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1.		533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online (businessinsider.com)
		1296 points by cjbprime on April 3, 2021 \| 496 comments
2.		Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades (economist.com)
		643 points by hhs on April 3, 2021 \| 412 comments
3.		Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong (paulosyibelo.com)
		986 points by hyperpape on April 2, 2021 \| 304 comments
4.		How Doctors Die (2013) (saturdayeveningpost.com)
		589 points by DecayingOrganic on April 3, 2021 \| 319 comments
5.		My NAS exposes itself over the internet without permission (kn100.me)
		390 points by kn100 on April 3, 2021 \| 299 comments
6.		Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? (dmitryelj.medium.com)
		447 points by hu3 on April 2, 2021 \| 513 comments
7.		The Norway Problem (hitchdev.com)
		656 points by dedalus on April 2, 2021 \| 325 comments
8.		Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop (cfenollosa.com)
		478 points by ecliptik on April 2, 2021 \| 816 comments
9.		MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS (github.com/maplibre)
		264 points by atriix on April 2, 2021 \| 29 comments
10.		SpatiaLite: A Spatial Extension to SQLite (gaia-gis.it)
		191 points by chippy on April 3, 2021 \| 21 comments
11.		ShipMap (shipmap.org)
		298 points by wingworks on April 3, 2021 \| 73 comments
12.		The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland (nrc.nl)
		248 points by ahubert on April 3, 2021 \| 205 comments
13.		Handles are the better pointers (2018) (floooh.github.io)
		152 points by zdw on April 2, 2021 \| 88 comments
14.		Show HN: Blogosphere – Discover independent technical blogs (bilbof.com)
		200 points by BillFranklin on April 3, 2021 \| 48 comments
15.		Zoomable lens without any moving parts (medium.com/extremetech-access)
		168 points by simonebrunozzi on April 1, 2021 \| 55 comments
16.		How much Polish is there in Yiddish and how much Yiddish is there in Polish? (culture.pl)
		158 points by Anon84 on April 3, 2021 \| 72 comments
17.		The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018) (arxiv.org)
		168 points by Anon84 on April 2, 2021 \| 40 comments
18.		VPNCloud: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN written in rust (ddswd.de)
		191 points by albatruss on April 3, 2021 \| 72 comments
19.		Arabian coins found in US may unlock 17th-century pirate mystery (theguardian.com)
		130 points by BerislavLopac on April 2, 2021 \| 17 comments
20.		“Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors (guzey.com)
		312 points by giansegato on April 3, 2021 \| 151 comments
21.		How to do things safely in Bash (2018) (github.com/anordal)
		173 points by soheilpro on April 3, 2021 \| 93 comments
22.		GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its server infrastructure (therecord.media)
		229 points by sysoleg on April 3, 2021 \| 256 comments
23.		The strangest time zones in the world (2015) (qz.com)
		96 points by tosh on April 1, 2021 \| 56 comments
24.		50 Years of Pascal and Delphi Is in Power (marcocantu.com)
		130 points by pjmlp on April 3, 2021 \| 120 comments
25.		Why Software Jewels Are Rare (1996) [pdf] (msu.edu)
		93 points by tjalfi on April 3, 2021 \| 73 comments
26.		Ergodicity, What's It Mean (avoidboringpeople.substack.com)
		125 points by simonebrunozzi on April 3, 2021 \| 100 comments
27.		Lawsuit against TSA and DEA over airport seizures achieves first victory (ij.org)
		267 points by tomohawk on April 3, 2021 \| 111 comments
28.		Learning about the navigational feats of animals (newyorker.com)
		100 points by gmays on April 3, 2021 \| 90 comments
29.		USS Johnston: Sub dives to deepest-known shipwreck (bbc.co.uk)
		67 points by samizdis on April 2, 2021 \| 26 comments
30.		China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019) (cbc.ca)
		297 points by baylearn on April 3, 2021 \| 86 comments
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