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1. How Dwarf Fortress is built (stackoverflow.blog)
1130 points by andreareina on July 29, 2021 | 388 comments
2. The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway (alexskra.com)
903 points by oarth on July 29, 2021 | 346 comments
3. Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud (cnbc.com)
544 points by us0r on July 29, 2021 | 502 comments
4. Crafting Interpreters is available in print (craftinginterpreters.com)
623 points by azhenley on July 29, 2021 | 118 comments
5. Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO (reuters.com)
334 points by doppp on July 29, 2021 | 342 comments
6. Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information” (postimg.cc)
669 points by URfejk on July 29, 2021 | 620 comments
7. Command line tools for productive programmers (earthly.dev)
427 points by mooreds on July 29, 2021 | 140 comments
8. Calculus Made Easy (1910) (calculusmadeeasy.org)
417 points by fortran77 on July 28, 2021 | 97 comments
9. Monkey Island PC-speaker music player (thanassis.space)
315 points by ttsiodras on July 27, 2021 | 114 comments
10. So you want to self-publish books and courses on programming (css-tricks.com)
194 points by lorendsr on July 29, 2021 | 65 comments
11. FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot (fsf.org)
283 points by non_sequitur on July 29, 2021 | 198 comments
12. Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale (promethean.news)
627 points by dv_dt on July 29, 2021 | 360 comments
13. Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir (elixir-lang.org)
237 points by thibaut_barrere on July 29, 2021 | 74 comments
14. First detection of light from behind a black hole (stanford.edu)
215 points by hhs on July 28, 2021 | 7 comments
15. Hacker downloads close to 300k personal ID photos from Estonian gov database (err.ee)
284 points by chrismeller on July 29, 2021 | 124 comments
16. Undetectable quantum computation and communication for alien civilizations (arxiv.org)
156 points by mathgenius on July 29, 2021 | 83 comments
17. The Playdate store is now open (play.date)
210 points by ChrisArchitect on July 29, 2021 | 185 comments
18. Slate – A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors (github.com/ianstormtaylor)
164 points by corentin88 on July 29, 2021 | 49 comments
19. Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017) (unix.stackexchange.com)
413 points by yankcrime on July 29, 2021 | 211 comments
20. What the Heck is a Data Mesh? (cnr.sh)
130 points by riccomini on July 29, 2021 | 48 comments
21. How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and 1956 (2017) [pdf] (yale.edu)
112 points by Hooke on July 28, 2021 | 34 comments
22. Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty
88 points by dang on July 29, 2021 | 68 comments
23. Low level is easy (2008) (yosefk.com)
153 points by yagizdegirmenci on July 29, 2021 | 101 comments
24. A Large-Scale Security-Oriented Static Analysis of Python Packages in PyPI (arxiv.org)
72 points by afrcnc on July 29, 2021 | 25 comments
25. Probably Are Gonna Need It: Application Security Edition (jacobian.org)
137 points by goranmoomin on July 29, 2021 | 24 comments
26. Hunting a bug in the i40e Intel driver (epita.fr)
92 points by todsacerdoti on July 29, 2021 | 15 comments
27. Announcing Vitess 11 (vitess.io)
98 points by ksec on July 29, 2021 | 46 comments
28. Reprogramming a Sennheiser Microphone (vgnotepad.blogspot.com)
123 points by drmacak on July 27, 2021 | 20 comments
29. Smell You Later: The Weird Science of How Sweat Attracts (thewalrus.ca)
141 points by herbertl on July 29, 2021 | 70 comments
30. M4 as a templating language (2020) (chrisman.github.io)
136 points by todsacerdoti on July 29, 2021 | 112 comments

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