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1. Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died (npr.org)
1252 points by edwinbalani on April 28, 2021 | 180 comments
2. The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped over 4x in two years (gammawire.com)
584 points by sharkweek on April 28, 2021 | 325 comments
3. Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads (danfabulich.medium.com)
1049 points by dfabulich on April 28, 2021 | 393 comments
4. Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers (accc.gov.au)
647 points by skeletonjelly on April 28, 2021 | 484 comments
5. Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware (therecord.media)
578 points by arkadiyt on April 28, 2021 | 294 comments
6. Proposed futex2 allows Linux to mimic the NT kernel for better Wine performance (lkml.org)
389 points by marcodiego on April 28, 2021 | 196 comments
7. The health benefits of better air (dynomight.net)
693 points by spekcular on April 28, 2021 | 455 comments
8. Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster (mightyapp.com)
479 points by amasad on April 27, 2021 | 740 comments
9. Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California (signal.org)
538 points by missinglink12 on April 28, 2021 | 219 comments
10. Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’ (freightwaves.com)
366 points by disgrunt on April 27, 2021 | 250 comments
11. Daisugi, the 600-year-old Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (openculture.com)
301 points by known on April 26, 2021 | 171 comments
12. Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance (projectifi.io)
479 points by scubakid on April 28, 2021 | 255 comments
13. Vertical turbines are more efficient in large-scale wind farms: study (theiet.org)
266 points by kieranmaine on April 28, 2021 | 162 comments
14. GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages (github.blog)
555 points by pimterry on April 28, 2021 | 212 comments
15. Signal's Cellebrite Hack Is Already Causing Grief for the Law (gizmodo.com)
389 points by gumby on April 27, 2021 | 155 comments
16. Where did the other dollar go, Jeff? (cloudandtree.com)
407 points by ezrast on April 28, 2021 | 229 comments
17. Ideal divisors: when a division compiles down to just a multiplication (lemire.me)
141 points by chmaynard on April 28, 2021 | 67 comments
18. Show HN: Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup (github.com/oakes)
103 points by gw on April 24, 2021 | 14 comments
19. A backdoor lets the immune system monitor the brain (quantamagazine.org)
179 points by theafh on April 28, 2021 | 44 comments
20. Why we switched from Webpack to Vite (replit.com)
355 points by schestakov on April 28, 2021 | 222 comments
21. NANDcromancy: Live Swapping NAND Flash (atredis.com)
92 points by tptacek on April 27, 2021 | 24 comments
22. On UML (sicpers.info)
135 points by ingve on April 28, 2021 | 93 comments
23. Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of speech (yale.edu)
163 points by allthebest on April 27, 2021 | 254 comments
24. Egyptologists uncover rare tombs from before the Pharaohs (reuters.com)
115 points by pseudolus on April 28, 2021 | 53 comments
25. The End of the Road (thedriftmag.com)
107 points by whatami on April 27, 2021 | 29 comments
26. Finding an Easter Egg in Microsoft Bob (benstoneonline.com)
176 points by elvis70 on April 28, 2021 | 64 comments
27. Apple Reports Second Quarter Results (apple.com)
188 points by MaysonL on April 28, 2021 | 319 comments
28. Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland (nationalgeographic.com)
134 points by thedday on April 28, 2021 | 84 comments
29. Symbolics Lisp Machine demo (2013) [video] (youtube.com)
139 points by lelf on April 27, 2021 | 54 comments
30. AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings (anandtech.com)
158 points by neogodless on April 27, 2021 | 118 comments

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