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1.		ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program (alien-project.org)
		825 points by tosh on June 11, 2021 \| 210 comments
2.		Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results (twitter.com/kashhill)
		717 points by danso on June 11, 2021 \| 294 comments
3.		New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill (ifixit.com)
		651 points by tk75x on June 11, 2021 \| 196 comments
4.		Don't Feed the Thought Leaders (earthly.dev)
		795 points by crummy on June 11, 2021 \| 280 comments
5.		Surprising Shared Word Etymologies (danielde.dev)
		272 points by DanielDe on June 11, 2021 \| 167 comments
6.		'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale (capecodtimes.com)
		413 points by tpmx on June 11, 2021 \| 156 comments
7.		Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right (theblueground.com)
		383 points by rigaspapas on June 11, 2021 \| 132 comments
8.		It’s time to break up the Ivy League cartel (chronicle.com)
		337 points by hecubus on June 11, 2021 \| 361 comments
9.		Hackers used Slack to break into EA Games (vice.com)
		365 points by danso on June 11, 2021 \| 209 comments
10.		The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains (ez.substack.com)
		560 points by zikduruqe on June 10, 2021 \| 492 comments
11.		OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org)
		354 points by Tijdreiziger on June 11, 2021 \| 109 comments
12.		Show HN: A flow based data processing editor (datablocks.pro)
		188 points by moklick on June 10, 2021 \| 20 comments
13.		J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food influencer (seattletimes.com)
		287 points by unpredict on June 11, 2021 \| 155 comments
14.		Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and management in the age of containers (fosdem.org)
		163 points by teleforce on June 11, 2021 \| 73 comments
15.		OpenRGB: Open-source RGB lighting control (openrgb.org)
		245 points by pabs3 on June 10, 2021 \| 59 comments
16.		Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home (bloomberg.com)
		410 points by harambae on June 11, 2021 \| 1144 comments
17.		The NSA Instruction (2019) (vaibhavsagar.com)
		244 points by cjg on June 11, 2021 \| 86 comments
18.		Mysterious fast radio bursts come in two distinct flavours (nature.com)
		182 points by bryan0 on June 10, 2021 \| 55 comments
19.		Calculus for Seven Year Olds [pdf] (mathman.biz)
		319 points by barry-cotter on June 10, 2021 \| 128 comments
20.		Fitting a FORTH in 512 bytes (p4.team)
		190 points by jpegqs on June 11, 2021 \| 57 comments
21.		How to average floating point numbers (2015) (nu42.com)
		145 points by dolmen on June 11, 2021 \| 84 comments
22.		Plan2Scene: Converting Floorplans to 3D Scenes (3dlg-hcvc.github.io)
		187 points by homarp on June 11, 2021 \| 56 comments
23.		Launch HN: Slingshow (YC W20) – Easily build custom virtual events and webinars
		99 points by nilaymodi123 on June 11, 2021 \| 34 comments
24.		FDA approves drug to treat smallpox (fda.gov)
		133 points by nacc on June 10, 2021 \| 65 comments
25.		No general method to detect fraud (calpaterson.com)
		186 points by calpaterson on June 10, 2021 \| 101 comments
26.		Google to build new undersea cable to connect Latin America and the U.S. (reuters.com)
		145 points by jonbaer on June 11, 2021 \| 45 comments
27.		Mathematics Cheat Sheet [pdf] (keybase.pub)
		225 points by weatherlight on June 11, 2021 \| 67 comments
28.		Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech (bigtechnology.substack.com)
		246 points by kantrowitz on June 11, 2021 \| 323 comments
29.		Britain’s destruction and concealment of colonial records (2017) (tandfonline.com)
		139 points by hhs on June 11, 2021 \| 71 comments
30.		NVMe is not a hard disk (koehntopp.info)
		248 points by omnibrain on June 11, 2021 \| 206 comments
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