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1.		If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (tttthis.com)
		1186 points by TTTThis on May 16, 2020 \| 615 comments
2.		Game Programming Patterns (2014) (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)
		635 points by simonpure on May 16, 2020 \| 86 comments
3.		What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka (michael-noll.com)
		597 points by aloknnikhil on May 16, 2020 \| 276 comments
4.		Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions (infoq.com)
		429 points by nan0 on May 15, 2020 \| 300 comments
5.		Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
		578 points by cJ0th on May 16, 2020 \| 228 comments
6.		So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering (columbia.edu)
		394 points by luu on May 15, 2020 \| 219 comments
7.		Serve Videos Instead of GIFs (dannyguo.com)
		273 points by todsacerdoti on May 16, 2020 \| 230 comments
8.		Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?
		780 points by krm01 on May 15, 2020 \| 445 comments
9.		Emotionally Expressive Text to Speech (sonantic.io)
		261 points by interweb on May 16, 2020 \| 101 comments
10.		A Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952) [video] (youtube.com)
		162 points by _zhqs on May 16, 2020 \| 39 comments
11.		Extracting ROM constants from the 8087 math coprocessor's die (righto.com)
		150 points by matt_d on May 16, 2020 \| 23 comments
12.		Show HN: New UI pattern for file manager type apps (github.com/greyduchess)
		124 points by greyshirts on May 16, 2020 \| 33 comments
13.		DIY Particle Detector (cern.ch)
		226 points by homarp on May 15, 2020 \| 42 comments
14.		New species of fungus identified via Twitter (phys.org)
		246 points by dnetesn on May 16, 2020 \| 93 comments
15.		Text exceeding maxlength will no longer be truncated when pasted in Firefox 77 (fxsitecompat.dev)
		161 points by oftenwrong on May 16, 2020 \| 134 comments
16.		Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron (github.com/alexkim205)
		194 points by mrchaniku on May 15, 2020 \| 96 comments
17.		Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds? (newyorker.com)
		250 points by seek3r00 on May 16, 2020 \| 477 comments
18.		The Linux Kernel FPGA Subsystem (kernel.org)
		215 points by yummypaint on May 16, 2020 \| 23 comments
19.		Turf war: Detroit Mower Gang competes in 12-hour playground cleanup (detroitnews.com)
		117 points by rmason on May 16, 2020 \| 65 comments
20.		Factors associated with Covid-19 deaths in records of 17M adult NHS patients (twitter.com/bengoldacre)
		225 points by gandalfian on May 15, 2020 \| 199 comments
21.		ChromeGalvanizer – Harden your browser against extension backdoors and exploits (github.com/mandatoryprogrammer)
		101 points by mandatory on May 16, 2020 \| 37 comments
22.		uBlock Origin on Firefox Preview (github.com/ublockorigin)
		330 points by surround on May 16, 2020 \| 96 comments
23.		Modern C++ gamedev: thoughts and misconceptions (vittorioromeo.info)
		221 points by ingve on May 16, 2020 \| 217 comments
24.		Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux’s Dominance (2019) (acm.org)
		247 points by todsacerdoti on May 16, 2020 \| 180 comments
25.		Shibuya Pixel Art 2020 (lexaloffle.com)
		139 points by polm23 on May 16, 2020 \| 40 comments
26.		Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a Covid app, but it hasn’t helped much (technologyreview.com)
		157 points by jtbayly on May 16, 2020 \| 186 comments
27.		Sony Builds AI into a CMOS Image Sensor (ieee.org)
		81 points by anandaverma18 on May 15, 2020 \| 25 comments
28.		OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2 (jcs.org)
		183 points by rodrigo975 on May 16, 2020 \| 41 comments
29.		State of Loom (java.net)
		202 points by mxschumacher on May 16, 2020 \| 134 comments
30.		Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 99% isopropanol? (gotopac.com)
		283 points by montalbano on May 16, 2020 \| 130 comments
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