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1. It’s Time to Build (a16z.com)
1820 points by jger15 on April 18, 2020 | 1008 comments
2. TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management (tableplus.com)
562 points by bottle2 on April 18, 2020 | 190 comments
3. The Decline of Usability (datagubbe.se)
996 points by arexxbifs on April 17, 2020 | 695 comments
4. Scuttlebot: Peer-to-peer database, identity provider, and messaging system (scuttlebot.io)
361 points by goranmoomin on April 18, 2020 | 116 comments
5. Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (2006) [pdf] (ed.gov)
263 points by waterhouse on April 17, 2020 | 249 comments
6. I've been writing TILs for 5 years (github.com/jbranchaud)
558 points by jbranchaud on April 18, 2020 | 135 comments
7. Running postmarketOS on iPhone 7 (project-insanity.org)
293 points by zdw on April 18, 2020 | 100 comments
8. X410 – X Server for Windows 10 (x410.dev)
406 points by zdw on April 18, 2020 | 240 comments
9. Avatarify lets users run realtime deepfakes on live video calls (inputmag.com)
411 points by adenner on April 18, 2020 | 117 comments
10. Goat2Meeting (sweetfarm.org)
254 points by amoser84 on April 16, 2020 | 27 comments
11. Show HN: Gentle is a social app where you give and get kindness (gentle.app)
236 points by andrewthebold on April 18, 2020 | 126 comments
12. Why do we need Flask, Celery, and Redis? (2019) (ljvmiranda921.github.io)
345 points by feross on April 17, 2020 | 181 comments
13. A Guide to Pricing Plans (capitalandgrowth.org)
282 points by jkuria on April 17, 2020 | 75 comments
14. Ask HN: What are some great posts or articles about history of computing?
299 points by luzer7 on April 18, 2020 | 110 comments
15. Micro C, Part 3: Generating LLVM (josephmorag.com)
166 points by matt_d on April 18, 2020 | 13 comments
16. Special K: an interactive K compiler that generates GLSL (beyondloom.com)
106 points by tosh on April 18, 2020 | 19 comments
17. Rt: Effective Reproduction Number of Covid-19 (rt.live)
158 points by radkapital on April 18, 2020 | 88 comments
18. Working from home on the //c+ (gtia.com)
154 points by empressplay on April 18, 2020 | 44 comments
19. The pervert's guide to computer programming languages (2017) [video] (youtube.com)
214 points by commons-tragedy on April 18, 2020 | 123 comments
20. Dat: A P2P hypermedia protocol with public-key-addressed file archives (datprotocol.com)
149 points by goranmoomin on April 18, 2020 | 56 comments
21. U.S. judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal government surveillance requests (reuters.com)
400 points by antpls on April 18, 2020 | 183 comments
22. Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without disclosure, too (tomshardware.com)
230 points by DeathArrow on April 18, 2020 | 126 comments
23. Writing Python inside Rust (m-ou.se)
187 points by mcp_ on April 17, 2020 | 85 comments
24. Ultimate Guide to Switch Debounce (eejournal.com)
121 points by baybal2 on April 18, 2020 | 54 comments
25. Why editorial illustrations look so similar these days (2019) (qz.com)
198 points by laurentdc on April 16, 2020 | 77 comments
26. Crank.js – Write JSX-driven components with functions, promises and generators (crank.js.org)
205 points by migueloller on April 17, 2020 | 101 comments
27. Academics steal data from air-gapped systems using PC fan vibrations (zdnet.com)
153 points by emptybits on April 18, 2020 | 63 comments
28. Mystery of two-million-year-old stone balls solved (livescience.com)
92 points by fortran77 on April 18, 2020 | 54 comments
29. Vegetables get freakish in the land of the midnight sun (2014) (npr.org)
73 points by EndXA on April 17, 2020 | 41 comments
30. Show HN: Shishua – Fast pseudo-random generator (espadrine.github.io)
93 points by espadrine on April 18, 2020 | 35 comments

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