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1. Introducing the PineNote (pine64.org)
586 points by DanAtC on Aug 15, 2021 | 111 comments
2. Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors (startuppitch.substack.com)
439 points by gmays on Aug 14, 2021 | 188 comments
3. How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards (simonandrews.ca)
392 points by simon360 on Aug 15, 2021 | 125 comments
4. OpenAI's Codex sure knows a lot about HN [video] (youtube.com)
374 points by tectonic on Aug 15, 2021 | 105 comments
5. Amiga Music Preservation (dascene.net)
188 points by codetrotter on Aug 14, 2021 | 74 comments
6. Programming Idioms (programming-idioms.org)
285 points by mkl95 on Aug 15, 2021 | 98 comments
7. MeiliSearch: A Minimalist Full-Text Search Engine (marksblogg.com)
315 points by serhack_ on Aug 15, 2021 | 100 comments
8. SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec (googleblog.com)
286 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 15, 2021 | 103 comments
9. Tapedeck.org (tapedeck.org)
222 points by bookofjoe on Aug 14, 2021 | 70 comments
10. The Bullshit (walterkirn.substack.com)
271 points by hoffmannesque on Aug 15, 2021 | 195 comments
11. I hate almost all software (2011) (tinyclouds.org)
292 points by avinassh on Aug 14, 2021 | 247 comments
12. San Jose Fire had an impossibly complex incident scene (2019) (facebook.com)
260 points by mik3y on Aug 15, 2021 | 164 comments
13. What can be learned from studying long gone development practices? (coding-guidelines.com)
159 points by Hell_World on Aug 15, 2021 | 138 comments
14. React Renderer for Three.js (github.com/pmndrs)
213 points by oleksiitwork on Aug 15, 2021 | 131 comments
15. Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps [video] (bbc.co.uk)
138 points by iqtidar on Aug 15, 2021 | 28 comments
16. Sea snakes are washing up on New Zealand’s shores (theguardian.com)
111 points by NotSwift on Aug 15, 2021 | 60 comments
17. You can list a directory containing 8M files, but not with ls (be-n.com)
172 points by _wldu on Aug 15, 2021 | 128 comments
18. D2X-XL – an OpenGL modification of the classic video game Descent 2 (descent2.de)
99 points by dtx1 on Aug 14, 2021 | 52 comments
19. Rails 6 with Webpacker 6, Tailwind 2 with JIT, Postcss 8 and some default setup (nauman.medium.com)
169 points by nauman on Aug 15, 2021 | 97 comments
20. Reining in the thundering herd: Getting to 80% CPU utilization with Django (clubhouse.com)
160 points by domino on Aug 15, 2021 | 135 comments
21. On Digital Minimalsim (2016) (calnewport.com)
125 points by hidden-spyder on Aug 13, 2021 | 50 comments
22. How to teach programming and other things (2019) [video] (youtube.com)
82 points by tosh on Aug 13, 2021 | 42 comments
23. The time Pepsi got sued for a $33M fighter jet (thehustle.co)
181 points by Anon84 on Aug 15, 2021 | 168 comments
24. The rise of the one-person unicorn (nothingventured.com)
329 points by kiyanwang on Aug 15, 2021 | 168 comments
25. Why is learning functional programming so damned hard? (2019) (cscalfani.medium.com)
214 points by allenleein on Aug 15, 2021 | 383 comments
26. The best books on assassinations (fivebooks.com)
102 points by emailed on Aug 15, 2021 | 36 comments
27. JAMMA Video Standard (mistys-internet.website)
130 points by ingve on Aug 15, 2021 | 23 comments
28. The Rooms Where It Happened (wilsonquarterly.com)
67 points by behoove on Aug 15, 2021 | 22 comments
29. Cap'n Proto 0.9 (capnproto.org)
144 points by Shelnutt2 on Aug 15, 2021 | 36 comments
30. Software Dev Can't Be Automated – It’s a Creative Process with an Unknown Goal (thehosk.medium.com)
214 points by thunderbong on Aug 14, 2021 | 195 comments

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