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1.		Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died (npr.org)
		1252 points by edwinbalani on April 28, 2021 \| 180 comments
2.		The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped over 4x in two years (gammawire.com)
		584 points by sharkweek on April 28, 2021 \| 325 comments
3.		Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads (danfabulich.medium.com)
		1049 points by dfabulich on April 28, 2021 \| 393 comments
4.		Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers (accc.gov.au)
		647 points by skeletonjelly on April 28, 2021 \| 484 comments
5.		Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware (therecord.media)
		578 points by arkadiyt on April 28, 2021 \| 294 comments
6.		Proposed futex2 allows Linux to mimic the NT kernel for better Wine performance (lkml.org)
		389 points by marcodiego on April 28, 2021 \| 196 comments
7.		The health benefits of better air (dynomight.net)
		693 points by spekcular on April 28, 2021 \| 455 comments
8.		Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster (mightyapp.com)
		479 points by amasad on April 27, 2021 \| 740 comments
9.		Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California (signal.org)
		538 points by missinglink12 on April 28, 2021 \| 219 comments
10.		Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’ (freightwaves.com)
		366 points by disgrunt on April 27, 2021 \| 250 comments
11.		Daisugi, the 600-year-old Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (openculture.com)
		301 points by known on April 26, 2021 \| 171 comments
12.		Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance (projectifi.io)
		479 points by scubakid on April 28, 2021 \| 255 comments
13.		Vertical turbines are more efficient in large-scale wind farms: study (theiet.org)
		266 points by kieranmaine on April 28, 2021 \| 162 comments
14.		GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages (github.blog)
		555 points by pimterry on April 28, 2021 \| 212 comments
15.		Signal's Cellebrite Hack Is Already Causing Grief for the Law (gizmodo.com)
		389 points by gumby on April 27, 2021 \| 155 comments
16.		Where did the other dollar go, Jeff? (cloudandtree.com)
		407 points by ezrast on April 28, 2021 \| 229 comments
17.		Ideal divisors: when a division compiles down to just a multiplication (lemire.me)
		141 points by chmaynard on April 28, 2021 \| 67 comments
18.		Show HN: Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup (github.com/oakes)
		103 points by gw on April 24, 2021 \| 14 comments
19.		A backdoor lets the immune system monitor the brain (quantamagazine.org)
		179 points by theafh on April 28, 2021 \| 44 comments
20.		Why we switched from Webpack to Vite (replit.com)
		355 points by schestakov on April 28, 2021 \| 222 comments
21.		NANDcromancy: Live Swapping NAND Flash (atredis.com)
		92 points by tptacek on April 27, 2021 \| 24 comments
22.		On UML (sicpers.info)
		135 points by ingve on April 28, 2021 \| 93 comments
23.		Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of speech (yale.edu)
		163 points by allthebest on April 27, 2021 \| 254 comments
24.		Egyptologists uncover rare tombs from before the Pharaohs (reuters.com)
		115 points by pseudolus on April 28, 2021 \| 53 comments
25.		The End of the Road (thedriftmag.com)
		107 points by whatami on April 27, 2021 \| 29 comments
26.		Finding an Easter Egg in Microsoft Bob (benstoneonline.com)
		176 points by elvis70 on April 28, 2021 \| 64 comments
27.		Apple Reports Second Quarter Results (apple.com)
		188 points by MaysonL on April 28, 2021 \| 319 comments
28.		Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland (nationalgeographic.com)
		134 points by thedday on April 28, 2021 \| 84 comments
29.		Symbolics Lisp Machine demo (2013) [video] (youtube.com)
		139 points by lelf on April 27, 2021 \| 54 comments
30.		AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings (anandtech.com)
		158 points by neogodless on April 27, 2021 \| 118 comments
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