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1.		Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation (axios.com)
		721 points by hhs on April 16, 2020 \| 444 comments
2.		For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression (quantamagazine.org)
		669 points by theafh on April 16, 2020 \| 225 comments
3.		Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization (github.com/plotly)
		604 points by escot on April 15, 2020 \| 84 comments
4.		Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything (paperspace.com)
		390 points by rerapp on April 16, 2020 \| 252 comments
5.		Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes later investments case-by-case (techcrunch.com)
		350 points by jmsflknr on April 16, 2020 \| 167 comments
6.		Phoenix LiveDashboard (github.com/phoenixframework)
		419 points by feross on April 16, 2020 \| 92 comments
7.		Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020 (bloomberg.com)
		382 points by prophetjohn on April 15, 2020 \| 279 comments
8.		GitHub has completed its acquisition of NPM (github.blog)
		312 points by 0xedb on April 15, 2020 \| 199 comments
9.		Reverse-engineering the TL431: the most common chip you’ve never heard of (2014) (righto.com)
		251 points by pngmangi on April 16, 2020 \| 46 comments
10.		Embedding Binary Objects in C (tedunangst.com)
		257 points by ingve on April 16, 2020 \| 136 comments
11.		Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal [video] (youtube.com)
		245 points by hexadec on April 15, 2020 \| 60 comments
12.		Show HN: FoundersList – Looking for a cofounder or a new startup to work on? (founderslist.com)
		178 points by philipcamilleri on April 16, 2020 \| 68 comments
13.		Cleaning algorithm finds 20% of errors in major image recognition datasets (deepomatic.com)
		221 points by groar on April 16, 2020 \| 72 comments
14.		Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down (echelog.com)
		184 points by highspeedmobile on April 16, 2020 \| 132 comments
15.		Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban (wekan.github.io)
		278 points by jonifico on April 16, 2020 \| 86 comments
16.		Hand Scraping a Truly Flat Plane (1908) [pdf] (galleyrack.com)
		163 points by rkagerer on April 16, 2020 \| 95 comments
17.		Auth0 JWT Auth Bypass: Case-Sensitive Blacklisting Is Harmful (insomniasec.com)
		195 points by CiPHPerCoder on April 16, 2020 \| 92 comments
18.		GoPro cuts workforce, changes sales strategy (bloomberg.com)
		158 points by doppp on April 16, 2020 \| 235 comments
19.		Could the Earth be an evaporated gas giant planet? (demystifyingscience.com)
		143 points by mickfaraday on April 16, 2020 \| 99 comments
20.		EventReduce: An algorithm to optimize database queries that run multiple times (github.com/pubkey)
		208 points by eventreduce on April 16, 2020 \| 85 comments
21.		Melting ice reveals a Viking-era pass in Norway’s mountains (scientificamerican.com)
		171 points by Bender on April 16, 2020 \| 42 comments
22.		Show HN: Video conference and synchronized YouTube video to do fitness in groups (co-train.space)
		143 points by dulyanov on April 16, 2020 \| 54 comments
23.		I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC (fixmyquarantine.com)
		162 points by ImGameDeving on April 16, 2020 \| 60 comments
24.		Ask HN: Who Is Firing?
		604 points by justforfunhere on April 16, 2020 \| 558 comments
25.		Rämixx500 – An Open Hardware remake of the Commodore Amiga 500+ mainboard (github.com/sukkopera)
		150 points by doener on April 16, 2020 \| 46 comments
26.		Security lapse exposed Clearview AI source code (techcrunch.com)
		145 points by jbegley on April 16, 2020 \| 35 comments
27.		SQL is a better API language than GraphQL – Convince me otherwise (twitter.com/simonw)
		348 points by edward on April 16, 2020 \| 152 comments
28.		Loss of power grid automatic control due to software update [pdf] (nerc.com)
		62 points by eigenvector on April 16, 2020 \| 27 comments
29.		Lidar: Peek into the Future with iPad Pro (halide.cam)
		218 points by 2bluesc on April 16, 2020 \| 70 comments
30.		Architects and engineers are turning old shipping containers into mobiled ICUs (cbc.ca)
		115 points by engineeringp on April 16, 2020 \| 59 comments
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