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1. ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program (alien-project.org)
825 points by tosh on June 11, 2021 | 210 comments
2. Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results (twitter.com/kashhill)
717 points by danso on June 11, 2021 | 294 comments
3. New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill (ifixit.com)
651 points by tk75x on June 11, 2021 | 196 comments
4. Don't Feed the Thought Leaders (earthly.dev)
795 points by crummy on June 11, 2021 | 280 comments
5. Surprising Shared Word Etymologies (danielde.dev)
272 points by DanielDe on June 11, 2021 | 167 comments
6. 'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale (capecodtimes.com)
413 points by tpmx on June 11, 2021 | 156 comments
7. Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right (theblueground.com)
383 points by rigaspapas on June 11, 2021 | 132 comments
8. It’s time to break up the Ivy League cartel (chronicle.com)
337 points by hecubus on June 11, 2021 | 361 comments
9. Hackers used Slack to break into EA Games (vice.com)
365 points by danso on June 11, 2021 | 209 comments
10. The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains (ez.substack.com)
560 points by zikduruqe on June 10, 2021 | 492 comments
11. OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org)
354 points by Tijdreiziger on June 11, 2021 | 109 comments
12. Show HN: A flow based data processing editor (datablocks.pro)
188 points by moklick on June 10, 2021 | 20 comments
13. J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food influencer (seattletimes.com)
287 points by unpredict on June 11, 2021 | 155 comments
14. Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and management in the age of containers (fosdem.org)
163 points by teleforce on June 11, 2021 | 73 comments
15. OpenRGB: Open-source RGB lighting control (openrgb.org)
245 points by pabs3 on June 10, 2021 | 59 comments
16. Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home (bloomberg.com)
410 points by harambae on June 11, 2021 | 1144 comments
17. The NSA Instruction (2019) (vaibhavsagar.com)
244 points by cjg on June 11, 2021 | 86 comments
18. Mysterious fast radio bursts come in two distinct flavours (nature.com)
182 points by bryan0 on June 10, 2021 | 55 comments
19. Calculus for Seven Year Olds [pdf] (mathman.biz)
319 points by barry-cotter on June 10, 2021 | 128 comments
20. Fitting a FORTH in 512 bytes (p4.team)
190 points by jpegqs on June 11, 2021 | 57 comments
21. How to average floating point numbers (2015) (nu42.com)
145 points by dolmen on June 11, 2021 | 84 comments
22. Plan2Scene: Converting Floorplans to 3D Scenes (3dlg-hcvc.github.io)
187 points by homarp on June 11, 2021 | 56 comments
23. Launch HN: Slingshow (YC W20) – Easily build custom virtual events and webinars
99 points by nilaymodi123 on June 11, 2021 | 34 comments
24. FDA approves drug to treat smallpox (fda.gov)
133 points by nacc on June 10, 2021 | 65 comments
25. No general method to detect fraud (calpaterson.com)
186 points by calpaterson on June 10, 2021 | 101 comments
26. Google to build new undersea cable to connect Latin America and the U.S. (reuters.com)
145 points by jonbaer on June 11, 2021 | 45 comments
27. Mathematics Cheat Sheet [pdf] (keybase.pub)
225 points by weatherlight on June 11, 2021 | 67 comments
28. Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech (bigtechnology.substack.com)
246 points by kantrowitz on June 11, 2021 | 323 comments
29. Britain’s destruction and concealment of colonial records (2017) (tandfonline.com)
139 points by hhs on June 11, 2021 | 71 comments
30. NVMe is not a hard disk (koehntopp.info)
248 points by omnibrain on June 11, 2021 | 206 comments

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