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1.		Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019) (arstechnica.com)
		797 points by Tomte on April 19, 2021 \| 424 comments
2.		The “Granny Knot” (fieggen.com)
		673 points by Tomte on April 19, 2021 \| 255 comments
3.		Zenreader: A 4.7" E-Ink RSS Reader (tnhh.net)
		352 points by ca98am79 on April 19, 2021 \| 111 comments
4.		Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part III (rosenzweig.io)
		515 points by marcodiego on April 19, 2021 \| 119 comments
5.		Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf] (ndss-symposium.org)
		410 points by weinzierl on April 19, 2021 \| 201 comments
6.		First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video] (youtube.com)
		546 points by hheikinh on April 19, 2021 \| 116 comments
7.		Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python (mvanga.com)
		451 points by mvanga on April 19, 2021 \| 188 comments
8.		Unsettling capital letters (art-by-kaine-shields.tumblr.com)
		532 points by c0nsumer on April 19, 2021 \| 136 comments
9.		Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work (truzzi.me)
		507 points by ftruzzi on April 19, 2021 \| 408 comments
10.		Open source “split-flap” mechanical display (github.com/scottbez1)
		293 points by deeyago on April 19, 2021 \| 91 comments
11.		MirkoPC – a Raspberry Pi CM4-powered computer made in Poland (jeffgeerling.com)
		199 points by geerlingguy on April 19, 2021 \| 72 comments
12.		Deriving the piano keyboard from biological principles using clustering (fiftysevendegreesofrad.github.io)
		222 points by harperlee on April 19, 2021 \| 84 comments
13.		Thinkpad X230 with “e-Ink” display at 30fps [video] (youtube.com)
		467 points by pcdoodle on April 19, 2021 \| 216 comments
14.		Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public interest intervention (gov.uk)
		393 points by marc__1 on April 19, 2021 \| 205 comments
15.		Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digital Currency (bankofengland.co.uk)
		232 points by tyho on April 19, 2021 \| 263 comments
16.		Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry (autonews.io)
		243 points by trizoza on April 19, 2021 \| 204 comments
17.		DIY Camera Using Raspberry Pi (ruha.camera)
		222 points by the_arun on April 19, 2021 \| 122 comments
18.		Born secret – the heavy burden of bomb physics (nature.com)
		121 points by pseudolus on April 19, 2021 \| 83 comments
19.		J2 open processor: an open source processor using the SuperH ISA (j-core.org)
		101 points by rdpintqogeogsaa on April 19, 2021 \| 45 comments
20.		You Are Not ‘Behind’ (2016) (zackkanter.com)
		245 points by enigmatic02 on April 19, 2021 \| 205 comments
21.		Test for lists in Cython (github.com/00sapo)
		124 points by sapo on April 19, 2021 \| 136 comments
22.		Show HN: Starboard Observable – An open source ObservableHQ notebook editor (starboard.gg)
		156 points by protoduction on April 19, 2021 \| 19 comments
23.		What's in the Box? (fasterthanli.me)
		169 points by milliams on April 19, 2021 \| 74 comments
24.		Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations (washingtonmonthly.com)
		401 points by panic on April 19, 2021 \| 214 comments
25.		Bitcoin Blockchain Visualization (iohk.io)
		267 points by runpat on April 19, 2021 \| 43 comments
26.		A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20) (github.com/minimaxir)
		335 points by rdpintqogeogsaa on April 19, 2021 \| 255 comments
27.		No More Nanometers – It’s Time for New Node Naming (2020) (eejournal.com)
		121 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc on April 16, 2021 \| 41 comments
28.		Linux Kernel: The multi-generational LRU (lwn.net)
		170 points by signa11 on April 19, 2021 \| 38 comments
29.		PiDP-11 – Recreating PDP-11/70 with Raspberry Pi (retroviator.com)
		116 points by todsacerdoti on April 19, 2021 \| 52 comments
30.		ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archiving (archivebox.io)
		220 points by goranmoomin on April 19, 2021 \| 59 comments
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