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31.		SYN cookies ate my dog – breaking TCP on Linux (2018) (kognitio.com)
		130 points by smitop on April 21, 2020 \| 37 comments
32.		Testing Sync at Dropbox (dropbox.tech)
		180 points by rbtying on April 20, 2020 \| 25 comments
33.		Bangkok Smoking Kid (creativesamba.substack.com)
		197 points by kervokian on April 21, 2020 \| 160 comments
34.		Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012) (250bpm.com)
		223 points by marcobambini on April 21, 2020 \| 163 comments
35.		Show HN: Desed – Debugger for Sed (github.com/soptikha2)
		115 points by soptikha2 on April 21, 2020 \| 21 comments
36.		The failure of a mathematical approach to Shakespeare’s authorship (the-tls.co.uk)
		65 points by Hooke on April 21, 2020 \| 11 comments
37.		Combining event sourcing and stateful systems (stitcher.io)
		130 points by brendt_gd on April 21, 2020 \| 40 comments
38.		Libschrift: A lightweight TrueType font rendering library (github.com/tomolt)
		98 points by zdw on April 20, 2020 \| 73 comments
39.		Sun Microsystems PizzaTool (2018) (medium.com/donhopkins)
		110 points by zdw on April 20, 2020 \| 71 comments
40.		Restoring React reducer state across browser sessions (executeprogram.com)
		46 points by execute_program on April 20, 2020 \| 11 comments
41.		An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus (kalzumeus.com)
		214 points by balfirevic on April 21, 2020 \| 171 comments
42.		Apple engineer in need of OSS maintainers (twitter.com/mdiep)
		196 points by Austin_Conlon on April 21, 2020 \| 229 comments
43.		Ok Google – it's time you discovered cyclists (cyklistbloggen.se)
		267 points by pivip on April 21, 2020 \| 191 comments
44.		[dupe] US oil prices turn negative as demand dries up (bbc.com)
		254 points by DarkContinent on April 20, 2020 \| 121 comments
45.		Google drops charges on shopping service to counter Amazon's surging ad sales (reuters.com)
		126 points by 0xedb on April 21, 2020 \| 105 comments
46.		Sounds of the Bodleian (ox.ac.uk)
		27 points by tintinnabula on April 20, 2020 \| 13 comments
47.		Matheminecraft: Where math and Minecraft meet (phys.org)
		71 points by lelf on April 21, 2020 \| 26 comments
48.		Running decade-old games in containers (brukman.net)
		72 points by mbrukman on April 21, 2020 \| 55 comments
49.		Ask HN: How to get good at social media?
		146 points by thrwaway69 on April 21, 2020 \| 67 comments
50.		The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (2018) (medium.com/datadriveninvestor)
		238 points by treasure2seek on April 21, 2020 \| 212 comments
51.		AMD Ryzen: new low cost quad-core Zen 2 CPUs from $99 (anandtech.com)
		134 points by rbanffy on April 21, 2020 \| 130 comments
52.		GitHub is degraded/down (githubstatus.com)
		263 points by juancampa on April 21, 2020 \| 162 comments
53.		How Reliable Are University Rankings? (arxiv.org)
		65 points by ijustlurk on April 21, 2020 \| 85 comments
54.		Boost VC closes $40M fund as revamped ‘sci-fi’ accelerator (techcrunch.com)
		55 points by brayton on April 21, 2020 \| 20 comments
55.		Interference: Open-source distibuted database with complex event processing (github.com/interference-project)
		39 points by interference on April 21, 2020 \| 5 comments
56.		Quantum steampunk: 19th-century science meets technology of today (scientificamerican.com)
		34 points by pseudolus on April 21, 2020 \| 1 comment
57.		New Zealand relied on science and empathy (bbc.com)
		79 points by colinprince on April 21, 2020 \| 92 comments
58.		Hacking website like HN in French (journalduhacker.net)
		88 points by pioc on April 21, 2020 \| 41 comments
59.		Google's Head of Quantum Computing Hardware Resigns (wired.com)
		112 points by mmhsieh on April 21, 2020 \| 32 comments
60.		Alma reveals unusual composition of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov (phys.org)
		27 points by dnetesn on April 21, 2020 \| 3 comments
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