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1. The untold origin story of eBay that I lived (2018) (cake.co)
237 points by GoRudy on March 20, 2020 | 59 comments
2. MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions decisions (mitadmissions.org)
427 points by s3r3nity on March 20, 2020 | 453 comments
3. AI for generative design: Plain text to 3D Designs (insightdatascience.com)
239 points by tf_12 on March 20, 2020 | 48 comments
4. Show HN: An experimental, keyboard-first user interface (emvi.com)
263 points by dschramm on March 20, 2020 | 104 comments
5. Open Source Ventilator Project (opensourceventilator.ie)
203 points by cklaus on March 20, 2020 | 141 comments
6. Grief in Ethiopia as trailblazing Australian doctor dies (bbc.com)
309 points by tagawa on March 19, 2020 | 39 comments
7. Stanford CS248: Implement an SVG Rasterizer (github.com/stanford-cs248)
208 points by adamnemecek on March 20, 2020 | 80 comments
8. Chloroquine, past and present (blogs.sciencemag.org)
261 points by ilamont on March 20, 2020 | 303 comments
9. Risky hack could double access to ventilators (vice.com)
257 points by spookybones on March 20, 2020 | 154 comments
10. NeRF: Representing scenes as neural radiance fields for view synthesis (matthewtancik.com)
237 points by dfield on March 20, 2020 | 40 comments
11. UpNext – an ePaper digital calendar for your desk (brettcvz.com)
269 points by brettcvz on March 19, 2020 | 60 comments
12. Build stuff (why.degree)
341 points by bluemooner on March 20, 2020 | 187 comments
13. A Mysterious Song on the Internet (2019) (rollingstone.com)
157 points by elorant on March 20, 2020 | 82 comments
14. Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab (mailchi.mp)
279 points by randycupertino on March 20, 2020 | 227 comments
15. What is the smallest possible valid PDF? (stackoverflow.com)
176 points by oftenwrong on March 20, 2020 | 36 comments
16. LiquidText: A tool for academical note taking (liquidtext.net)
159 points by Eugeleo on March 18, 2020 | 84 comments
17. [dupe] I built a dumb cell phone with a rotary dial (nautil.us)
134 points by dnetesn on March 19, 2020 | 36 comments
18. A new RISC-V version of uLisp (ulisp.com)
119 points by _19qg on March 20, 2020 | 35 comments
19. Distinct on: a confusing, unique and useful feature in Postgres (yogeshchauhan.com)
139 points by yogiUSA on March 19, 2020 | 45 comments
20. Pigweed: A Collection of Embedded Libraries (googleblog.com)
85 points by proppy on March 20, 2020 | 12 comments
21. Book Review: Hoover (slatestarcodex.com)
142 points by tlb on March 20, 2020 | 23 comments
22. Lemmings 2: The Tribes (filfre.net)
141 points by doppp on March 20, 2020 | 53 comments
23. How coffee took over the world (theatlantic.com)
167 points by neonate on March 19, 2020 | 146 comments
24. Detailed audit of Voatz' voting app confirms security flaws (govtech.com)
174 points by rbanffy on March 20, 2020 | 71 comments
25. Levandowski agrees to plea deal over Google secrets (reuters.com)
139 points by htiek on March 20, 2020 | 86 comments
26. Shibori (wikipedia.org)
129 points by waqasaday on March 20, 2020 | 20 comments
27. California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order (reuters.com)
398 points by pseudolus on March 20, 2020 | 620 comments
28. In Praise of Phone Calls (newyorker.com)
89 points by tintinnabula on March 19, 2020 | 55 comments
29. Show HN: Vuiet – a music player and explorer for Emacs (github.com/mihaiolteanu)
101 points by molteanu on March 19, 2020 | 19 comments
30. AbstractAlgebra: Computer algebra package for Julia language (nemocas.github.io)
126 points by alokrai on March 19, 2020 | 16 comments

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