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1. What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]? (vidarholen.net)
414 points by JNRowe on April 12, 2021 | 227 comments
2. Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B (axios.com)
658 points by moritzplassnig on April 12, 2021 | 397 comments
3. OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana (amazon.com)
706 points by ke4qqq on April 12, 2021 | 424 comments
4. Use console.log() like a pro (2020) (markodenic.com)
700 points by vuciv1 on April 12, 2021 | 148 comments
5. How People Get Rich Now (paulgraham.com)
779 points by prakhargurunani on April 12, 2021 | 903 comments
6. Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space [video] (bbc.co.uk)
405 points by spzb on April 12, 2021 | 174 comments
7. Nvidia Unveils Grace: A High-Performance Arm CPU for Use in Big AI Systems (anandtech.com)
324 points by haakon on April 12, 2021 | 203 comments
8. std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs (github.com/zhuowei)
559 points by abhorrence on April 11, 2021 | 84 comments
9. MLJ.jl: A Julia package for composable machine learning (alan-turing-institute.github.io)
234 points by amkkma on April 11, 2021 | 56 comments
10. Human taste buds can tell the difference between normal and 'heavy' water (sciencealert.com)
228 points by lnyan on April 12, 2021 | 175 comments
11. Non-Fungible Taylor Swift (stratechery.com)
277 points by juokaz on April 12, 2021 | 236 comments
12. Building React and Vue Support for Tailwind UI (tailwindcss.com)
286 points by shayac2 on April 12, 2021 | 117 comments
13. Online text to diagram tools (2020) (xosh.org)
191 points by smusamashah on April 12, 2021 | 25 comments
14. When real world mapping meets Tolkien (ordnancesurvey.co.uk)
228 points by dcminter on April 11, 2021 | 68 comments
15. Mugo, a toy compiler for a subset of Go that can compile itself (benhoyt.com)
180 points by benhoyt on April 12, 2021 | 49 comments
16. Quantum computing’s reproducibility crisis: Majorana fermions (nature.com)
136 points by pseudolus on April 12, 2021 | 53 comments
17. Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available (cloudflare.com)
338 points by rita3ko on April 12, 2021 | 119 comments
18. Show HN: Personal Data Management Dashboard (volmarg.github.io)
176 points by volmarg_reiso on April 12, 2021 | 53 comments
19. Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes (2016) (mzucker.github.io)
204 points by djoldman on April 10, 2021 | 13 comments
20. Forgotten Memories of Traumatic Events Get Some Backing from Brain-Imaging (scientificamerican.com)
63 points by pseudolus on April 11, 2021 | 43 comments
21. Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside wealthy, western nations (theguardian.com)
341 points by erdo on April 12, 2021 | 149 comments
22. “Ambiguous Objects” that change their appearances in a mirror (2018) (meiji.ac.jp)
196 points by bryanrasmussen on April 12, 2021 | 17 comments
23. Problems with JPA/Hibernate (stemlaur.com)
96 points by stemlaur on April 11, 2021 | 189 comments
24. The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal (atlasobscura.com)
122 points by ecliptik on April 11, 2021 | 85 comments
25. Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
347 points by ilmoi on April 12, 2021 | 535 comments
26. CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange warns: crackdown on cryptocurrencies may be coming (cnbc.com)
232 points by alexrustic on April 12, 2021 | 491 comments
27. The Decline of Heroku (infoworld.com)
246 points by tacon on April 12, 2021 | 142 comments
28. Traversing nested data-structures in various languages (github.com/josevalim)
136 points by self on April 12, 2021 | 68 comments
29. Does the Universe Have Higher Dimensions? Part 1 (backreaction.blogspot.com)
116 points by sohkamyung on April 12, 2021 | 63 comments
30. SUBLEQ and DawnOS (2017) (esoteric.codes)
69 points by weare138 on April 12, 2021 | 32 comments

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