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1. Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content (reclaimthenet.org)
1525 points by garyclarke27 on May 18, 2020 | 546 comments
2. Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices (wsj.com)
1063 points by WFHRenaissance on May 18, 2020 | 652 comments
3. New.css – A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML (newcss.net)
925 points by sdan on May 18, 2020 | 182 comments
4. Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube (support.google.com)
1783 points by zaggynl on May 18, 2020 | 1177 comments
5. Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf] (usenix.org)
1239 points by ketanmaheshwari on May 18, 2020 | 269 comments
6. Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage (themargins.substack.com)
1393 points by lunchbreak on May 18, 2020 | 514 comments
7. John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code (marc.info)
744 points by hellschreiber on May 18, 2020 | 257 comments
8. WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web (getmemex.com)
396 points by lelf on May 18, 2020 | 207 comments
9. The effects on cognition of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days (guzey.com)
407 points by luu on May 17, 2020 | 352 comments
10. I trick my well-developed procrastination skills (gassler.org)
464 points by robbixcx on May 18, 2020 | 154 comments
11. Don't set the language of your website based on user location (dev.to)
594 points by pedrogpimenta on May 17, 2020 | 293 comments
12. The Death of Couchsurfing? (medium.com/jameshopest)
353 points by peterburkimsher on May 17, 2020 | 304 comments
13. Nintendo 64 Architecture – A Practical Analysis (copetti.org)
330 points by bottle2 on May 18, 2020 | 72 comments
14. Termux and Android 10 (github.com/termux)
412 points by cft on May 18, 2020 | 314 comments
15. What is a control system anyway? (feltrac.co)
363 points by feltarock on May 18, 2020 | 76 comments
16. Grafana 7.0 (grafana.com)
345 points by pjf on May 18, 2020 | 95 comments
17. Germany's data chief tells ministries WhatsApp is a no-go (dw.com)
376 points by rguiscard on May 18, 2020 | 257 comments
18. Show HN: Career Fair – Learn about Jobs by People Who Have Done Them (careerfair.io)
161 points by shsachdev on May 17, 2020 | 36 comments
19. Norway: Soldiers' location history found in data sold by Tamoco (nrk.no)
315 points by santamarias on May 18, 2020 | 73 comments
20. The Unicorns Fell into a Ditch (bloomberg.com)
296 points by spudlyo on May 18, 2020 | 221 comments
21. Electrons May Well Be Conscious (nautil.us)
232 points by lxm on May 17, 2020 | 383 comments
22. How to Use Trend Micro's Rootkit Remover to Install a Rootkit (d4stiny.github.io)
170 points by TiredOfLife on May 18, 2020 | 15 comments
23. Show HN: A Python tool for text-based AI training and generation using GPT-2 (github.com/minimaxir)
174 points by minimaxir on May 18, 2020 | 41 comments
24. Behind Irish outpouring of relief for Navajo (csmonitor.com)
274 points by conorliv1 on May 18, 2020 | 51 comments
25. Google bans my events app for referencing Covid-19, or related terms
590 points by kujaomega on May 18, 2020 | 214 comments
26. Revisiting the postcard pathtracer with CUDA and Optix (fabiensanglard.net)
103 points by Luc on May 18, 2020 | 14 comments
27. Oculus: Hand Tracking Updates (oculus.com)
112 points by karanganesan on May 18, 2020 | 85 comments
28. Mediasoup – WebRTC video conferencing (github.com/versatica)
125 points by simonpure on May 18, 2020 | 48 comments
29. SoftBank’s Vision Fund Loses $17.7B on WeWork, Uber (bloomberg.com)
320 points by pseudolus on May 18, 2020 | 195 comments
30. Peer-to-peer canvas app for Urbit (github.com/yosoyubik)
125 points by networked on May 18, 2020 | 28 comments

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