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1.How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only? (htmldom.dev)
1149 points by velmu on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 515 comments [ext]
2.Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests (stanford.edu)
816 points by dempedempe on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 178 comments [ext]
3.‘War Dialing’ tool exposes Zoom’s password problems (krebsonsecurity.com)
585 points by feross on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 234 comments [ext]
4. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
4.The EARN IT Act Violates the US Constitution (eff.org)
644 points by notRobot on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 131 comments [ext]
5.How SNES emulators got a few pixels from complete perfection (arstechnica.com)
543 points by turbohz on April 1, 2020 [ext] | 158 comments [ext]
6.What's a virus, anyway? The bare-bones basics (stanford.edu)
469 points by chmaynard on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 194 comments [ext]
7. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 57 days ago | hide | 155 comments
7.ACM has made 'Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport' free to download (acm.org)
421 points by eigen-vector on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
8.A crash course in compilers (2018) (increment.com)
480 points by cristoperb on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
9.Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners [ext]
539 points by asicsp on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
10. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
10.Physics Travel Guide – Physics concepts explained in three levels of difficulty (physicstravelguide.com)
422 points by karlicoss on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
11.Jitsi Meet – Improving Scale and Media Quality with Cascading SFUs (2018) (webrtchacks.com)
333 points by lioeters on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 116 comments [ext]
12.All Pluralsight videos are free for the month of April (pluralsight.com)
379 points by nreece on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
13. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
13.Show HN: Pdf.js Express – PDF annotation, e-signatures, and form filling [ext]
334 points by niknikson on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 132 comments [ext]
14.How to resolve a conflict when both sides are right (dave-bailey.com)
275 points by davesuperman on April 1, 2020 [ext] | 163 comments [ext]
15.Swift on Mac OS 9 (belkadan.com)
272 points by bdash on April 1, 2020 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
16. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
16.'Call of Duty' wins First Amendment victory over use of Humvees (hollywoodreporter.com)
194 points by danso on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 192 comments [ext]
17.A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past (outsideonline.com)
226 points by clumsysmurf on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 273 comments [ext]
18.Show HN: A UDP to TCP proxy server for sending HTTP requests with zero latency (github.com/timetoogo)
146 points by timetoogo on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
19. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
19.A Message to Our Users (zoom.us)
397 points by casca on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 256 comments [ext]
20.FCC planning to open up 1200 MHz of spectrum for unlicensed / Wi-Fi usage [pdf] (fcc.gov)
206 points by tradertef on April 1, 2020 [ext] | 120 comments [ext]
21.ACM Prize in Computing Awarded to AlphaGo Developer (acm.org)
166 points by rbanffy on April 1, 2020 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
22. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
22.CNCF's Cortex v1.0: scalable, fast Prometheus implementation (grafana.com)
181 points by netingle on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
23.Computer Spacegames (1982) [pdf] (drive.google.com)
109 points by zeepzeep on April 1, 2020 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
24.CO2meter: A Python interface to USB CO2 monitor devices (github.com/vfilimonov)
110 points by fanf2 on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
25. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
25.Show HN: Quill – Messaging for teams that focus (quill.chat)
187 points by luddep on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
26.Does your video call have End-to-End Encryption? Probably not (webrtchacks.com)
217 points by supermatt on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 138 comments [ext]
27.Slack's core flaws require topic modeling to fix (abe-winter.github.io)
133 points by awinter-py on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
28. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 253 days ago | hide | 150 comments
28.TypeScript to C++ (github.com/asdalexander77)
117 points by pjmlp on April 1, 2020 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
29.Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits [pdf] (dol.gov)
374 points by treyfitty on April 2, 2020 [ext] | 545 comments [ext]
30.The most expensive typefaces (2019) (medium.com/msilvertant)
113 points by zdw on April 1, 2020 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
31. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments

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