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1.
Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me? (nullsweep.com)
1294 points by BCharlie on May 20, 2020 | 430 comments
2.
EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3 (reddit.com)
993 points by haunter on May 20, 2020 | 247 comments
3.
Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS (kylehalladay.com)
747 points by ingve on May 20, 2020 | 101 comments
4.
What Is Nix? (shopify.com)
598 points by elsewhen on May 20, 2020 | 333 comments
5.
Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens (studyfinds.org)
415 points by praveenscience on May 20, 2020 | 296 comments
6.
Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work (solipsys.co.uk)
452 points by ColinWright on May 20, 2020 | 131 comments
7.
Surviving Depression (vishnu.tech)
479 points by vishnumohandas on May 20, 2020 | 206 comments
8.
SSH Agent Explained (smallstep.com)
393 points by sourishkrout on May 20, 2020 | 48 comments
9.
Subspace – A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI (github.com/subspacecommunity)
315 points by jamilbk on May 20, 2020 | 92 comments
10.
The Miracle Sudoku [video] (youtube.com)
596 points by eigen-vector on May 18, 2020 | 143 comments
11.
Abusing WebRTC to reveal coarse location data in Signal (medium.com/tenable-techblog)
210 points by geeklord on May 20, 2020 | 64 comments
12.
15 years later: remote code execution in qmail (qualys.com)
259 points by fanf2 on May 20, 2020 | 159 comments
13.
Demo of an OpenAI language model applied to code generation [video] (twitter.com/i)
283 points by cjlovett on May 20, 2020 | 152 comments
14.
Unofficial APIs (github.com/rolstenhouse)
297 points by tornupinside on May 20, 2020 | 72 comments
15.
AWS CloudFormation now supports blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS (amazon.com)
174 points by unigiri on May 20, 2020 | 79 comments
16.
It's 2020 and I'm using image maps (videoinu.com)
213 points by sunnylemon on May 20, 2020 | 106 comments
17.
The State of the AWK (lwn.net)
213 points by benhoyt on May 19, 2020 | 86 comments
18.
Better Box Shadows (CSS) (uglyduck.ca)
143 points by bradley_taunt on May 20, 2020 | 59 comments
19.
Known anomalies in Unicode character names (2017) (unicode.org)
99 points by fanf2 on May 20, 2020 | 83 comments
20.
Free, open and collaborative routing service (openrouteservice.org)
196 points by leonry on May 20, 2020 | 58 comments
21.
Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future (acm.org)
133 points by randomwalker on May 20, 2020 | 32 comments
22.
Apache Drill's Future (apache.org)
132 points by kermatt on May 20, 2020 | 75 comments
23.
Lovely Week with Elixir (ramblingcode.dev)
262 points by sgadimbayli on May 20, 2020 | 132 comments
24.
Show HN: PullPreview – Deploy previews for any application, on your servers (pullpreview.com)
83 points by crohr on May 18, 2020 | 37 comments
25.
The silence of the owls (knowablemagazine.org)
100 points by lxm on May 20, 2020 | 53 comments
26.
Equal Access: Automated accessibility checker for web projects (github.com/ibma)
101 points by iovrthoughtthis on May 20, 2020 | 31 comments
27.
How to Run Algorithmic Information Theory on a Computer (1995) (arxiv.org)
73 points by pizza on May 20, 2020 | 3 comments
28.
Watch Where the Linux Kernel Drops a Packet (die.net)
117 points by dedalus on May 19, 2020 | 20 comments
29.
The Rise and Fall of Polywater (sciencehistory.org)
82 points by anarbadalov on May 19, 2020 | 32 comments
30.
Quick-Thinking Cop Captures Runaway Peacock (bpdnews.com)
131 points by RickJWagner on May 20, 2020 | 38 comments

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