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1951.

The Private Life of a Cat (2020) (daily.jstor.org)

63 points by benbreen on Jul 8, 2021 | 17 comments

1952.

Remains of impact that created the Moon may lie deep within Earth (sciencemag.org)

63 points by amacbride on Jul 23, 2021 | 17 comments

1953.

The first fully functional non-silicon ARM Processor, PlasticArm (twitter.com)

63 points by ksec on Jul 21, 2021 | 15 comments

1954.

How Databases handle 10M devices in high-cardinality benchmarks (questdb.io)

63 points by elorant on Jul 3, 2021 | 14 comments

1955.

IKEA’s House of Terrors: Greenwashing Siberian forests (earthsight.org.uk)

63 points by strogonoff on Jul 15, 2021 | 9 comments

1956.

The insect apocalypse: ‘Our world will grind to a halt without them’ (theguardian.com)

63 points by tartoran on Jul 25, 2021 | 9 comments

1957.

I unwrapped Buzz Aldrin’s visor to a 360 sphere to see what he saw (reddit.com)

63 points by JCharante on Jul 21, 2021 | 7 comments

1958.

Developing the first ICs to orbit Earth (news.ti.com)

63 points by timthorn on Jul 15, 2021 | 6 comments

1959.

Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor (arxiv.org)

63 points by kordlessagain on Jul 31, 2021 | 6 comments

1960.

You can disable any iOS device's WiFi by hosting a WiFi named %secretclub%power (twitter.com)

63 points by easton on Jul 4, 2021 | 5 comments

1961.

Nikola founder Trevor Milton indicted in US for misleading investors (reuters.com)

63 points by WJW on Jul 29, 2021 | 1 comments

1962.

Launch HN: HomeBreeze (YC W21) – Easy booking of home repairs

62 points by vm on Jul 30, 2021 | 93 comments

1963.

Time has run out on Time Capsules (eclecticlight.co)

62 points by ingve on Jul 15, 2021 | 77 comments

1964.

RTL: WTF: Read the web like Right-to-Left readers do (rtl.wtf)

62 points by robin_reala on Jul 7, 2021 | 52 comments

1965.

Metaprogramming custom control structures in C (2012) (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

62 points by ingve on Jul 9, 2021 | 42 comments

1966.

Show HN: Homer – A tool to build interactive textbooks (usehomer.app)

62 points by Outofthebot on Jul 9, 2021 | 26 comments

1967.

What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson? (nytimes.com)

62 points by ChazDazzle on Jul 16, 2021 | 15 comments

1968.

Ttfautohint – a 99% automated font hinting process (freetype.org)

62 points by pabs3 on Jul 25, 2021 | 15 comments

1969.

Austrian OGH asks CJEU if Facebook “undermines” GDPR since 2018 (noyb.eu)

62 points by robin_reala on Jul 20, 2021 | 13 comments

1970.

Platform teaches nonexperts to use machine learning (news.cornell.edu)

62 points by PaulHoule on Jul 30, 2021 | 13 comments

1971.

Pico-8 API Cheatsheet (iiviigames.github.io)

62 points by tosh on Jul 4, 2021 | 10 comments

1972.

Insulin at 100 (diatribe.org)

62 points by crapvoter on Jul 19, 2021 | 10 comments

1973.

Mount of piety (en.wikipedia.org)

62 points by benbreen on Jul 17, 2021 | 9 comments

1974.

Operating System Notes (2010) (andrewharvey4.wordpress.com)

62 points by amzans on Jul 7, 2021 | 5 comments

1975.

Show HN: Deriving Hubble's constant from fundamental constants (colab.research.google.com)

62 points by sahil50 on Jul 12, 2021 | 3 comments

1976.

Implementing Stripe-like idempotency keys in Postgres (2017) (brandur.org)

62 points by joshxyz on Jul 4, 2021 | 2 comments

1977.

The Non-Innovation of Cryptocurrency (stephendiehl.com)

61 points by tenslisi on Jul 8, 2021 | 176 comments

1978.

All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild (cold-takes.com)

61 points by deegles on Jul 27, 2021 | 76 comments

1979.

I Fired Myself (bryanjohnson.co)

61 points by indigodaddy on Jul 19, 2021 | 57 comments

1980.

Disinformation: It’s History (cigionline.org)

61 points by how-about-this on Jul 22, 2021 | 52 comments