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1.		GitHub, fuck your name change (mooseyanon.medium.com)
		3353 points by leontrolski on March 17, 2021 \| 2007 comments
2.		Audacity 3.0 (audacityteam.org)
		1065 points by app4soft on March 17, 2021 \| 219 comments
3.		Charts.css (chartscss.org)
		935 points by pspeter3 on March 17, 2021 \| 141 comments
4.		Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky (astroanarchy.blogspot.com)
		659 points by giuliomagnifico on March 17, 2021 \| 139 comments
5.		Google Play service fee reduced to 15% for the first $1M/year (googleblog.com)
		501 points by h43k3r on March 17, 2021 \| 334 comments
6.		Let there be more biographies of failures (commonreader.substack.com)
		351 points by commons-tragedy on March 17, 2021 \| 142 comments
7.		Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade EGA/VGA Comparison (superrune.com)
		417 points by ingve on March 17, 2021 \| 138 comments
8.		FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience (tubsta.com)
		320 points by tate on March 17, 2021 \| 287 comments
9.		Learnlatex.org: A place to learn LaTeX online (learnlatex.org)
		283 points by JohnHammersley on March 17, 2021 \| 126 comments
10.		Which color scale to use when visualizing data (datawrapper.de)
		234 points by ingve on March 17, 2021 \| 44 comments
11.		Migrating Millions of Concurrent WebSockets to Envoy (slack.engineering)
		188 points by jbredeche on March 16, 2021 \| 55 comments
12.		Phrack Magazine (phrack.org)
		249 points by 0x737368 on March 16, 2021 \| 106 comments
13.		The Modern Java Platform – 2021 Edition (jamesward.com)
		266 points by craigkerstiens on March 17, 2021 \| 253 comments
14.		Why in the world would you own bonds? (bridgewater.com)
		355 points by nkurz on March 17, 2021 \| 515 comments
15.		Daves Old Computers – Robotic DVD Loader (classiccmp.org)
		158 points by gscott on March 17, 2021 \| 23 comments
16.		Do not use redirection characters in your shell prompt (tanelpoder.com)
		217 points by tanelpoder on March 17, 2021 \| 127 comments
17.		Claude Shannon: The Mathematical Theory of Cryptography (evervault.com)
		229 points by declain on March 17, 2021 \| 34 comments
18.		Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70M Merchants (btctimes.com)
		337 points by rmason on March 17, 2021 \| 514 comments
19.		Show HN: Dendron – fast open-source note-taking in VSCode (dendron.so)
		237 points by kpats on March 17, 2021 \| 85 comments
20.		Why Channel 37 Doesn’t Exist (vice.com)
		131 points by jonathankoren on March 17, 2021 \| 86 comments
21.		Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers (ochronus.online)
		328 points by ochronus on March 16, 2021 \| 220 comments
22.		Introducing the Wikimedia Enterprise API (wikimedia.org)
		175 points by dfjorque on March 16, 2021 \| 85 comments
23.		Scientists grow mice embryos in a mechanical womb (nytimes.com)
		153 points by uptown on March 17, 2021 \| 197 comments
24.		Writing Small CLI Programs in Common Lisp (stevelosh.com)
		174 points by reikonomusha on March 17, 2021 \| 61 comments
25.		Irish webapp to recreate pub atmosphere at home (soundsofthepub.com)
		338 points by arazy on March 17, 2021 \| 101 comments
26.		Wooden floors rotted by fungi generate electricity when walked on (newscientist.com)
		101 points by Bluestein on March 15, 2021 \| 59 comments
27.		Show HN: O(log n) makes continuous profiling possible (github.com/pyroscope-io)
		166 points by petethepig on March 16, 2021 \| 37 comments
28.		Lost in Thought: Psychological Risks of Meditation (harpers.org)
		239 points by telotortium on March 17, 2021 \| 280 comments
29.		What’s under the hood of a quantum computer? (scitation.org)
		85 points by digital55 on March 17, 2021 \| 14 comments
30.		AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't prevent B1351 Covid in early trial (umn.edu)
		263 points by reddotX on March 17, 2021 \| 208 comments
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