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1. Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’ (mattstoller.substack.com)
1057 points by yarapavan on May 30, 2021 | 440 comments
2. Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1 (petapixel.com)
1013 points by luu on May 30, 2021 | 624 comments
3. Overkill objects for everyday life (neil.computer)
856 points by mrzool on May 30, 2021 | 706 comments
4. Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer (reddit.com)
1086 points by tosh on May 30, 2021 | 494 comments
5. Please commit more blatant academic fraud (jacobbuckman.com)
536 points by EvgeniyZh on May 30, 2021 | 343 comments
6. Create AI videos by simply typing in text (synthesia.io)
256 points by vladoh on May 29, 2021 | 110 comments
7. All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people (2019) (bellmar.medium.com)
361 points by techplex on May 30, 2021 | 76 comments
8. Show HN: Kalk, A calculator with math syntax, complex numbers (strct.net)
239 points by paddim8 on May 30, 2021 | 84 comments
9. Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors (arstechnica.com)
410 points by throwaway888abc on May 29, 2021 | 277 comments
10. Dark Patterns Hall of Shame (darkpatterns.org)
238 points by bookofjoe on May 29, 2021 | 71 comments
11. It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency (twitter.com/pinboard)
949 points by cratermoon on May 30, 2021 | 1143 comments
12. Morning diurnal preference is associated with reduced risk of depression: study (medlifestyle.news)
241 points by intellaughs on May 29, 2021 | 170 comments
13. “Computer science is not about computers” (quoteinvestigator.com)
288 points by akakievich on May 30, 2021 | 277 comments
14. Show HN: Paperd.ink – Open-source e-paper development board (paperd.ink)
232 points by robertlangdon on May 30, 2021 | 61 comments
15. Scottish Café (wikipedia.org)
173 points by benbreen on May 29, 2021 | 46 comments
16. After a week at my mom’s house I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand (twitter.com/robertgreeve)
371 points by deadcoder0904 on May 30, 2021 | 269 comments
17. GPG-Tui, a Terminal User Interface for GnuPG (orhun.dev)
153 points by sbt567 on May 30, 2021 | 84 comments
18. RFC.fyi: Browse RFCs by keywords, id or collection (rfc.fyi)
161 points by amjd on May 30, 2021 | 24 comments
19. Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells (atlasobscura.com)
138 points by pseudolus on May 29, 2021 | 38 comments
20. What is the Fourth Dimension? (1884) (wikisource.org)
68 points by tintinnabula on May 29, 2021 | 45 comments
21. PolarDB, yet another open source database system based on PostgreSQL (github.com/alibaba)
143 points by jinqueeny on May 30, 2021 | 87 comments
22. Terra: Low-level system programming language meta-programmed from Lua (terralang.org)
158 points by teleforce on May 30, 2021 | 32 comments
23. Photographer Charles Ebbets takes iconic photo “Lunch atop a skyscraper” (1932) (reddit.com)
87 points by bookofjoe on May 29, 2021 | 12 comments
24. Quantization and Deployment of Deep Neural Networks on Microcontrollers (mdpi.com)
75 points by ArtWomb on May 29, 2021 | 5 comments
25. “Faraday Wax” – recreating old school high-vacuum epoxy (eevblog.com)
80 points by zdw on May 29, 2021 | 24 comments
26. Joseph Weizenbaum’s Original ELIZA (sites.google.com)
70 points by abrax3141 on May 29, 2021 | 27 comments
27. James Bond Unmasked (1968) (commentarymagazine.com)
68 points by uniqueid on May 30, 2021 | 63 comments
28. How counting neutrons explains nuclear waste (rootsofprogress.org)
73 points by jasoncrawford on May 30, 2021 | 28 comments
29. Synthetic living machines: A new window on life (sciencedirect.com)
81 points by Anon84 on May 28, 2021 | 10 comments
30. Submerged Italian Village Resurfaces After 70 Years Underwater (smithsonianmag.com)
87 points by Phithagoras on May 29, 2021 | 45 comments

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