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1.		The most expensive number in engineering (surjan.substack.com)
		501 points by as89 on May 31, 2021 \| 167 comments
2.		We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor (butwhatfor.com)
		427 points by stanrivers on May 31, 2021 \| 238 comments
3.		PostGIS at 20, the Beginning (cleverelephant.ca)
		302 points by jkatz05 on May 31, 2021 \| 32 comments
4.		Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct (nationalgeographic.com)
		316 points by gadf on May 31, 2021 \| 203 comments
5.		On Smoking (annagat.substack.com)
		345 points by exolymph on May 31, 2021 \| 383 comments
6.		Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate? (dailydot.com)
		623 points by tech-historian on May 31, 2021 \| 595 comments
7.		NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report (bbc.com)
		403 points by Black101 on May 31, 2021 \| 167 comments
8.		Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station (sciencealert.com)
		413 points by bryan0 on May 31, 2021 \| 196 comments
9.		The May 18 Gwangju Uprising (datasecretslox.com)
		202 points by exolymph on May 31, 2021 \| 82 comments
10.		Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2 (economist.com)
		233 points by martincmartin on May 30, 2021 \| 190 comments
11.		Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business (thebigtech.substack.com)
		209 points by devnerd239 on May 31, 2021 \| 211 comments
12.		Japanese bookstore simulator translated into English after 24 years (rhizome.org)
		287 points by keiferski on May 29, 2021 \| 83 comments
13.		Neural networks emulate any guitar pedal for $120 (hackaday.com)
		286 points by ushakov on May 31, 2021 \| 156 comments
14.		How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s (atlasobscura.com)
		187 points by rbanffy on May 31, 2021 \| 71 comments
15.		Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
		362 points by LifeIsBio on May 30, 2021 \| 306 comments
16.		WordTsar, a WordStar Clone (wordtsar.ca)
		203 points by rhabarba on May 31, 2021 \| 140 comments
17.		TermPair: Terminal sharing with AES-GCM 128 bit end-to-end encryption (github.com/cs01)
		118 points by illuminated on May 31, 2021 \| 37 comments
18.		UUID, serial or identity columns for PostgreSQL auto-generated primary keys? (cybertec-postgresql.com)
		204 points by lhenk on May 31, 2021 \| 178 comments
19.		Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts) (windowslatest.com)
		270 points by minama on May 30, 2021 \| 219 comments
20.		Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, now they want it back (jalopnik.com)
		282 points by HiroProtagonist on May 31, 2021 \| 201 comments
21.		Sodium rutin extends lifespan and health span in mice by 10% (nih.gov)
		159 points by ve55 on May 31, 2021 \| 120 comments
22.		A Macro View of Nanite (elopezr.com)
		126 points by haxiomic on May 31, 2021 \| 42 comments
23.		Sign a PDF document client-side with no data leaving the computer (observablehq.com)
		125 points by tlarkworthy on May 31, 2021 \| 81 comments
24.		A Dive into Ray Tracing Performance on the Apple M1 (willusher.io)
		105 points by tempodox on May 31, 2021 \| 55 comments
25.		What Oxford taught me about posh people (unherd.com)
		293 points by hownottowrite on May 31, 2021 \| 364 comments
26.		Small B Blogging (2018) (tomcritchlow.com)
		90 points by exolymph on May 31, 2021 \| 26 comments
27.		The faulty digital clock problem (andersource.dev)
		91 points by andersource on May 31, 2021 \| 16 comments
28.		Open-source soft-core RISC-V SoC with gdb support (github.com/stnolting)
		94 points by _quarks_ on May 31, 2021 \| 18 comments
29.		Scamp – a homebrew 16-bit CPU (incoherency.co.uk)
		129 points by nickt on May 31, 2021 \| 20 comments
30.		Dragon Go Server (dragongoserver.net)
		85 points by Tomte on May 31, 2021 \| 32 comments
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