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1. In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms (reuters.com)
785 points by throwaway888abc on April 25, 2020 | 603 comments
2. A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app` (github.com/then)
599 points by tessela on April 25, 2020 | 459 comments
3. Time is the only real currency we have (theboringtech.io)
595 points by hackeryogi on April 25, 2020 | 300 comments
4. PlantNet – App that helps identify plants from pictures (plantnet.org)
394 points by shrikant on April 25, 2020 | 71 comments
5. Liero can be played in browser now, for those who remember (webliero.com)
335 points by farseer on April 25, 2020 | 86 comments
6. UChicago doctors see ‘remarkable’ success using ventilator alternatives (uchicagomedicine.org)
293 points by 9nGQluzmnq3M on April 25, 2020 | 121 comments
7. Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks (balthazar-rouberol.com)
353 points by goranmoomin on April 25, 2020 | 96 comments
8. Software Development: Mistakes I Made (billwadge.wordpress.com)
127 points by herodotus on April 25, 2020 | 34 comments
9. Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] (duke.edu)
376 points by undefined1 on April 25, 2020 | 493 comments
10. ClojureScript 1.10.741 (clojurescript.org)
265 points by Jeaye on April 25, 2020 | 67 comments
11. Background Matting: The World is Your Green Screen (washington.edu)
217 points by hr7161 on April 25, 2020 | 54 comments
12. Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus (citylab.com)
277 points by pseudolus on April 25, 2020 | 234 comments
13. A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography (cryptobook.us)
331 points by spking on April 25, 2020 | 36 comments
14. Show HN: Free foreign exchange rates API (exchangerate.host)
249 points by arzzen on April 25, 2020 | 61 comments
15. Generating MIDI Music with GPT-2 (gwern.net)
143 points by gwern on April 25, 2020 | 43 comments
16. Show HN: Help Me Decide Please (helpmedecideplease.com)
194 points by tannerljohnson on April 25, 2020 | 88 comments
17. Arithmetic Shifting Considered Harmful (1976) [pdf] (dspace.mit.edu)
44 points by tjalfi on April 25, 2020 | 12 comments
18. CSS for Internationalisation (chenhuijing.com)
165 points by polm23 on April 24, 2020 | 37 comments
19. I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower (ecc-comp.blogspot.com)
214 points by spiffytech on April 25, 2020 | 126 comments
20. Puny GUI – A tiny cross platform GUI Kit in Janet (ahungry.com)
130 points by ahungry on April 25, 2020 | 97 comments
21. Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors (theverge.com)
302 points by blondin on April 25, 2020 | 259 comments
22. Tiers of answers to half-baked questions (plover.com)
155 points by epoch_100 on April 24, 2020 | 49 comments
23. Show HN: An interactive map of countries by tap water quality (iswatersafetodrink.in)
124 points by smayr on April 25, 2020 | 93 comments
24. Filecoin's Cryptoeconomic Constructions (filecoin.io)
83 points by containerds on April 25, 2020 | 37 comments
25. Pointermove event latency in web browsers (rsms.me)
98 points by secondo on April 25, 2020 | 56 comments
26. Myths about USB NKRO and how USB HID works (devever.net)
118 points by panic on April 25, 2020 | 59 comments
27. SmileBASIC 4 for Nintendo Switch (nintendo.com)
132 points by Fr0styMatt88 on April 25, 2020 | 68 comments
28. Qiling Framework - Advanced Binary Emulation Framework (qiling.io)
58 points by Fnoord on April 25, 2020 | 12 comments
29. Researchers discover ferroelectricity at the atomic scale (phys.org)
89 points by dnetesn on April 24, 2020 | 8 comments
30. 'Oh no, I spelled it wrong': Nurse runs solo marathon in shape of 'Boston Strog' (cbc.ca)
110 points by mgsouth on April 24, 2020 | 48 comments

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