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1.		Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering (googleblog.com)
		1167 points by lewisjoe on May 12, 2021 \| 930 comments
2.		Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C (github.com/eduard-permyakov)
		1102 points by epermyakov on May 12, 2021 \| 262 comments
3.		Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing (arstechnica.com)
		540 points by Engineering-MD on May 12, 2021 \| 183 comments
4.		Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over privacy concerns (euronews.com)
		709 points by giuliomagnifico on May 11, 2021 \| 185 comments
5.		Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network (positive.security)
		490 points by kerm1t on May 12, 2021 \| 129 comments
6.		Erlang/OTP 24 highlights (erlang.org)
		454 points by nifoc on May 12, 2021 \| 100 comments
7.		Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement (intel-isl.github.io)
		522 points by lnyan on May 12, 2021 \| 144 comments
8.		Benchmarking division and libdivide on Apple M1 and Intel AVX512 (ridiculousfish.com)
		278 points by ridiculous_fish on May 12, 2021 \| 177 comments
9.		Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts (reuters.com)
		438 points by tareqak on May 12, 2021 \| 218 comments
10.		Haiku OS ported and running on RISC-V (haiku-os.org)
		304 points by highspeedmobile on May 12, 2021 \| 86 comments
11.		Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator (mmm.page)
		591 points by xhfloz on May 12, 2021 \| 150 comments
12.		CSS Houdini (developer.mozilla.org)
		315 points by mvolfik on May 12, 2021 \| 134 comments
13.		Reverse Engineering an Unknown Microcontroller (dmitry.gr)
		326 points by dmitrygr on May 12, 2021 \| 52 comments
14.		AirGradient: DIY Air Quality Monitoring with Open-Source Hardware & Firmware (airgradient.com)
		323 points by walterbell on May 11, 2021 \| 74 comments
15.		Show HN: A 64-step drum sequencer I built using React and Redux (sequencer64.com)
		327 points by drumnickydrum on May 11, 2021 \| 122 comments
16.		Kobra – visual programming language for machine learning (kobra.dev)
		235 points by amrrs on May 12, 2021 \| 30 comments
17.		Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis (arxiv.org)
		209 points by lnyan on May 12, 2021 \| 50 comments
18.		The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020) (humbletoolsmith.com)
		289 points by raptorraver on May 12, 2021 \| 216 comments
19.		My multi-decade quest for rural broadband (madned.substack.com)
		241 points by mad_ned on May 12, 2021 \| 168 comments
20.		Writing a Programming Book in 2021 (jmtirado.net)
		186 points by wilsonfiifi on May 12, 2021 \| 64 comments
21.		Building a Space-Based ISP (stackoverflow.blog)
		144 points by dinosaurs on May 12, 2021 \| 55 comments
22.		Ransomware gang threatens release of Washington D.C. police records (apnews.com)
		162 points by danso on May 12, 2021 \| 216 comments
23.		One of the World’s Longest-Running Experiments Sends Up Sprouts (nytimes.com)
		108 points by elijahparker on May 12, 2021 \| 64 comments
24.		CP/M for OS X (github.com/tomharte)
		128 points by bilegeek on May 12, 2021 \| 46 comments
25.		How image search works at Dropbox (dropbox.tech)
		189 points by hyzyla on May 12, 2021 \| 103 comments
26.		Welcome to Visualizing Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (visualizingsep.com)
		128 points by nabla9 on May 11, 2021 \| 17 comments
27.		Deno 1.10 Release Notes (deno.com)
		274 points by caspervonb on May 12, 2021 \| 147 comments
28.		The disappearance of a Soviet skiing party in 1959 (newyorker.com)
		121 points by lermontov on May 10, 2021 \| 38 comments
29.		Vesuvius ancient eruption rescuer identified at Herculaneum, says expert (bbc.com)
		83 points by harscoat on May 12, 2021 \| 30 comments
30.		A Somewhat Comprehensive History of U.S. Senators Who Have Died in Duels (defector.com)
		73 points by samclemens on May 10, 2021 \| 59 comments
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