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1. The most expensive number in engineering (surjan.substack.com)
501 points by as89 on May 31, 2021 | 167 comments
2. We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor (butwhatfor.com)
427 points by stanrivers on May 31, 2021 | 238 comments
3. PostGIS at 20, the Beginning (cleverelephant.ca)
302 points by jkatz05 on May 31, 2021 | 32 comments
4. Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct (nationalgeographic.com)
316 points by gadf on May 31, 2021 | 203 comments
5. On Smoking (annagat.substack.com)
345 points by exolymph on May 31, 2021 | 383 comments
6. Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate? (dailydot.com)
623 points by tech-historian on May 31, 2021 | 595 comments
7. NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report (bbc.com)
403 points by Black101 on May 31, 2021 | 167 comments
8. Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station (sciencealert.com)
413 points by bryan0 on May 31, 2021 | 196 comments
9. The May 18 Gwangju Uprising (datasecretslox.com)
202 points by exolymph on May 31, 2021 | 82 comments
10. Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2 (economist.com)
233 points by martincmartin on May 30, 2021 | 190 comments
11. Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business (thebigtech.substack.com)
209 points by devnerd239 on May 31, 2021 | 211 comments
12. Japanese bookstore simulator translated into English after 24 years (rhizome.org)
287 points by keiferski on May 29, 2021 | 83 comments
13. Neural networks emulate any guitar pedal for $120 (hackaday.com)
286 points by ushakov on May 31, 2021 | 156 comments
14. How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s (atlasobscura.com)
187 points by rbanffy on May 31, 2021 | 71 comments
15. Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
362 points by LifeIsBio on May 30, 2021 | 306 comments
16. WordTsar, a WordStar Clone (wordtsar.ca)
203 points by rhabarba on May 31, 2021 | 140 comments
17. TermPair: Terminal sharing with AES-GCM 128 bit end-to-end encryption (github.com/cs01)
118 points by illuminated on May 31, 2021 | 37 comments
18. UUID, serial or identity columns for PostgreSQL auto-generated primary keys? (cybertec-postgresql.com)
204 points by lhenk on May 31, 2021 | 178 comments
19. Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts) (windowslatest.com)
270 points by minama on May 30, 2021 | 219 comments
20. Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, now they want it back (jalopnik.com)
282 points by HiroProtagonist on May 31, 2021 | 201 comments
21. Sodium rutin extends lifespan and health span in mice by 10% (nih.gov)
159 points by ve55 on May 31, 2021 | 120 comments
22. A Macro View of Nanite (elopezr.com)
126 points by haxiomic on May 31, 2021 | 42 comments
23. Sign a PDF document client-side with no data leaving the computer (observablehq.com)
125 points by tlarkworthy on May 31, 2021 | 81 comments
24. A Dive into Ray Tracing Performance on the Apple M1 (willusher.io)
105 points by tempodox on May 31, 2021 | 55 comments
25. What Oxford taught me about posh people (unherd.com)
293 points by hownottowrite on May 31, 2021 | 364 comments
26. Small B Blogging (2018) (tomcritchlow.com)
90 points by exolymph on May 31, 2021 | 26 comments
27. The faulty digital clock problem (andersource.dev)
91 points by andersource on May 31, 2021 | 16 comments
28. Open-source soft-core RISC-V SoC with gdb support (github.com/stnolting)
94 points by _quarks_ on May 31, 2021 | 18 comments
29. Scamp – a homebrew 16-bit CPU (incoherency.co.uk)
129 points by nickt on May 31, 2021 | 20 comments
30. Dragon Go Server (dragongoserver.net)
85 points by Tomte on May 31, 2021 | 32 comments

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