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1. Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring (theverge.com)
1032 points by danso on May 12, 2022 | 936 comments
2. Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy (nrao.edu)
786 points by sohkamyung on May 12, 2022 | 307 comments
3. Apple Maps location scan spikes WiFi latency every 60 seconds (twitter.com/benskuhn)
677 points by ivank on May 12, 2022 | 172 comments
4. Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did (intercoin.org)
823 points by EGreg on May 12, 2022 | 948 comments
5. Show HN: Mitmproxy2swagger – Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs (github.com/alufers)
691 points by alufers on May 12, 2022 | 85 comments
6. Finland will seek NATO membership immediately (presidentti.fi)
840 points by fsloth on May 12, 2022 | 1005 comments
7. The saddest “just ship it” story (2020) (kitze.io)
571 points by cercatrova on May 12, 2022 | 243 comments
8. DeepMind: A Generalist Agent (deepmind.com)
502 points by extr on May 12, 2022 | 337 comments
9. EU Commission is planning automatic CSAM scanning of private communications (tutanota.com)
648 points by starsep on May 12, 2022 | 418 comments
10. Improved Process Isolation in Firefox 100 (hacks.mozilla.org)
358 points by jeremiahlee on May 12, 2022 | 126 comments
11. Friendlier SQL with DuckDB (duckdb.org)
366 points by hfmuehleisen on May 12, 2022 | 133 comments
12. I Miss Heroku's DevEx (christine.website)
310 points by craigkerstiens on May 12, 2022 | 196 comments
13. Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL (pyfound.blogspot.com)
304 points by bratao on May 12, 2022 | 212 comments
14. [flagged] Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
627 points by blueberrychpstx on May 12, 2022 | 629 comments
15. Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992) (lettersofnote.com)
352 points by revorad on May 12, 2022 | 322 comments
16. OP-1 field (teenage.engineering)
289 points by bpierre on May 12, 2022 | 241 comments
17. Fastest-ever logic gates could make computers a million times faster (newatlas.com)
230 points by DamnInteresting on May 12, 2022 | 104 comments
18. Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV support (benhoyt.com)
258 points by benhoyt on May 12, 2022 | 143 comments
19. Cheap technology for making optic lenses that could help 2.5B people and NASA (haaretz.com)
199 points by webmaven on May 12, 2022 | 58 comments
20. Twitter Terms of Service Diff (diffchecker.com)
230 points by taubek on May 12, 2022 | 145 comments
21. Cryptocurreny retailer BitPrime closes trading after running out of money (bitprime.co.nz)
279 points by mdoms on May 12, 2022 | 162 comments
22. Plants grown in Apollo lunar regolith (nature.com)
158 points by perihelions on May 12, 2022 | 70 comments
23. Transfusion of brain fluid from young mice improves memory in old mice (statnews.com)
177 points by gmays on May 12, 2022 | 151 comments
24. Beautiful Racket (2016) (beautifulracket.com)
158 points by gurjeet on May 12, 2022 | 11 comments
25. Nota: A Document Language for the Browser (nota-lang.org)
164 points by ndclng on May 12, 2022 | 55 comments
26. How we did it: SNL – “The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders” (2013) (alex-buono.com)
109 points by AlphaWeaver on May 10, 2022 | 28 comments
27. Scarcity Truthers (philo.substack.com)
146 points by jseliger on May 12, 2022 | 160 comments
28. Show HN: Paperd.ink – an open-source e-paper development board (paperd.ink)
195 points by robertlangdon on May 11, 2022 | 67 comments
29. Earn $200K by fuzzing for a weekend: Part 1 (secret.club)
168 points by ivank on May 11, 2022 | 39 comments
30. Volume of an n-ball (wikipedia.org)
90 points by sohkamyung on May 12, 2022 | 50 comments

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