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1.		Observing my cellphone switch towers (fabiensanglard.net)
		800 points by ingve on May 16, 2021 \| 132 comments
2.		Building a personal website in 2021 (kosmulski.org)
		534 points by mkosmul on May 16, 2021 \| 195 comments
3.		SeaGlass: City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection (2017) (washington.edu)
		365 points by kogir on May 16, 2021 \| 55 comments
4.		HTML Notepad – HTML WYSIWYG editor (html-notepad.com)
		294 points by Tomte on May 16, 2021 \| 83 comments
5.		The stack monoid revisited (raphlinus.github.io)
		216 points by harperlee on May 15, 2021 \| 28 comments
6.		Half a million lines of Go (khanacademy.org)
		360 points by nickcw on May 16, 2021 \| 508 comments
7.		Coin Carbon Cap – PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by energy efficiency (coincarboncap.com)
		360 points by GBiT on May 16, 2021 \| 362 comments
8.		Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack (rekt.news)
		328 points by drdrey on May 16, 2021 \| 322 comments
9.		I have a lot to say about Signal’s Cellebrite hack (stanford.edu)
		367 points by curmudgeon22 on May 16, 2021 \| 298 comments
10.		Systemd: The Good Parts (christine.website)
		364 points by goranmoomin on May 16, 2021 \| 392 comments
11.		Samsung boosts non-memory chip investment to $151B (reuters.com)
		216 points by _pgdo on May 16, 2021 \| 158 comments
12.		Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
		364 points by graderjs on May 16, 2021 \| 602 comments
13.		The chip shortage could lead to an era of hardware innovation (staceyoniot.com)
		220 points by cofree on May 16, 2021 \| 183 comments
14.		Making Your Own Tools (futureofcoding.org)
		165 points by axiomdata316 on May 15, 2021 \| 31 comments
15.		An iOS app update that annoys me (jpmens.net)
		261 points by goranmoomin on May 16, 2021 \| 179 comments
16.		MicroFPGA – A coming revolution in small electronics (2019) [video] (youtube.com)
		106 points by peter_d_sherman on May 15, 2021 \| 56 comments
17.		The man who didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos (msn.com)
		336 points by krustyburger on May 16, 2021 \| 145 comments
18.		JPL's Design for a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus (2017) (ieee.org)
		149 points by bartman on May 15, 2021 \| 47 comments
19.		Brain size drives differences in yawn duration across mammals and birds (nature.com)
		136 points by vnglst on May 16, 2021 \| 61 comments
20.		The Strangeness of Our Animal Bonds (newyorker.com)
		74 points by Vigier on May 14, 2021 \| 6 comments
21.		Great books on classic video games (bossfightbooks.com)
		152 points by hypnotist on May 15, 2021 \| 61 comments
22.		Washington state removes all barriers to municipal broadband (ilsr.org)
		324 points by joeyespo on May 16, 2021 \| 63 comments
23.		Show HN: Vandal – an alternate navigator to Wayback Machine (vegetableman.github.io)
		134 points by vigneshanand on May 16, 2021 \| 31 comments
24.		Orphan Utopia: John Ballou Newbrough’s desert colony (2017) (cabinetmagazine.org)
		29 points by not-now on May 16, 2021 \| 2 comments
25.		Verifying Vectorized Rust Revisited (project-oak.github.io)
		90 points by ingve on May 16, 2021 \| 8 comments
26.		Out of Memory Error – The RAM Shortage of 1988 (2016) (tedium.co)
		78 points by segfaultbuserr on May 15, 2021 \| 36 comments
27.		Python Language Summit: PEP 654 – Exception Groups and Except (pyfound.blogspot.com)
		91 points by BerislavLopac on May 16, 2021 \| 33 comments
28.		Extracting Data from Tracking Devices (jeffhuang.com)
		79 points by todsacerdoti on May 16, 2021 \| 2 comments
29.		Show HN: ThingsTwin – 3D House Plan Based UI for Smart Home (thingstwin.com)
		62 points by Can0nC on May 16, 2021 \| 18 comments
30.		MIMO Radar Antenna Arrays (hforsten.com)
		98 points by picture on May 15, 2021 \| 7 comments
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