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Stories from May 20, 2021

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1.		Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones" (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
		679 points by tosh on May 20, 2021 \| 397 comments
2.		Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 (windows.com)
		763 points by smukherjee19 on May 19, 2021 \| 294 comments
3.		Spintronics: Build Mechanical Circuits (kickstarter.com)
		503 points by mcp_ on May 20, 2021 \| 117 comments
4.		Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning (talawah.io)
		976 points by talawahtech on May 20, 2021 \| 145 comments
5.		Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings (javier.xyz)
		405 points by javierbyte on May 20, 2021 \| 74 comments
6.		Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission (science.sciencemag.org)
		324 points by paultgriffiths on May 20, 2021 \| 359 comments
7.		Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs (anandtech.com)
		284 points by gautamcgoel on May 20, 2021 \| 210 comments
8.		The anus is an evolutionary marvel (theatlantic.com)
		298 points by danso on May 20, 2021 \| 203 comments
9.		Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0 (atlas.engineer)
		359 points by jmercouris on May 20, 2021 \| 121 comments
10.		MUM: A new AI milestone for understanding information (blog.google)
		257 points by chris_f on May 19, 2021 \| 208 comments
11.		File Descriptor Limits (0pointer.net)
		236 points by ingve on May 19, 2021 \| 85 comments
12.		CRISPR Editing in Primates (blogs.sciencemag.org)
		183 points by jwcooper on May 20, 2021 \| 71 comments
13.		Undefined behavior in C is a reading error (yodaiken.com)
		203 points by zdw on May 20, 2021 \| 491 comments
14.		The Array Cast – A podcast about the array programming languages (arraycast.com)
		162 points by srpeck on May 19, 2021 \| 138 comments
15.		SimpleVisor – Intel VT-x hypervisor in 500 lines of C code (ionescu007.github.io)
		179 points by belter on May 20, 2021 \| 21 comments
16.		WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser (stackblitz.com)
		387 points by bpierre on May 20, 2021 \| 230 comments
17.		Ant parasites that prolong the life of their host (theatlantic.com)
		162 points by Vaslo on May 19, 2021 \| 77 comments
18.		“Miss Shilling's Orifice” helped win the war (2020) (damninteresting.com)
		226 points by choult on May 19, 2021 \| 89 comments
19.		Building Self-Managed Teams: A Case Study from Riot Games (codingsans.com)
		215 points by womitt on May 19, 2021 \| 133 comments
20.		Why RISC-V doesn't yet support KVM (lwn.net)
		195 points by lukastyrychtr on May 20, 2021 \| 33 comments
21.		America’s Dead Souls (theparisreview.org)
		147 points by ctoth on May 18, 2021 \| 79 comments
22.		How to look at the stack with gdb (jvns.ca)
		187 points by yesenadam on May 19, 2021 \| 37 comments
23.		A brief introduction to esoteric programming languages (hillelwayne.com)
		143 points by henrik_w on May 19, 2021 \| 44 comments
24.		Physicists identify the engine powering black hole energy beams (quantamagazine.org)
		150 points by theafh on May 20, 2021 \| 124 comments
25.		Landlock merged in mainline for Linux 5.13 (landlock.io)
		138 points by p4bl0 on May 19, 2021 \| 70 comments
26.		TikTok's co-founder to step down as chief executive (bbc.com)
		210 points by throwawaysea on May 20, 2021 \| 88 comments
27.		SimuLand, a lab environment to simulate attacker tradecraft (microsoft.com)
		98 points by rmason on May 20, 2021 \| 13 comments
28.		Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
		97 points by Petiver on May 20, 2021 \| 41 comments
29.		OpenFlexure Microscope, an open-source optical microscope (openflexure.org)
		113 points by fybs on May 20, 2021 \| 39 comments
30.		Patricia’s Perfect Pull: A Crystal Grower’s Story (computerhistory.org)
		91 points by sohkamyung on May 19, 2021 \| 5 comments
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