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1.We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir (acsh.org)
709 points by tomstokes on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 229 comments [ext]
2.Crafting “Crafting Interpreters” (stuffwithstuff.com)
777 points by _vbdg on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
3.Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report (bose.com)
640 points by robbiet480 on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 321 comments [ext]
4. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
4.Csound: A sound and music computing system (csound.com)
226 points by diaphanous on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
5.New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system (twitter.com/manicode)
447 points by enraged_camel on April 4, 2020 [ext] | 295 comments [ext]
6.All models are wrong, but some are completely wrong (rssdss.design.blog)
305 points by magoghm on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 207 comments [ext]
7. How Google’s new ‘TurboQuant’ AI might end the current RAM price hike crisis (tech.sportskeeda.com)
312 points by gul702 9 hours ago | hide | 19 comments
7.Configs suck? Try a real programming language (beepb00p.xyz)
289 points by gyre007 on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 343 comments [ext]
8.Ilo sitelen, a handmade computer for Toki Pona (increpare.com)
204 points by tobr on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
9.The Svelte Compiler Handbook (lihautan.com)
330 points by PKop on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 131 comments [ext]
10. Why Getting Funded Stopped Meaning Your Idea Was Good ()
70 points by kol7770 98 days ago | hide | 139 comments
10.Show HN: Export HN Favorites to a CSV File [ext]
240 points by gabrielsroka on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
11.Why build an entire computer on breadboards? [video] (youtube.com)
221 points by guiambros on April 4, 2020 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
12.Newly unemployed New Yorkers are being frustrated by 1970s-era technology (nytimes.com)
290 points by dankohn1 on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 205 comments [ext]
13. The Three Jobs Every Startup Career Eventually Demands ()
133 points by dtx7003 279 days ago | hide | 57 comments
13.A scheduling tool for bread baking (breadscheduler.com)
276 points by coldsnap427 on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
14.Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability (whatsinstock.app)
165 points by kmdupree on April 4, 2020 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
15.Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006) (paulgraham.com)
196 points by docuru on April 3, 2020 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
16. The two-phrase playbook behind China's industrial dominance (high-capacity.com)
177 points by fix6357 475 days ago | hide | 135 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 [ext] | 358 comments [ext]
17.Must, Should, Don't Care: TCP Conformance in the Wild (arxiv.org)
155 points by g0xA52A2A on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
18.Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in South Africa (smithsonianmag.com)
138 points by reedwolf on April 3, 2020 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
19. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 373 days ago | hide | 13 comments
19.How to make a simple all-sky camera (skyatnightmagazine.com)
134 points by jacquesm on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
20.Org-roam: Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode (github.com/jethrokuan)
163 points by karlicoss on April 3, 2020 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
21.Show HN: Fe – A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C (github.com/rxi)
143 points by rxi on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
22. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 10 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
22.General Transit Feed Specification and Clojure (grison.me)
78 points by simonpure on April 4, 2020 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
23.How Antennas Work (antenna-theory.com)
250 points by codesuki on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
24.Partying over Internet: Technological Aspects (250bpm.com)
105 points by rumcajz on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
25. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
25.FortressOne: Quake Team Fortress (1996) mod still under active development (fortressone.org)
149 points by drzel on April 4, 2020 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
26.Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) (rhodesmill.org)
253 points by Tomte on April 4, 2020 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
27.GoJS – Interactive JavaScript Diagrams for the Web (gojs.net)
127 points by simonsarris on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
28. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
28.The Adventures of OS: Starting a Process (stephenmarz.com)
114 points by ashort11 on April 5, 2020 [ext]
29.Minimalism conceals the messy realities of society (newrepublic.com)
163 points by prismatic on April 4, 2020 [ext] | 166 comments [ext]
30.WiFi: “beamforming” only begins to describe it (2014) (apenwarr.ca)
171 points by Tomte on April 5, 2020 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
31. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments

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