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31. Asian and African super apps are following the playbook WeChat originated (afridigest.substack.com)
217 points by thought on May 25, 2020 | 130 comments
32. Exiting VIM is hard; sometimes we need to take drastic measures (github.com/caseykneale)
266 points by 3001 on May 26, 2020 | 159 comments
33. Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective (verou.me)
319 points by llacb47 on May 26, 2020 | 224 comments
34. I won’t buy ebooks anymore (dustri.org)
448 points by dijit on May 26, 2020 | 441 comments
35. The Vanishing Of Ashlar: 4kb demo using GPU for sound and pathtracing (demozoo.org)
201 points by blopeur on May 25, 2020 | 44 comments
36. New two-stroke engine design could help keep internal combustion around longer (roadandtrack.com)
153 points by clouddrover on May 26, 2020 | 304 comments
37. Bionic eye boosted by hemispherical retina (nature.com)
70 points by stiray on May 26, 2020 | 7 comments
38. Sod – An Embedded Computer Vision and Machine Learning Tiny C Library (pixlab.io)
78 points by symisc_devel on May 26, 2020 | 29 comments
39. Lies, Damned Lies, and Stock-Based Compensation (tanay.substack.com)
170 points by pvsukale3 on May 25, 2020 | 46 comments
40. Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator (builders.mozilla.community)
205 points by SQL2219 on May 26, 2020 | 114 comments
41. How VC Works – A Beginner's Guide (simplanations.substack.com)
166 points by simonpure on May 26, 2020 | 31 comments
42. The ideal tech stack for a personal developer blog in 2020 (vriad.com)
192 points by colinmcd on May 26, 2020 | 268 comments
43. Russian Espionage and Electromagnetic Fields: The Story of the Theremin (2017) (redbullmusicacademy.com)
111 points by lelf on May 25, 2020 | 24 comments
44. A Developer Culture Test (pragmaticengineer.com)
107 points by gregdoesit on May 25, 2020 | 41 comments
45. How do you measure nuclear warhead yield with a PDP-11? (archive.org)
133 points by segfaultbuserr on May 26, 2020 | 77 comments
46. SCI Runs OpenVMS on x86-64 (sciinc.com)
51 points by xeeeeeeeeeeenu on May 25, 2020 | 19 comments
47. Instrumentation in Go (gbws.io)
109 points by gobwas on May 26, 2020 | 46 comments
48. Every tech downturn has a silver lining (om.co)
78 points by spatters on May 24, 2020 | 58 comments
49. Quines: self-replicating programs (2005) (madore.org)
71 points by lelf on May 25, 2020 | 28 comments
50. Counterfactual Regret Minimization with Kuhn Poker (varunajayasiri.com)
51 points by vpj on May 24, 2020 | 6 comments
51. Nissan Figaro – Retro-inspired convertible from Japan [video] (youtube.com)
64 points by CaliforniaKarl on May 26, 2020 | 46 comments
52. A forgotten twentieth-century photographer’s wild portraits of women in nature (newyorker.com)
118 points by prismatic on May 26, 2020 | 14 comments
53. Wikimedia enacts new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity (wikimediafoundation.org)
95 points by elsewhen on May 26, 2020 | 274 comments
54. Email based PGP encrypted chat (delta.chat)
103 points by arpa on May 26, 2020 | 54 comments
55. JWT (JSON Web Token) debugger (jwt.io)
128 points by tosh on May 26, 2020 | 42 comments
56. Designing a functional programming language: Yatta (functional.blog)
91 points by todsacerdoti on May 26, 2020 | 44 comments
57. OpenResty: A Swiss Army Proxy for Serverless (futurice.com)
96 points by tlarkworthy on May 26, 2020 | 10 comments
58. Lessons from Operation “Denver,” the KGB’s Aids Disinformation Campaign (mitpress.mit.edu)
94 points by anarbadalov on May 26, 2020 | 35 comments
59. Show HN: Dsnet, a simple command to manage a centralised WireGuard VPN (github.com/naggie)
69 points by naggie on May 25, 2020 | 11 comments
60. Facebook Novi: Wallet for Libra Digital Currencies (novi.com)
129 points by milen on May 26, 2020 | 136 comments

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