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1. Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] (supremecourt.gov)
4103 points by pdoconnell on April 5, 2021 | 932 comments
2. Writing tools I learned from The Economist (builtbywords.substack.com)
633 points by ahsoli on April 5, 2021 | 246 comments
3. Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 (yahoo.com)
585 points by Gaessaki on April 5, 2021 | 367 comments
4. LG is getting out of the mobile phone business (axios.com)
620 points by thereare5lights on April 5, 2021 | 683 comments
5. Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds (nytimes.com)
713 points by pseudolus on April 5, 2021 | 380 comments
6. Show HN: My personal website is a shell (aava.sh)
425 points by aavshr on April 5, 2021 | 171 comments
7. Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra (waffleironer.medium.com)
429 points by ice3 on April 5, 2021 | 170 comments
8. How did Microsoft make Flight Simulator seem so real? (airspacemag.com)
335 points by rbanffy on April 4, 2021 | 154 comments
9. Predictive coding has been unified with backpropagation (lesswrong.com)
311 points by cabalamat on April 5, 2021 | 85 comments
10. Cesium for Unreal Now Available (cesium.com)
254 points by kylebarron on April 5, 2021 | 46 comments
11. When Feynman met Dirac (2020) (cantorsparadise.com)
204 points by jorgenveisdal on April 5, 2021 | 84 comments
12. Are deep neural networks dramatically overfitted? (2019) (lilianweng.github.io)
209 points by troyappel on April 5, 2021 | 79 comments
13. Prescriptive software is better than descriptive software (kilianvalkhof.com)
170 points by sergiomattei on April 5, 2021 | 110 comments
14. PostGIS – Spatial and Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL (postgis.net)
252 points by pabs3 on April 4, 2021 | 87 comments
15. Behind GitHub’s new authentication token formats (github.blog)
244 points by todsacerdoti on April 5, 2021 | 79 comments
16. Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
345 points by yawn on April 5, 2021 | 322 comments
17. Git as a NoSql Database (2016) (kenneth-truyers.net)
143 points by EntICOnc on April 5, 2021 | 135 comments
18. WebOS OSE 2.10 (webosose.org)
145 points by shiningrock on April 4, 2021 | 79 comments
19. Things I learned while developing a billing system (arnon.dk)
273 points by arnon on April 5, 2021 | 118 comments
20. One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped sexual assault (ctvnews.ca)
211 points by barry-cotter on April 5, 2021 | 252 comments
21. Closer to finding what became of Moses Schönfinkel, inventor of combinators (stephenwolfram.com)
102 points by nsoonhui on April 5, 2021 | 8 comments
22. When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe? (scientificamerican.com)
123 points by pseudolus on April 5, 2021 | 91 comments
23. Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision (economist.com)
217 points by doener on April 5, 2021 | 340 comments
24. Exploring Databases Visually (nmfay.com)
146 points by dmfay on April 4, 2021 | 27 comments
25. Condition: A 64KB WebGL Intro (github.com/fms-cat)
127 points by polm23 on April 4, 2021 | 48 comments
26. Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides (bbc.com)
273 points by choppaface on April 5, 2021 | 486 comments
27. The Lost Apps of the 80s (scripting.com)
152 points by ingve on April 4, 2021 | 121 comments
28. 8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2019) (imgur.com)
127 points by yellowyacht on April 5, 2021 | 50 comments
29. Butterick’s Practical Typography 2º Edition (practicaltypography.com)
182 points by ruifigueiredo on April 4, 2021 | 52 comments
30. On Cache Invalidation: Why Is It Hard? (2018) (yihui.org)
110 points by steventey on April 4, 2021 | 70 comments

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