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1.		Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video] (youtube.com)
		971 points by swighton on April 17, 2020 \| 162 comments
2.		Learning to See in the Dark (2018) (github.com/cchen156)
		645 points by ksaxena on April 17, 2020 \| 170 comments
3.		A Taste of GPU Compute [video] (youtube.com)
		280 points by raphlinus on April 15, 2020 \| 165 comments
4.		Is BGP Safe Yet? (isbgpsafeyet.com)
		505 points by eastdakota on April 17, 2020 \| 107 comments
5.		ICANN delays .org selloff after California’s attorney general intervenes (theregister.co.uk)
		537 points by sohkamyung on April 17, 2020 \| 139 comments
6.		Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health (sixcolors.com)
		369 points by uptown on April 16, 2020 \| 372 comments
7.		Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free (reuters.com)
		373 points by mancerayder on April 16, 2020 \| 527 comments
8.		Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds (zoomerbackgrounds.com)
		327 points by logane on April 17, 2020 \| 78 comments
9.		Gleam: A statically typed language for the Erlang VM (gleam.run)
		331 points by andrenth on April 17, 2020 \| 109 comments
10.		Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant (dutzi.party)
		402 points by dutzi on April 17, 2020 \| 138 comments
11.		Possible dinosaur DNA has been found (scientificamerican.com)
		240 points by bookofjoe on April 17, 2020 \| 114 comments
12.		Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch (assemblyai.com)
		288 points by makaimc on April 17, 2020 \| 33 comments
13.		XB-1's wings are officially closed out (boomsupersonic.com)
		175 points by howrude on April 17, 2020 \| 176 comments
14.		Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [video] (youtube.com)
		286 points by mmmBacon on April 17, 2020 \| 311 comments
15.		Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures (lowtechmagazine.com)
		264 points by Luc on April 16, 2020 \| 102 comments
16.		Ask HN: How is your PPP loan application coming along?
		254 points by AndrewBissell on April 17, 2020 \| 207 comments
17.		Deep sea squid communicate by glowing like e-readers (npr.org)
		147 points by pseudolus on April 17, 2020 \| 41 comments
18.		Cooperative Corporation of Dot-Org Registrants (ccor.org)
		142 points by miles on April 17, 2020 \| 34 comments
19.		In Pursuit of PPE (nejm.org)
		173 points by erwan on April 17, 2020 \| 196 comments
20.		Rust Survey 2019 Results (rust-lang.org)
		185 points by steveklabnik on April 17, 2020 \| 202 comments
21.		A Failure, but Not of Prediction (slatestarcodex.com)
		223 points by barry-cotter on April 15, 2020 \| 177 comments
22.		Grain, a startup built atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making (techcrunch.com)
		115 points by bismark on April 16, 2020 \| 82 comments
23.		How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs globally (onezero.medium.com)
		254 points by walterbell on April 17, 2020 \| 82 comments
24.		Shopify CTO: our platform is now handling Black Friday level traffic every day (twitter.com/jmwind)
		315 points by i_am_viet on April 17, 2020 \| 126 comments
25.		Will Asia Rewrite Human History? (sapiens.org)
		110 points by anthrocurious on April 16, 2020 \| 31 comments
26.		Fix Boyer-Moore searcher with the Rytter correction (github.com/microsoft)
		193 points by HenryR on April 17, 2020 \| 53 comments
27.		Ruby Concurrency Final Report (codeotaku.com)
		229 points by pvsukale3 on April 15, 2020 \| 47 comments
28.		What Outranks Thread Priority? (randomascii.wordpress.com)
		101 points by benaadams on April 15, 2020 \| 19 comments
29.		The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (2015) (thevinylfactory.com)
		165 points by severine on April 17, 2020 \| 30 comments
30.		Telescope Sees Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole, Proves Einstein Right (eso.org)
		141 points by lelf on April 16, 2020 \| 65 comments
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