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1.		Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] (supremecourt.gov)
		4103 points by pdoconnell on April 5, 2021 \| 932 comments
2.		Writing tools I learned from The Economist (builtbywords.substack.com)
		633 points by ahsoli on April 5, 2021 \| 246 comments
3.		Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 (yahoo.com)
		585 points by Gaessaki on April 5, 2021 \| 367 comments
4.		LG is getting out of the mobile phone business (axios.com)
		620 points by thereare5lights on April 5, 2021 \| 683 comments
5.		Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds (nytimes.com)
		713 points by pseudolus on April 5, 2021 \| 380 comments
6.		Show HN: My personal website is a shell (aava.sh)
		425 points by aavshr on April 5, 2021 \| 171 comments
7.		Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra (waffleironer.medium.com)
		429 points by ice3 on April 5, 2021 \| 170 comments
8.		How did Microsoft make Flight Simulator seem so real? (airspacemag.com)
		335 points by rbanffy on April 4, 2021 \| 154 comments
9.		Predictive coding has been unified with backpropagation (lesswrong.com)
		311 points by cabalamat on April 5, 2021 \| 85 comments
10.		Cesium for Unreal Now Available (cesium.com)
		254 points by kylebarron on April 5, 2021 \| 46 comments
11.		When Feynman met Dirac (2020) (cantorsparadise.com)
		204 points by jorgenveisdal on April 5, 2021 \| 84 comments
12.		Are deep neural networks dramatically overfitted? (2019) (lilianweng.github.io)
		209 points by troyappel on April 5, 2021 \| 79 comments
13.		Prescriptive software is better than descriptive software (kilianvalkhof.com)
		170 points by sergiomattei on April 5, 2021 \| 110 comments
14.		PostGIS – Spatial and Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL (postgis.net)
		252 points by pabs3 on April 4, 2021 \| 87 comments
15.		Behind GitHub’s new authentication token formats (github.blog)
		244 points by todsacerdoti on April 5, 2021 \| 79 comments
16.		Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
		345 points by yawn on April 5, 2021 \| 322 comments
17.		Git as a NoSql Database (2016) (kenneth-truyers.net)
		143 points by EntICOnc on April 5, 2021 \| 135 comments
18.		WebOS OSE 2.10 (webosose.org)
		145 points by shiningrock on April 4, 2021 \| 79 comments
19.		Things I learned while developing a billing system (arnon.dk)
		273 points by arnon on April 5, 2021 \| 118 comments
20.		One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped sexual assault (ctvnews.ca)
		211 points by barry-cotter on April 5, 2021 \| 252 comments
21.		Closer to finding what became of Moses Schönfinkel, inventor of combinators (stephenwolfram.com)
		102 points by nsoonhui on April 5, 2021 \| 8 comments
22.		When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe? (scientificamerican.com)
		123 points by pseudolus on April 5, 2021 \| 91 comments
23.		Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision (economist.com)
		217 points by doener on April 5, 2021 \| 340 comments
24.		Exploring Databases Visually (nmfay.com)
		146 points by dmfay on April 4, 2021 \| 27 comments
25.		Condition: A 64KB WebGL Intro (github.com/fms-cat)
		127 points by polm23 on April 4, 2021 \| 48 comments
26.		Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides (bbc.com)
		273 points by choppaface on April 5, 2021 \| 486 comments
27.		The Lost Apps of the 80s (scripting.com)
		152 points by ingve on April 4, 2021 \| 121 comments
28.		8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2019) (imgur.com)
		127 points by yellowyacht on April 5, 2021 \| 50 comments
29.		Butterick’s Practical Typography 2º Edition (practicaltypography.com)
		182 points by ruifigueiredo on April 4, 2021 \| 52 comments
30.		On Cache Invalidation: Why Is It Hard? (2018) (yihui.org)
		110 points by steventey on April 4, 2021 \| 70 comments
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