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1.		Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M (axios.com)
		957 points by coloneltcb on May 15, 2020 \| 507 comments
2.		Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google (wsj.com)
		492 points by xoxoy on May 15, 2020 \| 473 comments
3.		A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub (saddlebackbbq.com)
		975 points by rmason on May 15, 2020 \| 420 comments
4.		Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments (techcrunch.com)
		386 points by cpeterso on May 15, 2020 \| 166 comments
5.		TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Semiconductor Fab in U.S. (tsmc.com)
		540 points by ytch on May 15, 2020 \| 419 comments
6.		Google Erases Thousands of Links, Tricked by Phony Complaints (wsj.com)
		319 points by known on May 15, 2020 \| 117 comments
7.		Our Chrome Extension Is Safe (pushbullet.com)
		328 points by imran3740 on May 15, 2020 \| 197 comments
8.		US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay at home (techcrunch.com)
		377 points by lxm on May 15, 2020 \| 296 comments
9.		So you want to write your own CSV code (2014) (thomasburette.com)
		303 points by ColinWright on May 15, 2020 \| 253 comments
10.		The unattributable “db8151dd” data breach (troyhunt.com)
		309 points by iDemonix on May 15, 2020 \| 148 comments
11.		WebAssembly COBOL Pong (moxon6.github.io)
		181 points by ColinEberhardt on May 15, 2020 \| 33 comments
12.		The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017 (dropbox.tech)
		307 points by dgoldstein0 on May 15, 2020 \| 209 comments
13.		Next dream job can be in an HTTP header (frenxi.com)
		374 points by frenxi on May 15, 2020 \| 171 comments
14.		Gilead should ditch remdesivir and focus on its simpler and safer ancestor (statnews.com)
		180 points by phonon on May 15, 2020 \| 87 comments
15.		Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine (cloud.google.com)
		180 points by v7p1Qbt1im on May 14, 2020 \| 66 comments
16.		The DynamoDB Book: Data Modeling with NoSQL and DynamoDB (dynamodbbook.com)
		245 points by abd12 on May 15, 2020 \| 110 comments
17.		What developers should know about TCP (robertovitillo.com)
		359 points by todsacerdoti on May 14, 2020 \| 154 comments
18.		Roman Finger Counting (tookmund.com)
		180 points by JNRowe on May 14, 2020 \| 86 comments
19.		Port knocking (wikipedia.org)
		254 points by simonpure on May 15, 2020 \| 178 comments
20.		A highly efficient, real-time text-to-speech system deployed on CPUs (facebook.com)
		157 points by moneil971 on May 15, 2020 \| 47 comments
21.		The PeerTube content bootstrap fund (sourcehut.org)
		189 points by ddevault on May 15, 2020 \| 77 comments
22.		GitHub Actions: Organization secrets (github.blog)
		174 points by anthonysterling on May 15, 2020 \| 28 comments
23.		The CPU Cost of Networking on a Linux Host (kernel.org)
		192 points by sohkamyung on May 15, 2020 \| 49 comments
24.		Python – Writing large ZIP archives without memory inflation (github.com/buzonio)
		107 points by sandes on May 15, 2020 \| 45 comments
25.		Pretending OOP Never Happened (johndcook.com)
		290 points by zdw on May 15, 2020 \| 339 comments
26.		Polyglot Makefiles (agdr.org)
		153 points by sciencerobot on May 15, 2020 \| 43 comments
27.		An SSL cert that is valid for any and all domains and all levels of subdomains (github.com/flotwig)
		205 points by kick on May 15, 2020 \| 82 comments
28.		When James Baldwin wrote about the Atlanta child murders (newyorker.com)
		74 points by prismatic on May 13, 2020 \| 17 comments
29.		Embedding Objective-Smalltalk (metaobject.com)
		78 points by mpweiher on May 14, 2020 \| 7 comments
30.		If Rockets Were Transparent [video] (youtube.com)
		239 points by vdfs on May 15, 2020 \| 121 comments
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