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  1. Direct evidence for T-cell immunity as a factor behind Covid-19 heterogeneity
    (177 points | Comments)

  2. First Impressions of Rust
    (274 points | Comments)

  3. Why shaving dulls even the sharpest of razors
    (136 points | Comments)

  4. Diluted blood plasma found to reverse aging in mice
    (117 points | Comments)

  5. Interlisp project: Restore Interlisp-D to usability on modern OSes
    (140 points | Comments)

  6. Nine-year-old bug in the Go standard library enables DoS
    (167 points | Comments)

  7. 20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions
    (1062 points | Comments)

  8. Surviving Django, if you care about databases
    (172 points | Comments)

  9. Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the thousands
    (213 points | Comments)

  10. Signaling Virtuous Victimhood as Indicators of Dark Triad Personalities [pdf]
    (117 points | Comments)

  11. Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0
    (635 points | Comments)

  12. A crash course on hacking satellites
    (420 points | Comments)

  13. Lab mice have a chill, and that may be messing up study results (2016)
    (104 points | Comments)

  14. Feds move to block California’s net neutrality law
    (242 points | Comments)

  15. How we scaled Google Meet during Covid-19
    (125 points | Comments)

  16. Auth is now available in Supabase (YC S20)
    (173 points | Comments)

  17. Launch HN: Datafold (YC S20) – Diff Tool for SQL Databases
    (189 points | Comments)

  18. NeRF in the Wild: reconstructing 3D scenes from internet photography
    (218 points | Comments)

  19. Twitter web app now runs ES6+, reducing polyfill bundle size by 83%
    (184 points | Comments)

  20. Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release
    (351 points | Comments)

  21. Why Confidential Computing Is a Game Changer
    (107 points | Comments)

  22. Cluster of 295 Chrome extensions caught hijacking Google and Bing search results
    (204 points | Comments)

  23. Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects
    (1194 points | Comments)

  24. Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin
    (180 points | Comments)

  25. Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B
    (200 points | Comments)

  26. Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates
    (621 points | Comments)

  27. Chrysler's Radical Space Shuttle Design
    (110 points | Comments)

  28. Our World in Data: Suicide
    (150 points | Comments)

  29. The Math of Card Shuffling (2018)
    (137 points | Comments)

  30. Programming with RISC-V Vector Instructions
    (162 points | Comments)

  31. Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die
    (142 points | Comments)

  32. Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
    (503 points | Comments)

  33. Herbie: Automatically Improving Floating Point Accuracy
    (152 points | Comments)

  34. Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connected
    (385 points | Comments)

  35. OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh
    (342 points | Comments)

  36. An Inside Look at CloudKitchens
    (133 points | Comments)

  37. Non-invasive nerve stimulation boosts learning of foreign language sounds: study
    (132 points | Comments)

  38. Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles
    (266 points | Comments)

  39. Epic Systems workers are organizing
    (164 points | Comments)

  40. Take Gitlab to the command line with GLab, an open-source Gitlab CLI tool
    (157 points | Comments)

  41. What's wrong with Intel, and how to fix it: Former principal engineer unloads
    (175 points | Comments)

  42. A new design ship in the Philippines is partly powered by wave energy
    (215 points | Comments)

  43. Node Modules at War: Why CommonJS and ES Modules Can’t Get Along
    (193 points | Comments)

  44. $250k books sold, to save lives
    (114 points | Comments)

  45. Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
    (126 points | Comments)

  46. The Expansion of the Clean Network to Safeguard America’s Assets
    (120 points | Comments)

  47. Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer
    (199 points | Comments)