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1.		MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? (macromates.com)
		2031 points by jrk on May 22, 2020 \| 998 comments
2.		Siri, What Time Is It in London? (daringfireball.net)
		728 points by jmsflknr on May 22, 2020 \| 748 comments
3.		I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser? (twitter.com/kaydo)
		649 points by Kroeler on May 22, 2020 \| 246 comments
4.		Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free (timescale.com)
		482 points by manigandham on May 22, 2020 \| 215 comments
5.		The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983 (devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline)
		546 points by AlexeyBrin on May 21, 2020 \| 266 comments
6.		Breathing habits are related to physical and mental health (wsj.com)
		571 points by SirLJ on May 22, 2020 \| 281 comments
7.		110M year-old nodosaur is the best-preserved fossil of its kind (2017) (nationalgeographic.com)
		244 points by djsumdog on May 22, 2020 \| 77 comments
8.		Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes (nvidia.com)
		292 points by doener on May 22, 2020 \| 149 comments
9.		Scott Forstall tells story about Steve Jobs, Microsoft, and a dead fish [video] (loopinsight.com)
		235 points by shawndumas on May 22, 2020 \| 135 comments
10.		The economics of cheaper batteries (arstechnica.com)
		225 points by vanburen on May 22, 2020 \| 158 comments
11.		Show HN: Create a custom macOS app from a group of websites (github.com/hkgumbs)
		170 points by kofigumbs on May 22, 2020 \| 44 comments
12.		Programming Inside a Container (lemire.me)
		173 points by nkurz on May 22, 2020 \| 114 comments
13.		Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly Swarms (quantamagazine.org)
		174 points by pseudolus on May 22, 2020 \| 36 comments
14.		Show HN: Chartss.css – accessible HTML/CSS charts with markdown support (rbitr.github.io)
		265 points by andy99 on May 22, 2020 \| 50 comments
15.		On Facebook and YouTube, classical musicians are getting blocked or muted (washingtonpost.com)
		266 points by pulisse on May 22, 2020 \| 127 comments
16.		What Unity Is Getting Wrong (garry.tv)
		362 points by ReticentVole on May 22, 2020 \| 297 comments
17.		Next-generation solar cells pass strict international tests (sydney.edu.au)
		146 points by headalgorithm on May 22, 2020 \| 76 comments
18.		Employers are rethinking open-plan office design (citylab.com)
		240 points by SamWhited on May 22, 2020 \| 236 comments
19.		To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one (cnbc.com)
		127 points by airstrike on May 22, 2020 \| 37 comments
20.		Picture Hanging Knot (2017) (ukpictureframingsupplies.co.uk)
		141 points by polm23 on May 22, 2020 \| 51 comments
21.		Using `make` and `git diff` for a simple and powerful test harness (chrismorgan.info)
		239 points by chrismorgan on May 22, 2020 \| 46 comments
22.		Where Do Eels Come From? (newyorker.com)
		156 points by Thevet on May 21, 2020 \| 54 comments
23.		The Economics of ASICs: At What Point Does a Custom SoC Become Viable? (2019) (electronicdesign.com)
		123 points by amelius on May 22, 2020 \| 52 comments
24.		Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos (simonwillison.net)
		216 points by markx2 on May 22, 2020 \| 36 comments
25.		On GraphQL-to-SQL (productionreadygraphql.com)
		162 points by danielrearden on May 22, 2020 \| 66 comments
26.		The What-If Tool: Code-Free Probing of Machine Learning Models (2018) (googleblog.com)
		134 points by polm23 on May 21, 2020 \| 7 comments
27.		GitLab 13.0 (about.gitlab.com)
		282 points by marksamman on May 22, 2020 \| 84 comments
28.		Quickref – Experimental search engine for developers (quickref.dev)
		188 points by feross on May 21, 2020 \| 43 comments
29.		Goals and Priorities for C++ (open-std.org)
		140 points by cyber1 on May 21, 2020 \| 197 comments
30.		Chip-scale blue light phased array (osapublishing.org)
		59 points by WaitWaitWha on May 22, 2020 \| 14 comments
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