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1. Why I prefer making useless stuff (utk.edu)
772 points by azhenley on May 23, 2021 | 270 comments
2. Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1 (dolphin-emu.org)
523 points by svenpeter on May 24, 2021 | 369 comments
3. DOOM Captcha (vivirenremoto.github.io)
670 points by jukkakoskinen on May 24, 2021 | 173 comments
4. A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls (countthings.com)
586 points by morsanu on May 24, 2021 | 225 comments
5. Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work (ingrids.space)
423 points by intarga on May 23, 2021 | 296 comments
6. Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace (lrt.lt)
564 points by underscore_ku on May 24, 2021 | 307 comments
7. Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely (github.com/magic-wormhole)
304 points by jstanley on May 24, 2021 | 178 comments
8. Inkscape 1.1 (inkscape.org)
446 points by RaitoBezarius on May 24, 2021 | 162 comments
9. Elk OS – Audio Operating System (elk.audio)
322 points by ushakov on May 24, 2021 | 158 comments
10. Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019) (r-bloggers.com)
292 points by teleforce on May 24, 2021 | 215 comments
11. Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall (bbc.co.uk)
319 points by mnw21cam on May 24, 2021 | 197 comments
12. Scientists use optogenetics to help a blind patient see again (statnews.com)
199 points by bmau5 on May 24, 2021 | 14 comments
13. Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills (attejuvonen.fi)
365 points by baobabKoodaa on May 24, 2021 | 118 comments
14. Writing Pythonic Rust (cmyr.net)
218 points by zbentley on May 24, 2021 | 203 comments
15. Complexities of e-mail validation logic (netmeister.org)
287 points by Tomte on May 24, 2021 | 385 comments
16. In praise of --dry-run (gresearch.co.uk)
395 points by Smaug123 on May 24, 2021 | 158 comments
17. Evidence-based Software Engineering: based on the publicly available data (knosof.co.uk)
184 points by teleforce on May 24, 2021 | 28 comments
18. Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (2016) (ieee.org)
178 points by phonebucket on May 24, 2021 | 34 comments
19. Why did bar ends go away from mountain bikes? (brainybiker.com)
222 points by de_keyboard on May 24, 2021 | 333 comments
20. A journey to io_uring, AIO and modern storage devices (clickhouse.tech)
131 points by digikata on May 24, 2021 | 37 comments
21. Replit now supports every programming language in Nix (replit.com)
263 points by bobrenjc93 on May 24, 2021 | 81 comments
22. Radioactivity may fuel life deep underground and inside other worlds (quantamagazine.org)
147 points by theafh on May 24, 2021 | 37 comments
23. Why Some Old Computers Are Interesting (hccc.org.uk)
200 points by rbanffy on May 24, 2021 | 84 comments
24. The Unwritten Contract of Solid State Drives (2017) (acm.org)
110 points by jitl on May 24, 2021 | 51 comments
25. Urbit: The good, the bad, and the insane (wejn.org)
231 points by deegles on May 24, 2021 | 158 comments
26. My experience binding a couple of scripting engines with C++ (germandiagogomez.medium.com)
79 points by germandiago on May 24, 2021 | 68 comments
27. Using io_uring to make a high-performance finger server (drewdevault.com)
91 points by smlckz on May 24, 2021 | 16 comments
28. What lies beneath: Evidence from leaked account data on offshore banking use (brookings.edu)
272 points by kemonocode on May 24, 2021 | 178 comments
29. Five Tips to Writing RISC-V Assembly (stephenmarz.com)
73 points by azhenley on May 23, 2021 | 5 comments
30. Methods for Array Initialization in Rust (2018) (joshmcguigan.com)
103 points by danny00 on May 24, 2021 | 30 comments

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