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1. Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video] (youtube.com)
922 points by bitcharmer on May 1, 2021 | 487 comments
2. “Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” (kernel.org)
792 points by pengaru on May 1, 2021 | 501 comments
3. List of apps people pay for but have low rating (ideasfilter.com)
607 points by visox on May 1, 2021 | 214 comments
4. A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014) (smithsonianmag.com)
278 points by awll on May 1, 2021 | 133 comments
5. Will Linux phones stay around this time? (linmob.net)
351 points by todsacerdoti on May 1, 2021 | 469 comments
6. SSD makers start warning that mining products like ChiaCoin will void warranty (guru3d.com)
358 points by RachelF on May 1, 2021 | 399 comments
7. Fediverse.Party – Explore Federated Networks (fediverse.party)
181 points by eitland on May 1, 2021 | 55 comments
8. New x86 micro-op vulnerability breaks all known Spectre defenses (sciencedaily.com)
417 points by DoomHotel on April 30, 2021 | 189 comments
9. Hopfield Networks Is All You Need (ml-jku.github.io)
184 points by meiji163 on April 30, 2021 | 40 comments
10. Flocculant/Disinfectant Powder (cdc.gov)
186 points by techolic on May 1, 2021 | 94 comments
11. Weary of Work (laphamsquarterly.org)
136 points by Hooke on April 30, 2021 | 83 comments
12. Scaling monorepo maintenance (github.blog)
296 points by pimterry on April 30, 2021 | 75 comments
13. Readme.so – Easiest Way to Create a Readme (readme.so)
293 points by Garbage on May 1, 2021 | 64 comments
14. Simplifier (simplifier.neocities.org)
291 points by adrianN on April 29, 2021 | 41 comments
15. Market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure (2007) (pmarchive.com)
144 points by deadcoder0904 on April 29, 2021 | 127 comments
16. Show HN: GitHub style split diffs in your terminal (github.com/banga)
178 points by milkbikis on May 1, 2021 | 50 comments
17. So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain (twitter.com/tinkersec)
394 points by ronyfadel on May 1, 2021 | 289 comments
18. Longest pedestrian suspension bridge opens in Portugal (reuters.com)
109 points by awb on May 1, 2021 | 68 comments
19. Louis Rossmann: A Conversation with Steve Lehto on Right to Repair [video] (youtube.com)
229 points by danuker on May 1, 2021 | 32 comments
20. Pen plotters: not just output devices (2016) (scruss.com)
91 points by rbanffy on April 30, 2021 | 58 comments
21. Sir Douglas Nicholls (wikipedia.org)
55 points by adrian_mrd on April 29, 2021 | 17 comments
22. PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python [video] (fosdem.org)
115 points by EntICOnc on April 30, 2021 | 10 comments
23. GitHub repository for Sedgewick's Algorithms is taken down (github.com/kevin-wayne)
302 points by altro on May 1, 2021 | 189 comments
24. Show HN: A RISC-V core in Racket (baierouge.fr)
122 points by _mouvantsillage on April 30, 2021 | 27 comments
25. Build a giant live scrolling tickertape display (josh.com)
56 points by luu on April 30, 2021 | 16 comments
26. Query Engines: Push vs. Pull (justinjaffray.com)
148 points by jsnell on May 1, 2021 | 35 comments
27. Exploiting Undocumented Hardware Blocks in the LPC55S69 (oxide.computer)
109 points by smklein on April 30, 2021 | 16 comments
28. What is Chia cryptocurrency and why is it bad news for hard drives? (tomsguide.com)
161 points by fortran77 on May 1, 2021 | 254 comments
29. EmuTOS: A Free OS for computers based on M68K processors including the Atari ST (emutos.sourceforge.io)
74 points by DominoTree on May 1, 2021 | 11 comments
30. Elementary OS 6 beta (elementary.io)
163 points by jamesponddotco on May 1, 2021 | 69 comments

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