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31. Tried Nvidia’s GTX 1080 – still no external GPU on a Pi (jeffgeerling.com)
127 points by geerlingguy on May 14, 2021 | 60 comments
32. Julian Barbour’s ideas about time and the universe have roamed free of academia (nautil.us)
98 points by dnetesn on May 13, 2021 | 76 comments
33. Work from Home and Productivity (uchicago.edu)
150 points by Dowwie on May 14, 2021 | 130 comments
34. Hypersonic flight: A new fuel for jets and missiles is on the cards (economist.com)
68 points by edward on May 13, 2021 | 52 comments
35. The Bizarre World of Scam Audiobooks (vice.com)
151 points by ilamont on May 13, 2021 | 33 comments
36. Study in zebrafish examines how tumors alter whole-body metabolism (wustl.edu)
52 points by gmays on May 14, 2021 | 24 comments
37. Why is load balancing gRPC tricky? (majidfn.com)
133 points by freedomben on May 13, 2021 | 87 comments
38. I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff (haavard.me)
561 points by ilkkao on May 14, 2021 | 269 comments
39. Azar, a Korean Chatroulette-style dating app quietly taking over the world (restofworld.org)
151 points by imartin2k on May 14, 2021 | 102 comments
40. The Spanish Witches of Cartagena (historytoday.com)
60 points by Thevet on May 14, 2021 | 7 comments
41. QuanTaichi: A Compiler for Quantized (“Low-Precision”) Simulations on the GPU (taichi.graphics)
49 points by ArtWomb on May 12, 2021 | 1 comment
42. The Lure of H Mart, Where the Shelves Can Seem as Wide as Asia (nytimes.com)
117 points by jbredeche on May 12, 2021 | 134 comments
43. An Elegant Sufficiency, or the Curious Case of a Victorian Meme (2018) (blogs.bl.uk)
31 points by dcminter on May 14, 2021 | 17 comments
44. Pg8000 – Pure-Python PostgreSQL driver (github.com/tlocke)
86 points by gjvc on May 13, 2021 | 37 comments
45. On the New Architecture of Location-Based Services [pdf] (fruct.org)
34 points by abava on May 14, 2021 | 3 comments
46. Show HN: A Windows 7 web desktop recreation (glitchy.website)
74 points by kaeruct on May 14, 2021 | 26 comments
47. Irish health service hit by cyber attack (bbc.co.uk)
149 points by basisword on May 14, 2021 | 149 comments
48. Tether reserves backed by 2.9% cash (ft.com)
209 points by rwosync on May 14, 2021 | 177 comments
49. Microfarms come to South L.A. frontyards, bringing fresh produce to food deserts (latimes.com)
72 points by clairity on May 13, 2021 | 87 comments
50. EV Range Breakthrough as New Aluminum-Ion Battery Charges 60 Times Faster to Lit (forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor)
110 points by mardiyah on May 14, 2021 | 112 comments
51. [dupe] Brain-Computer Interface User Types 90 Characters per Minute with Mind (the-scientist.com)
114 points by pessimizer on May 14, 2021 | 40 comments
52. Tauri: Rust-based Electron alternative releases beta (tauri.studio)
243 points by adamnemecek on May 14, 2021 | 168 comments
53. Using Rust Macros to exfiltrate secrets (github.com/lucky)
122 points by superjared on May 14, 2021 | 75 comments
54. The Missing Semester of CS Education (csail.mit.edu)
205 points by EndXA on May 14, 2021 | 185 comments
55. Ford Wants Billboards to Beam Distracting Ads to Screens Inside Your Car (vice.com)
110 points by HiroProtagonist on May 14, 2021 | 94 comments
56. The IRS Is Coming for Crypto Investors Who Haven’t Paid Their Taxes (wsj.com)
151 points by chollida1 on May 14, 2021 | 219 comments
57. Show HN: MPL Plotter – Python library to make technical plots more efficiently (github.com/antonlopezr)
48 points by antonlopezr on May 14, 2021 | 18 comments
58. The Translation Trap (thedriftmag.com)
34 points by tintinnabula on May 14, 2021 | 2 comments
59. Fast, Open Source Search (typesense.org)
113 points by doener on May 14, 2021 | 36 comments
60. Spencer Silver, inventor behind the Post-it Note, has died (washingtonpost.com)
57 points by turtlegrids on May 14, 2021 | 7 comments

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