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1. Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] (youtube.com)
1663 points by malloreon on Feb 18, 2021 | 495 comments
2. Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August (arstechnica.com)
1232 points by danbr on Feb 18, 2021 | 601 comments
3. There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company” (hunterwalk.medium.com)
635 points by isolli on Feb 18, 2021 | 313 comments
4. Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders (starlink.com)
755 points by sf_rob on Feb 18, 2021 | 523 comments
5. Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software (googleblog.com)
376 points by littlestymaar on Feb 18, 2021 | 236 comments
6. Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it (imgur.com)
1801 points by jandll on Feb 18, 2021 | 812 comments
7. Vertical farming does not save space (lowtechmagazine.com)
277 points by oftenwrong on Feb 18, 2021 | 441 comments
8. The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem (garrettbattaglia.com)
296 points by gwoplock on Feb 18, 2021 | 529 comments
9. 1977: Zork (if50.substack.com)
280 points by fanf2 on Feb 18, 2021 | 91 comments
10. Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half (nvidia.com)
461 points by bcatanzaro on Feb 18, 2021 | 737 comments
11. Gleam 0.14 – Type-safe language for the Erlang VM (gleam.run)
280 points by lpil on Feb 18, 2021 | 51 comments
12. Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D (skyline.github.com)
288 points by alexellisuk on Feb 18, 2021 | 89 comments
13. Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising (reuters.com)
256 points by batmaniam on Feb 18, 2021 | 320 comments
14. Bruce Blackburn, Designer of NASA Worm Logo, Has Died (nytimes.com)
145 points by NaOH on Feb 18, 2021 | 34 comments
15. The Need to Remove Bad Management (pedestrianobservations.com)
263 points by luu on Feb 17, 2021 | 171 comments
16. Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind (twilio.com)
348 points by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF on Feb 18, 2021 | 209 comments
17. Migrating to SQLAlchemy 2.0 (sqlalchemy.org)
198 points by brainless on Feb 18, 2021 | 106 comments
18. Global debt soars to 356% of GDP (axios.com)
296 points by cwwc on Feb 18, 2021 | 440 comments
19. Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time (2013) (cam.ac.uk)
189 points by freediver on Feb 18, 2021 | 45 comments
20. Python 3.x: RCE in Python applications that accept floats as untrusted input (mitre.org)
217 points by bitshifta on Feb 18, 2021 | 69 comments
21. Bitfinex, the Italian network behind the boss that makes Bitcoin tremble (nicolaborzi.medium.com)
208 points by graeme on Feb 18, 2021 | 366 comments
22. The Fantasy of Opting Out (mitpress.mit.edu)
243 points by Fiveplus on Feb 18, 2021 | 109 comments
23. Who did the Anglo-Saxons think they were? (archaeology.co.uk)
174 points by diodorus on Feb 18, 2021 | 136 comments
24. Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep (jemma.dev)
140 points by mooreds on Feb 18, 2021 | 15 comments
25. StoneKnifeForth (With a Metacircular Compiler) (github.com/kragen)
102 points by guerrilla on Feb 18, 2021 | 52 comments
26. How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars (ieee.org)
234 points by hacksilver on Feb 18, 2021 | 92 comments
27. Il Maestro: Federico Fellini and the lost magic of cinema (harpers.org)
97 points by ingve on Feb 16, 2021 | 34 comments
28. Open source chess developers warn about a commercial engine based on Stockfish (lichess.org)
285 points by 1337shadow on Feb 18, 2021 | 130 comments
29. New Model M Is an American-Made Keyboard That Puts a Spring Back in Your Typing (tidbits.com)
202 points by miles on Feb 18, 2021 | 278 comments
30. Dapr – Distributed Application Runtime (dapr.io)
126 points by kiyanwang on Feb 17, 2021 | 48 comments

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