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1.		Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014) (kalzumeus.com)
		824 points by mooreds on March 21, 2021 \| 269 comments
2.		GPT Neo: open-source GPT model, with pretrained 1.3B & 2.7B weight models (github.com/eleutherai)
		561 points by pizza on March 21, 2021 \| 127 comments
3.		CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet (cutiepi.io)
		451 points by captn3m0 on March 21, 2021 \| 164 comments
4.		SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme (sfgate.com)
		436 points by ic0n0cl4st on March 21, 2021 \| 380 comments
5.		Nyxt Browser (atlas.engineer)
		533 points by wglb on March 19, 2021 \| 125 comments
6.		As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered, survey finds (reuters.com)
		329 points by accountinhn on March 21, 2021 \| 512 comments
7.		CUPID – the back story (dannorth.net)
		322 points by blowski on March 21, 2021 \| 257 comments
8.		The Western Digital WD Black SN850 Review: A Fast PCIe 4.0 SSD (anandtech.com)
		149 points by sadiq on March 19, 2021 \| 148 comments
9.		The Infinite Drum Machine (withgoogle.com)
		226 points by based2 on March 21, 2021 \| 43 comments
10.		John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT (twitter.com/johncleese)
		445 points by jshprentz on March 21, 2021 \| 387 comments
11.		Emacs is the 2D Command-line Interface (hongchao.me)
		222 points by karlicoss on March 20, 2021 \| 176 comments
12.		Reverse-Engineering NES Tetris to Add Hard Drop (gridbugs.org)
		213 points by stevebox on March 21, 2021 \| 41 comments
13.		Godot Engine Web Editor (godotengine.org)
		274 points by todsacerdoti on March 21, 2021 \| 98 comments
14.		Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019) (bofh.org.uk)
		193 points by tosh on March 21, 2021 \| 48 comments
15.		Academic “ghost-writing”: the cheating scandal no one will discuss (2020) (logosnews.tech)
		201 points by paulpauper on March 21, 2021 \| 209 comments
16.		Outgrowing Software (ben-evans.com)
		204 points by nreece on March 19, 2021 \| 128 comments
17.		Other challenges to SV’s preeminence are more fundamental than the tech diaspora (oreilly.com)
		194 points by hacksilver on March 19, 2021 \| 290 comments
18.		[dupe] Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later (2020) (flatkill.org)
		316 points by URfejk on March 21, 2021 \| 289 comments
19.		Dataflowr – Deep Learning DIY (dataflowr.github.io)
		126 points by T-A on March 21, 2021 \| 12 comments
20.		A few notes on message passing (erlang.org)
		151 points by srijan4 on March 19, 2021 \| 82 comments
21.		AARD Code, or how Bill Gates finished off the competition (zapread.com)
		148 points by bgstry on March 20, 2021 \| 95 comments
22.		Insect Has Gears in Its Legs (2013) (nationalgeographic.com)
		95 points by jensgk on March 20, 2021 \| 38 comments
23.		Amazon Keeps Getting Sued for Paying Drivers Less Than Minimum Wage (vice.com)
		274 points by elsewhen on March 21, 2021 \| 187 comments
24.		Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies (ethanfast.com)
		143 points by unignorant on March 20, 2021 \| 71 comments
25.		Launch HN: StartPack (YC S20) - Helping Global SMBs Access US Banking & Payments
		57 points by arjawn on March 21, 2021 \| 35 comments
26.		Neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants after infection, vaccination (jamanetwork.com)
		224 points by 11thEarlOfMar on March 21, 2021 \| 255 comments
27.		Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
		360 points by break_the_bank on March 21, 2021 \| 532 comments
28.		A prosthetic hand restored my sense of touch (bbc.co.uk)
		84 points by RiderOfGiraffes on March 19, 2021 \| 18 comments
29.		A New Lens on Understanding Generalization in Deep Learning (googleblog.com)
		91 points by jonbaer on March 21, 2021 \| 35 comments
30.		Continuous Typography. Notes toward a continuous framework for screen typography (maxkoehler.com)
		60 points by petalmind on March 19, 2021 \| 10 comments
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