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1. Observing my cellphone switch towers (fabiensanglard.net)
800 points by ingve on May 16, 2021 | 132 comments
2. Building a personal website in 2021 (kosmulski.org)
534 points by mkosmul on May 16, 2021 | 195 comments
3. SeaGlass: City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection (2017) (washington.edu)
365 points by kogir on May 16, 2021 | 55 comments
4. HTML Notepad – HTML WYSIWYG editor (html-notepad.com)
294 points by Tomte on May 16, 2021 | 83 comments
5. The stack monoid revisited (raphlinus.github.io)
216 points by harperlee on May 15, 2021 | 28 comments
6. Half a million lines of Go (khanacademy.org)
360 points by nickcw on May 16, 2021 | 508 comments
7. Coin Carbon Cap – PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by energy efficiency (coincarboncap.com)
360 points by GBiT on May 16, 2021 | 362 comments
8. Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack (rekt.news)
328 points by drdrey on May 16, 2021 | 322 comments
9. I have a lot to say about Signal’s Cellebrite hack (stanford.edu)
367 points by curmudgeon22 on May 16, 2021 | 298 comments
10. Systemd: The Good Parts (christine.website)
364 points by goranmoomin on May 16, 2021 | 392 comments
11. Samsung boosts non-memory chip investment to $151B (reuters.com)
216 points by _pgdo on May 16, 2021 | 158 comments
12. Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
364 points by graderjs on May 16, 2021 | 602 comments
13. The chip shortage could lead to an era of hardware innovation (staceyoniot.com)
220 points by cofree on May 16, 2021 | 183 comments
14. Making Your Own Tools (futureofcoding.org)
165 points by axiomdata316 on May 15, 2021 | 31 comments
15. An iOS app update that annoys me (jpmens.net)
261 points by goranmoomin on May 16, 2021 | 179 comments
16. MicroFPGA – A coming revolution in small electronics (2019) [video] (youtube.com)
106 points by peter_d_sherman on May 15, 2021 | 56 comments
17. The man who didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos (msn.com)
336 points by krustyburger on May 16, 2021 | 145 comments
18. JPL's Design for a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus (2017) (ieee.org)
149 points by bartman on May 15, 2021 | 47 comments
19. Brain size drives differences in yawn duration across mammals and birds (nature.com)
136 points by vnglst on May 16, 2021 | 61 comments
20. The Strangeness of Our Animal Bonds (newyorker.com)
74 points by Vigier on May 14, 2021 | 6 comments
21. Great books on classic video games (bossfightbooks.com)
152 points by hypnotist on May 15, 2021 | 61 comments
22. Washington state removes all barriers to municipal broadband (ilsr.org)
324 points by joeyespo on May 16, 2021 | 63 comments
23. Show HN: Vandal – an alternate navigator to Wayback Machine (vegetableman.github.io)
134 points by vigneshanand on May 16, 2021 | 31 comments
24. Orphan Utopia: John Ballou Newbrough’s desert colony (2017) (cabinetmagazine.org)
29 points by not-now on May 16, 2021 | 2 comments
25. Verifying Vectorized Rust Revisited (project-oak.github.io)
90 points by ingve on May 16, 2021 | 8 comments
26. Out of Memory Error – The RAM Shortage of 1988 (2016) (tedium.co)
78 points by segfaultbuserr on May 15, 2021 | 36 comments
27. Python Language Summit: PEP 654 – Exception Groups and Except (pyfound.blogspot.com)
91 points by BerislavLopac on May 16, 2021 | 33 comments
28. Extracting Data from Tracking Devices (jeffhuang.com)
79 points by todsacerdoti on May 16, 2021 | 2 comments
29. Show HN: ThingsTwin – 3D House Plan Based UI for Smart Home (thingstwin.com)
62 points by Can0nC on May 16, 2021 | 18 comments
30. MIMO Radar Antenna Arrays (hforsten.com)
98 points by picture on May 15, 2021 | 7 comments

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