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1. Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit (madned.substack.com)
1245 points by todsacerdoti on April 17, 2021 | 656 comments
2. The brain ‘rotates’ memories to save them from new sensations (quantamagazine.org)
408 points by jnord on April 16, 2021 | 117 comments
3. 5G: The outsourced elephant in the room (berthub.eu)
590 points by sam_lowry_ on April 17, 2021 | 239 comments
4. Are top websites using WebGL for fingerprinting? (jonatron.github.io)
413 points by jonatron on April 17, 2021 | 226 comments
5. The Story of the SolarWinds Hack (npr.org)
305 points by bokchoi on April 17, 2021 | 129 comments
6. Show HN: I built a Guitar Hero robot [video] (youtube.com)
328 points by nik12795 on April 17, 2021 | 119 comments
7. Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018) (frankchimero.com)
336 points by todsacerdoti on April 17, 2021 | 258 comments
8. Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age (nih.gov)
312 points by evo_9 on April 16, 2021 | 148 comments
9. Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window 9x (2019) (ash.ms)
286 points by cardamomo on April 17, 2021 | 132 comments
10. I Implemented /dev/printerfact in Rust (christine.website)
164 points by todsacerdoti on April 17, 2021 | 88 comments
11. Show HN: Science and math-flavored programming problems for beginners (projectlovelace.net)
369 points by PolarizedPoutin on April 17, 2021 | 73 comments
12. Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work (standardnotes.org)
286 points by sealeck on April 16, 2021 | 248 comments
13. Regulators urge safety recall of Peloton treadmill after child dies (washingtonpost.com)
275 points by joering2 on April 17, 2021 | 341 comments
14. Successful BBQ pork butt and brisket is science (2018) (arstechnica.com)
238 points by Tomte on April 15, 2021 | 150 comments
15. Why most non-fiction authors don't make any money (writeusefulbooks.com)
191 points by rjyoungling on April 16, 2021 | 140 comments
16. Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons (bef.no)
238 points by AgoRapide on April 17, 2021 | 117 comments
17. I'd like to review your README (liw.fi)
336 points by edward on April 17, 2021 | 89 comments
18. Librem 14 begins shipping (puri.sm)
249 points by nathancahill on April 17, 2021 | 146 comments
19. When 70M people visit your joke site (warzel.substack.com)
243 points by DevilMadeMeDoIT on April 17, 2021 | 78 comments
20. Self-Supervised Video Object Segmentation by Motion Grouping (charigyang.github.io)
191 points by Hard_Space on April 17, 2021 | 26 comments
21. Bzg/woof: online monitor for mailing list based patch workflow (github.com/bzg)
52 points by todsacerdoti on April 17, 2021 | 18 comments
22. Onboarding with an M1 (authzed.com)
165 points by ingve on April 17, 2021 | 161 comments
23. Stamping the joy out of collectors (notalwaysright.com)
158 points by jasonhansel on April 17, 2021 | 128 comments
24. Alienware Doesn’t Want You to Buy an AMD Ryzen PC (extremetech.com)
275 points by basilgohar on April 17, 2021 | 125 comments
25. What’s the origin of the phrase “big data doesn’t fit in excel”? (shkspr.mobi)
125 points by edent on April 17, 2021 | 74 comments
26. WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back (niemarwinget.medium.com)
235 points by lucumo on April 17, 2021 | 157 comments
27. Vugu: Vue-like frontends in pure Go, HTML, and CSS (vugu.org)
142 points by _ktx2 on April 16, 2021 | 31 comments
28. The Duties of John von Neumann’s Assistant in the 1930s (2020) (cantorsparadise.com)
103 points by jorgenveisdal on April 15, 2021 | 60 comments
29. Having fun with CP/M on a Z80 single-board computer (steve.fi)
79 points by stevekemp on April 17, 2021 | 17 comments
30. The original streamer, who ran his own public access gaming show in 1993 (pcgamer.com)
123 points by danso on April 16, 2021 | 22 comments

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