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1.British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free (ianvisits.co.uk)
624 points by edward on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 148 comments [ext]
2.The Anti-Amazon Alliance (stratechery.com)
681 points by kaboro on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 398 comments [ext]
3.With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube (waxy.org)
462 points by minimaxir on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 210 comments [ext]
4. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
4.Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020 (sizecoding.org)
574 points by guiambros on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
5.Tmux for Mere Mortals (zserge.com)
586 points by _7ffc on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 166 comments [ext]
6.Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling (theglobeandmail.com)
318 points by finphil on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 526 comments [ext]
7. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 15 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Let’s Invent B(+)-Trees (shachaf.net)
420 points by panic on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
8.“Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business” (amazon.com)
711 points by hippich on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 194 comments [ext]
9.Uber discusses plan to lay off about 20% of employees (theinformation.com)
458 points by ceohockey60 on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 430 comments [ext]
10. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
10.Inside of a Tractor Cab [video] (youtube.com)
272 points by jedberg on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 142 comments [ext]
11.Better C – A subset of D Programming Language (dlang.org)
249 points by dgellow on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 352 comments [ext]
12.Instead of deleting account, NYT appends ‘1000’ to username and email address (twitter.com/bicycult)
378 points by DyslexicAtheist on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 156 comments [ext]
13. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 593 days ago | hide | 76 comments
13.Some school districts plan to end the year early, call remote learning too tough (wsj.com)
206 points by itronitron on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 268 comments [ext]
14.How we use Rust in our mobile SDK (fullstory.com)
204 points by nfriedly on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
15.SICP in Python (gitbooks.io)
253 points by crammyRL on April 27, 2020 [ext] | 125 comments [ext]
16. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
16.We Need DevOps for ML Data (tecton.ai)
215 points by amargvela on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
17.Guide to Making 3D Maps with Satellite Imagery in R (tylermw.com)
232 points by tylermw on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
18.iPhone SE: The One-Eyed King? (halide.cam)
281 points by gok on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 286 comments [ext]
19. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
19.What’s in that .wasm? Introducing wasm-decompile (v8.dev)
238 points by slow-typer on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
20.Google Credential Provider for Windows (tools.google.com)
196 points by cglong on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
21.Show HN: Liftbridge – Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams (liftbridge.io)
147 points by tylertreat on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
22. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
22.WireGuard on K8s: road-warrior-style VPN server (levine.sh)
165 points by sclevine on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
23.Airport Stuffed with Airliners (thedrive.com)
167 points by vinnyglennon on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
24.Show HN: Editly – Declarative command-line video editing (github.com/mifi)
429 points by mifino on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
25. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
25.Astroquery: A package that contains tools to access online astronomical data (github.com/astropy)
120 points by bryanrasmussen on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
26.Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam? (krebsonsecurity.com)
129 points by todsacerdoti on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
27.Soros fund management backs electric-vehicle charging startup (bloomberg.com)
89 points by hhs on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
28. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
28.India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates (bbc.com)
240 points by happy-go-lucky on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 361 comments [ext]
29.Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few (2019) (economist.com)
80 points by davidbarker on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
30.At least 11 cities use automated surveillance in the EU (algorithmwatch.org)
203 points by n_kb on April 28, 2020 [ext] | 84 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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