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1.		Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter (ariyh.com)
		920 points by tdmckinlay on April 15, 2021 \| 502 comments
2.		Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years (blog.google)
		1209 points by braymundo on April 15, 2021 \| 415 comments
3.		Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress (unusualwhales.com)
		1017 points by seriousquestion on April 15, 2021 \| 474 comments
4.		TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022 (reuters.com)
		375 points by tosh on April 15, 2021 \| 234 comments
5.		Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-site tracking IDs (github.com/wicg)
		397 points by Hard_Space on April 15, 2021 \| 178 comments
6.		The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil (smithsonianmag.com)
		320 points by DyslexicAtheist on April 15, 2021 \| 266 comments
7.		SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases (unixsheikh.com)
		550 points by todsacerdoti on April 15, 2021 \| 370 comments
8.		Mac Chimes of Death (512pixels.net)
		306 points by zdw on April 15, 2021 \| 78 comments
9.		Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup (tinytools.directory)
		261 points by feross on April 15, 2021 \| 25 comments
10.		Terraform 0.15 General Availability (hashicorp.com)
		245 points by myroon5 on April 14, 2021 \| 234 comments
11.		Don't Pick Up: Missed calls in India (restofworld.org)
		294 points by lordylord on April 15, 2021 \| 118 comments
12.		PEP 563, PEP 649 and the future of pydantic and FastAPI (github.com/samuelcolvin)
		282 points by amrrs on April 15, 2021 \| 150 comments
13.		Morrowind rebooted the original Xbox (hackaday.com)
		240 points by pmarin on April 15, 2021 \| 163 comments
14.		Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI (github.blog)
		139 points by todsacerdoti on April 15, 2021 \| 66 comments
15.		Show HN: Run unknown shell script with a line-by-line confirmation prompt (gist.github.com)
		158 points by wlib on April 14, 2021 \| 82 comments
16.		Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams (element.io)
		199 points by anotherevan on April 15, 2021 \| 88 comments
17.		France cuts two nuclear-powered submarines in half to make one new one (abc17news.com)
		190 points by gscott on April 15, 2021 \| 170 comments
18.		There’s Nothing to Do Except Gamble (nymag.com)
		264 points by known on April 15, 2021 \| 393 comments
19.		Floor, Ceiling, Bracket (johndcook.com)
		100 points by beagle3 on April 15, 2021 \| 67 comments
20.		The Grand Unified Theory of Documentation (diataxis.fr)
		140 points by shafte on April 15, 2021 \| 57 comments
21.		DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome (spreadprivacy.com)
		552 points by csbartus on April 15, 2021 \| 252 comments
22.		Peloton cuts back on Apple Watch support (connectthewatts.com)
		189 points by uptown on April 15, 2021 \| 247 comments
23.		Missing hiker found after man using computer at home pinpoints his location (nbclosangeles.com)
		208 points by danso on April 15, 2021 \| 178 comments
24.		Psilocybin 'promising' for depression (bbc.co.uk)
		304 points by aluket on April 15, 2021 \| 315 comments
25.		Frank Jacobs, Mad Magazine writer, has died (nytimes.com)
		71 points by pseudolus on April 15, 2021 \| 18 comments
26.		The Crow Whisperer: What happens when we talk to animals? (harpers.org)
		133 points by drdee on April 13, 2021 \| 74 comments
27.		Brian Armstrong seeking cofounder on HN (2012) (news.ycombinator.com)
		281 points by swyx on April 15, 2021 \| 180 comments
28.		Calendso: An open source Calendly alternative (calendso.com)
		311 points by baileypumfleet on April 15, 2021 \| 91 comments
29.		The Sisyphean Task of DNS Client Config on Linux (tailscale.com)
		167 points by smitop on April 15, 2021 \| 85 comments
30.		Python 3 Types in the Wild: A Tale of Two Type Systems [pdf] (rpi.edu)
		128 points by zdw on April 13, 2021 \| 124 comments
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