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1. New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data (axios.com)
1237 points by jbegley on May 19, 2020 | 549 comments
2. Notion for everyone (notion.so)
1044 points by FireBeyond on May 19, 2020 | 454 comments
3. A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case (cloud.google.com)
771 points by sciurus on May 19, 2020 | 275 comments
4. Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app (microsoft.com)
531 points by lxm on May 19, 2020 | 277 comments
5. DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (microsoft.com)
706 points by modeless on May 19, 2020 | 531 comments
6. Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash (csun.io)
479 points by igpay on May 19, 2020 | 319 comments
7. Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem (quantamagazine.org)
479 points by theafh on May 19, 2020 | 68 comments
8. Introducing Facebook Shops (fb.com)
432 points by davidbarker on May 19, 2020 | 264 comments
9. Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen, must go back to Iraq (npr.org)
305 points by rolph on May 19, 2020 | 264 comments
10. Blogging Is Not Dead (garron.blog)
330 points by g-garron on May 19, 2020 | 127 comments
11. Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal (techcrunch.com)
414 points by mmq on May 19, 2020 | 709 comments
12. When SimCity Got Serious: Story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery (obscuritory.com)
366 points by danso on May 19, 2020 | 114 comments
13. How Distortion Works in Music (benmosheron.gitlab.io)
394 points by beeeeeeeeeeeeen on May 19, 2020 | 102 comments
14. Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-19 data (floridatoday.com)
736 points by tmountain on May 19, 2020 | 191 comments
15. Walmart says it will discontinue Jet (techcrunch.com)
369 points by rbanffy on May 19, 2020 | 318 comments
16. Tiny websites are great (tinyprojects.dev)
348 points by stokesyio on May 18, 2020 | 216 comments
17. Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name (deepsouthventures.com)
306 points by whalesalad on May 19, 2020 | 217 comments
18. Old bills in Yemen are worth 10% more than new ones (jpkoning.blogspot.com)
203 points by ubac on May 19, 2020 | 132 comments
19. Python performance: it’s not just the interpreter (kevmod.com)
318 points by kmod on May 19, 2020 | 203 comments
20. Power tool manufacturers and who owns them (protoolreviews.com)
196 points by js2 on May 18, 2020 | 161 comments
21. Launch HN: Satchel (YC S18) – Guides to the Best SaaS Tools
207 points by Fission on May 19, 2020 | 93 comments
22. The unreasonable effectiveness of declarative programming (bollu.github.io)
417 points by bollu on May 19, 2020 | 122 comments
23. Spleeter – Music Source-Separation Engine (deezer.io)
258 points by jph98 on May 18, 2020 | 63 comments
24. Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results (harding.blog)
224 points by wbharding on May 19, 2020 | 169 comments
25. Blind people ‘read’ letters that are traced on their brains with electricity (nature.com)
129 points by EndXA on May 17, 2020 | 29 comments
26. We built a new GPS receiver engine (coresemi.io)
212 points by jgarzik on May 19, 2020 | 118 comments
27. Examples of Incorrect Abstractions in Other Languages (reddit.com)
115 points by bshanks on May 18, 2020 | 133 comments
28. Defold game engine source now available and free to use for commercial games (defold.com)
340 points by vlaaad on May 19, 2020 | 293 comments
29. Technology that changed air travel (retool.com)
185 points by bane on May 18, 2020 | 63 comments
30. Hardware Isn't Generally Copyrightable (2012) (archive.org)
100 points by segfaultbuserr on May 19, 2020 | 56 comments

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