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1. Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch (text.npr.org) 1225 points by everybodyknows 18 hours ago | 36 comments 2. Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (bloodknife.com) 615 points by Avshalom 16 hours ago | 81 comments 3. The Kilobyte’s Gambit (vole.wtf) 475 points by msszczep2 20 hours ago | 55 comments 4. Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites (bbc.com) 431 points by mikesabbagh 21 hours ago | 46 comments 5. Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes (bloomberg.com) 385 points by prostoalex 9 hours ago | 45 comments 6. Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via subsea cable (reuters.com) 312 points by awiesenhofer 4 hours ago | 18 comments 7. The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo (arstechnica.com) 306 points by feross 12 hours ago | 28 comments 8. Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet (technologyelevation.com) 305 points by awb 2 hours ago | 75 comments 9. Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life (avinayak.github.io) 276 points by mseri 6 hours ago | 16 comments 10. Game Theory (2007) (oyc.yale.edu) 264 points by bezelbuttons 15 hours ago | 8 comments 11. UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited negative impact (2020) (dailybruin.com) 247 points by ColinWright 20 hours ago | 16 comments 12. Google suffers from a digital petro curse (world.hey.com) 223 points by danso 4 hours ago | 23 comments 13. When did writing in major newspapers become so bad? (mleverything.substack.com) 189 points by bko 3 hours ago | 47 comments 14. TLA+ (en.wikipedia.org) 171 points by kristianpaul 5 hours ago | 14 comments 15. Best practices can slow your application down (stackoverflow.blog) 170 points by kettunen 11 hours ago | 32 comments 16. Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations (2007) (fliptomato.wordpress.com) 166 points by ulucs 6 hours ago | 23 comments 17. Lord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-Chip Ring Interconnect (arxiv.org) 165 points by nixgeek 13 hours ago | 6 comments 18. Review: The Book of Why (tachy.org) 141 points by pizzicato 20 hours ago | 14 comments 19. Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics (counter.dev) 139 points by ihucos 21 hours ago | 26 comments 20. Qubes-Lite with KVM and Wayland (roscidus.com) 130 points by todsacerdoti 22 hours ago | 8 comments 21. What Happens Inside a 100-Hop IPv6 Wireless Mesh Network? (thingsquare.com) 129 points by tdrnd 19 hours ago | 8 comments 22. Excel Never Dies (notboring.co) 124 points by iamacyborg 2 hours ago | 28 comments 23. Conversations almost never end when both parties want them to: study (scientificamerican.com) 105 points by curmudgeon22 13 hours ago | 17 comments 24. The Mathematical Engineering of Deep Learning (deeplearningmath.org) 103 points by yonin 4 hours ago | 1 comment 25. Talking with your hands alters the perception of your words (bigthink.com) 103 points by Hooke 15 hours ago | 19 comments 26. Julia: A Post-Mortem (chrisvoncsefalvay.com) 98 points by LittlePeter 7 hours ago | 34 comments 27. US-China War over Taiwan: All Measures Short of a Cross Straits Invasion (scholars-stage.blogspot.com) 86 points by kenneth 12 hours ago | 18 comments 28. FairEmail: Open-source, privacy friendly email app for Android (email.faircode.eu) 80 points by sirffuzzylogik 2 hours ago | 13 comments 29. ArmorPaint: An open source physically-based texture painting software (armorpaint.org) 78 points by dantondwa 20 hours ago | 7 comments 30. A Solution to the RWP for Exam 1 – Stealing Power (2006) (users.physics.unc.edu) 77 points by mindcrime 18 hours ago | 15 comments More

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