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1. Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video] (youtube.com)
971 points by swighton on April 17, 2020 | 162 comments
2. Learning to See in the Dark (2018) (github.com/cchen156)
645 points by ksaxena on April 17, 2020 | 170 comments
3. A Taste of GPU Compute [video] (youtube.com)
280 points by raphlinus on April 15, 2020 | 165 comments
4. Is BGP Safe Yet? (isbgpsafeyet.com)
505 points by eastdakota on April 17, 2020 | 107 comments
5. ICANN delays .org selloff after California’s attorney general intervenes (theregister.co.uk)
537 points by sohkamyung on April 17, 2020 | 139 comments
6. Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health (sixcolors.com)
369 points by uptown on April 16, 2020 | 372 comments
7. Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free (reuters.com)
373 points by mancerayder on April 16, 2020 | 527 comments
8. Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds (zoomerbackgrounds.com)
327 points by logane on April 17, 2020 | 78 comments
9. Gleam: A statically typed language for the Erlang VM (gleam.run)
331 points by andrenth on April 17, 2020 | 109 comments
10. Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant (dutzi.party)
402 points by dutzi on April 17, 2020 | 138 comments
11. Possible dinosaur DNA has been found (scientificamerican.com)
240 points by bookofjoe on April 17, 2020 | 114 comments
12. Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch (assemblyai.com)
288 points by makaimc on April 17, 2020 | 33 comments
13. XB-1's wings are officially closed out (boomsupersonic.com)
175 points by howrude on April 17, 2020 | 176 comments
14. Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [video] (youtube.com)
286 points by mmmBacon on April 17, 2020 | 311 comments
15. Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures (lowtechmagazine.com)
264 points by Luc on April 16, 2020 | 102 comments
16. Ask HN: How is your PPP loan application coming along?
254 points by AndrewBissell on April 17, 2020 | 207 comments
17. Deep sea squid communicate by glowing like e-readers (npr.org)
147 points by pseudolus on April 17, 2020 | 41 comments
18. Cooperative Corporation of Dot-Org Registrants (ccor.org)
142 points by miles on April 17, 2020 | 34 comments
19. In Pursuit of PPE (nejm.org)
173 points by erwan on April 17, 2020 | 196 comments
20. Rust Survey 2019 Results (rust-lang.org)
185 points by steveklabnik on April 17, 2020 | 202 comments
21. A Failure, but Not of Prediction (slatestarcodex.com)
223 points by barry-cotter on April 15, 2020 | 177 comments
22. Grain, a startup built atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making (techcrunch.com)
115 points by bismark on April 16, 2020 | 82 comments
23. How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs globally (onezero.medium.com)
254 points by walterbell on April 17, 2020 | 82 comments
24. Shopify CTO: our platform is now handling Black Friday level traffic every day (twitter.com/jmwind)
315 points by i_am_viet on April 17, 2020 | 126 comments
25. Will Asia Rewrite Human History? (sapiens.org)
110 points by anthrocurious on April 16, 2020 | 31 comments
26. Fix Boyer-Moore searcher with the Rytter correction (github.com/microsoft)
193 points by HenryR on April 17, 2020 | 53 comments
27. Ruby Concurrency Final Report (codeotaku.com)
229 points by pvsukale3 on April 15, 2020 | 47 comments
28. What Outranks Thread Priority? (randomascii.wordpress.com)
101 points by benaadams on April 15, 2020 | 19 comments
29. The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (2015) (thevinylfactory.com)
165 points by severine on April 17, 2020 | 30 comments
30. Telescope Sees Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole, Proves Einstein Right (eso.org)
141 points by lelf on April 16, 2020 | 65 comments

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