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1. Crazy New Ideas (paulgraham.com)
901 points by razin on May 6, 2021 | 774 comments
2. LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online (techstartups.com)
1016 points by ro_bit on May 6, 2021 | 676 comments
3. Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece (qntm.org)
674 points by rishabhd on May 6, 2021 | 245 comments
4. IBM creates 2nm chip (anandtech.com)
579 points by 0-_-0 on May 6, 2021 | 213 comments
5. Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says (nytimes.com)
549 points by u678u on May 6, 2021 | 260 comments
6. Why I Work on Ads (jefftk.com)
657 points by benjaminjosephw on May 6, 2021 | 865 comments
7. Google Dataset Search (research.google.com)
388 points by abraxaz on May 6, 2021 | 42 comments
8. Branch predictor: How many “if”s are too many? (cloudflare.com)
324 points by majke on May 6, 2021 | 105 comments
9. Starting a crypto project (twitter.com/jonsyu)
369 points by grey-area on May 6, 2021 | 351 comments
10. A centrifugal spin on a 500-year-old air compressor design (newatlas.com)
225 points by joshwa on May 6, 2021 | 61 comments
11. Pyston v2.2: faster and open source (pyston.org)
272 points by chenzhekl on May 6, 2021 | 100 comments
12. I Hacked Google App Engine: Anatomy of a Java Bytecode Exploit (polybdenum.com)
281 points by arkadiyt on May 6, 2021 | 41 comments
13. Interactive IPA Chart (ipachart.com)
243 points by Jeud on May 6, 2021 | 179 comments
14. 1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A. (if50.substack.com)
207 points by aaronareed on May 6, 2021 | 64 comments
15. Privacy Implications of Accelerometer Data [pdf] (acm.org)
127 points by gtirloni on May 6, 2021 | 43 comments
16. The California Exception (pxlnv.com)
226 points by MaysonL on May 5, 2021 | 130 comments
17. 1700 Cascadia Earthquake (wikipedia.org)
132 points by Hooke on May 5, 2021 | 115 comments
18. Catala: A Programming Language for the Law (arxiv.org)
232 points by todsacerdoti on May 6, 2021 | 126 comments
19. Nixing the Fix: An FTC Report to Congress on Repair Restrictions [pdf] (ftc.gov)
96 points by sinak on May 6, 2021 | 29 comments
20. The original “Hello World”: B. W. Kernighan's intro to B (1973) (archive.org)
113 points by nanna on May 5, 2021 | 55 comments
21. DIY Boat Monitoring System (l-36.com)
156 points by fnord77 on May 6, 2021 | 69 comments
22. Show HN: Serverless USGS historical topographic map tiles (kylebarron.dev)
134 points by kylebarron on May 6, 2021 | 21 comments
23. The Case of the 50ms request (wizardzines.com)
284 points by stochastimus on May 5, 2021 | 79 comments
24. Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches (datatilsynet.no)
220 points by hgo on May 6, 2021 | 120 comments
25. A Hybrid Approach to Work (blog.google)
189 points by jader201 on May 5, 2021 | 156 comments
26. Why People Feel Like Victims (nautil.us)
263 points by rbanffy on May 6, 2021 | 473 comments
27. ProcMon for Linux (Preview) (github.com/sysinternals)
182 points by vmarsy on May 6, 2021 | 43 comments
28. Slidev – Presentation Slides for Developers (github.com/slidevjs)
125 points by antfu on May 5, 2021 | 23 comments
29. Vulture: Find Dead Python Code (github.com/jendrikseipp)
78 points by polm23 on May 4, 2021 | 21 comments
30. A future without passwords (blog.google)
105 points by grappler on May 6, 2021 | 223 comments

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