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1.		Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B (wsj.com)
		2330 points by DavidWilkinson on June 2, 2021 \| 846 comments
2.		Leaky Abstractions (textslashplain.com)
		480 points by jakub_g on June 2, 2021 \| 111 comments
3.		Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study (epfl.ch)
		485 points by FridayoLeary on June 2, 2021 \| 181 comments
4.		DIY Book Scanner (diybookscanner.org)
		340 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc on June 1, 2021 \| 124 comments
5.		Etsy to buy fashion reseller Depop for $1.63B (reuters.com)
		259 points by pseudolus on June 2, 2021 \| 185 comments
6.		Why Prefetch Is Broken (jefftk.com)
		245 points by astdb on June 2, 2021 \| 89 comments
7.		Massachusetts Steamship Authority hit by ransomware attack; ferries delayed (nbcboston.com)
		189 points by SocksCanClose on June 2, 2021 \| 251 comments
8.		PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter (eff.org)
		532 points by _fges on June 2, 2021 \| 181 comments
9.		Producing a trustworthy x86-based Linux appliance (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
		236 points by todsacerdoti on June 2, 2021 \| 138 comments
10.		Microsoft's low-code strategy paints a target on UIPath and other RPA companies (infoq.com)
		215 points by tlochhead on June 2, 2021 \| 193 comments
11.		I built my own analog drum machine (2020) (reverb.com)
		189 points by danboarder on June 2, 2021 \| 42 comments
12.		Blender 2.93 LTS (blender.org)
		347 points by Tomte on June 2, 2021 \| 72 comments
13.		G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy (theguardian.com)
		291 points by ciconia on June 2, 2021 \| 308 comments
14.		History of the Nautilus loudspeaker (bowerswilkins.com)
		176 points by giuliomagnifico on June 2, 2021 \| 170 comments
15.		Show HN: Yare.io – game where you control units with JavaScript (yare.io)
		233 points by levmiseri on June 2, 2021 \| 64 comments
16.		Show HN: Render Jupyter notebooks as interactive articles (deepnote.com)
		217 points by adlha on June 2, 2021 \| 32 comments
17.		Flame: A PureScript front-end framework inspired by the Elm architecture (github.com/easafe)
		156 points by vyuh on June 2, 2021 \| 39 comments
18.		Interactive Visualization of Gaussian Processes (infinitecuriosity.org)
		145 points by sebg on May 31, 2021 \| 9 comments
19.		Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly (bytecodealliance.org)
		215 points by 0xedb on June 2, 2021 \| 101 comments
20.		Fifteen years of radar reveal Venus’s most basic facts (eos.org)
		128 points by sohkamyung on June 2, 2021 \| 39 comments
21.		A possible link between childhood trauma and Alzheimer disease (padiracinnovation.org)
		139 points by JPLeRouzic on June 1, 2021 \| 77 comments
22.		Pesticides are killing the world's soils (scientificamerican.com)
		390 points by pmastela on June 2, 2021 \| 219 comments
23.		Event-based backpropagation for exact gradients in spiking neural networks (arxiv.org)
		119 points by berndi on June 2, 2021 \| 37 comments
24.		Surreal Numbers – An Introduction (2019) [pdf] (tondering.dk)
		110 points by ColinWright on June 1, 2021 \| 73 comments
25.		Corpus Clock (wikipedia.org)
		112 points by Hooke on June 2, 2021 \| 32 comments
26.		Old-school computing: when your lab PC is ancient (nature.com)
		123 points by sohkamyung on June 1, 2021 \| 154 comments
27.		Manufacturing the Librem 5 USA Phone in the US (puri.sm)
		305 points by dmytton on June 2, 2021 \| 142 comments
28.		How a Giant Corpse Flower Got to an Abandoned Gas Station (atlasobscura.com)
		75 points by turtlegrids on June 2, 2021 \| 21 comments
29.		Italian Car Design History (cardesignhistory.com)
		105 points by spamalot159 on June 2, 2021 \| 30 comments
30.		Bulb: Another teeny-tiny interpreted language that runs on Super CHIP-8 (internet-janitor.itch.io)
		72 points by tosh on June 1, 2021 \| 7 comments
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