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1. It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015) (drmaciver.com)
650 points by mmcloughlin on May 17, 2020 | 345 comments
2. US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs (krebsonsecurity.com)
676 points by elsewhen on May 17, 2020 | 619 comments
3. Show HN: Trade stocks from the command line with no commission (gitlab.com/aenegri)
551 points by anegri on May 17, 2020 | 166 comments
4. Ronin – A Lisp-based image processing tool (100r.co)
366 points by Gormisdomai on May 17, 2020 | 35 comments
5. It’s Time to Get Back to RSS (danielmiessler.com)
798 points by danielrm26 on May 17, 2020 | 365 comments
6. Lomuto's Comeback (dlang.org)
288 points by VHRanger on May 17, 2020 | 98 comments
7. Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
524 points by Jaruzel on May 17, 2020 | 752 comments
8. Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction, 3rd edition (openmathbooks.org)
519 points by alokrai on May 17, 2020 | 36 comments
9. Fragile narrow laggy asynchronous mismatched pipes kill productivity (thume.ca)
264 points by trishume on May 17, 2020 | 86 comments
10. Common mistakes using Kubernetes (pipetail.io)
549 points by marekaf on May 17, 2020 | 140 comments
11. Whale fall (wikipedia.org)
491 points by maze-le on May 17, 2020 | 111 comments
12. Kafka Removing Zookeeper Dependency (confluent.io)
314 points by manigandham on May 16, 2020 | 181 comments
13. No One Goes There Anymore (noonegoesthereanymore.blogspot.com)
370 points by DoreenMichele on May 16, 2020 | 302 comments
14. Show HN: XP.css – Windows XP CSS file and framework for building GUIs (botoxparty.github.io)
297 points by botoxparty on May 16, 2020 | 84 comments
15. Space Plane: Mysterious US military aircraft launches (bbc.co.uk)
205 points by willvarfar on May 17, 2020 | 173 comments
16. MMU gang wars: the TLB drive-by shootdown (bitcharmer.blogspot.com)
163 points by matt_d on May 17, 2020 | 49 comments
17. Game of Life in one Ruby statement inspired by APL (zverok.github.io)
174 points by todsacerdoti on May 17, 2020 | 51 comments
18. What Peak Hello World Looks Like (h313.info)
169 points by wh313 on May 17, 2020 | 75 comments
19. An Airbnb for farmland hits a snag, as farmers raise data privacy concerns (npr.org)
176 points by jessaustin on May 17, 2020 | 105 comments
20. UC Berkeley hosted a virtual graduation on Minecraft (blockeley.com)
195 points by apengwin on May 17, 2020 | 28 comments
21. Introduce ZSTD compression to ZFS (github.com/openzfs)
164 points by c0d3z3r0 on May 17, 2020 | 38 comments
22. Tink – Cryptographic APIs that are secure, easy to use correctly (github.com/google)
153 points by todotask on May 17, 2020 | 49 comments
23. Understanding uncertainty: Visualising probabilities (maths.org)
134 points by Anon84 on May 16, 2020 | 4 comments
24. Students think the College Board is running a Reddit sting (vulture.com)
225 points by hhs on May 17, 2020 | 184 comments
25. A 125-year-old delivery network that feeds Mumbai (bbc.com)
208 points by throw0101a on May 17, 2020 | 95 comments
26. A photo archive hidden inside a limestone mine (atlasobscura.com)
82 points by prismatic on May 16, 2020 | 29 comments
27. Legendary Paris bookshop reveals reading habits of illustrious clientele (theguardian.com)
82 points by bookofjoe on May 16, 2020 | 17 comments
28. Connected, but at what cost? (science.sciencemag.org)
79 points by nithinj on May 17, 2020 | 48 comments
29. Enabling E-Textile Microinteractions (googleblog.com)
68 points by rbinv on May 16, 2020 | 11 comments
30. Show HN: Visual Brainfuck Interpreter (dyer.me)
60 points by frpzzd on May 16, 2020 | 12 comments

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