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1. AWS services explained in one line each (adayinthelifeof.nl)
1668 points by jaytaph on May 26, 2020 | 344 comments
2. Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive (wsj.com)
1227 points by longdefeat on May 26, 2020 | 977 comments
3. Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform (bearblog.dev)
685 points by HermanMartinus on May 26, 2020 | 349 comments
4. The US Army's earth-shaking, off-road land trains (thedrive.com)
515 points by tomohawk on May 25, 2020 | 115 comments
5. I've collected over 600 pitch decks (starthouse.xyz)
606 points by drew_m on May 25, 2020 | 87 comments
6. I helped reposition a database product that went on to make $1B in revenue (thefxck.com)
309 points by saadalem on May 26, 2020 | 74 comments
7. Why is AI so useless for business? (mebassett.info)
384 points by mebassett on May 26, 2020 | 370 comments
8. How to Put More “Character” into Your NPCs (pausebutton.substack.com)
266 points by MaximumMadness on May 26, 2020 | 116 comments
9. The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-affiliated cyber actors” (fbi.gov)
313 points by kimi on May 26, 2020 | 233 comments
10. Can 1/3 and 1/3 = 2/6? It seemed so (marilynburnsmathblog.com)
393 points by ColinWright on May 26, 2020 | 296 comments
11. Real time image animation in opencv using first order model (github.com/anandpawara)
255 points by abhas9 on May 26, 2020 | 31 comments
12. NextDNS Is Out of Beta (nextdns.io)
334 points by jrnkntl on May 26, 2020 | 153 comments
13. Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment (couriernewsroom.com)
299 points by edward on May 26, 2020 | 102 comments
14. Looking Glass starts shipping its 8K holographic display (techcrunch.com)
253 points by lxm on May 26, 2020 | 145 comments
15. ZSH Aliases (thorsten-hans.com)
388 points by thorstenhans on May 26, 2020 | 105 comments
16. Mastodon: Add end-to-end encryption API (github.com/tootsuite)
303 points by sohkamyung on May 26, 2020 | 178 comments
17. Make Writing a Habit (writenext.io)
262 points by stefannn on May 26, 2020 | 106 comments
18. Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?
410 points by bradgessler on May 25, 2020 | 258 comments
19. The original .NET garbage collector was written in Common Lisp (twitter.com/rainerjoswig)
221 points by tosh on May 24, 2020 | 66 comments
20. Surfboard: Audio Feature Extraction for Modern Machine Learning (arxiv.org)
115 points by jonbaer on May 26, 2020 | 20 comments
21. Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks (quantamagazine.org)
275 points by Zuider on May 26, 2020 | 99 comments
22. A touch of absurdity can help to wrap your mind around reality (psyche.co)
124 points by mgalbraith on May 26, 2020 | 40 comments
23. How a lazy bitch like me learned to be productive (madisontaskett.com)
435 points by epinards on May 26, 2020 | 131 comments
24. MasterClass is seizing its moment (nytimes.com)
185 points by gdubs on May 26, 2020 | 173 comments
25. Code in the Browser with GitHub Classroom (github.blog)
150 points by amasad on May 26, 2020 | 41 comments
26. Plywood: A New Cross-Platform Open Source C++ Framework (preshing.com)
196 points by petercooper on May 26, 2020 | 71 comments
27. Speed.cloudflare.com (cloudflare.com)
498 points by manigandham on May 26, 2020 | 151 comments
28. Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 1: Basic Camera, Diffuse, Emissive (demofox.org)
139 points by ingve on May 26, 2020 | 6 comments
29. By the Bluebook implementation of Smalltalk-80 (github.com/dbanay)
176 points by homarp on May 26, 2020 | 49 comments
30. I/O library 6x faster than fmt, 10x faster than stdio.h and iostream (github.com/expnkx)
224 points by RMPR on May 25, 2020 | 118 comments

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