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1.		Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products (wsj.com)
		1350 points by benryon on April 23, 2020 \| 692 comments
2.		If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right (apple.stackexchange.com)
		895 points by CoffeeOnWrite on April 23, 2020 \| 478 comments
3.		Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips starting in 2021 (bloomberg.com)
		482 points by blopeur on April 23, 2020 \| 533 comments
4.		YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice (bbc.com)
		768 points by topoftheforts on April 23, 2020 \| 1000 comments
5.		Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have Covid antibodies (6sqft.com)
		364 points by kgwgk on April 23, 2020 \| 651 comments
6.		Ancient Egyptian pregnancy test survived millenia because it worked (2018) (howstuffworks.com)
		194 points by vezycash on April 23, 2020 \| 92 comments
7.		The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford (bbc.co.uk)
		242 points by dustinmoris on April 23, 2020 \| 210 comments
8.		Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification (blog.google)
		200 points by NicoJuicy on April 23, 2020 \| 92 comments
9.		A primer on some C obfuscation tricks (github.com/colinianking)
		223 points by simonpure on April 23, 2020 \| 88 comments
10.		Anthos support for multi-cloud is generally available (cloud.google.com)
		189 points by 9nGQluzmnq3M on April 23, 2020 \| 113 comments
11.		The 2020 iPhone SE (daringfireball.net)
		298 points by FabHK on April 23, 2020 \| 302 comments
12.		A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)
		226 points by feross on April 23, 2020 \| 77 comments
13.		75-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's internet (2011) (ieee.org)
		169 points by EndXA on April 23, 2020 \| 97 comments
14.		When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages (2016) (thestar.com)
		273 points by elorant on April 23, 2020 \| 112 comments
15.		Wgpu-rs on the web (gfx-rs.github.io)
		232 points by grovesNL on April 22, 2020 \| 59 comments
16.		Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) (ubuntu.com)
		589 points by dragonsh on April 23, 2020 \| 385 comments
17.		How the Father of FinFETs Helped Save Moore’s Law (ieee.org)
		166 points by matt_d on April 22, 2020 \| 28 comments
18.		Cap'n Proto 0.8: Streaming flow control, HTTP-over-RPC, fibers (capnproto.org)
		259 points by kentonv on April 23, 2020 \| 72 comments
19.		IRC Logger with fluid web interface, search function, and live streaming (2019) (github.com/whitequark)
		90 points by luu on April 22, 2020 \| 31 comments
20.		Two Months with Powershell on a Unix (joejag.com)
		142 points by joejag on April 22, 2020 \| 108 comments
21.		An important safety note about chown and symlinks (also chmod and chgrp) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		101 points by zdw on April 21, 2020 \| 30 comments
22.		Show HN: Tail Recursion Optimization for the JVM (github.com/sipkab)
		107 points by sipkab on April 22, 2020 \| 38 comments
23.		Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids (haskellforall.com)
		144 points by lelf on April 22, 2020 \| 40 comments
24.		Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon (businessinsider.com)
		196 points by garraeth on April 23, 2020 \| 264 comments
25.		Instacart announces new Covid-19 policies and plans to hire 250k more shoppers (techcrunch.com)
		134 points by rafaelc on April 23, 2020 \| 166 comments
26.		Amazon AppFlow (amazon.com)
		161 points by beninada on April 23, 2020 \| 109 comments
27.		EBPF is turning the Linux kernel into a microkernel (docs.google.com)
		194 points by yoquan on April 23, 2020 \| 89 comments
28.		Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers (manualdousuario.net)
		396 points by rpgbr on April 23, 2020 \| 301 comments
29.		When Tailwinds Vanish (luttig.substack.com)
		104 points by sethbannon on April 23, 2020 \| 35 comments
30.		What a one line change did to the Chrome sandbox (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
		160 points by jbredeche on April 22, 2020 \| 62 comments
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