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1.		What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]? (vidarholen.net)
		414 points by JNRowe on April 12, 2021 \| 227 comments
2.		Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B (axios.com)
		658 points by moritzplassnig on April 12, 2021 \| 397 comments
3.		OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana (amazon.com)
		706 points by ke4qqq on April 12, 2021 \| 424 comments
4.		Use console.log() like a pro (2020) (markodenic.com)
		700 points by vuciv1 on April 12, 2021 \| 148 comments
5.		How People Get Rich Now (paulgraham.com)
		779 points by prakhargurunani on April 12, 2021 \| 903 comments
6.		Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space [video] (bbc.co.uk)
		405 points by spzb on April 12, 2021 \| 174 comments
7.		Nvidia Unveils Grace: A High-Performance Arm CPU for Use in Big AI Systems (anandtech.com)
		324 points by haakon on April 12, 2021 \| 203 comments
8.		std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs (github.com/zhuowei)
		559 points by abhorrence on April 11, 2021 \| 84 comments
9.		MLJ.jl: A Julia package for composable machine learning (alan-turing-institute.github.io)
		234 points by amkkma on April 11, 2021 \| 56 comments
10.		Human taste buds can tell the difference between normal and 'heavy' water (sciencealert.com)
		228 points by lnyan on April 12, 2021 \| 175 comments
11.		Non-Fungible Taylor Swift (stratechery.com)
		277 points by juokaz on April 12, 2021 \| 236 comments
12.		Building React and Vue Support for Tailwind UI (tailwindcss.com)
		286 points by shayac2 on April 12, 2021 \| 117 comments
13.		Online text to diagram tools (2020) (xosh.org)
		191 points by smusamashah on April 12, 2021 \| 25 comments
14.		When real world mapping meets Tolkien (ordnancesurvey.co.uk)
		228 points by dcminter on April 11, 2021 \| 68 comments
15.		Mugo, a toy compiler for a subset of Go that can compile itself (benhoyt.com)
		180 points by benhoyt on April 12, 2021 \| 49 comments
16.		Quantum computing’s reproducibility crisis: Majorana fermions (nature.com)
		136 points by pseudolus on April 12, 2021 \| 53 comments
17.		Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available (cloudflare.com)
		338 points by rita3ko on April 12, 2021 \| 119 comments
18.		Show HN: Personal Data Management Dashboard (volmarg.github.io)
		176 points by volmarg_reiso on April 12, 2021 \| 53 comments
19.		Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes (2016) (mzucker.github.io)
		204 points by djoldman on April 10, 2021 \| 13 comments
20.		Forgotten Memories of Traumatic Events Get Some Backing from Brain-Imaging (scientificamerican.com)
		63 points by pseudolus on April 11, 2021 \| 43 comments
21.		Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside wealthy, western nations (theguardian.com)
		341 points by erdo on April 12, 2021 \| 149 comments
22.		“Ambiguous Objects” that change their appearances in a mirror (2018) (meiji.ac.jp)
		196 points by bryanrasmussen on April 12, 2021 \| 17 comments
23.		Problems with JPA/Hibernate (stemlaur.com)
		96 points by stemlaur on April 11, 2021 \| 189 comments
24.		The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal (atlasobscura.com)
		122 points by ecliptik on April 11, 2021 \| 85 comments
25.		Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
		347 points by ilmoi on April 12, 2021 \| 535 comments
26.		CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange warns: crackdown on cryptocurrencies may be coming (cnbc.com)
		232 points by alexrustic on April 12, 2021 \| 491 comments
27.		The Decline of Heroku (infoworld.com)
		246 points by tacon on April 12, 2021 \| 142 comments
28.		Traversing nested data-structures in various languages (github.com/josevalim)
		136 points by self on April 12, 2021 \| 68 comments
29.		Does the Universe Have Higher Dimensions? Part 1 (backreaction.blogspot.com)
		116 points by sohkamyung on April 12, 2021 \| 63 comments
30.		SUBLEQ and DawnOS (2017) (esoteric.codes)
		69 points by weare138 on April 12, 2021 \| 32 comments
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