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1.		Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project (intuitiveexplanations.com)
		4022 points by raxod502 on June 7, 2021 \| 1274 comments
2.		The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam (casparwre.de)
		1743 points by caspii on June 7, 2021 \| 395 comments
3.		Sorry everybody, I failed with you (github.com/pedronauck)
		819 points by rinesh on June 7, 2021 \| 342 comments
4.		FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web (theverge.com)
		638 points by jbredeche on June 7, 2021 \| 334 comments
5.		The price of lithium-ion batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades (ourworldindata.org)
		477 points by infodocket on June 7, 2021 \| 318 comments
6.		FoundationDB: A distributed, unbundled, transactional key value store [pdf] (foundationdb.org)
		283 points by wwilson on June 7, 2021 \| 99 comments
7.		Two Hidden Instructions Discovered in Intel CPUs Enable Microcode Modification (infoq.com)
		449 points by andrewnicolalde on June 7, 2021 \| 121 comments
8.		“AI promised to revolutionize radiology but so far its failing” (columbia.edu)
		405 points by macleginn on June 7, 2021 \| 387 comments
9.		Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors (farms.com)
		595 points by anandaverma18 on June 7, 2021 \| 262 comments
10.		DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware extortionists Darkside (justice.gov)
		359 points by nthitz on June 7, 2021 \| 278 comments
11.		David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98 (bbc.com)
		353 points by Anon84 on June 7, 2021 \| 232 comments
12.		Keep Your Identity Small (2009) (paulgraham.com)
		386 points by mooreds on June 7, 2021 \| 300 comments
13.		Found at Goodwill: WebPad 1001 Prototype (huebnerob.com)
		321 points by farmerbb on June 7, 2021 \| 81 comments
14.		Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs shared her personal images (9to5mac.com)
		474 points by hownottowrite on June 7, 2021 \| 325 comments
15.		Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc. (github.com/tooljet)
		429 points by navaneethpk on June 7, 2021 \| 68 comments
16.		The Dangers of Low Head Dams (2019) (practical.engineering)
		227 points by paulpauper on June 6, 2021 \| 100 comments
17.		Daniel Ellsberg: The 90-year-old whistleblower tempting prosecution (bbc.co.uk)
		187 points by pmoriarty on June 7, 2021 \| 71 comments
18.		ST3000DM001 (wikipedia.org)
		270 points by userbinator on June 7, 2021 \| 250 comments
19.		Highlights of new technologies introduced at WWDC 2021 (developer.apple.com)
		171 points by Austin_Conlon on June 7, 2021 \| 131 comments
20.		Launch HN: Quadrant Eye (YC W21) – Tackling online eye exams and at-home eyecare
		131 points by Killakwinn on June 7, 2021 \| 93 comments
21.		Why are American workers becoming harder to find? (economist.com)
		197 points by jaredwiener on June 6, 2021 \| 619 comments
22.		How to sequence your genome at home (booleanbiotech.com)
		184 points by sprague on June 7, 2021 \| 45 comments
23.		How we achieved write speeds of 1.4M rows per second (questdb.io)
		182 points by _8elf on June 6, 2021 \| 37 comments
24.		Enabling Personal Computational Handweaving with a Low-Cost Jacquard Loom (acm.org)
		119 points by todsacerdoti on June 7, 2021 \| 6 comments
25.		Tabula – Extract tables from PDF files (github.com/tabulapdf)
		148 points by pabs3 on June 7, 2021 \| 22 comments
26.		If someone’s having to read your docs, it’s not “simple” (justsimply.dev)
		249 points by cercatrova on June 7, 2021 \| 138 comments
27.		How to Start a Novel (granta.com)
		132 points by see-also on June 6, 2021 \| 85 comments
28.		Web Applications from the Future: A Database in the Browser (stopa.io)
		184 points by frant1c on June 7, 2021 \| 73 comments
29.		Brain-Computer Interface Smashes Previous Record for Typing Speed (ieee.org)
		161 points by 5rest on June 7, 2021 \| 126 comments
30.		Abstract Syntax Tree for Patching Code and Assessing Code Quality (soroco.com)
		163 points by sidcool on June 7, 2021 \| 58 comments
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