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1. Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization (josephg.com)
686 points by xnx on July 31, 2021 | 151 comments
2. Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020) (locusmag.com)
415 points by olvy0 on July 31, 2021 | 270 comments
3. We Still Don’t Get Things Done (wired.com)
425 points by gk1 on July 30, 2021 | 176 comments
4. The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered with failure (reuters.com)
346 points by laurex on July 31, 2021 | 333 comments
5. Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages (phiresky.netlify.app)
567 points by isnotchicago on July 31, 2021 | 77 comments
6. Ssheven: A modern SSH client for Mac OS 7-9 (github.com/cy384)
339 points by Aloha on July 31, 2021 | 132 comments
7. Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend (github.com/langjam)
272 points by ingve on July 31, 2021 | 130 comments
8. Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases (amazon.com)
238 points by daenz on July 31, 2021 | 96 comments
9. Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment (cosmosmagazine.com)
301 points by MichaelMoser123 on July 31, 2021 | 153 comments
10. The Retrocomputing Archive (retroarchive.org)
128 points by elvis70 on July 31, 2021 | 22 comments
11. Where has all the productivity gone? (johndcook.com)
236 points by wellpast on July 31, 2021 | 211 comments
12. Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (2009) (restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com)
129 points by benbreen on July 31, 2021 | 112 comments
13. Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby (sorbet.org)
264 points by jez on July 30, 2021 | 83 comments
14. Typos, tricks and misprints (aeon.co)
84 points by erehweb on July 31, 2021 | 34 comments
15. Show HN: Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C (twitter.com/ilyakurdyukov)
223 points by jpegqs on July 31, 2021 | 100 comments
16. Txiki.js: Tiny JavaScript runtime built with QuickJS and libuv (github.com/saghul)
96 points by juancampa on July 31, 2021 | 27 comments
17. I, Token: The untold story of the hole in Bitcoin's heart (brettscott.substack.com)
105 points by SirLJ on July 31, 2021 | 155 comments
18. As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an “attention recession” (economist.com)
159 points by elsewhen on July 31, 2021 | 197 comments
19. The dark side of entrepreneurship (aom.org)
181 points by rustoo on July 30, 2021 | 82 comments
20. TheBoard: Collaborative Whiteboard powered by matrix protocol and infrastucture (github.com/toger5)
128 points by ingve on July 31, 2021 | 21 comments
21. Lumen: Alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly (github.com/lumen)
148 points by brainless on July 31, 2021 | 19 comments
22. One-Thousand Year-Old Plants (nytimes.com)
74 points by SubiculumCode on July 31, 2021 | 20 comments
23. Has the lead-crime hypothesis been debunked? (jabberwocking.com)
127 points by monort on July 31, 2021 | 173 comments
24. Ask HN: Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly?
247 points by hypnotist on July 31, 2021 | 114 comments
25. Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? (bbc.co.uk)
213 points by gixo on July 31, 2021 | 495 comments
26. Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap (2011) (gingerybookstore.com)
154 points by Tomte on July 31, 2021 | 57 comments
27. Unix – The Hole Hawg of Operating Systems (1999) (team.net)
106 points by walterbell on July 31, 2021 | 85 comments
28. Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX (arstechnica.com)
245 points by _Microft on July 31, 2021 | 236 comments
29. London’s Crossrail Is a $21B Test of Virtual Modeling (2016) (ieee.org)
78 points by edward on July 31, 2021 | 56 comments
30. PM orders internet blocked for anyone spreading info that might frighten people (chiangmaione.com)
209 points by troydavis on July 31, 2021 | 107 comments

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