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1.		Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL (atomicobject.com)
		841 points by hyzyla on June 12, 2021 \| 472 comments
2.		How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014) (gizmodo.com)
		532 points by ushakov on June 12, 2021 \| 238 comments
3.		As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen (theatlantic.com)
		594 points by alihm on June 11, 2021 \| 768 comments
4.		Win at Risk by using systems thinking (thesystemisdown.substack.com)
		412 points by AndyMPatton on June 12, 2021 \| 237 comments
5.		Burnout from an Organizational Perspective (ssir.org)
		198 points by rustoo on June 12, 2021 \| 94 comments
6.		How to think clearly (psyche.co)
		282 points by lxm on June 11, 2021 \| 71 comments
7.		The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learning (arxiv.org)
		276 points by tims457 on June 12, 2021 \| 70 comments
8.		Elevator Saga: An elevator programming game (2015) (elevatorsaga.com)
		278 points by warpech on June 12, 2021 \| 99 comments
9.		Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018) (randomascii.wordpress.com)
		224 points by salgernon on June 12, 2021 \| 32 comments
10.		Subatomic particle seen changing to antiparticle and back for the first time (ox.ac.uk)
		147 points by jdmark on June 12, 2021 \| 27 comments
11.		Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its footing? (economist.com)
		218 points by N1H1L on June 11, 2021 \| 863 comments
12.		A popular household fern may be the first known eusocial plant (pnas.org)
		170 points by pseudolus on June 12, 2021 \| 48 comments
13.		1992: Silverwolf (if50.substack.com)
		90 points by JohnHammersley on June 12, 2021 \| 12 comments
14.		NymphCast – Open-source Chromecast Alternative (github.com/mayaposch)
		222 points by nedp on June 12, 2021 \| 69 comments
15.		Containers are tents (increment.com)
		192 points by vmarsy on June 12, 2021 \| 103 comments
16.		Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file transfer tool (landrop.app)
		250 points by yvbbrjdr on June 12, 2021 \| 98 comments
17.		Death by Pokémon Go: The costs of using apps while driving (2017) (ssrn.com)
		109 points by bretpiatt on June 11, 2021 \| 73 comments
18.		SSH quoting (greenend.org.uk)
		241 points by pabs3 on June 12, 2021 \| 74 comments
19.		Desertification in Romania (2020) (geographyrealm.com)
		126 points by jxub on June 11, 2021 \| 48 comments
20.		Scientists find second ‘short sleep’ gene (2019) (ucsf.edu)
		85 points by fybs on June 12, 2021 \| 80 comments
21.		Refinement Culture (2020) (paulskallas.substack.com)
		129 points by ptr on June 12, 2021 \| 44 comments
22.		Reverse Engineering Bumble’s API (2020) (securityevaluators.com)
		129 points by stevekemp on June 12, 2021 \| 41 comments
23.		Particle seen switching between matter and antimatter at CERN (newatlas.com)
		203 points by birriel on June 12, 2021 \| 139 comments
24.		VW says data breach at vendor impacted 3.3M people in North America (reuters.com)
		78 points by ibraheemdev on June 12, 2021 \| 23 comments
25.		The Fixed Point: Laziness, Recursion and Fixed Points in Haskell (rebeccaskinner.net)
		70 points by rebeccaskinner on June 12, 2021 \| 13 comments
26.		Python is 1.3x faster by just adjusting some compiling options for libpython (python.org)
		247 points by _ugfj on June 12, 2021 \| 101 comments
27.		A Mycological Foray: A new look at John Cage and his mushroom obsession (2020) (glasstire.com)
		45 points by hooboy on June 12, 2021 \| 27 comments
28.		Lesser Known Terminal Editors (codeberg.org/coopcoding)
		89 points by Fudgel on June 12, 2021 \| 58 comments
29.		The PsychDOS Desktop Environment (psychoslinux.gitlab.io)
		116 points by marttt on June 12, 2021 \| 33 comments
30.		Responsive images (developer.mozilla.org)
		96 points by Tomte on June 11, 2021 \| 56 comments
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