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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 (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
		531 points by lxm on May 19, 2020 \| 277 comments
5.		DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (devblogs.microsoft.com/directx)
		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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