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1.Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps? (bbc.com)
1008 points by vanusa on May 17, 2021 | 637 comments
2.Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio (apple.com)
702 points by todsacerdoti on May 17, 2021 | 699 comments
3.CEO behind Japan’s best-performing stock says his secret is raising salaries (bloomberg.com)
548 points by dgudkov on May 16, 2021 | 257 comments
4.Cosmopolitan Libc 1.0 (github.com/jart)
545 points by Orochikaku on May 17, 2021 | 113 comments
5.Positions chess engines don't understand (chess.com)
407 points by diplodocusaur on May 17, 2021 | 193 comments
6.Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an oscilloscope (scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com)
306 points by scarybeast on May 17, 2021 | 53 comments
7.How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS (eclecticlight.co)
512 points by giuliomagnifico on May 17, 2021 | 410 comments
8.Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate (krebsonsecurity.com)
604 points by todsacerdoti on May 17, 2021 | 278 comments
9.Bette Graham, inventor and founder of Liquid Paper (thehustle.co)
153 points by paulpauper on May 16, 2021 | 54 comments
10.SEC Charges S&P Dow Jones for Failures Relating to Volatility-Related Index (sec.gov)
206 points by epa on May 17, 2021 | 70 comments
11.Some Night-Shift Workers May Have a 300% Higher Risk of Car Crashes (missouri.edu)
156 points by IMAYousaf on May 17, 2021 | 123 comments
12.The Achilles Heel of the Coronavirus (ethz.ch)
204 points by oumua_don17 on May 16, 2021 | 82 comments
13.More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins (nytimes.com)
440 points by temp8964 on May 14, 2021 | 344 comments
14.A long-lasting, stable solid-state lithium battery (seas.harvard.edu)
157 points by macinjosh on May 17, 2021 | 59 comments
15.uxn: a portable 8-bit virtual computer (100r.co)
230 points by bpierre on May 17, 2021 | 47 comments
16.Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popular open source projects (schleiss.io)
235 points by nreece on May 17, 2021 | 112 comments
17.Legalese – Computational Law (legalese.com)
155 points by sdeframond on May 17, 2021 | 87 comments
18.Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite (2017) (nickb.dev)
227 points by nethunters on May 16, 2021 | 48 comments
19.Launch HN: Mozart Data (YC S20) – One-stop shop for a modern data pipeline
106 points by pfduke02 on May 17, 2021 | 37 comments
20.Working over 55 hours a week associated with higher risk of stroke, heart attack (bbc.co.uk)
362 points by pmoriarty on May 17, 2021 | 170 comments
21.First nuclear detonation created ‘impossible’ quasicrystals (nature.com)
103 points by sova on May 17, 2021 | 36 comments
22.The search for a perfect access control system (goteleport.com)
110 points by aberoham on May 16, 2021 | 11 comments
23.AMD and GlobalFoundries Update: Orders Through 2024, Now Non-Exclusive (anandtech.com)
153 points by rbanffy on May 17, 2021 | 67 comments
24.Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs (2010) (lwn.net)
167 points by wmanley on May 17, 2021 | 75 comments
25.Caltech professor helps solve Hindenburg disaster (caltech.edu)
137 points by chmaynard on May 17, 2021 | 75 comments
26.Geocode-sqlite: Geocode rows in an SQLite database table (github.com/eyeseast)
123 points by chmaynard on May 17, 2021 | 17 comments
27.Learn Datalog Today (learndatalogtoday.org)
141 points by cube2222 on May 16, 2021 | 34 comments
28.Paper Notes (macwright.com)
152 points by ingve on May 16, 2021 | 72 comments
29.Umami – An alternative to Google Analytics (github.com/mikecao)
204 points by sandebert on May 17, 2021 | 42 comments
30.Jolie, the service-oriented programming language (jolie-lang.org)
171 points by RcrdBrt on May 17, 2021 | 75 comments

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