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1. Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk (reuters.com)
687 points by geox on July 27, 2021 | 191 comments
2. Element raises $30M to boost Matrix (matrix.org)
809 points by Sami_Lehtinen on July 27, 2021 | 339 comments
3. Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database (crunchydata.com)
601 points by twakefield on July 27, 2021 | 137 comments
4. Naval Architecture (ciechanow.ski)
717 points by todsacerdoti on July 27, 2021 | 138 comments
5. Columbo: an origin story (2018) (columbophile.com)
168 points by MaysonL on July 27, 2021 | 93 comments
6. Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born (yale.edu)
578 points by birriel on July 26, 2021 | 183 comments
7. Discord Launches Threads (discord.com)
441 points by dchengy on July 27, 2021 | 225 comments
8. Google launches new vulnerability reward platform (googleblog.com)
304 points by theafh on July 27, 2021 | 104 comments
9. Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play (deepmind.com)
277 points by Hell_World on July 27, 2021 | 51 comments
10. For developers, Safari is crap and outdated (perrysun.com)
500 points by feross on July 27, 2021 | 598 comments
11. Peter the Great’s Beard Tax (jstor.org)
108 points by lermontov on July 26, 2021 | 131 comments
12. Autofill in password managers can allow login credentials to be stolen (marektoth.com)
226 points by shacrw on July 26, 2021 | 142 comments
13. In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games (waywardstrategy.com)
158 points by aw1621107 on July 27, 2021 | 189 comments
14. Launch HN: Atmana (YC S21) – An app to help cut down on compulsive porn usage
202 points by zero_billion on July 27, 2021 | 182 comments
15. FastAI.jl: FastAI for Julia (fast.ai)
196 points by dklend122 on July 27, 2021 | 23 comments
16. Reconstructed path of Ingenuity flight 9 via photogrammetry (twitter.com/stim3on)
96 points by _Microft on July 26, 2021 | 12 comments
17. Launch HN: Abbot (YC S21) – ChatOps as a Service, inspired by GitHub's Hubot
143 points by icey on July 27, 2021 | 36 comments
18. Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo (candidegardening.com)
187 points by sails on July 27, 2021 | 98 comments
19. We need to talk about testing (dannorth.net)
126 points by glenjamin on July 27, 2021 | 72 comments
20. Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine (wikipedia.org)
434 points by zdw on July 27, 2021 | 150 comments
21. Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday (axios.com)
495 points by waynekerr on July 27, 2021 | 528 comments
22. Functional Programming in OCaml (cornell.edu)
176 points by noch on July 27, 2021 | 108 comments
23. Counterfactuals are not causality (michaelnygard.com)
89 points by grzm on July 26, 2021 | 65 comments
24. Index machine: an open source pick and place machine (github.com/index-machines)
91 points by gizdan on July 26, 2021 | 35 comments
25. Evolution of tree data structures for indexing (erthalion.info)
101 points by baotiao on July 26, 2021 | 12 comments
26. Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather systems, experts say (cbc.ca)
143 points by colinprince on July 27, 2021 | 60 comments
27. Collision Detection Is Hard: The Story of Alf (nicole.express)
160 points by zdw on July 27, 2021 | 30 comments
28. WeChat suspends new user registration for security compliance (reuters.com)
187 points by dyslexit on July 27, 2021 | 182 comments
29. Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies (theverge.com)
333 points by thunderbong on July 27, 2021 | 213 comments
30. Fractons, the ‘weirdest’ matter, could yield quantum clues (quantamagazine.org)
85 points by jnord on July 27, 2021 | 28 comments

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