 comments
27.		How do Chrome extensions impact browser performance? (debugbear.com)
		152 points by fdb on July 21, 2021 \| 90 comments
28.		A collection of outlandish human-computer interaction papers (butterbrot.org)
		113 points by danso on July 19, 2021 \| 32 comments
29.		AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance (amazon.com)
		153 points by msmithstubbs on July 21, 2021 \| 182 comments
30.		The mild anarchy of piles of second-hand books (historytoday.com)
		94 points by apollinaire on July 20, 2021 \| 69 comments
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