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1.
Joe Armstrong has died (twitter.com/francescoc)
1928 points by okket on April 20, 2019 | 188 comments
2.
We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage (resumeskills.us)
1289 points by sixtypoundhound on April 20, 2019 | 774 comments
3.
Vendors must start adding physical on/off switches to devices that can spy on us (larrysanger.org)
478 points by jrepinc on April 20, 2019 | 194 comments
4.
A visual proof that neural nets can approximate any function (neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com)
341 points by antman on April 20, 2019 | 128 comments
5.
Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Population, Researcher Says (nytimes.com)
416 points by pseudolus on April 20, 2019 | 300 comments
6.
The Mueller Report Can’t Be Copyrighted, Is Flagged by Copyright Bots Anyway (eff.org)
327 points by sohkamyung on April 20, 2019 | 40 comments
7.
Hardening SSH with 2FA (gist.github.com)
204 points by LanceTaylor on April 20, 2019 | 101 comments
8.
Commit messages guide (github.com/romulooliveira)
385 points by walterbell on April 20, 2019 | 183 comments
9.
Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
752 points by phoenix24 on April 19, 2019 | 358 comments
10.
Sinclair ZX81 1KB Chess vs. Stockfish Chess Engine (2018) [video] (youtube.com)
160 points by cpeterso on April 20, 2019 | 29 comments
11.
Python overtakes JavaScript as most questioned language on StackOverflow (globalapptesting.com)
303 points by nnx on April 20, 2019 | 161 comments
12.
Chinese spies stole trade secrets from Dutch chip machine maker ASML: report (nltimes.nl)
215 points by deogeo on April 19, 2019 | 68 comments
13.
Show HN: Should you buy a house and rent it out? (causal.app)
353 points by Lukas1994 on April 20, 2019 | 243 comments
14.
France's Basque Region Creates Its Own Currency (bbc.com)
171 points by rmason on April 19, 2019 | 67 comments
15.
The new features of Fortran 2018 [pdf] (iso.org)
173 points by Tomte on April 20, 2019 | 53 comments
16.
Kustomize – Templating in Kubernetes (stack-labs.com)
135 points by davinkevin on April 20, 2019 | 65 comments
17.
OpenCV-Python Cheat Sheet: From Importing Images to Face Detection (fritz.ai)
177 points by salma-ghoneim on April 20, 2019 | 14 comments
18.
Show HN: Tetris Implemented in ClojureScript (djblue.github.io)
135 points by djblue on April 20, 2019 | 25 comments
19.
Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement (darwinmail.app)
218 points by DarwinMailApp on April 20, 2019 | 221 comments
20.
A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF (pdfa.org)
143 points by mpweiher on April 20, 2019 | 26 comments
21.
Apple said Qualcomm’s tech was no good, but privately it was ‘the best’ (washingtonpost.com)
167 points by wallflower on April 20, 2019 | 106 comments
22.
The Museum of Soviet Space Travel (designyoutrust.com)
87 points by 0x4542 on April 19, 2019 | 24 comments
23.
Nana: A modern C++ GUI library (nanapro.org)
108 points by geezerjay on April 20, 2019 | 95 comments
24.
High-Deductible Health Policies Linked to Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment (npr.org)
158 points by Deinos on April 20, 2019 | 200 comments
25.
Show HN: Mockit – Open-source app to create and configure HTTP mocked endpoints (mockit.netlify.com)
158 points by boyneyy123 on April 20, 2019 | 25 comments
26.
Early mammals are thought to have lived mainly nocturnal lives (nature.com)
57 points by sohkamyung on April 18, 2019 | 18 comments
27.
Writing a Technical Book for Manning (tunetheweb.com)
161 points by tunetheweb on April 19, 2019 | 54 comments
28.
How Venice Works [video] (vimeo.com)
160 points by allthebest on April 20, 2019 | 10 comments
29.
Fh: File history with ed, diff, awk, sed, and sh (github.com/xorhash)
125 points by beefhash on April 20, 2019 | 10 comments
30.
Bézier Curves and Surfaces: The Utah Teapot (scratchapixel.com)
95 points by jacobedawson on April 18, 2019 | 7 comments

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