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1.If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (tttthis.com)
1186 points by TTTThis on May 16, 2020 | 615 comments
2.Game Programming Patterns (2014) (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)
635 points by simonpure on May 16, 2020 | 86 comments
3.What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka (michael-noll.com)
597 points by aloknnikhil on May 16, 2020 | 276 comments
4.Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions (infoq.com)
429 points by nan0 on May 15, 2020 | 300 comments
5.Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
578 points by cJ0th on May 16, 2020 | 228 comments
6.So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering (columbia.edu)
394 points by luu on May 15, 2020 | 219 comments
7.Serve Videos Instead of GIFs (dannyguo.com)
273 points by todsacerdoti on May 16, 2020 | 230 comments
8.Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?
780 points by krm01 on May 15, 2020 | 445 comments
9.Emotionally Expressive Text to Speech (sonantic.io)
261 points by interweb on May 16, 2020 | 101 comments
10.A Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952) [video] (youtube.com)
162 points by _zhqs on May 16, 2020 | 39 comments
11.Extracting ROM constants from the 8087 math coprocessor's die (righto.com)
150 points by matt_d on May 16, 2020 | 23 comments
12.Show HN: New UI pattern for file manager type apps (github.com/greyduchess)
124 points by greyshirts on May 16, 2020 | 33 comments
13.DIY Particle Detector (cern.ch)
226 points by homarp on May 15, 2020 | 42 comments
14.New species of fungus identified via Twitter (phys.org)
246 points by dnetesn on May 16, 2020 | 93 comments
15.Text exceeding maxlength will no longer be truncated when pasted in Firefox 77 (fxsitecompat.dev)
161 points by oftenwrong on May 16, 2020 | 134 comments
16.Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron (github.com/alexkim205)
194 points by mrchaniku on May 15, 2020 | 96 comments
17.Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds? (newyorker.com)
250 points by seek3r00 on May 16, 2020 | 477 comments
18.The Linux Kernel FPGA Subsystem (kernel.org)
215 points by yummypaint on May 16, 2020 | 23 comments
19.Turf war: Detroit Mower Gang competes in 12-hour playground cleanup (detroitnews.com)
117 points by rmason on May 16, 2020 | 65 comments
20.Factors associated with Covid-19 deaths in records of 17M adult NHS patients (twitter.com/bengoldacre)
225 points by gandalfian on May 15, 2020 | 199 comments
21.ChromeGalvanizer – Harden your browser against extension backdoors and exploits (github.com/mandatoryprogrammer)
101 points by mandatory on May 16, 2020 | 37 comments
22.uBlock Origin on Firefox Preview (github.com/ublockorigin)
330 points by surround on May 16, 2020 | 96 comments
23.Modern C++ gamedev: thoughts and misconceptions (vittorioromeo.info)
221 points by ingve on May 16, 2020 | 217 comments
24.Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux’s Dominance (2019) (acm.org)
247 points by todsacerdoti on May 16, 2020 | 180 comments
25.Shibuya Pixel Art 2020 (lexaloffle.com)
139 points by polm23 on May 16, 2020 | 40 comments
26.Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a Covid app, but it hasn’t helped much (technologyreview.com)
157 points by jtbayly on May 16, 2020 | 186 comments
27.Sony Builds AI into a CMOS Image Sensor (ieee.org)
81 points by anandaverma18 on May 15, 2020 | 25 comments
28.OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2 (jcs.org)
183 points by rodrigo975 on May 16, 2020 | 41 comments
29.State of Loom (java.net)
202 points by mxschumacher on May 16, 2020 | 134 comments
30.Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 99% isopropanol? (gotopac.com)
283 points by montalbano on May 16, 2020 | 130 comments

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