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1. Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation (axios.com)
721 points by hhs on April 16, 2020 | 444 comments
2. For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression (quantamagazine.org)
669 points by theafh on April 16, 2020 | 225 comments
3. Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization (github.com/plotly)
604 points by escot on April 15, 2020 | 84 comments
4. Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything (paperspace.com)
390 points by rerapp on April 16, 2020 | 252 comments
5. Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes later investments case-by-case (techcrunch.com)
350 points by jmsflknr on April 16, 2020 | 167 comments
6. Phoenix LiveDashboard (github.com/phoenixframework)
419 points by feross on April 16, 2020 | 92 comments
7. Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020 (bloomberg.com)
382 points by prophetjohn on April 15, 2020 | 279 comments
8. GitHub has completed its acquisition of NPM (github.blog)
312 points by 0xedb on April 15, 2020 | 199 comments
9. Reverse-engineering the TL431: the most common chip you’ve never heard of (2014) (righto.com)
251 points by pngmangi on April 16, 2020 | 46 comments
10. Embedding Binary Objects in C (tedunangst.com)
257 points by ingve on April 16, 2020 | 136 comments
11. Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal [video] (youtube.com)
245 points by hexadec on April 15, 2020 | 60 comments
12. Show HN: FoundersList – Looking for a cofounder or a new startup to work on? (founderslist.com)
178 points by philipcamilleri on April 16, 2020 | 68 comments
13. Cleaning algorithm finds 20% of errors in major image recognition datasets (deepomatic.com)
221 points by groar on April 16, 2020 | 72 comments
14. Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down (echelog.com)
184 points by highspeedmobile on April 16, 2020 | 132 comments
15. Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban (wekan.github.io)
278 points by jonifico on April 16, 2020 | 86 comments
16. Hand Scraping a Truly Flat Plane (1908) [pdf] (galleyrack.com)
163 points by rkagerer on April 16, 2020 | 95 comments
17. Auth0 JWT Auth Bypass: Case-Sensitive Blacklisting Is Harmful (insomniasec.com)
195 points by CiPHPerCoder on April 16, 2020 | 92 comments
18. GoPro cuts workforce, changes sales strategy (bloomberg.com)
158 points by doppp on April 16, 2020 | 235 comments
19. Could the Earth be an evaporated gas giant planet? (demystifyingscience.com)
143 points by mickfaraday on April 16, 2020 | 99 comments
20. EventReduce: An algorithm to optimize database queries that run multiple times (github.com/pubkey)
208 points by eventreduce on April 16, 2020 | 85 comments
21. Melting ice reveals a Viking-era pass in Norway’s mountains (scientificamerican.com)
171 points by LinuxBender on April 16, 2020 | 42 comments
22. Show HN: Video conference and synchronized YouTube video to do fitness in groups (co-train.space)
143 points by dulyanov on April 16, 2020 | 54 comments
23. I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC (fixmyquarantine.com)
162 points by ImGameDeving on April 16, 2020 | 60 comments
24. Ask HN: Who Is Firing?
604 points by justforfunhere on April 16, 2020 | 558 comments
25. Rämixx500 – An Open Hardware remake of the Commodore Amiga 500+ mainboard (github.com/sukkopera)
150 points by doener on April 16, 2020 | 46 comments
26. Security lapse exposed Clearview AI source code (techcrunch.com)
145 points by jbegley on April 16, 2020 | 35 comments
27. SQL is a better API language than GraphQL – Convince me otherwise (twitter.com/simonw)
348 points by edward on April 16, 2020 | 152 comments
28. Loss of power grid automatic control due to software update [pdf] (nerc.com)
62 points by eigenvector on April 16, 2020 | 27 comments
29. Lidar: Peek into the Future with iPad Pro (halide.cam)
218 points by 2bluesc on April 16, 2020 | 70 comments
30. Architects and engineers are turning old shipping containers into mobiled ICUs (cbc.ca)
115 points by engineeringp on April 16, 2020 | 59 comments

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