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1. ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs (github.com/clearurls)
803 points by stanislavb on May 5, 2021 | 307 comments
2. Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send (github.com/timvisee)
666 points by andredz on May 5, 2021 | 141 comments
3. 60% of school apps are sending student data with third parties without consent (me2ba.org)
613 points by InitialLastName on May 5, 2021 | 155 comments
4. Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt (cloudirregular.substack.com)
840 points by forrestbrazeal on May 4, 2021 | 439 comments
5. HTML Tips (2020) (markodenic.com)
688 points by web_master on May 5, 2021 | 133 comments
6. Orbit: an experimental platform for small tasks repeated over time (github.com/andymatuschak)
388 points by goerz on May 5, 2021 | 57 comments
7. White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets (reuters.com)
637 points by pseudolus on May 5, 2021 | 568 comments
8. MacFlim: Full-motion video on B&W Macs (macflim.com)
223 points by smagoun on May 5, 2021 | 61 comments
9. Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app (csweapons.com)
245 points by vercadium on May 5, 2021 | 112 comments
10. Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada (bbc.com)
315 points by aluket on May 5, 2021 | 303 comments
11. Show HN: I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale (mobileatscale.com)
357 points by gregdoesit on May 5, 2021 | 50 comments
12. $1 Unistroke Recognizer (2007) (washington.edu)
198 points by jlturner on May 5, 2021 | 65 comments
13. Pts.js: a modular librairy for visualization and creative coding (ptsjs.org)
243 points by sctgrhm on May 5, 2021 | 25 comments
14. The origin of “tweet” at Twitter (2013) (furbo.org)
120 points by goranmoomin on May 5, 2021 | 49 comments
15. How we use web components (github.blog)
260 points by prakhargurunani on May 5, 2021 | 80 comments
16. National Artificial Intelligence Initiative (ai.gov)
202 points by KoftaBob on May 5, 2021 | 102 comments
17. MH370 pilot made many turns and speed changes, new report reveals (airlineratings.com)
286 points by wglb on May 5, 2021 | 163 comments
18. I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020) (medium.com/lessons-from-history)
233 points by Ice_cream_suit on May 4, 2021 | 151 comments
19. Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years (massivelyop.com)
362 points by mfilion on May 5, 2021 | 541 comments
20. Anim State Graph: Node-Based Animation Editor for WebGL (playcanvas.com)
141 points by ovenchips on May 5, 2021 | 19 comments
21. A sorceress’ kit was discovered in the ashes of Pompeii (2019) (smithsonianmag.com)
128 points by drdee on May 4, 2021 | 83 comments
22. Learning About the GeoTIFF File Format with a Hex Editor (2018) (medium.com/planet-stories)
93 points by oldpatricka on May 5, 2021 | 18 comments
23. Z3 Tutorial (colab.research.google.com)
195 points by todsacerdoti on May 5, 2021 | 31 comments
24. History of Programming Languages (felleisen.org)
155 points by ingve on May 5, 2021 | 32 comments
25. TimescaleDB raises $40M (timescale.com)
308 points by slashdev on May 5, 2021 | 139 comments
26. Hy: A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python (github.com/hylang)
166 points by lnyan on May 5, 2021 | 55 comments
27. Open sourcing Pixie under Apache 2.0 license (px.dev)
108 points by nserrino on May 5, 2021 | 18 comments
28. Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio] (blubrry.com)
85 points by 0-_-0 on May 5, 2021 | 116 comments
29. Ex-Netflix VP found guilty of awarding tech contracts in exchange for bribes (arstechnica.com)
319 points by codelion on May 5, 2021 | 276 comments
30. SeL4 on RISC-V Verified to Binary Code (microkerneldude.wordpress.com)
157 points by kryptiskt on May 5, 2021 | 47 comments

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