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1. The Animal Is Tired (robinhobb.com)
1299 points by montenegrohugo on May 9, 2021 | 426 comments
2. The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences (cnbc.com)
619 points by giuliomagnifico on May 9, 2021 | 716 comments
3. The Ultimate Guide to Inflation (lynalden.com)
712 points by jger15 on May 9, 2021 | 344 comments
4. How I Practice Piano (frogurncitadel.wordpress.com)
480 points by yarapavan on May 8, 2021 | 182 comments
5. AMD server CPUs capture highest market share gains from Intel in 15 years (hothardware.com)
328 points by giuliomagnifico on May 9, 2021 | 115 comments
6. Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork? (bbc.com)
343 points by pseudolus on May 9, 2021 | 413 comments
7. A review of correlations between big five personality types and life outcomes (dynomight.net)
311 points by dynm on May 9, 2021 | 249 comments
8. Gravity is a double copy of other forces (quantamagazine.org)
324 points by cjg on May 9, 2021 | 205 comments
9. New technology has enabled cyber-crime on an industrial scale (economist.com)
212 points by hhs on May 9, 2021 | 210 comments
10. There’s no such thing as a tree, phylogenetically (eukaryotewritesblog.com)
264 points by rbanffy on May 9, 2021 | 207 comments
11. Remains of nine Neanderthals found in cave south of Rome (theguardian.com)
192 points by Anthony-G on May 9, 2021 | 84 comments
12. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (develz.org)
217 points by sph on May 8, 2021 | 86 comments
13. Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019) (vice.com)
280 points by andyxor on May 9, 2021 | 84 comments
14. So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (2006) (varnish-cache.org)
163 points by nethunters on May 8, 2021 | 102 comments
15. Shelljs – Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js (github.com/shelljs)
116 points by chetangoti on May 7, 2021 | 56 comments
16. Linux Air Combat (2019) (askmisterwizard.com)
122 points by marcodiego on May 7, 2021 | 33 comments
17. Dropping cache didn’t drop cache (blog.twitter.com)
175 points by r4um on May 8, 2021 | 83 comments
18. Learning how to think (2015) (fs.blog)
213 points by lxm on May 9, 2021 | 46 comments
19. Unsolved mysteries of the Warhammer 40k universe with loremaster Dan Abnett (arstechnica.com)
112 points by feross on May 7, 2021 | 67 comments
20. Higher mushroom consumption is associated with a lower risk of cancer (sciencedaily.com)
182 points by lxm on May 8, 2021 | 87 comments
21. Introduction to Security Good Practices (dataswamp.org)
94 points by zdw on May 9, 2021 | 17 comments
22. Child's burial 78k years ago in Kenya was a Homo sapiens milestone (reuters.com)
101 points by tyjaksn on May 8, 2021 | 63 comments
23. Show HN: RonDB – fast key-value database in the cloud (rondb.com)
112 points by jamesblonde on May 8, 2021 | 48 comments
24. Gnuplot is not GNU (gnuplot.info)
232 points by cab404 on May 9, 2021 | 199 comments
25. The Hume paradox: how great philosophy leads to dismal politics (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
60 points by Petiver on May 8, 2021 | 56 comments
26. How JavaScript works: 3 types of polymorphism (sessionstack.com)
84 points by zlatkov on May 7, 2021 | 46 comments
27. How I built the world's first 3D ultrasonic scanner (alextoussaint.com)
152 points by belzebalex on May 8, 2021 | 44 comments
28. Wikipedia is up (2001) (archive.org)
291 points by altilunium on May 9, 2021 | 198 comments
29. [dupe] Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach (safetydetectives.com)
143 points by localhost on May 9, 2021 | 53 comments
30. Solving the regex of madness, and snarky answers on StackOverflow (2019) (cargocultcode.com)
117 points by monort on May 9, 2021 | 126 comments

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