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  1. I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (tjcx.me)
    851 points by swyx · 2078 days ago · 385 comments
  2. Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com)
    780 points by walterclifford · 2078 days ago · 308 comments
  3. HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know (rachelbythebay.com)
    730 points by atg_abhishek · 2078 days ago · 458 comments
  4. GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free (eleuther.ai)
    725 points by sieste · 2078 days ago · 252 comments
  5. Context switching costs more than we give it credit for (thinkingthrough.substack.com)
    590 points by maddynator · 2078 days ago · 352 comments
  6. We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college (kansascity.com)
    539 points by amin · 2078 days ago · 396 comments
  7. Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies (turquoise.health)
    447 points by ageitgey · 2078 days ago · 374 comments
  8. That XOR Trick (2020) (florian.github.io)
    428 points by wagslane · 2078 days ago · 231 comments
  9. Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cloud providers (cnbc.com)
    420 points by BlackPlot · 2078 days ago · 906 comments
  10. Patient Regains Sight Following Artificial Cornea Implantation (prnewswire.com)
    406 points by muskminion · 2078 days ago · 75 comments
  11. Tech companies are profiling us from before birth (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    380 points by DamnInteresting · 2078 days ago · 138 comments
  12. A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes (github.com)
    344 points by rvieira · 2078 days ago · 75 comments
  13. I made Deskreen, open source app to make any device a second screen for computer (deskreen.com)
    331 points by pavlobu · 2078 days ago · 151 comments
  14. GitHub Stale Bots – A False Economy (blog.benwinding.com)
    288 points by gitgud · 2078 days ago · 156 comments
  15. Julia adoption keeps climbing (hpcwire.com)
    278 points by newswasboring · 2078 days ago · 300 comments
  16. TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England (hackaday.com)
    264 points by szczys · 2078 days ago · 553 comments
  17. The embedded YouTube player told me what you were watching (bugs.xdavidhu.me)
    260 points by hackerpain · 2078 days ago · 104 comments
  18. Software engineering is a learning process, working code is a side effect (lambdabytes.io)
    237 points by io_nathan · 2078 days ago · 74 comments
  19. Ballista: Distributed compute platform implemented in Rust using Apache Arrow (github.com)
    223 points by Kinrany · 2078 days ago · 58 comments
  20. Three reasons fungi are not plants (asm.org)
    220 points by chewbacha · 2078 days ago · 101 comments
  21. Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing their diets (economist.com)
    213 points by Vindl · 2078 days ago · 260 comments
  22. Local rules instead of global censorship (redecentralize.org)
    208 points by bklaasen · 2077 days ago · 213 comments
  23. The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000) (web.archive.org)
    201 points by mmastrac · 2078 days ago · 98 comments
  24. Can you treat loneliness by creating an imaginary friend? (nautil.us)
    188 points by pseudolus · 2078 days ago · 216 comments
  25. Data Scientist Rebekah Jones, Facing Arrest, Turns Herself in to Authorities (npr.org)
    185 points by greenie_beans · 2078 days ago · 175 comments
  26. Are We Really Engineers? (hillelwayne.com)
    181 points by nathcd · 2078 days ago · 131 comments
  27. Decluttering low-Earth orbit: It's time to tidy up space (economist.com)
    174 points by edward · 2078 days ago · 131 comments
  28. Shuffle — An online editor for busy developers (shuffle.dev)
    165 points by kemyd · 2078 days ago · 41 comments
  29. Nobody lives here: Nearly 5M Census Blocks with zero population (2014) (tumblr.mapsbynik.com)
    162 points by sndean · 2078 days ago · 103 comments
  30. How I Build Web Apps As A Freelancer (timdaub.github.io)
    156 points by timdaub · 2078 days ago · 79 comments