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1. Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water (joshdata.me)
1669 points by raldi on Feb 20, 2021 | 171 comments
2. United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine (avherald.com)
723 points by haunter on Feb 20, 2021 | 464 comments
3. New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency (academictimes.com)
428 points by ColinWright on Feb 20, 2021 | 265 comments
4. How to Destroy the Earth (2006) (qntm.org)
293 points by NateEag on Feb 20, 2021 | 155 comments
5. How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020) (thorstenball.com)
552 points by _zhqs on Feb 20, 2021 | 357 comments
6. Researchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues (macleans.ca)
439 points by fortran77 on Feb 19, 2021 | 193 comments
7. We live in an age of distractions, dealing with constant mental stimulus (lostbookofsales.com)
406 points by iamsanteri on Feb 20, 2021 | 151 comments
8. Mars landing: Photo shows Perseverance rover during landing (bbc.co.uk)
259 points by jfk13 on Feb 19, 2021 | 44 comments
9. 0 A.D. Alpha 24: Xšayāršā (play0ad.com)
375 points by shakow on Feb 20, 2021 | 89 comments
10. M1 Macs have another hidden boot mode (eclecticlight.co)
348 points by giuliomagnifico on Feb 20, 2021 | 231 comments
11. Adversarial.io – Fighting mass image recognition (adversarial.io)
249 points by petecooper on Feb 20, 2021 | 63 comments
12. My Life in E-Ink (rgoswami.me)
282 points by HaoZeke on Feb 20, 2021 | 155 comments
13. Show HN: Split Keyboards Gallery (aposymbiont.github.io)
249 points by Symbiote on Feb 18, 2021 | 155 comments
14. I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (2007) (qntm.org)
401 points by pdkl95 on Feb 20, 2021 | 158 comments
15. Show HN: Vellum – An interactive list of nonfiction books reviewed by academics (tachy.org)
140 points by pizzicato on Feb 20, 2021 | 35 comments
16. Debian Packages That Need Lovin' (debian.net)
201 points by spyc on Feb 20, 2021 | 146 comments
17. F’: Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework (nasa.github.io)
189 points by zeristor on Feb 19, 2021 | 37 comments
18. Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript (github.com/lkesteloot)
148 points by mariuz on Feb 20, 2021 | 72 comments
19. Why Birds Don’t Get Cold Feet (medium.com/i-wanna-know)
207 points by pmontra on Feb 19, 2021 | 108 comments
20. Teardown of a quartz crystal oscillator and the tiny IC inside (righto.com)
136 points by picture on Feb 20, 2021 | 35 comments
21. Cranelift, Part 2: Compiler Efficiency, CFGs, and a Branch Peephole Optimizer (cfallin.org)
141 points by lukastyrychtr on Feb 20, 2021 | 18 comments
22. A request for Pinboard old-timers (prettyfwd.com)
268 points by Alex3917 on Feb 19, 2021 | 172 comments
23. Little is a statically typed, C-like scripting language (little-lang.org)
192 points by Thedarkb on Feb 20, 2021 | 129 comments
24. Handheld two-way radios for preppers and other curious folks (coredump.cx)
131 points by wglb on Feb 18, 2021 | 149 comments
25. Squad: Forth on Chip-8 (internet-janitor.itch.io)
82 points by RodgerTheGreat on Feb 19, 2021 | 12 comments
26. Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent Film (2014) (extension765.com)
104 points by keiferski on Feb 19, 2021 | 49 comments
27. The Object-Oriented Amiga Exec (1991) (archive.org)
72 points by mpweiher on Feb 18, 2021 | 18 comments
28. NSan: a floating-point numerical sanitizer (acm.org)
86 points by Katydid on Feb 20, 2021 | 21 comments
29. New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped (arstechnica.com)
368 points by furcyd on Feb 20, 2021 | 195 comments
30. Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study (ucdavis.edu)
208 points by thereare5lights on Feb 20, 2021 | 304 comments

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