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1. Microsoft Coffee (microsoftcoffee.org)
1558 points by todsacerdoti on April 2, 2021 | 371 comments
2. Isamu Akasaki, inventor of first efficient blue LED, has died (japantimes.co.jp)
409 points by _Microft on April 2, 2021 | 119 comments
3. Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters (tom7.org)
727 points by zdw on April 2, 2021 | 165 comments
4. This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem (nns.ee)
711 points by dtx1 on April 2, 2021 | 201 comments
5. Securing a Postgres Database (goteleport.com)
312 points by bryanmikaelian on April 2, 2021 | 93 comments
6. Move Slow and Make Things (stitchfix.com)
380 points by mkrazzledazzle on April 2, 2021 | 125 comments
7. An HTTP server in a single .c file (unix4lyfe.org)
283 points by egorfine on April 2, 2021 | 98 comments
8. An insider-trading indictment shows ties to Bloomberg News scoops (cjr.org)
201 points by onetimemanytime on April 2, 2021 | 102 comments
9. Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard (ianthehenry.com)
332 points by ianthehenry on April 2, 2021 | 193 comments
10. Why machine learning struggles with causality (bdtechtalks.com)
185 points by bschne on April 2, 2021 | 119 comments
11. Every Noise at Once (everynoise.com)
344 points by hwayne on April 2, 2021 | 94 comments
12. Someone in the Kalahari Collected Crystals 105,000 Years Ago (sciencealert.com)
126 points by wombatmobile on April 1, 2021 | 105 comments
13. IRS guidance for thieves, drug dealers, and corrupt officials (taxfoundation.org)
311 points by reese_john on April 2, 2021 | 269 comments
14. Big Book of Amiga Hardware (bigbookofamigahardware.com)
105 points by doener on April 2, 2021 | 8 comments
15. Show HN: This website moves your mouse cursor (attejuvonen.fi)
229 points by baobabKoodaa on April 1, 2021 | 136 comments
16. Show HN: Grit – a multitree-based personal task manager (github.com/climech)
255 points by climech on April 2, 2021 | 45 comments
17. I bought ISO 8601-1:2019 and 8601-2:2019 (reddit.com)
198 points by DyslexicAtheist on April 2, 2021 | 159 comments
18. Spreadsheet is a software development paradigm (medium.com/vlapiner)
199 points by egeria_planning on March 31, 2021 | 103 comments
19. 1983: Suspended (if50.substack.com)
132 points by TheLocehiliosan on April 1, 2021 | 20 comments
20. Supreme Court sides with Facebook in narrowing the federal robocall ban (scotusblog.com)
100 points by protomyth on April 2, 2021 | 92 comments
21. Who Owns the Nile? (datawrapper.de)
69 points by danso on April 1, 2021 | 101 comments
22. Exploring Tweets with SQLite and WASM (divu.in)
98 points by divyenduz on April 2, 2021 | 24 comments
23. Cells Form into ‘Xenobots’ on Their Own (quantamagazine.org)
71 points by jbrot on April 2, 2021 | 4 comments
24. The Multi-Generational LRU (lwn.net)
89 points by chmaynard on April 2, 2021 | 20 comments
25. Frink (futureboy.us)
114 points by Tomte on March 31, 2021 | 7 comments
26. RFC8962: Establishing the Protocol Police (rfc-editor.org)
104 points by virgulino on April 1, 2021 | 23 comments
27. The Enigmatic Tablets from Late Bronze Age Deir ‘Alla (asor.org)
58 points by diodorus on March 31, 2021 | 6 comments
28. Goblins: A transactional, distributed actor model environment (racket-lang.org)
134 points by snicker7 on April 1, 2021 | 30 comments
29. Tools for Auditing CSS (css-tricks.com)
90 points by starbist on March 31, 2021 | 32 comments
30. Show HN: Box2D fluid simulation in WebGL and WASM (birchlabs.co.uk)
71 points by Birch-san on April 2, 2021 | 23 comments

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