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1. 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online (businessinsider.com)
1296 points by cjbprime on April 3, 2021 | 496 comments
2. Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades (economist.com)
643 points by hhs on April 3, 2021 | 412 comments
3. Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong (paulosyibelo.com)
986 points by hyperpape on April 2, 2021 | 304 comments
4. How Doctors Die (2013) (saturdayeveningpost.com)
589 points by DecayingOrganic on April 3, 2021 | 319 comments
5. My NAS exposes itself over the internet without permission (kn100.me)
390 points by kn100 on April 3, 2021 | 299 comments
6. Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? (dmitryelj.medium.com)
447 points by hu3 on April 2, 2021 | 513 comments
7. The Norway Problem (hitchdev.com)
656 points by dedalus on April 2, 2021 | 325 comments
8. Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop (cfenollosa.com)
478 points by ecliptik on April 2, 2021 | 816 comments
9. MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS (github.com/maplibre)
264 points by atriix on April 2, 2021 | 29 comments
10. SpatiaLite: A Spatial Extension to SQLite (gaia-gis.it)
191 points by chippy on April 3, 2021 | 21 comments
11. ShipMap (shipmap.org)
298 points by wingworks on April 3, 2021 | 73 comments
12. The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland (nrc.nl)
248 points by ahubert on April 3, 2021 | 205 comments
13. Handles are the better pointers (2018) (floooh.github.io)
152 points by zdw on April 2, 2021 | 88 comments
14. Show HN: Blogosphere – Discover independent technical blogs (bilbof.com)
200 points by BillFranklin on April 3, 2021 | 48 comments
15. Zoomable lens without any moving parts (medium.com/extremetech-access)
168 points by simonebrunozzi on April 1, 2021 | 55 comments
16. How much Polish is there in Yiddish and how much Yiddish is there in Polish? (culture.pl)
158 points by Anon84 on April 3, 2021 | 72 comments
17. The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018) (arxiv.org)
168 points by Anon84 on April 2, 2021 | 40 comments
18. VPNCloud: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN written in rust (ddswd.de)
191 points by albatruss on April 3, 2021 | 72 comments
19. Arabian coins found in US may unlock 17th-century pirate mystery (theguardian.com)
130 points by BerislavLopac on April 2, 2021 | 17 comments
20. “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors (guzey.com)
312 points by giansegato on April 3, 2021 | 151 comments
21. How to do things safely in Bash (2018) (github.com/anordal)
173 points by soheilpro on April 3, 2021 | 93 comments
22. GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its server infrastructure (therecord.media)
229 points by sysoleg on April 3, 2021 | 256 comments
23. The strangest time zones in the world (2015) (qz.com)
96 points by tosh on April 1, 2021 | 56 comments
24. 50 Years of Pascal and Delphi Is in Power (marcocantu.com)
130 points by pjmlp on April 3, 2021 | 120 comments
25. Why Software Jewels Are Rare (1996) [pdf] (msu.edu)
93 points by tjalfi on April 3, 2021 | 73 comments
26. Ergodicity, What's It Mean (avoidboringpeople.substack.com)
125 points by simonebrunozzi on April 3, 2021 | 100 comments
27. Lawsuit against TSA and DEA over airport seizures achieves first victory (ij.org)
267 points by tomohawk on April 3, 2021 | 111 comments
28. Learning about the navigational feats of animals (newyorker.com)
100 points by gmays on April 3, 2021 | 90 comments
29. USS Johnston: Sub dives to deepest-known shipwreck (bbc.co.uk)
67 points by samizdis on April 2, 2021 | 26 comments
30. China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019) (cbc.ca)
297 points by baylearn on April 3, 2021 | 86 comments

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