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1. Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently (rekken.github.io)
871 points by feross on May 14, 2020 | 418 comments
2. Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist (thisworddoesnotexist.com)
956 points by turtlesoup on May 13, 2020 | 342 comments
3. Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia A100 GPU (nvidia.com)
453 points by bcaulfield on May 14, 2020 | 333 comments
4. Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
1336 points by dhr on May 13, 2020 | 2248 comments
5. Do not Draw a Penis (donotdrawapenis.com)
969 points by dvt on May 14, 2020 | 367 comments
6. Senate narrowly rejects plan to require a warrant for Americans’ browsing data (techcrunch.com)
566 points by MLEnthusiast on May 13, 2020 | 271 comments
7. Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem (hypercore-protocol.org)
387 points by pfraze on May 14, 2020 | 117 comments
8. Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs (blog.google)
471 points by bkudria on May 14, 2020 | 382 comments
9. GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff (reuters.com)
249 points by AlotOfReading on May 14, 2020 | 276 comments
10. Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound chip from die photos (2017) (righto.com)
134 points by colinprince on May 14, 2020 | 19 comments
11. Building a subsea cable to better connect Africa (fb.com)
169 points by ampersandy on May 14, 2020 | 125 comments
12. Show HN: Virtual Reality DOS (github.com/sonictruth)
206 points by sonictruth2 on May 14, 2020 | 46 comments
13. Which way a wind turbine turns might not seem to matter, but it does (economist.com)
158 points by edward on May 14, 2020 | 101 comments
14. Build Software from Front-to-Back (happyvalley.dev)
204 points by stepbeek on May 14, 2020 | 104 comments
15. Stuxnet's Legacy Lives on in New Windows Bug (decipher.sc)
187 points by whiteyford on May 14, 2020 | 44 comments
16. 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people (reddit.com)
1077 points by DeusExMachina on May 13, 2020 | 626 comments
17. Are There Laws of History? (aeon.co)
118 points by benbreen on May 13, 2020 | 135 comments
18. The logging framework isn't a bottleneck, and other lies your laptop tells you (davis-hansson.com)
237 points by todsacerdoti on May 13, 2020 | 157 comments
19. Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails (theregister.co.uk)
402 points by thinkingemote on May 14, 2020 | 175 comments
20. IKEA's shopping malls arm plans U.S. entry in major play (reuters.com)
109 points by hhs on May 14, 2020 | 108 comments
21. Improve your walking technique (suunto.com)
222 points by privong on May 12, 2020 | 122 comments
22. Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order that closed businesses (jsonline.com)
188 points by hanging on May 13, 2020 | 577 comments
23. Earnest Capital Trailhead (earnestcapital.com)
162 points by sahillavingia on May 14, 2020 | 54 comments
24. My New Old Apple IIe Computer (charlieharrington.com)
188 points by whatrocks on May 13, 2020 | 101 comments
25. Bosque Programming Language (github.com/microsoft)
199 points by kermatt on May 14, 2020 | 174 comments
26. Safe: Set maximum capacity for any room, floor, or building (density.io)
135 points by jordanmessina on May 14, 2020 | 81 comments
27. Device.farm Generates Linux+Docker Images for about 100 Arm Linux SBCs (cnx-software.com)
58 points by burgrp on May 14, 2020 | 24 comments
28. The faded beauty of abandoned cars across Europe and the US (bbc.co.uk)
79 points by Kaibeezy on May 13, 2020 | 70 comments
29. Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum (coindesk.com)
276 points by lftherios on May 14, 2020 | 228 comments
30. Weakening Cycles So That Turing Can Halt (jondgoodwin.com)
96 points by Kinrany on May 14, 2020 | 68 comments

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