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1. Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL (atomicobject.com)
841 points by hyzyla on June 12, 2021 | 472 comments
2. How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014) (gizmodo.com)
532 points by ushakov on June 12, 2021 | 238 comments
3. As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen (theatlantic.com)
594 points by alihm on June 11, 2021 | 768 comments
4. Win at Risk by using systems thinking (thesystemisdown.substack.com)
412 points by AndyMPatton on June 12, 2021 | 237 comments
5. Burnout from an Organizational Perspective (ssir.org)
198 points by rustoo on June 12, 2021 | 94 comments
6. How to think clearly (psyche.co)
282 points by lxm on June 11, 2021 | 71 comments
7. The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learning (arxiv.org)
276 points by tims457 on June 12, 2021 | 70 comments
8. Elevator Saga: An elevator programming game (2015) (elevatorsaga.com)
278 points by warpech on June 12, 2021 | 99 comments
9. Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018) (randomascii.wordpress.com)
224 points by salgernon on June 12, 2021 | 32 comments
10. Subatomic particle seen changing to antiparticle and back for the first time (ox.ac.uk)
147 points by jdmark on June 12, 2021 | 27 comments
11. Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its footing? (economist.com)
218 points by N1H1L on June 11, 2021 | 863 comments
12. A popular household fern may be the first known eusocial plant (pnas.org)
170 points by pseudolus on June 12, 2021 | 48 comments
13. 1992: Silverwolf (if50.substack.com)
90 points by JohnHammersley on June 12, 2021 | 12 comments
14. NymphCast – Open-source Chromecast Alternative (github.com/mayaposch)
222 points by nedp on June 12, 2021 | 69 comments
15. Containers are tents (increment.com)
192 points by vmarsy on June 12, 2021 | 103 comments
16. Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file transfer tool (landrop.app)
250 points by yvbbrjdr on June 12, 2021 | 98 comments
17. Death by Pokémon Go: The costs of using apps while driving (2017) (ssrn.com)
109 points by bretpiatt on June 11, 2021 | 73 comments
18. SSH quoting (greenend.org.uk)
241 points by pabs3 on June 12, 2021 | 74 comments
19. Desertification in Romania (2020) (geographyrealm.com)
126 points by jxub on June 11, 2021 | 48 comments
20. Scientists find second ‘short sleep’ gene (2019) (ucsf.edu)
85 points by fybs on June 12, 2021 | 80 comments
21. Refinement Culture (2020) (paulskallas.substack.com)
129 points by ptr on June 12, 2021 | 44 comments
22. Reverse Engineering Bumble’s API (2020) (securityevaluators.com)
129 points by stevekemp on June 12, 2021 | 41 comments
23. Particle seen switching between matter and antimatter at CERN (newatlas.com)
203 points by birriel on June 12, 2021 | 139 comments
24. VW says data breach at vendor impacted 3.3M people in North America (reuters.com)
78 points by ibraheemdev on June 12, 2021 | 23 comments
25. The Fixed Point: Laziness, Recursion and Fixed Points in Haskell (rebeccaskinner.net)
70 points by rebeccaskinner on June 12, 2021 | 13 comments
26. Python is 1.3x faster by just adjusting some compiling options for libpython (python.org)
247 points by chx on June 12, 2021 | 101 comments
27. A Mycological Foray: A new look at John Cage and his mushroom obsession (2020) (glasstire.com)
45 points by hooboy on June 12, 2021 | 27 comments
28. Lesser Known Terminal Editors (codeberg.org)
89 points by Fudgel on June 12, 2021 | 58 comments
29. The PsychDOS Desktop Environment (psychoslinux.gitlab.io)
116 points by marttt on June 12, 2021 | 33 comments
30. Responsive images (developer.mozilla.org)
96 points by Tomte on June 11, 2021 | 56 comments

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