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1. Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones" (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
679 points by tosh on May 20, 2021 | 397 comments
2. Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 (windows.com)
763 points by smukherjee19 on May 19, 2021 | 294 comments
3. Spintronics: Build Mechanical Circuits (kickstarter.com)
503 points by mcp_ on May 20, 2021 | 117 comments
4. Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning (talawah.io)
976 points by talawahtech on May 20, 2021 | 145 comments
5. Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings (javier.xyz)
405 points by javierbyte on May 20, 2021 | 74 comments
6. Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission (science.sciencemag.org)
324 points by paultgriffiths on May 20, 2021 | 359 comments
7. Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs (anandtech.com)
284 points by gautamcgoel on May 20, 2021 | 210 comments
8. The anus is an evolutionary marvel (theatlantic.com)
298 points by danso on May 20, 2021 | 203 comments
9. Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0 (atlas.engineer)
359 points by jmercouris on May 20, 2021 | 121 comments
10. MUM: A new AI milestone for understanding information (blog.google)
257 points by chris_f on May 19, 2021 | 208 comments
11. File Descriptor Limits (0pointer.net)
236 points by ingve on May 19, 2021 | 85 comments
12. CRISPR Editing in Primates (blogs.sciencemag.org)
183 points by jwcooper on May 20, 2021 | 71 comments
13. Undefined behavior in C is a reading error (yodaiken.com)
203 points by zdw on May 20, 2021 | 491 comments
14. The Array Cast – A podcast about the array programming languages (arraycast.com)
162 points by srpeck on May 19, 2021 | 138 comments
15. SimpleVisor – Intel VT-x hypervisor in 500 lines of C code (ionescu007.github.io)
179 points by belter on May 20, 2021 | 21 comments
16. WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser (stackblitz.com)
387 points by bpierre on May 20, 2021 | 230 comments
17. Ant parasites that prolong the life of their host (theatlantic.com)
162 points by Vaslo on May 19, 2021 | 77 comments
18. “Miss Shilling's Orifice” helped win the war (2020) (damninteresting.com)
226 points by choult on May 19, 2021 | 89 comments
19. Building Self-Managed Teams: A Case Study from Riot Games (codingsans.com)
215 points by womitt on May 19, 2021 | 133 comments
20. Why RISC-V doesn't yet support KVM (lwn.net)
195 points by lukastyrychtr on May 20, 2021 | 33 comments
21. America’s Dead Souls (theparisreview.org)
147 points by ctoth on May 18, 2021 | 79 comments
22. How to look at the stack with gdb (jvns.ca)
187 points by yesenadam on May 19, 2021 | 37 comments
23. A brief introduction to esoteric programming languages (hillelwayne.com)
143 points by henrik_w on May 19, 2021 | 44 comments
24. Physicists identify the engine powering black hole energy beams (quantamagazine.org)
150 points by theafh on May 20, 2021 | 124 comments
25. Landlock merged in mainline for Linux 5.13 (landlock.io)
138 points by p4bl0 on May 19, 2021 | 70 comments
26. TikTok's co-founder to step down as chief executive (bbc.com)
210 points by throwawaysea on May 20, 2021 | 88 comments
27. SimuLand, a lab environment to simulate attacker tradecraft (microsoft.com)
98 points by rmason on May 20, 2021 | 13 comments
28. Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
97 points by Petiver on May 20, 2021 | 41 comments
29. OpenFlexure Microscope, an open-source optical microscope (openflexure.org)
113 points by fybs on May 20, 2021 | 39 comments
30. Patricia’s Perfect Pull: A Crystal Grower’s Story (computerhistory.org)
91 points by sohkamyung on May 19, 2021 | 5 comments

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