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1.		Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’ (mattstoller.substack.com)
		1057 points by yarapavan on May 30, 2021 \| 440 comments
2.		Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1 (petapixel.com)
		1013 points by luu on May 30, 2021 \| 624 comments
3.		Overkill objects for everyday life (neil.computer)
		856 points by mrzool on May 30, 2021 \| 706 comments
4.		Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer (reddit.com)
		1086 points by tosh on May 30, 2021 \| 494 comments
5.		Please commit more blatant academic fraud (jacobbuckman.com)
		536 points by EvgeniyZh on May 30, 2021 \| 343 comments
6.		Create AI videos by simply typing in text (synthesia.io)
		256 points by vladoh on May 29, 2021 \| 110 comments
7.		All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people (2019) (bellmar.medium.com)
		361 points by techplex on May 30, 2021 \| 76 comments
8.		Show HN: Kalk, A calculator with math syntax, complex numbers (strct.net)
		239 points by paddim8 on May 30, 2021 \| 84 comments
9.		Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors (arstechnica.com)
		410 points by throwaway888abc on May 29, 2021 \| 277 comments
10.		Dark Patterns Hall of Shame (darkpatterns.org)
		238 points by bookofjoe on May 29, 2021 \| 71 comments
11.		It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency (twitter.com/pinboard)
		949 points by cratermoon on May 30, 2021 \| 1143 comments
12.		Morning diurnal preference is associated with reduced risk of depression: study (medlifestyle.news)
		241 points by intellaughs on May 29, 2021 \| 170 comments
13.		“Computer science is not about computers” (quoteinvestigator.com)
		288 points by akakievich on May 30, 2021 \| 277 comments
14.		Show HN: Paperd.ink – Open-source e-paper development board (paperd.ink)
		232 points by robertlangdon on May 30, 2021 \| 61 comments
15.		Scottish Café (wikipedia.org)
		173 points by benbreen on May 29, 2021 \| 46 comments
16.		After a week at my mom’s house I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand (twitter.com/robertgreeve)
		371 points by deadcoder0904 on May 30, 2021 \| 269 comments
17.		GPG-Tui, a Terminal User Interface for GnuPG (orhun.dev)
		153 points by sbt567 on May 30, 2021 \| 84 comments
18.		RFC.fyi: Browse RFCs by keywords, id or collection (rfc.fyi)
		161 points by amjd on May 30, 2021 \| 24 comments
19.		Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells (atlasobscura.com)
		138 points by pseudolus on May 29, 2021 \| 38 comments
20.		What is the Fourth Dimension? (1884) (wikisource.org)
		68 points by tintinnabula on May 29, 2021 \| 45 comments
21.		PolarDB, yet another open source database system based on PostgreSQL (github.com/alibaba)
		143 points by jinqueeny on May 30, 2021 \| 87 comments
22.		Terra: Low-level system programming language meta-programmed from Lua (terralang.org)
		158 points by teleforce on May 30, 2021 \| 32 comments
23.		Photographer Charles Ebbets takes iconic photo “Lunch atop a skyscraper” (1932) (reddit.com)
		87 points by bookofjoe on May 29, 2021 \| 12 comments
24.		Quantization and Deployment of Deep Neural Networks on Microcontrollers (mdpi.com)
		75 points by ArtWomb on May 29, 2021 \| 5 comments
25.		“Faraday Wax” – recreating old school high-vacuum epoxy (eevblog.com)
		80 points by zdw on May 29, 2021 \| 24 comments
26.		Joseph Weizenbaum’s Original ELIZA (sites.google.com)
		70 points by abrax3141 on May 29, 2021 \| 27 comments
27.		James Bond Unmasked (1968) (commentarymagazine.com)
		68 points by uniqueid on May 30, 2021 \| 63 comments
28.		How counting neutrons explains nuclear waste (rootsofprogress.org)
		73 points by jasoncrawford on May 30, 2021 \| 28 comments
29.		Synthetic living machines: A new window on life (sciencedirect.com)
		81 points by Anon84 on May 28, 2021 \| 10 comments
30.		Submerged Italian Village Resurfaces After 70 Years Underwater (smithsonianmag.com)
		87 points by Phithagoras on May 29, 2021 \| 45 comments
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