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1.G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals (bbc.co.uk)
1047 points by ddek on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 895 comments [ext]
2.Justice Department withdraws FBI subpoena for USA Today records ID'ing readers (usatoday.com)
346 points by lxm on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 170 comments [ext]
3.Not a drill: VMware vuln with 9.8 severity rating is under attack (arstechnica.com)
343 points by jbonniwell on June 4, 2021 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
4. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
4.El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender (cnbc.com)
458 points by ncpa-cpl on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 398 comments [ext]
5.Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft form group to standardize browser plug-ins (appleinsider.com)
462 points by Black101 on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 178 comments [ext]
6.Password Managers (cmpxchg8b.com)
460 points by arthurmorgan on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 330 comments [ext]
7. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 22 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Declassified Cold War code-breaking manual on solving 'impossible' puzzles (phys.org)
268 points by sandebert on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
8.Leaked Walmart memo reveals competitive threats (vox.com)
252 points by lxm on June 4, 2021 [ext] | 359 comments [ext]
9.Denmark parliament approves giant artificial island off Copenhagen (bbc.co.uk)
280 points by BlackVanilla on June 4, 2021 [ext] | 138 comments [ext]
10. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
10.Hackers breached Colonial Pipeline using compromised password (bloomberg.com)
240 points by 1cvmask on June 4, 2021 [ext] | 138 comments [ext]
11.Google can't pass its own page speed test (reddit.com)
374 points by EvgeniyZh on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 163 comments [ext]
12.Tips for Interviewing over Zoom (jimgrey.net)
146 points by mooreds on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 284 comments [ext]
13. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
13.3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California (abcnews.go.com)
324 points by erentz on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 234 comments [ext]
14.How I Learned Symmetric-Key Cryptanalysis (akircanski.github.io)
156 points by aleks224 on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
15.Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’ (techcrunch.com)
318 points by elsewhen on June 4, 2021 [ext] | 613 comments [ext]
16. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
16.ET-Jekyll: Edward Tufte-inspired Jekyll theme (et-jekyll.netlify.app)
148 points by bradley_taunt on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
17.Implementing strict three-point perspective (pomax.github.io)
133 points by TheRealPomax on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
18.Handsfree.js – integrate face, hand, and/or pose tracking to front end projects (github.com/midiblocks)
187 points by detaro on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
19. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
19.Conway's Game of Life on FPGA (k155la3.blog)
128 points by petrohi on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
20.Non-technical security best-practices for open source projects (sr.ht)
143 points by zdw on June 4, 2021 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
21.The modern web on a slow connection (2017) (danluu.com)
222 points by x14km2d on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 173 comments [ext]
22. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
22.Ftxui: C++ Functional Terminal User Interface (github.com/arthursonzogni)
147 points by ingve on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
23.IconVG is a compact, binary format for simple vector graphics (github.com/google)
144 points by bpierre on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
24.Compute Shader 101 [video] (youtube.com)
177 points by raphlinus on June 4, 2021 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
25. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
25.From Julia to Rust (miguelraz.github.io)
195 points by miguelraz on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
26.All controversial trades by Senators in the 2020 Congressional insider trading (reddit.com)
246 points by chetangoti on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
27.Trans-Pacific Cable Chaos, Shifting Asian Hubs (telegeography.com)
117 points by walterbell on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
28. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
28.Amazon’s wage increase to $15 an hour also upped pay for non-Amazon workers (aboutamazon.com)
181 points by rustoo on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 173 comments [ext]
29.The Mandelbrot Monk (1999) (yale.edu)
157 points by rfreytag on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
30.Using Clang LibFuzzer coverage-guided fuzzing engine with Nim (github.com/planetis-m)
72 points by planetis on June 5, 2021 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
31. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments

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