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1.		Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython (github.com/facebookincubator)
		645 points by yagizdegirmenci on May 4, 2021 \| 261 comments
2.		Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018) (linkedin.com)
		491 points by tracyhenry on May 4, 2021 \| 293 comments
3.		Instagram ads Facebook won't show you (signal.org)
		1235 points by HieronymusBosch on May 4, 2021 \| 177 comments
4.		How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions (washingtonpost.com)
		426 points by kjhughes on May 4, 2021 \| 328 comments
5.		Efficiency Is the Enemy (fs.blog)
		584 points by tmfi on May 4, 2021 \| 322 comments
6.		uLisp (ulisp.com)
		377 points by tosh on May 4, 2021 \| 87 comments
7.		Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever (bbc.co.uk)
		503 points by kasperni on May 4, 2021 \| 655 comments
8.		First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States (nature.com)
		329 points by infodocket on May 4, 2021 \| 314 comments
9.		Observable Plot (observablehq.com)
		418 points by subbu on May 4, 2021 \| 51 comments
10.		Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers (wsj.com)
		311 points by marc__1 on May 4, 2021 \| 292 comments
11.		.org doesn't mean credible (dotorgdoesntmeancredible.org)
		252 points by ibraheemdev on May 3, 2021 \| 193 comments
12.		Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border (bbc.co.uk)
		330 points by sleepyshift on May 4, 2021 \| 282 comments
13.		Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar (boze.app)
		450 points by dannyaziz97 on May 4, 2021 \| 239 comments
14.		Chiptunes on an ATtiny4 and the 3 Cent Micro (gir.st)
		193 points by electricant on May 4, 2021 \| 40 comments
15.		MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console (github.com/rastapasta)
		187 points by luke2m on May 4, 2021 \| 43 comments
16.		Just Say No to Paxos Overhead: Replacing Consensus with Network Ordering (2016) (usenix.org)
		110 points by yagizdegirmenci on May 4, 2021 \| 25 comments
17.		Kolmogorov Complexity: Extensions and Applications (uber.space)
		107 points by sean_pedersen on May 4, 2021 \| 33 comments
18.		Branchless Coding in Go (mattnakama.com)
		161 points by gnum4n on May 4, 2021 \| 55 comments
19.		Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting millions of PCs (sentinelone.com)
		193 points by giuliomagnifico on May 4, 2021 \| 40 comments
20.		The Unlikely Success of Fish Sticks (hakaimagazine.com)
		136 points by Thevet on May 3, 2021 \| 169 comments
21.		Compose for Web (jetbrains.team)
		135 points by farmerbb on May 4, 2021 \| 52 comments
22.		Is your son a computer hacker? (2001) (wh0rd.ca)
		320 points by aty268 on May 4, 2021 \| 235 comments
23.		The computers are getting better at writing (newyorker.com)
		154 points by jgalt212 on May 4, 2021 \| 164 comments
24.		Competitive Analysis for Engineers (staysaasy.com)
		127 points by _njuy on May 3, 2021 \| 28 comments
25.		YouTube is now building its own video-transcoding chips (arstechnica.com)
		259 points by beambot on May 4, 2021 \| 193 comments
26.		The art of solving problems with Monte Carlo simulations (ggcarvalho.dev)
		196 points by don-prettone on May 3, 2021 \| 44 comments
27.		Sail-pro – Simulation and modelling environment for virtual sailing (github.com/rururu)
		110 points by simonpure on May 4, 2021 \| 17 comments
28.		Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video] (youtube.com)
		178 points by akuzi on May 3, 2021 \| 55 comments
29.		How Basecamp Blew Up (platformer.news)
		372 points by peterthehacker on May 4, 2021 \| 903 comments
30.		An opinionated map of incremental and streaming systems (scattered-thoughts.net)
		163 points by mpweiher on May 4, 2021 \| 27 comments
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