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1.		Rust-analyzer – an IDE backend for Rust (rust-analyzer.github.io)
		619 points by steveklabnik on April 27, 2020 \| 112 comments
2.		Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use (twitter.com/disneyplus)
		888 points by slg on April 27, 2020 \| 353 comments
3.		How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping (theguardian.com)
		490 points by Aaronmacaron on April 27, 2020 \| 266 comments
4.		Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries (dansdeals.com)
		311 points by ikarandeep on April 27, 2020 \| 150 comments
5.		textfiles.com (textfiles.com)
		653 points by jhabdas on April 27, 2020 \| 189 comments
6.		Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?
		607 points by qqqqquinnnnn on April 26, 2020 \| 813 comments
7.		Lamest Edit Wars (wikipedia.org)
		441 points by ag8 on April 27, 2020 \| 318 comments
8.		Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not copyrightable [pdf] (supremecourt.gov)
		304 points by erjiang on April 27, 2020 \| 202 comments
9.		The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is being extended through May (sfmayor.org)
		349 points by tdhoot on April 27, 2020 \| 854 comments
10.		I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year (nicklafferty.com)
		418 points by Torwald on April 27, 2020 \| 298 comments
11.		Keys.pub – Manage cryptographic keys and user identities (keys.pub)
		386 points by qertoip on April 27, 2020 \| 88 comments
12.		HSE: Heterogeneous-memory storage engine designed for SSDs (github.com/hse-project)
		237 points by caution on April 27, 2020 \| 45 comments
13.		Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus? (arxiv.org)
		343 points by rbanffy on April 27, 2020 \| 65 comments
14.		YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection (arxiv.org)
		234 points by groar on April 27, 2020 \| 54 comments
15.		Debugging Distributed Systems (acm.org)
		201 points by luu on April 27, 2020 \| 52 comments
16.		Show HN: A syntax highlighter for Git and diff output, written in Rust (github.com/dandavison)
		261 points by Myrmornis on April 27, 2020 \| 40 comments
17.		NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan (bbc.co.uk)
		276 points by jfk13 on April 27, 2020 \| 233 comments
18.		GitQlient – a multi-platform GUI-oriented Git client written with Qt (francescmm.github.io)
		170 points by app4soft on April 27, 2020 \| 64 comments
19.		US Air Force Space Security Challenge 2020: Hack-a-Sat (hackasat.com)
		202 points by Thorondor on April 27, 2020 \| 86 comments
20.		How much power can we expect from rainfall? (eighteenthelephant.com)
		175 points by avoidboringppl on April 26, 2020 \| 105 comments
21.		Tolstoy’s Children’s Stories (lareviewofbooks.org)
		162 points by smiljo on April 27, 2020 \| 101 comments
22.		Beware of the GIF: Account Takeover Vulnerability in Microsoft Teams (cyberark.com)
		166 points by jrenshaw on April 27, 2020 \| 67 comments
23.		How coffee became a modern necessity (wsj.com)
		222 points by heshiebee on April 27, 2020 \| 353 comments
24.		Monorepoize – Bash scripts for creating a monorepo out of smaller repos (github.com/gigamonkey)
		137 points by oumua_don17 on April 26, 2020 \| 102 comments
25.		Heat Pump Water Heaters (energy.gov)
		157 points by branko_d on April 27, 2020 \| 214 comments
26.		Principles and priorities (adactio.com)
		119 points by hypertexthero on April 27, 2020 \| 91 comments
27.		The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age (2018) (yalelawjournal.org)
		154 points by amelius on April 26, 2020 \| 118 comments
28.		Lens Aberrations Explained (phillipreeve.net)
		108 points by luu on April 26, 2020 \| 45 comments
29.		Foucault pendulum (wikipedia.org)
		69 points by bottle2 on April 27, 2020 \| 33 comments
30.		A Critique of React Hooks (dillonshook.com)
		247 points by vicarrion on April 27, 2020 \| 290 comments
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