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1. Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019) (arstechnica.com)
797 points by Tomte on April 19, 2021 | 424 comments
2. The “Granny Knot” (fieggen.com)
673 points by Tomte on April 19, 2021 | 255 comments
3. Zenreader: A 4.7" E-Ink RSS Reader (tnhh.net)
352 points by ca98am79 on April 19, 2021 | 111 comments
4. Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part III (rosenzweig.io)
515 points by marcodiego on April 19, 2021 | 119 comments
5. Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf] (ndss-symposium.org)
410 points by weinzierl on April 19, 2021 | 201 comments
6. First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video] (youtube.com)
546 points by hheikinh on April 19, 2021 | 116 comments
7. Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python (mvanga.com)
451 points by mvanga on April 19, 2021 | 188 comments
8. Unsettling capital letters (art-by-kaine-shields.tumblr.com)
532 points by c0nsumer on April 19, 2021 | 136 comments
9. Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work (truzzi.me)
507 points by ftruzzi on April 19, 2021 | 408 comments
10. Open source “split-flap” mechanical display (github.com/scottbez1)
293 points by deeyago on April 19, 2021 | 91 comments
11. MirkoPC – a Raspberry Pi CM4-powered computer made in Poland (jeffgeerling.com)
199 points by geerlingguy on April 19, 2021 | 72 comments
12. Deriving the piano keyboard from biological principles using clustering (fiftysevendegreesofrad.github.io)
222 points by harperlee on April 19, 2021 | 84 comments
13. Thinkpad X230 with “e-Ink” display at 30fps [video] (youtube.com)
467 points by pcdoodle on April 19, 2021 | 216 comments
14. Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public interest intervention (gov.uk)
393 points by marc__1 on April 19, 2021 | 205 comments
15. Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digital Currency (bankofengland.co.uk)
232 points by tyho on April 19, 2021 | 263 comments
16. Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry (autonews.io)
243 points by trizoza on April 19, 2021 | 204 comments
17. DIY Camera Using Raspberry Pi (ruha.camera)
222 points by the_arun on April 19, 2021 | 122 comments
18. Born secret – the heavy burden of bomb physics (nature.com)
121 points by pseudolus on April 19, 2021 | 83 comments
19. J2 open processor: an open source processor using the SuperH ISA (j-core.org)
101 points by rdpintqogeogsaa on April 19, 2021 | 45 comments
20. You Are Not ‘Behind’ (2016) (zackkanter.com)
245 points by enigmatic02 on April 19, 2021 | 205 comments
21. Test for lists in Cython (github.com/00sapo)
124 points by sapo on April 19, 2021 | 136 comments
22. Show HN: Starboard Observable – An open source ObservableHQ notebook editor (starboard.gg)
156 points by protoduction on April 19, 2021 | 19 comments
23. What's in the Box? (fasterthanli.me)
169 points by milliams on April 19, 2021 | 74 comments
24. Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations (washingtonmonthly.com)
401 points by panic on April 19, 2021 | 214 comments
25. Bitcoin Blockchain Visualization (iohk.io)
267 points by runpat on April 19, 2021 | 43 comments
26. A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20) (github.com/minimaxir)
335 points by rdpintqogeogsaa on April 19, 2021 | 255 comments
27. No More Nanometers – It’s Time for New Node Naming (2020) (eejournal.com)
121 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc on April 16, 2021 | 41 comments
28. Linux Kernel: The multi-generational LRU (lwn.net)
170 points by signa11 on April 19, 2021 | 38 comments
29. PiDP-11 – Recreating PDP-11/70 with Raspberry Pi (retroviator.com)
116 points by todsacerdoti on April 19, 2021 | 52 comments
30. ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archiving (archivebox.io)
220 points by goranmoomin on April 19, 2021 | 59 comments

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