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1.MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? (macromates.com)
2031 points by jrk on May 22, 2020 | 998 comments
2.Siri, What Time Is It in London? (daringfireball.net)
728 points by jmsflknr on May 22, 2020 | 748 comments
3.I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser? (twitter.com/kaydo)
649 points by Kroeler on May 22, 2020 | 246 comments
4.Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free (timescale.com)
482 points by manigandham on May 22, 2020 | 215 comments
5.The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983 (microsoft.com)
546 points by AlexeyBrin on May 21, 2020 | 266 comments
6.Breathing habits are related to physical and mental health (wsj.com)
571 points by SirLJ on May 22, 2020 | 281 comments
7.110M year-old nodosaur is the best-preserved fossil of its kind (2017) (nationalgeographic.com)
244 points by djsumdog on May 22, 2020 | 77 comments
8.Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes (nvidia.com)
292 points by doener on May 22, 2020 | 149 comments
9.Scott Forstall tells story about Steve Jobs, Microsoft, and a dead fish [video] (loopinsight.com)
235 points by shawndumas on May 22, 2020 | 135 comments
10.The economics of cheaper batteries (arstechnica.com)
225 points by vanburen on May 22, 2020 | 158 comments
11.Show HN: Create a custom macOS app from a group of websites (github.com/hkgumbs)
170 points by kofigumbs on May 22, 2020 | 44 comments
12.Programming Inside a Container (lemire.me)
173 points by nkurz on May 22, 2020 | 114 comments
13.Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly Swarms (quantamagazine.org)
174 points by pseudolus on May 22, 2020 | 36 comments
14.Show HN: Chartss.css – accessible HTML/CSS charts with markdown support (rbitr.github.io)
265 points by andy99 on May 22, 2020 | 50 comments
15.On Facebook and YouTube, classical musicians are getting blocked or muted (washingtonpost.com)
266 points by pulisse on May 22, 2020 | 127 comments
16.What Unity Is Getting Wrong (garry.tv)
362 points by ReticentVole on May 22, 2020 | 297 comments
17.Next-generation solar cells pass strict international tests (sydney.edu.au)
146 points by headalgorithm on May 22, 2020 | 76 comments
18.Employers are rethinking open-plan office design (citylab.com)
240 points by SamWhited on May 22, 2020 | 236 comments
19.To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one (cnbc.com)
127 points by airstrike on May 22, 2020 | 37 comments
20.Picture Hanging Knot (2017) (ukpictureframingsupplies.co.uk)
141 points by polm23 on May 22, 2020 | 51 comments
21.Using `make` and `git diff` for a simple and powerful test harness (chrismorgan.info)
239 points by chrismorgan on May 22, 2020 | 46 comments
22.Where Do Eels Come From? (newyorker.com)
156 points by Thevet on May 21, 2020 | 54 comments
23.The Economics of ASICs: At What Point Does a Custom SoC Become Viable? (2019) (electronicdesign.com)
123 points by amelius on May 22, 2020 | 52 comments
24.Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos (simonwillison.net)
216 points by markx2 on May 22, 2020 | 36 comments
25.On GraphQL-to-SQL (productionreadygraphql.com)
162 points by danielrearden on May 22, 2020 | 66 comments
26.The What-If Tool: Code-Free Probing of Machine Learning Models (2018) (googleblog.com)
134 points by polm23 on May 21, 2020 | 7 comments
27.GitLab 13.0 (about.gitlab.com)
282 points by marksamman on May 22, 2020 | 84 comments
28.Quickref – Experimental search engine for developers (quickref.dev)
188 points by feross on May 21, 2020 | 43 comments
29.Goals and Priorities for C++ (open-std.org)
140 points by cyber1 on May 21, 2020 | 197 comments
30.Chip-scale blue light phased array (osapublishing.org)
59 points by WaitWaitWha on May 22, 2020 | 14 comments

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