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1.		Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years (bbc.com)
		931 points by alphachloride on April 22, 2021 \| 406 comments
2.		The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts (yahoo.com)
		492 points by nahikoa on April 21, 2021 \| 252 comments
3.		Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols (github.com/crissov)
		460 points by peterburkimsher on April 22, 2021 \| 317 comments
4.		EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd (eff.org)
		913 points by oxylibrium on April 22, 2021 \| 520 comments
5.		Mars Helicopter successfully completed its second flight (twitter.com/nasajpl)
		375 points by Sami_Lehtinen on April 22, 2021 \| 143 comments
6.		Cerebras’ new monster AI chip adds 1.4T transistors (ieee.org)
		273 points by Anon84 on April 22, 2021 \| 165 comments
7.		Semgrep: Semantic grep for code (semgrep.dev)
		415 points by ievans on April 22, 2021 \| 104 comments
8.		Noise in Creative Coding (varun.ca)
		250 points by winkerVSbecks on April 22, 2021 \| 19 comments
9.		Godot 3.3 (godotengine.org)
		430 points by sc__ on April 21, 2021 \| 135 comments
10.		Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer (zellij.dev)
		414 points by ibraheemdev on April 22, 2021 \| 239 comments
11.		Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HTTP Server (devopsdirective.com)
		383 points by kiyanwang on April 22, 2021 \| 159 comments
12.		Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning (simulator.money)
		409 points by pattle on April 22, 2021 \| 140 comments
13.		Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands (mercopress.com)
		308 points by pedro-guimaraes on April 22, 2021 \| 161 comments
14.		Challenges Building an Open-Source E Ink Laptop (alexsoto.dev)
		261 points by alex-a-soto on April 22, 2021 \| 104 comments
15.		Green vs. Brown Programming Languages (earthly.dev)
		438 points by muglug on April 22, 2021 \| 486 comments
16.		How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015) (mhoffman.github.io)
		329 points by _xrjp on April 22, 2021 \| 172 comments
17.		Show HN: DbGate – open-source, cross-platform SQL+noSQL database client (dbgate.org)
		198 points by janproch on April 22, 2021 \| 76 comments
18.		OpenCV AI Competition 2021 Highlights and Team Profiles Part 1 (opencv.org)
		117 points by philnelson on April 21, 2021 \| 1 comment
19.		Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hub (2019) (bigmessowires.com)
		158 points by WayToDoor on April 22, 2021 \| 108 comments
20.		Show HN: I built a tool to generate triangulated art from images (github.com/rh12503)
		296 points by rh12503 on April 22, 2021 \| 69 comments
21.		Pgvector – vector similarity search for Postgres (github.com/ankane)
		143 points by simonpure on April 22, 2021 \| 31 comments
22.		On Being an Outsider (lithub.com)
		112 points by ohaikbai on April 22, 2021 \| 108 comments
23.		X11 Universal File Opener and XDG Mess (vermaden.wordpress.com)
		89 points by vermaden on April 22, 2021 \| 85 comments
24.		Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (computer.org)
		247 points by p1necone on April 22, 2021 \| 67 comments
25.		Converting Markdown to ePub or Mobi Using Pandoc (themythicalengineer.com)
		128 points by sks147 on April 22, 2021 \| 54 comments
26.		Why I distrust Google Cloud more than than AWS or Azure (iasylum.net)
		391 points by igorhvr on April 22, 2021 \| 243 comments
27.		Btrfs on Zoned Block Devices (lwn.net)
		84 points by fomine3 on April 21, 2021 \| 62 comments
28.		Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment (innocenceproject.org)
		264 points by defqon on April 22, 2021 \| 132 comments
29.		My three-year-old has taught me the value of talking to strangers (economist.com)
		140 points by pseudolus on April 22, 2021 \| 128 comments
30.		Decompiling FlatBuffers case study: Facebook's GraphQL schema (2020) (cajum.github.io)
		77 points by mcaju on April 21, 2021 \| 3 comments
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