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1.		Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days (bbc.co.uk)
		953 points by tompagenet2 on March 19, 2020 \| 744 comments
2.		GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization (bloomberg.com)
		831 points by avonmach on March 19, 2020 \| 548 comments
3.		Things you can do with a browser in 2020 (github.com/luruke)
		698 points by therealmarv on March 19, 2020 \| 382 comments
4.		CSS Zen Garden (csszengarden.com)
		462 points by eniz on March 19, 2020 \| 217 comments
5.		GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions (twitter.com/eisenbergeffect)
		508 points by gortok on March 19, 2020 \| 290 comments
6.		Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains? (sloanreview.mit.edu)
		494 points by sarapeyton on March 19, 2020 \| 315 comments
7.		A secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT (2018) (cake.co)
		257 points by ingve on March 19, 2020 \| 86 comments
8.		Hyperland (1990) [video] (youtube.com)
		107 points by DonHopkins on March 19, 2020 \| 18 comments
9.		Free virtual tours of 2,500 museums around the world (artsandculture.google.com)
		420 points by bookofjoe on March 18, 2020 \| 30 comments
10.		The End of Starsky Robotics (medium.com/starsky-robotics-blog)
		357 points by stefan8r on March 19, 2020 \| 156 comments
11.		1% rule (wikipedia.org)
		465 points by punnerud on March 18, 2020 \| 151 comments
12.		Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated (2018) (farhan.codes)
		245 points by pjmlp on March 19, 2020 \| 133 comments
13.		MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons (github.com/tabler)
		398 points by dandanio on March 19, 2020 \| 42 comments
14.		RFC: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki (wikimedia.org)
		309 points by aliveupstairs on March 19, 2020 \| 277 comments
15.		Covid-19 Open Research Dataset (semanticscholar.org)
		219 points by shinryudbz on March 19, 2020 \| 47 comments
16.		NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS, but forgot about egress costs (theregister.co.uk)
		282 points by nobita on March 19, 2020 \| 173 comments
17.		Illustrated Jq Tutorial (mosermichael.github.io)
		272 points by MichaelMoser123 on March 19, 2020 \| 72 comments
18.		Show HN: Covid-19 Interactive Model (neherlab.org)
		291 points by nbnoll on March 18, 2020 \| 100 comments
19.		Machine Learning Flashcards (machinelearningflashcards.com)
		185 points by rgardaphe on March 19, 2020 \| 38 comments
20.		ISH: An Alpine Linux Shell on iOS (ish.app)
		193 points by qubex on March 19, 2020 \| 80 comments
21.		A principled approach to system design and programming (urbit.org)
		182 points by yosoyubik on March 19, 2020 \| 57 comments
22.		Linux was first released to the world from here 17.9.1991 (funet.fi)
		181 points by K33P4D on March 18, 2020 \| 106 comments
23.		How Soviet science magazines fantasized about life in outer space (atlasobscura.com)
		150 points by Hooke on March 17, 2020 \| 20 comments
24.		Münchhausen Trilemma (wikipedia.org)
		138 points by peter_d_sherman on March 19, 2020 \| 128 comments
25.		The Troublesome Active Record Pattern (calpaterson.com)
		168 points by tannhaeuser on March 18, 2020 \| 98 comments
26.		RPC Olympics – The Search for the Perfect RPC Protocol (perimeterx.com)
		88 points by amirshk80 on March 18, 2020 \| 70 comments
27.		Tyk: Micro-grants for side projects (tyk.io)
		138 points by sakofchit on March 19, 2020 \| 27 comments
28.		Mathematica v12.1 (stephenwolfram.com)
		129 points by taliesinb on March 19, 2020 \| 96 comments
29.		Launch HN: Nextmv (YC W20) – Developer-friendly logistics algorithms
		142 points by mooneyc6 on March 19, 2020 \| 33 comments
30.		Spotted water hemlock is the most toxic plant in North America (atlasobscura.com)
		153 points by babelfish on March 19, 2020 \| 59 comments
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