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1. Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times (gist.github.com)
669 points by premek on April 13, 2020 | 267 comments
2. Proof of concept: end-to-end encryption in Jitsi Meet (jitsi.org)
617 points by jrepinc on April 13, 2020 | 155 comments
3. Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as it is to use it (malleable.systems)
336 points by goranmoomin on April 13, 2020 | 204 comments
4. Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors (colornames.org)
557 points by picdit on April 13, 2020 | 224 comments
5. Building a ternary computer at home: a software emulator (github.com/ssloy)
153 points by haqreu on April 13, 2020 | 30 comments
6. Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems (grahamc.com)
365 points by grhmc on April 13, 2020 | 115 comments
7. Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (unixsheikh.com)
381 points by signa11 on April 13, 2020 | 361 comments
8. Saving money on international payments as a remote freelancer (jurn.io)
376 points by 0verAchiever on April 13, 2020 | 244 comments
9. Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate (inkscape.org)
710 points by Vinnl on April 13, 2020 | 156 comments
10. Writing a Book with Pandoc, Make, and Vim (keleshev.com)
423 points by halst on April 13, 2020 | 60 comments
11. Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go (eatonphil.com)
430 points by v3gas on April 12, 2020 | 54 comments
12. “Sequel” to the million dollar homepage using WebGL (milliondollarmetropolis.com)
273 points by jumprite on April 13, 2020 | 134 comments
13. Game of Life, Simulated in the Game of Life (2012) [video] (youtube.com)
227 points by eigenvalue on April 11, 2020 | 31 comments
14. Build versus Buy (lethain.com)
255 points by sciurus on April 13, 2020 | 92 comments
15. How to Interview Engineers When You're Not Technical – Part II (greghausheer.com)
195 points by greghausheer on April 13, 2020 | 87 comments
16. Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz (scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com)
176 points by scarybeast on April 13, 2020 | 74 comments
17. Luminus – A Clojure Web Framework (luminusweb.com)
224 points by Naac on April 13, 2020 | 43 comments
18. My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie (twitter.com/thrillscience)
279 points by fortran77 on April 13, 2020 | 46 comments
19. Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
629 points by zJayv on April 12, 2020 | 516 comments
20. Remembering Conway (solipsys.co.uk)
182 points by ColinWright on April 13, 2020 | 18 comments
21. Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park (latimes.com)
302 points by NoRagrets on April 13, 2020 | 224 comments
22. Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python (github.com/twintproject)
204 points by usernameno on April 11, 2020 | 63 comments
23. mdBook – A utility to create modern online books from Markdown files (github.com/rust-lang)
258 points by karlicoss on April 13, 2020 | 41 comments
24. Magicpak: Build minimal Docker images without static linking (github.com/coord-e)
112 points by coorde on April 13, 2020 | 30 comments
25. Computers Can Be Understood (nelhage.com)
170 points by miked85 on April 12, 2020 | 57 comments
26. Why Aren’t More Users More Happy With Our VMs? Part 1 (2018) (tratt.net)
145 points by agronaut on April 12, 2020 | 88 comments
27. Show HN: Watch YouTube videos in a 3D world with your friends (dj3d.io)
212 points by masterspy7 on April 13, 2020 | 59 comments
28. Does time really flow? New clues from intuitionist math (quantamagazine.org)
153 points by nikolasavic on April 12, 2020 | 105 comments
29. Deconstructing Sega's System 16 Security – Part 2 (arcadehacker.blogspot.com)
76 points by kens on April 13, 2020 | 3 comments
30. As of April 7, 2020, CA DMV has issued two Driverless Vehicle Testing Permits (ca.gov)
108 points by pengaru on April 13, 2020 | 60 comments

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