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1.		ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs (github.com/clearurls)
		803 points by stanislavb on May 5, 2021 \| 307 comments
2.		Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send (github.com/timvisee)
		666 points by andredz on May 5, 2021 \| 141 comments
3.		60% of school apps are sending student data with third parties without consent (me2ba.org)
		613 points by InitialLastName on May 5, 2021 \| 155 comments
4.		Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt (cloudirregular.substack.com)
		840 points by forrestbrazeal on May 4, 2021 \| 439 comments
5.		HTML Tips (2020) (markodenic.com)
		688 points by web_master on May 5, 2021 \| 133 comments
6.		Orbit: an experimental platform for small tasks repeated over time (github.com/andymatuschak)
		388 points by goerz on May 5, 2021 \| 57 comments
7.		White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets (reuters.com)
		637 points by pseudolus on May 5, 2021 \| 568 comments
8.		MacFlim: Full-motion video on B&W Macs (macflim.com)
		223 points by smagoun on May 5, 2021 \| 61 comments
9.		Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app (csweapons.com)
		245 points by vercadium on May 5, 2021 \| 112 comments
10.		Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada (bbc.com)
		315 points by aluket on May 5, 2021 \| 303 comments
11.		Show HN: I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale (mobileatscale.com)
		357 points by gregdoesit on May 5, 2021 \| 50 comments
12.		$1 Unistroke Recognizer (2007) (washington.edu)
		198 points by jlturner on May 5, 2021 \| 65 comments
13.		Pts.js: a modular librairy for visualization and creative coding (ptsjs.org)
		243 points by sctgrhm on May 5, 2021 \| 25 comments
14.		The origin of “tweet” at Twitter (2013) (furbo.org)
		120 points by goranmoomin on May 5, 2021 \| 49 comments
15.		How we use web components (github.blog)
		260 points by prakhargurunani on May 5, 2021 \| 80 comments
16.		National Artificial Intelligence Initiative (ai.gov)
		202 points by KoftaBob on May 5, 2021 \| 102 comments
17.		MH370 pilot made many turns and speed changes, new report reveals (airlineratings.com)
		286 points by wglb on May 5, 2021 \| 163 comments
18.		I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020) (medium.com/lessons-from-history)
		233 points by Ice_cream_suit on May 4, 2021 \| 151 comments
19.		Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years (massivelyop.com)
		362 points by mfilion on May 5, 2021 \| 541 comments
20.		Anim State Graph: Node-Based Animation Editor for WebGL (playcanvas.com)
		141 points by ovenchips on May 5, 2021 \| 19 comments
21.		A sorceress’ kit was discovered in the ashes of Pompeii (2019) (smithsonianmag.com)
		128 points by drdee on May 4, 2021 \| 83 comments
22.		Learning About the GeoTIFF File Format with a Hex Editor (2018) (medium.com/planet-stories)
		93 points by oldpatricka on May 5, 2021 \| 18 comments
23.		Z3 Tutorial (colab.research.google.com)
		195 points by todsacerdoti on May 5, 2021 \| 31 comments
24.		History of Programming Languages (felleisen.org)
		155 points by ingve on May 5, 2021 \| 32 comments
25.		TimescaleDB raises $40M (timescale.com)
		308 points by slashdev on May 5, 2021 \| 139 comments
26.		Hy: A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python (github.com/hylang)
		166 points by lnyan on May 5, 2021 \| 55 comments
27.		Open sourcing Pixie under Apache 2.0 license (px.dev)
		108 points by nserrino on May 5, 2021 \| 18 comments
28.		Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio] (blubrry.com)
		85 points by 0-_-0 on May 5, 2021 \| 116 comments
29.		Ex-Netflix VP found guilty of awarding tech contracts in exchange for bribes (arstechnica.com)
		319 points by codelion on May 5, 2021 \| 276 comments
30.		SeL4 on RISC-V Verified to Binary Code (microkerneldude.wordpress.com)
		157 points by kryptiskt on May 5, 2021 \| 47 comments
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