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1.		Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps? (bbc.com)
		1008 points by vanusa on May 17, 2021 \| 637 comments
2.		Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio (apple.com)
		702 points by todsacerdoti on May 17, 2021 \| 699 comments
3.		CEO behind Japan’s best-performing stock says his secret is raising salaries (bloomberg.com)
		548 points by dgudkov on May 16, 2021 \| 257 comments
4.		Cosmopolitan Libc 1.0 (github.com/jart)
		545 points by Orochikaku on May 17, 2021 \| 113 comments
5.		Positions chess engines don't understand (chess.com)
		407 points by diplodocusaur on May 17, 2021 \| 193 comments
6.		Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an oscilloscope (scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com)
		306 points by scarybeast on May 17, 2021 \| 53 comments
7.		How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS (eclecticlight.co)
		512 points by giuliomagnifico on May 17, 2021 \| 410 comments
8.		Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate (krebsonsecurity.com)
		604 points by todsacerdoti on May 17, 2021 \| 278 comments
9.		Bette Graham, inventor and founder of Liquid Paper (thehustle.co)
		153 points by paulpauper on May 16, 2021 \| 54 comments
10.		SEC Charges S&P Dow Jones for Failures Relating to Volatility-Related Index (sec.gov)
		206 points by epa on May 17, 2021 \| 70 comments
11.		Some Night-Shift Workers May Have a 300% Higher Risk of Car Crashes (missouri.edu)
		156 points by IMAYousaf on May 17, 2021 \| 123 comments
12.		The Achilles Heel of the Coronavirus (ethz.ch)
		204 points by oumua_don17 on May 16, 2021 \| 82 comments
13.		More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins (nytimes.com)
		440 points by temp8964 on May 14, 2021 \| 344 comments
14.		A long-lasting, stable solid-state lithium battery (seas.harvard.edu)
		157 points by macinjosh on May 17, 2021 \| 59 comments
15.		uxn: a portable 8-bit virtual computer (100r.co)
		230 points by bpierre on May 17, 2021 \| 47 comments
16.		Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popular open source projects (schleiss.io)
		235 points by nreece on May 17, 2021 \| 112 comments
17.		Legalese – Computational Law (legalese.com)
		155 points by sdeframond on May 17, 2021 \| 87 comments
18.		Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite (2017) (nickb.dev)
		227 points by nethunters on May 16, 2021 \| 48 comments
19.		Launch HN: Mozart Data (YC S20) – One-stop shop for a modern data pipeline
		106 points by pfduke02 on May 17, 2021 \| 37 comments
20.		Working over 55 hours a week associated with higher risk of stroke, heart attack (bbc.co.uk)
		362 points by pmoriarty on May 17, 2021 \| 170 comments
21.		First nuclear detonation created ‘impossible’ quasicrystals (nature.com)
		103 points by sova on May 17, 2021 \| 36 comments
22.		The search for a perfect access control system (goteleport.com)
		110 points by aberoham on May 16, 2021 \| 11 comments
23.		AMD and GlobalFoundries Update: Orders Through 2024, Now Non-Exclusive (anandtech.com)
		153 points by rbanffy on May 17, 2021 \| 67 comments
24.		Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs (2010) (lwn.net)
		167 points by wmanley on May 17, 2021 \| 75 comments
25.		Caltech professor helps solve Hindenburg disaster (caltech.edu)
		137 points by chmaynard on May 17, 2021 \| 75 comments
26.		Geocode-sqlite: Geocode rows in an SQLite database table (github.com/eyeseast)
		123 points by chmaynard on May 17, 2021 \| 17 comments
27.		Learn Datalog Today (learndatalogtoday.org)
		141 points by cube2222 on May 16, 2021 \| 34 comments
28.		Paper Notes (macwright.com)
		152 points by ingve on May 16, 2021 \| 72 comments
29.		Umami – An alternative to Google Analytics (github.com/mikecao)
		204 points by sandebert on May 17, 2021 \| 42 comments
30.		Jolie, the service-oriented programming language (jolie-lang.org)
		171 points by RcrdBrt on May 17, 2021 \| 75 comments
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