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1.		In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms (reuters.com)
		785 points by throwaway888abc on April 25, 2020 \| 603 comments
2.		A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app` (github.com/then)
		599 points by tessela on April 25, 2020 \| 459 comments
3.		Time is the only real currency we have (theboringtech.io)
		595 points by hackeryogi on April 25, 2020 \| 300 comments
4.		PlantNet – App that helps identify plants from pictures (plantnet.org)
		394 points by shrikant on April 25, 2020 \| 71 comments
5.		Liero can be played in browser now, for those who remember (webliero.com)
		335 points by farseer on April 25, 2020 \| 86 comments
6.		UChicago doctors see ‘remarkable’ success using ventilator alternatives (uchicagomedicine.org)
		293 points by 9nGQluzmnq3M on April 25, 2020 \| 121 comments
7.		Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks (balthazar-rouberol.com)
		353 points by goranmoomin on April 25, 2020 \| 96 comments
8.		Software Development: Mistakes I Made (billwadge.wordpress.com)
		127 points by herodotus on April 25, 2020 \| 34 comments
9.		Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] (duke.edu)
		376 points by undefined1 on April 25, 2020 \| 493 comments
10.		ClojureScript 1.10.741 (clojurescript.org)
		265 points by Jeaye on April 25, 2020 \| 67 comments
11.		Background Matting: The World is Your Green Screen (washington.edu)
		217 points by hr7161 on April 25, 2020 \| 54 comments
12.		Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus (citylab.com)
		277 points by pseudolus on April 25, 2020 \| 234 comments
13.		A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography (cryptobook.us)
		331 points by spking on April 25, 2020 \| 36 comments
14.		Show HN: Free foreign exchange rates API (exchangerate.host)
		249 points by arzzen on April 25, 2020 \| 61 comments
15.		Generating MIDI Music with GPT-2 (gwern.net)
		143 points by gwern on April 25, 2020 \| 43 comments
16.		Show HN: Help Me Decide Please (helpmedecideplease.com)
		194 points by tannerljohnson on April 25, 2020 \| 88 comments
17.		Arithmetic Shifting Considered Harmful (1976) [pdf] (dspace.mit.edu)
		44 points by tjalfi on April 25, 2020 \| 12 comments
18.		CSS for Internationalisation (chenhuijing.com)
		165 points by polm23 on April 24, 2020 \| 37 comments
19.		I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower (ecc-comp.blogspot.com)
		214 points by spiffytech on April 25, 2020 \| 126 comments
20.		Puny GUI – A tiny cross platform GUI Kit in Janet (ahungry.com)
		130 points by ahungry on April 25, 2020 \| 97 comments
21.		Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors (theverge.com)
		302 points by blondin on April 25, 2020 \| 259 comments
22.		Tiers of answers to half-baked questions (plover.com)
		155 points by epoch_100 on April 24, 2020 \| 49 comments
23.		Show HN: An interactive map of countries by tap water quality (iswatersafetodrink.in)
		124 points by smayr on April 25, 2020 \| 93 comments
24.		Filecoin's Cryptoeconomic Constructions (filecoin.io)
		83 points by containerds on April 25, 2020 \| 37 comments
25.		Pointermove event latency in web browsers (rsms.me)
		98 points by secondo on April 25, 2020 \| 56 comments
26.		Myths about USB NKRO and how USB HID works (devever.net)
		118 points by panic on April 25, 2020 \| 59 comments
27.		SmileBASIC 4 for Nintendo Switch (nintendo.com)
		132 points by Fr0styMatt88 on April 25, 2020 \| 68 comments
28.		Qiling Framework - Advanced Binary Emulation Framework (qiling.io)
		58 points by Fnoord on April 25, 2020 \| 12 comments
29.		Researchers discover ferroelectricity at the atomic scale (phys.org)
		89 points by dnetesn on April 24, 2020 \| 8 comments
30.		'Oh no, I spelled it wrong': Nurse runs solo marathon in shape of 'Boston Strog' (cbc.ca)
		110 points by mgsouth on April 24, 2020 \| 48 comments
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