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1.		Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently (rekken.github.io)
		871 points by feross on May 14, 2020 \| 418 comments
2.		Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist (thisworddoesnotexist.com)
		956 points by turtlesoup on May 13, 2020 \| 342 comments
3.		Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia A100 GPU (nvidia.com)
		453 points by bcaulfield on May 14, 2020 \| 333 comments
4.		Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
		1336 points by dhr on May 13, 2020 \| 2248 comments
5.		Do not Draw a Penis (donotdrawapenis.com)
		969 points by dvt on May 14, 2020 \| 367 comments
6.		Senate narrowly rejects plan to require a warrant for Americans’ browsing data (techcrunch.com)
		566 points by MLEnthusiast on May 13, 2020 \| 271 comments
7.		Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem (hypercore-protocol.org)
		387 points by pfraze on May 14, 2020 \| 117 comments
8.		Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs (blog.google)
		471 points by bkudria on May 14, 2020 \| 382 comments
9.		GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff (reuters.com)
		249 points by AlotOfReading on May 14, 2020 \| 276 comments
10.		Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound chip from die photos (2017) (righto.com)
		134 points by colinprince on May 14, 2020 \| 19 comments
11.		Building a subsea cable to better connect Africa (fb.com)
		169 points by ampersandy on May 14, 2020 \| 125 comments
12.		Show HN: Virtual Reality DOS (github.com/sonictruth)
		206 points by sonictruth2 on May 14, 2020 \| 46 comments
13.		Which way a wind turbine turns might not seem to matter, but it does (economist.com)
		158 points by edward on May 14, 2020 \| 101 comments
14.		Build Software from Front-to-Back (happyvalley.dev)
		204 points by stepbeek on May 14, 2020 \| 104 comments
15.		Stuxnet's Legacy Lives on in New Windows Bug (decipher.sc)
		187 points by whiteyford on May 14, 2020 \| 44 comments
16.		92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people (reddit.com)
		1077 points by DeusExMachina on May 13, 2020 \| 626 comments
17.		Are There Laws of History? (aeon.co)
		118 points by benbreen on May 13, 2020 \| 135 comments
18.		The logging framework isn't a bottleneck, and other lies your laptop tells you (davis-hansson.com)
		237 points by todsacerdoti on May 13, 2020 \| 157 comments
19.		Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails (theregister.co.uk)
		402 points by thinkingemote on May 14, 2020 \| 175 comments
20.		IKEA's shopping malls arm plans U.S. entry in major play (reuters.com)
		109 points by hhs on May 14, 2020 \| 108 comments
21.		Improve your walking technique (suunto.com)
		222 points by privong on May 12, 2020 \| 122 comments
22.		Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order that closed businesses (jsonline.com)
		188 points by hanging on May 13, 2020 \| 577 comments
23.		Earnest Capital Trailhead (earnestcapital.com)
		162 points by sahillavingia on May 14, 2020 \| 54 comments
24.		My New Old Apple IIe Computer (charlieharrington.com)
		188 points by whatrocks on May 13, 2020 \| 101 comments
25.		The Bosque Programming Language (github.com/microsoft)
		199 points by kermatt on May 14, 2020 \| 174 comments
26.		Safe: Set maximum capacity for any room, floor, or building (density.io)
		135 points by jordanmessina on May 14, 2020 \| 81 comments
27.		Device.farm Generates Linux+Docker Images for about 100 Arm Linux SBCs (cnx-software.com)
		58 points by burgrp on May 14, 2020 \| 24 comments
28.		The faded beauty of abandoned cars across Europe and the US (bbc.co.uk)
		79 points by Kaibeezy on May 13, 2020 \| 70 comments
29.		Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum (coindesk.com)
		276 points by lftherios on May 14, 2020 \| 228 comments
30.		Weakening Cycles So That Turing Can Halt (jondgoodwin.com)
		96 points by Kinrany on May 14, 2020 \| 68 comments
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