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1. Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B (wsj.com)
2330 points by DavidWilkinson on June 2, 2021 | 846 comments
2. Leaky Abstractions (textslashplain.com)
480 points by jakub_g on June 2, 2021 | 111 comments
3. Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study (epfl.ch)
485 points by FridayoLeary on June 2, 2021 | 181 comments
4. DIY Book Scanner (diybookscanner.org)
340 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc on June 1, 2021 | 124 comments
5. Etsy to buy fashion reseller Depop for $1.63B (reuters.com)
259 points by pseudolus on June 2, 2021 | 185 comments
6. Why Prefetch Is Broken (jefftk.com)
245 points by astdb on June 2, 2021 | 89 comments
7. Massachusetts Steamship Authority hit by ransomware attack; ferries delayed (nbcboston.com)
189 points by SocksCanClose on June 2, 2021 | 251 comments
8. PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter (eff.org)
532 points by _fges on June 2, 2021 | 181 comments
9. Producing a trustworthy x86-based Linux appliance (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
236 points by todsacerdoti on June 2, 2021 | 138 comments
10. Microsoft's low-code strategy paints a target on UIPath and other RPA companies (infoq.com)
215 points by tlochhead on June 2, 2021 | 193 comments
11. I built my own analog drum machine (2020) (reverb.com)
189 points by danboarder on June 2, 2021 | 42 comments
12. Blender 2.93 LTS (blender.org)
347 points by Tomte on June 2, 2021 | 72 comments
13. G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy (theguardian.com)
291 points by ciconia on June 2, 2021 | 308 comments
14. History of the Nautilus loudspeaker (bowerswilkins.com)
176 points by giuliomagnifico on June 2, 2021 | 170 comments
15. Show HN: Yare.io – game where you control units with JavaScript (yare.io)
233 points by levmiseri on June 2, 2021 | 64 comments
16. Show HN: Render Jupyter notebooks as interactive articles (deepnote.com)
217 points by adlha on June 2, 2021 | 32 comments
17. Flame: A PureScript front-end framework inspired by the Elm architecture (github.com/easafe)
156 points by vyuh on June 2, 2021 | 39 comments
18. Interactive Visualization of Gaussian Processes (infinitecuriosity.org)
145 points by sebg on May 31, 2021 | 9 comments
19. Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly (bytecodealliance.org)
215 points by 0xedb on June 2, 2021 | 101 comments
20. Fifteen years of radar reveal Venus’s most basic facts (eos.org)
128 points by sohkamyung on June 2, 2021 | 39 comments
21. A possible link between childhood trauma and Alzheimer disease (padiracinnovation.org)
139 points by JPLeRouzic on June 1, 2021 | 77 comments
22. Pesticides are killing the world's soils (scientificamerican.com)
390 points by pmastela on June 2, 2021 | 219 comments
23. Event-based backpropagation for exact gradients in spiking neural networks (arxiv.org)
119 points by berndi on June 2, 2021 | 37 comments
24. Surreal Numbers – An Introduction (2019) [pdf] (tondering.dk)
110 points by ColinWright on June 1, 2021 | 73 comments
25. Corpus Clock (wikipedia.org)
112 points by Hooke on June 2, 2021 | 32 comments
26. Old-school computing: when your lab PC is ancient (nature.com)
123 points by sohkamyung on June 1, 2021 | 154 comments
27. Manufacturing the Librem 5 USA Phone in the US (puri.sm)
305 points by dmytton on June 2, 2021 | 142 comments
28. How a Giant Corpse Flower Got to an Abandoned Gas Station (atlasobscura.com)
75 points by turtlegrids on June 2, 2021 | 21 comments
29. Italian Car Design History (cardesignhistory.com)
105 points by spamalot159 on June 2, 2021 | 30 comments
30. Bulb: Another teeny-tiny interpreted language that runs on Super CHIP-8 (internet-janitor.itch.io)
72 points by tosh on June 1, 2021 | 7 comments

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