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1. Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 (nature.com)
655 points by bcaulfield on Oct 20, 2021 | 391 comments
2. Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser (brave.com)
738 points by skellertor on Oct 20, 2021 | 534 comments
3. About that time I had an outburst during the Y Combinator Interview (owlpal.substack.com)
511 points by curiousowl on Oct 20, 2021 | 248 comments
4. We analyzed 425k favicons (iconmap.io)
550 points by gurgeous on Oct 20, 2021 | 128 comments
5. Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score (geekbench.com)
488 points by mv9 on Oct 20, 2021 | 880 comments
6. U.S. tightens export controls on items used in surveillance of private citizens (commerce.gov)
289 points by transpute on Oct 20, 2021 | 183 comments
7. Playstation 3 Architecture (copetti.org)
401 points by bangonkeyboard on Oct 20, 2021 | 89 comments
8. Vscode.dev (visualstudio.com)
803 points by connor4312 on Oct 20, 2021 | 260 comments
9. Outdated, vulnerable open source components shipped with Windows 10 and 11 (seclists.org)
283 points by CTOSian on Oct 19, 2021 | 107 comments
10. Simple Linux kernel memory corruption bug can lead to complete system compromise (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
224 points by pabs3 on Oct 20, 2021 | 111 comments
11. New Optical Switch Up to 1000x Faster Than Transistors (ieee.org)
267 points by ofou on Oct 19, 2021 | 92 comments
12. A talk with Walter Bright about Empire (madned.substack.com)
228 points by mad_ned on Oct 20, 2021 | 96 comments
13. Optimizations Enabled by -ffast-Math (kristerw.github.io)
209 points by bwidlar on Oct 20, 2021 | 114 comments
14. Leaded fuel reduced IQ of children born before 1990 (twitter.com/emollick)
372 points by _fnqu on Oct 20, 2021 | 324 comments
15. The tight-knit time zone data maintenance community (onezero.medium.com)
165 points by xrayarx on Oct 18, 2021 | 123 comments
16. Injury response to DNA damage in live tumor cells promotes antitumor immunity (science.org)
110 points by bcaulfield on Oct 20, 2021 | 7 comments
17. Google, Mozilla Close to Finalizing Sanitizer API for Chrome and Firefox Browse (portswigger.net)
187 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 20, 2021 | 100 comments
18. Getting the best out of OpenSCAD (calbryant.uk)
118 points by naggie on Oct 20, 2021 | 59 comments
19. Bioelektryczność – Polish Robotics (1968) [video] (youtube.com)
134 points by danielEM on Oct 20, 2021 | 28 comments
20. Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand (theguardian.com)
331 points by schleck8 on Oct 20, 2021 | 512 comments
21. I couldn't debug the code because of my name (mikolaj-kaminski.com)
258 points by mikasjp on Oct 18, 2021 | 288 comments
22. Hypertext Tools from the 80s (fibery.io)
116 points by janandonly on Oct 18, 2021 | 18 comments
23. s/bash/zsh/g (arp242.net)
191 points by zoidb on Oct 20, 2021 | 237 comments
24. Android Apps on Windows 11 (windows.com)
137 points by TiredOfLife on Oct 20, 2021 | 185 comments
25. Investors use AI to analyse CEOs’ language patterns and tone (reuters.com)
109 points by pseudolus on Oct 20, 2021 | 76 comments
26. Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics (2018) (stanford.edu)
89 points by KhoomeiK on Oct 20, 2021 | 119 comments
27. All Atari Games (voxodyssey.com)
129 points by jamesandthewolf on Oct 20, 2021 | 60 comments
28. Predicting spreadsheet formulas from semi-structured contexts (googleblog.com)
69 points by theafh on Oct 20, 2021 | 16 comments
29. Trustworthy Computing in 2021 (ariadne.space)
112 points by hasheddan on Oct 20, 2021 | 29 comments
30. Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers (stackoverflow.blog)
152 points by nsoonhui on Oct 20, 2021 | 145 comments

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