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1.		Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust (github.com/jpochyla)
		1138 points by tim-- on Aug 16, 2021 \| 422 comments
2.		Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion (scitation.org)
		564 points by furcyd on Aug 17, 2021 \| 292 comments
3.		Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web
		1216 points by somebee on Aug 17, 2021 \| 345 comments
4.		A shot to prevent Lyme disease could be on its way (outsideonline.com)
		595 points by Kaibeezy on Aug 17, 2021 \| 421 comments
5.		Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine (them.us)
		851 points by Saint_Genet on Aug 17, 2021 \| 469 comments
6.		Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror (matthieud.me)
		362 points by maattdd on Aug 17, 2021 \| 68 comments
7.		Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government (techcrunch.com)
		568 points by jrepinc on Aug 17, 2021 \| 229 comments
8.		Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?
		547 points by neolog on Aug 17, 2021 \| 263 comments
9.		Helvetica Now Variable (monotype.com)
		320 points by bpierre on Aug 17, 2021 \| 189 comments
10.		Zink (OpenGL over Vulkan) allocator improves performance in 1000% in some games (freedesktop.org)
		220 points by marcodiego on Aug 17, 2021 \| 65 comments
11.		The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) (utexas.edu)
		368 points by woopwoop on Aug 16, 2021 \| 164 comments
12.		A simple way to build collaborative web apps (zjy.cloud)
		239 points by thezjy on Aug 17, 2021 \| 69 comments
13.		Something is killing gray whales (latimes.com)
		217 points by lxm on Aug 16, 2021 \| 136 comments
14.		Speeding up atan2f (mazzo.li)
		245 points by rostayob on Aug 17, 2021 \| 103 comments
15.		Show HN: Tara 2.0 – Fast Jira alternative with automation based on Git events (tara.ai)
		153 points by iba99 on Aug 17, 2021 \| 96 comments
16.		Will the rich world’s worker deficit last? (economist.com)
		191 points by lxm on Aug 17, 2021 \| 423 comments
17.		How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss such an obvious bug? (desystemize.substack.com)
		176 points by luu on Aug 17, 2021 \| 85 comments
18.		Google Groups kills RSS support without notice (theregister.com)
		319 points by samizdis on Aug 16, 2021 \| 128 comments
19.		Complexity theory puts limits on performance of gradient descent (quantamagazine.org)
		150 points by programd on Aug 17, 2021 \| 67 comments
20.		A Gentle Introduction to Tensors (2014) [pdf] (wustl.edu)
		134 points by michaelsbradley on Aug 17, 2021 \| 51 comments
21.		You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020) (benkuhn.net)
		415 points by _ttg on Aug 17, 2021 \| 127 comments
22.		Pompeii’s fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public (theguardian.com)
		132 points by diodorus on Aug 17, 2021 \| 41 comments
23.		South Kensington station's escalator replacement project (ianvisits.co.uk)
		242 points by edward on Aug 17, 2021 \| 106 comments
24.		Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7
		91 points by dang on Aug 17, 2021 \| 135 comments
25.		Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control (medicalxpress.com)
		96 points by lxm on Aug 16, 2021 \| 7 comments
26.		Mastodon now a non-profit organisation (joinmastodon.org)
		346 points by decrypt on Aug 17, 2021 \| 95 comments
27.		Global deforestation peaked in the 1980s (ourworldindata.org)
		171 points by _Microft on Aug 17, 2021 \| 96 comments
28.		The Wendelstein 7-X concept proves its efficiency (mpg.de)
		201 points by Tomte on Aug 17, 2021 \| 39 comments
29.		Bad News (harpers.org)
		223 points by jbegley on Aug 17, 2021 \| 236 comments
30.		The ATS Programming Language (ats-lang.org)
		99 points by rak1507 on Aug 17, 2021 \| 36 comments
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