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1. New in Git: switch and restore (banterly.net)
872 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 1, 2021 | 543 comments
2. Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission (mwcampbell.github.io)
751 points by mwcampbell on July 30, 2021 | 388 comments
3. My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry (zwobble.org)
701 points by mwilliamson on Aug 1, 2021 | 189 comments
4. Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq (simonwillison.net)
268 points by edward on Aug 1, 2021 | 71 comments
5. Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) (bbc.com)
306 points by jsploit on Aug 1, 2021 | 221 comments
6. Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B (squareup.com)
283 points by sanmak on Aug 1, 2021 | 350 comments
7. Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010) (raptitude.com)
350 points by tacon on July 31, 2021 | 247 comments
8. The Pleasures of Tsundoku: How I learned to stop worrying and love book piles (lithub.com)
140 points by pepys on July 30, 2021 | 60 comments
9. Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era (latimes.com)
487 points by belter on Aug 1, 2021 | 575 comments
10. Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things into namespaces (utcc.utoronto.ca)
167 points by deafcalculus on Aug 1, 2021 | 147 comments
11. MacType: Better Font Rendering for Windows (github.com/snowie2000)
142 points by tinbucket on Aug 1, 2021 | 124 comments
12. Show HN: Python Source Code Refactoring Toolkit via AST (github.com/isidentical)
110 points by treesciencebot on Aug 1, 2021 | 33 comments
13. How hard is it to get counting right? (desystemize.substack.com)
79 points by luu on July 31, 2021 | 14 comments
14. Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years (pcgamer.com)
377 points by azalemeth on July 31, 2021 | 223 comments
15. Air – Live reload when developing with Go (github.com/cosmtrek)
117 points by justinclift on July 31, 2021 | 45 comments
16. I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time (expatsoftware.com)
306 points by Jbrus on Aug 1, 2021 | 125 comments
17. The Poincaré Conjecture, Explained (privatdozent.co)
133 points by privatdozent on July 31, 2021 | 28 comments
18. Org-roam-UI – graphical front end for exploring your org-roam Zettelkasten (github.com/org-roam)
134 points by coldblues on Aug 1, 2021 | 44 comments
19. GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer (goaccess.io)
152 points by tambourine_man on July 30, 2021 | 19 comments
20. ASCII Play (ertdfgcvb.xyz)
158 points by bpierre on July 30, 2021 | 20 comments
21. The future of deep learning is photonic (ieee.org)
103 points by pcaversaccio on July 31, 2021 | 26 comments
22. Dysregulated oxalate metabolism is a therapeutic target in atherosclerosis (cell.com)
81 points by voisin on Aug 1, 2021 | 19 comments
23. CO2 battery could make wind and solar dispatchable at a lower price (rechargenews.com)
174 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB on Aug 1, 2021 | 87 comments
24. I was a teacher for 17 years, but couldn't read or write (bbc.co.uk)
225 points by ptr2voidStar on Aug 1, 2021 | 157 comments
25. Police can get your data – even if you aren’t suspected of a crime (vox.com)
174 points by arkadiyt on Aug 1, 2021 | 103 comments
26. Creating a DOOM-inspired aesthetic with PlayCanvas (omarshehata.me)
80 points by OmarShehata on Aug 1, 2021 | 14 comments
27. Todo apps are meant for robots (frantic.im)
272 points by frant1c on Aug 1, 2021 | 201 comments
28. Clusterboard A64 Insidious Reset Problem: Solved (ericdraken.com)
81 points by nreilly on Aug 1, 2021 | 7 comments
29. How Google quietly funds Europe’s leading tech policy institutes (newstatesman.com)
158 points by hhs on Aug 1, 2021 | 55 comments
30. Six corporations control 90% of America media (techstartups.com)
299 points by mgh2 on July 31, 2021 | 176 comments

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