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1. Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython (github.com/facebookincubator)
645 points by yagizdegirmenci on May 4, 2021 | 261 comments
2. Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018) (linkedin.com)
491 points by tracyhenry on May 4, 2021 | 293 comments
3. Instagram ads Facebook won't show you (signal.org)
1235 points by HieronymusBosch on May 4, 2021 | 177 comments
4. How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions (washingtonpost.com)
426 points by kjhughes on May 4, 2021 | 328 comments
5. Efficiency Is the Enemy (fs.blog)
584 points by tmfi on May 4, 2021 | 322 comments
6. uLisp (ulisp.com)
377 points by tosh on May 4, 2021 | 87 comments
7. Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever (bbc.co.uk)
503 points by kasperni on May 4, 2021 | 655 comments
8. First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States (nature.com)
329 points by infodocket on May 4, 2021 | 314 comments
9. Observable Plot (observablehq.com)
418 points by subbu on May 4, 2021 | 51 comments
10. Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers (wsj.com)
311 points by marc__1 on May 4, 2021 | 292 comments
11. .org doesn't mean credible (dotorgdoesntmeancredible.org)
252 points by ibraheemdev on May 3, 2021 | 193 comments
12. Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border (bbc.co.uk)
330 points by sleepyshift on May 4, 2021 | 282 comments
13. Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar (boze.app)
450 points by dannyaziz97 on May 4, 2021 | 239 comments
14. Chiptunes on an ATtiny4 and the 3 Cent Micro (gir.st)
193 points by electricant on May 4, 2021 | 40 comments
15. MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console (github.com/rastapasta)
187 points by luke2m on May 4, 2021 | 43 comments
16. Just Say No to Paxos Overhead: Replacing Consensus with Network Ordering (2016) (usenix.org)
110 points by yagizdegirmenci on May 4, 2021 | 25 comments
17. Kolmogorov Complexity: Extensions and Applications (uber.space)
107 points by sean_pedersen on May 4, 2021 | 33 comments
18. Branchless Coding in Go (mattnakama.com)
161 points by gnum4n on May 4, 2021 | 55 comments
19. Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting millions of PCs (sentinelone.com)
193 points by giuliomagnifico on May 4, 2021 | 40 comments
20. The Unlikely Success of Fish Sticks (hakaimagazine.com)
136 points by Thevet on May 3, 2021 | 169 comments
21. Compose for Web (jetbrains.team)
135 points by farmerbb on May 4, 2021 | 52 comments
22. Is your son a computer hacker? (2001) (wh0rd.ca)
320 points by aty268 on May 4, 2021 | 235 comments
23. The computers are getting better at writing (newyorker.com)
154 points by jgalt212 on May 4, 2021 | 164 comments
24. Competitive Analysis for Engineers (staysaasy.com)
127 points by _njuy on May 3, 2021 | 28 comments
25. YouTube is now building its own video-transcoding chips (arstechnica.com)
259 points by beambot on May 4, 2021 | 193 comments
26. The art of solving problems with Monte Carlo simulations (ggcarvalho.dev)
196 points by don-prettone on May 3, 2021 | 44 comments
27. Sail-pro – Simulation and modelling environment for virtual sailing (github.com/rururu)
110 points by simonpure on May 4, 2021 | 17 comments
28. Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video] (youtube.com)
178 points by akuzi on May 3, 2021 | 55 comments
29. How Basecamp Blew Up (platformer.news)
372 points by peterthehacker on May 4, 2021 | 903 comments
30. An opinionated map of incremental and streaming systems (scattered-thoughts.net)
163 points by mpweiher on May 4, 2021 | 27 comments

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