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1. Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint (reuters.com)
656 points by mikesabbagh on Feb 17, 2021 | 1198 comments
2. What went wrong with the Texas power grid? (houstonchronicle.com)
617 points by daenney on Feb 16, 2021 | 1042 comments
3. Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?
740 points by AskHNremote2021 on Feb 17, 2021 | 199 comments
4. Always Bet on Text (2014) (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
570 points by asyrafql on Feb 17, 2021 | 338 comments
5. Visualization of 40M Cell Towers (alpercinar.com)
495 points by alprc on Feb 17, 2021 | 146 comments
6. IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run (architecturaldigest.com)
376 points by RankingMember on Feb 17, 2021 | 279 comments
7. Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? (paygo.media)
825 points by mrowland on Feb 17, 2021 | 806 comments
8. Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer (infoq.com)
275 points by jonbaer on Feb 17, 2021 | 75 comments
9. RetroForth 2021.1 (forthworks.com)
132 points by mindcrime on Feb 17, 2021 | 52 comments
10. Expanding our testing in San Francisco (waymo.com)
251 points by ra7 on Feb 17, 2021 | 243 comments
11. Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR (2018) (xissufotoday.space)
310 points by eternalban on Feb 17, 2021 | 97 comments
12. Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code (ray.so)
384 points by thomaspaulmann on Feb 17, 2021 | 123 comments
13. Nx: Multi-dimensional tensors Elixir lib with multi-staged compilation (CPU/GPU) (github.com/elixir-nx)
272 points by thibaut_barrere on Feb 17, 2021 | 46 comments
14. Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds (kill-the-newsletter.com)
344 points by polm23 on Feb 17, 2021 | 123 comments
15. How this Ends (avc.com)
311 points by simonebrunozzi on Feb 17, 2021 | 411 comments
16. An anniversary for great justice: Remembering “All Your Base” 20 years later (arstechnica.com)
275 points by samizdis on Feb 16, 2021 | 116 comments
17. Malware in open-source web extensions (lwn.net)
235 points by chmaynard on Feb 16, 2021 | 90 comments
18. Python Programming and Numerical Methods: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists (pythonnumericalmethods.berkeley.edu)
267 points by happy-go-lucky on Feb 17, 2021 | 90 comments
19. UK to launch taxpayer-funded high-risk tech research agency exempt from FOI (thetimes.co.uk)
193 points by cesarosum on Feb 17, 2021 | 196 comments
20. Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia (fb.com)
370 points by justinv on Feb 17, 2021 | 467 comments
21. Soft Skills in Engineering Leadership (codingsans.com)
244 points by womitt on Feb 17, 2021 | 128 comments
22. 31.2˝ Color EPaper Display (eink.com)
242 points by max_ on Feb 17, 2021 | 241 comments
23. What World War I Can Teach Us about Misjudging Tech and Social Change (2020) (carnegie.org)
102 points by apollinaire on Feb 17, 2021 | 124 comments
24. GitHub Deceased User Policy (docs.github.com)
244 points by bobbiechen on Feb 17, 2021 | 105 comments
25. 'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry' (bbc.com)
359 points by RickJWagner on Feb 17, 2021 | 573 comments
26. Zooko's Triangle (wikipedia.org)
153 points by dedalus on Feb 17, 2021 | 54 comments
27. A Trip into FreeBSD (christine.website)
146 points by tutfbhuf on Feb 14, 2021 | 115 comments
28. Blitz.js Now in Beta (Batteries Included Framework Built on Next.js) (blitzjs.com)
262 points by flybayer on Feb 17, 2021 | 78 comments
29. Show HN: 3D Meshes of Signed Distance Functions in Python (github.com/fogleman)
157 points by fogleman on Feb 15, 2021 | 51 comments
30. Pixar in a Box: the art of storytelling (khanacademy.org)
240 points by amin on Feb 17, 2021 | 87 comments

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