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1. Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update (tomsguide.com)
607 points by Corrado on April 12, 2020 | 424 comments
2. How to Speak (2018) [video] (ocw.mit.edu)
531 points by pagade on April 12, 2020 | 43 comments
3. Enemy AI: chasing a player without Navigation2D or A* pathfinding (abitawake.com)
428 points by atomlib on April 12, 2020 | 118 comments
4. YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account (medium.com/alexhowlett)
674 points by Suncho on April 11, 2020 | 263 comments
5. John Conway – The Free Will Lectures (2009) [video] (youtube.com)
379 points by jessup on April 11, 2020 | 60 comments
6. Social distancing is bringing drive-in theaters back to life (atlasobscura.com)
301 points by lukestateson on April 12, 2020 | 208 comments
7. Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run? (rachelbythebay.com)
495 points by lwhsiao on April 12, 2020 | 279 comments
8. New nuclear reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity (city-journal.org)
337 points by jseliger on April 12, 2020 | 467 comments
9. Show HN: Write generative fine art in Rust (gitbook.io)
306 points by roxven on April 10, 2020 | 24 comments
10. John Conway: A Life in Games (2015) (quantamagazine.org)
226 points by digital55 on April 11, 2020 | 1 comment
11. Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one year later (theverge.com)
268 points by techslave on April 12, 2020 | 130 comments
12. Life Is Made of Unfair Coin Flips (alexdanco.com)
236 points by jger15 on April 9, 2020 | 85 comments
13. Show HN: Search your Twitter history with Algolia (github.com/saasify-sh)
171 points by transitivebs on April 11, 2020 | 38 comments
14. Blog of Inigo Quilez, Creator of Shadertoy (iquilezles.org)
172 points by telekid on April 12, 2020 | 14 comments
15. Fastmail Labels Beta (fastmail.com)
210 points by chrnad on April 12, 2020 | 115 comments
16. Entropy and Life (wikipedia.org)
144 points by aluket on April 12, 2020 | 61 comments
17. Show HN: Spatially aware group video calls from the browser (mookerj.ee)
163 points by smoo on April 11, 2020 | 41 comments
18. Rediscovering CardDAV (jpmens.net)
188 points by jandeboevrie on April 12, 2020 | 28 comments
19. So you want to be a compiler wizard (2016) (belkadan.com)
247 points by goranmoomin on April 12, 2020 | 61 comments
20. Why It’s So Hard to Create New Processors (semiengineering.com)
211 points by Lind5 on April 11, 2020 | 121 comments
21. I found an obscure political joke in the scan of a 1971 IBM logic block manual (twitter.com/kenshirriff)
183 points by sohkamyung on April 12, 2020 | 73 comments
22. California Supreme Court: Transaction is not required to sue online providers (harvardlawreview.org)
183 points by hhs on April 12, 2020 | 86 comments
23. Show HN: Pixelfed.club – Aggregator for Pixelfed Posts (pixelfed.club)
59 points by snisarenko on April 9, 2020 | 10 comments
24. Pinephone – Community Edition: UBports (pine64.org)
127 points by fsflover on April 11, 2020 | 36 comments
25. The internet’s fifth man (2013) (economist.com)
82 points by davidwtbuxton on April 12, 2020 | 45 comments
26. V0LTpwn: Attacking x86 Processor Integrity from Software (arxiv.org)
102 points by gandalfgeek on April 12, 2020 | 52 comments
27. First sighting of Majorana fermion on a common metal (phys.org)
73 points by lelf on April 10, 2020 | 11 comments
28. “Samsung Rising” goes deep on corruption, chaebols, and corporate chaos (theverge.com)
164 points by Tomte on April 10, 2020 | 36 comments
29. Twttr sketch (2006) (flickr.com)
129 points by radkapital on April 12, 2020 | 39 comments
30. Show HN: HFD – A design language for laser cutters written in Go (heavyfishdesign.com)
75 points by dustismo on April 12, 2020 | 9 comments

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