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1. USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021) (overengineer.dev)
1144 points by sneakymichael on April 4, 2022 | 513 comments
2. What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016) (aeon.co)
765 points by raattgift on April 4, 2022 | 396 comments
3. Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it
936 points by ccleve on April 4, 2022 | 417 comments
4. Are you a baby? A litmus test (haleynahman.substack.com)
660 points by mooreds on April 4, 2022 | 309 comments
5. Jd (jsoftware.com)
1212 points by tosh on April 4, 2022 | 129 comments
6. Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends in tech (chrisseaton.com)
485 points by chrisseaton on April 4, 2022 | 577 comments
7. Tinygrad (github.com/geohot)
405 points by tosh on April 4, 2022 | 144 comments
8. Those HTML attributes you never use (smashingmagazine.com)
490 points by makaimc on April 2, 2022 | 163 comments
9. Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS (smoot.apple.com)
373 points by varenc on April 4, 2022 | 172 comments
10. RedwoodJS 1.0 (redwoodjs.com)
293 points by canyonero on April 4, 2022 | 187 comments
11. Why don't more languages offer flow typing? (ayazhafiz.com)
192 points by fourteenminutes on April 4, 2022 | 122 comments
12. “Can it run Doom” will never be the same, thanks to new ray-tracing mod (arstechnica.com)
285 points by jay_kyburz on April 3, 2022 | 121 comments
13. There's no way to report spam on Google Drive (shkspr.mobi)
324 points by edent on April 4, 2022 | 100 comments
14. Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters (googleblog.com)
235 points by homarp on April 4, 2022 | 207 comments
15. Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor” (theintercept.com)
693 points by enraged_camel on April 4, 2022 | 445 comments
16. Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter (sec.gov)
537 points by tosh on April 4, 2022 | 711 comments
17. Single-chip processors have reached their limits (ieee.org)
203 points by blopeur on April 4, 2022 | 152 comments
18. Exit interviews are a trap (jacobian.org)
424 points by _ttg on April 4, 2022 | 407 comments
19. When FFI function calls beat native C (nullprogram.com)
129 points by goranmoomin on April 3, 2022 | 35 comments
20. Some interesting malware I found (bobbiechen.com)
197 points by bobbiechen on April 3, 2022 | 52 comments
21. Eigen: A C++ template library for linear algebra (tuxfamily.org)
173 points by cpp_frog on April 4, 2022 | 84 comments
22. The Personal Security Checklist (github.com/lissy93)
253 points by mcrump on April 4, 2022 | 112 comments
23. Meta quickly detects silent data corruptions at scale (fb.com)
167 points by tekkertje on April 4, 2022 | 95 comments
24. Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D? (2019) (mecheye.net)
135 points by thesephist on April 3, 2022 | 71 comments
25. YT-Spammer-Purge: Scan for and delete spam comments on YouTube (github.com/thiojoe)
137 points by zikohh on April 4, 2022 | 56 comments
26. Zooming into the Sun with Solar Orbiter (esa.int)
96 points by mhb on April 4, 2022 | 42 comments
27. Digital models preserve game show history (ironicsans.substack.com)
65 points by rcarmo on April 3, 2022 | 9 comments
28. How did the Victorians become a reference point for joyless prudery? (historytoday.com)
85 points by apollinaire on April 3, 2022 | 52 comments
29. The interesting ideas in Datasette (2018) (simonwillison.net)
86 points by Tomte on April 2, 2022 | 15 comments
30. YC-backed uBiome is basically Theranos-lite (twitter.com/carnage4life)
261 points by donsupreme on April 3, 2022 | 173 comments

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