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1. We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir (acsh.org)
709 points by tomstokes on April 5, 2020 | 229 comments
2. Crafting “Crafting Interpreters” (stuffwithstuff.com)
777 points by _vbdg on April 5, 2020 | 74 comments
3. Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report (bose.com)
640 points by robbiet480 on April 5, 2020 | 321 comments
4. Csound: A sound and music computing system (csound.com)
226 points by diaphanous on April 5, 2020 | 90 comments
5. New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system (twitter.com/manicode)
447 points by enraged_camel on April 4, 2020 | 295 comments
6. All models are wrong, but some are completely wrong (rssdss.design.blog)
305 points by magoghm on April 5, 2020 | 207 comments
7. Configs suck? Try a real programming language (beepb00p.xyz)
289 points by gyre007 on April 5, 2020 | 343 comments
8. Ilo sitelen, a handmade computer for Toki Pona (increpare.com)
204 points by tobr on April 5, 2020 | 89 comments
9. The Svelte Compiler Handbook (lihautan.com)
330 points by PKop on April 5, 2020 | 131 comments
10. Show HN: Export HN Favorites to a CSV File
240 points by gabrielsroka on April 5, 2020 | 39 comments
11. Why build an entire computer on breadboards? [video] (youtube.com)
221 points by guiambros on April 4, 2020 | 27 comments
12. Newly unemployed New Yorkers are being frustrated by 1970s-era technology (nytimes.com)
290 points by dankohn1 on April 5, 2020 | 205 comments
13. A scheduling tool for bread baking (breadscheduler.com)
276 points by coldsnap427 on April 5, 2020 | 118 comments
14. Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability (whatsinstock.app)
165 points by kmdupree on April 4, 2020 | 85 comments
15. Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006) (paulgraham.com)
196 points by docuru on April 3, 2020 | 96 comments
16. If you imagine a business making surgical facemasks is working 24/7, guess again (dallasnews.com)
332 points by smacktoward on April 5, 2020 | 358 comments
17. Must, Should, Don't Care: TCP Conformance in the Wild (arxiv.org)
155 points by g0xA52A2A on April 5, 2020 | 52 comments
18. Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in South Africa (smithsonianmag.com)
138 points by reedwolf on April 3, 2020 | 21 comments
19. How to make a simple all-sky camera (skyatnightmagazine.com)
134 points by jacquesm on April 5, 2020 | 18 comments
20. Org-roam: Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode (github.com/jethrokuan)
163 points by karlicoss on April 3, 2020 | 68 comments
21. Show HN: Fe – A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C (github.com/rxi)
143 points by rxi on April 5, 2020 | 20 comments
22. General Transit Feed Specification and Clojure (grison.me)
78 points by simonpure on April 4, 2020 | 8 comments
23. How Antennas Work (antenna-theory.com)
250 points by codesuki on April 5, 2020 | 74 comments
24. Partying over Internet: Technological Aspects (250bpm.com)
105 points by rumcajz on April 5, 2020 | 44 comments
25. FortressOne: Quake Team Fortress (1996) mod still under active development (fortressone.org)
149 points by drzel on April 4, 2020 | 70 comments
26. Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) (rhodesmill.org)
253 points by Tomte on April 4, 2020 | 89 comments
27. GoJS – Interactive JavaScript Diagrams for the Web (gojs.net)
127 points by simonsarris on April 5, 2020 | 15 comments
28. The Adventures of OS: Starting a Process (stephenmarz.com)
114 points by ashort11 on April 5, 2020
29. Minimalism conceals the messy realities of society (newrepublic.com)
163 points by prismatic on April 4, 2020 | 166 comments
30. WiFi: “beamforming” only begins to describe it (2014) (apenwarr.ca)
171 points by Tomte on April 5, 2020 | 29 comments

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