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1. QUIC and HTTP/3 Support Now in Firefox Nightly and Beta (hacks.mozilla.org)
502 points by caution on April 16, 2021 | 141 comments
2. Squarespace S1 (sec.gov)
353 points by pabl8k on April 16, 2021 | 139 comments
3. Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium (ccc.de)
575 points by hacka22 on April 16, 2021 | 163 comments
4. GANcraft: Unsupervised 3D Neural Rendering of Minecraft Worlds (nvlabs.github.io)
350 points by lnyan on April 16, 2021 | 60 comments
5. Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network (paramdeo.com)
586 points by oedmarap on April 16, 2021 | 252 comments
6. SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon (washingtonpost.com)
658 points by sbuttgereit on April 16, 2021 | 343 comments
7. U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown (reuters.com)
422 points by throwawaysea on April 16, 2021 | 428 comments
8. Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data (accc.gov.au)
538 points by Khaine on April 16, 2021 | 87 comments
9. Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript (trekhleb.dev)
489 points by mmazzarolo on April 16, 2021 | 61 comments
10. FTP is 50 years old (filestash.app)
417 points by elvis70 on April 16, 2021 | 183 comments
11. Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
529 points by snakedoctor on April 15, 2021 | 819 comments
12. Why has no one made a better Goodreads (uxdesign.cc)
405 points by bagofbones on April 16, 2021 | 276 comments
13. The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits on municipal broadband (arstechnica.com)
319 points by mpweiher on April 14, 2021 | 112 comments
14. 'Whitest ever' paint reflects 98% of sunlight (bbc.com)
337 points by pseudolus on April 16, 2021 | 256 comments
15. Bitcoin miners are buying power plants (nysfocus.com)
423 points by throwaway888abc on April 16, 2021 | 556 comments
16. Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel (lkml.org)
628 points by EvgeniyZh on April 16, 2021 | 290 comments
17. A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound (2015) (current.org)
286 points by paulpauper on April 16, 2021 | 187 comments
18. Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme (digesttime.com)
455 points by thefoodboylover on April 16, 2021 | 423 comments
19. Ethical anti-design, or designing products that people can't get addicted to (njms.ca)
266 points by podiki on April 15, 2021 | 105 comments
20. Unifying the CUDA Python Ecosystem (nvidia.com)
147 points by pjmlp on April 16, 2021 | 58 comments
21. PHP in 2021 (stitcher.io)
279 points by nowandlater on April 15, 2021 | 298 comments
22. SiFive Tapes Out First 5nm TSMC 32-bit RISC-V Chip with 7.2 Gbps HBM3 (tomshardware.com)
192 points by pabs3 on April 15, 2021 | 84 comments
23. Why bumblebees love cats and other beautiful relationships (longreads.com)
164 points by Petiver on April 15, 2021 | 74 comments
24. Flashlight: Fast and flexible machine learning in C++ (facebook.com)
150 points by andyxor on April 16, 2021 | 91 comments
25. Nobody is joining Google's FLoC (theverge.com)
269 points by Analemma_ on April 16, 2021 | 173 comments
26. Foundations of Complexity Economics (nature.com)
101 points by abscond on April 16, 2021 | 27 comments
27. Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon) (docker.com)
247 points by mbreese on April 16, 2021 | 122 comments
28. Banner Ads Considered Harmful (gwern.net)
150 points by dynm on April 15, 2021 | 43 comments
29. What I Wish I Knew About U2F and Other Hardware MFA Protocols (goteleport.com)
120 points by dylanz on April 16, 2021 | 90 comments
30. Kelly Criterion (wikipedia.org)
330 points by niklasbuschmann on April 16, 2021 | 194 comments

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