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1.How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only? (htmldom.dev)
1149 points by velmu on April 2, 2020 | 515 comments
2.Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests (stanford.edu)
816 points by dempedempe on April 2, 2020 | 178 comments
3.‘War Dialing’ tool exposes Zoom’s password problems (krebsonsecurity.com)
585 points by feross on April 2, 2020 | 234 comments
4.The EARN IT Act Violates the US Constitution (eff.org)
644 points by notRobot on April 2, 2020 | 131 comments
5.How SNES emulators got a few pixels from complete perfection (arstechnica.com)
543 points by turbohz on April 1, 2020 | 158 comments
6.What's a virus, anyway? The bare-bones basics (stanford.edu)
469 points by chmaynard on April 2, 2020 | 194 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 | 60 comments
8.A crash course in compilers (2018) (increment.com)
480 points by cristoperb on April 2, 2020 | 42 comments
9.Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners
539 points by asicsp on April 2, 2020 | 48 comments
10.Physics Travel Guide – Physics concepts explained in three levels of difficulty (physicstravelguide.com)
422 points by karlicoss on April 2, 2020 | 36 comments
11.Jitsi Meet – Improving Scale and Media Quality with Cascading SFUs (2018) (webrtchacks.com)
333 points by lioeters on April 2, 2020 | 116 comments
12.All Pluralsight videos are free for the month of April (pluralsight.com)
379 points by nreece on April 2, 2020 | 44 comments
13.Show HN: Pdf.js Express – PDF annotation, e-signatures, and form filling
334 points by niknikson on April 2, 2020 | 132 comments
14.How to resolve a conflict when both sides are right (dave-bailey.com)
275 points by davesuperman on April 1, 2020 | 163 comments
15.Swift on Mac OS 9 (belkadan.com)
272 points by bdash on April 1, 2020 | 44 comments
16.'Call of Duty' wins First Amendment victory over use of Humvees (hollywoodreporter.com)
194 points by danso on April 2, 2020 | 192 comments
17.A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past (outsideonline.com)
226 points by clumsysmurf on April 2, 2020 | 273 comments
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 | 75 comments
19.A Message to Our Users (zoom.us)
397 points by casca on April 2, 2020 | 256 comments
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 | 120 comments
21.ACM Prize in Computing Awarded to AlphaGo Developer (acm.org)
166 points by rbanffy on April 1, 2020 | 22 comments
22.CNCF's Cortex v1.0: scalable, fast Prometheus implementation (grafana.com)
181 points by netingle on April 2, 2020 | 46 comments
23.Computer Spacegames (1982) [pdf] (drive.google.com)
109 points by zeepzeep on April 1, 2020 | 38 comments
24.CO2meter: A Python interface to USB CO2 monitor devices (github.com/vfilimonov)
110 points by fanf2 on April 2, 2020 | 41 comments
25.Show HN: Quill – Messaging for teams that focus (quill.chat)
187 points by luddep on April 2, 2020 | 78 comments
26.Does your video call have End-to-End Encryption? Probably not (webrtchacks.com)
217 points by supermatt on April 2, 2020 | 138 comments
27.Slack's core flaws require topic modeling to fix (abe-winter.github.io)
133 points by awinter-py on April 2, 2020 | 93 comments
28.TypeScript to C++ (github.com/asdalexander77)
117 points by pjmlp on April 1, 2020 | 39 comments
29.Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits [pdf] (dol.gov)
374 points by treyfitty on April 2, 2020 | 545 comments
30.The most expensive typefaces (2019) (medium.com/msilvertant)
113 points by zdw on April 1, 2020 | 43 comments

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