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1. Makani source code released (github.com/google)
449 points by johmathe on Sept 12, 2020 | 123 comments
2. Why do so many people want us back in the office? (paulitaylor.com)
458 points by ingve on Sept 12, 2020 | 601 comments
3. I Want to Fix Goodreads (prepend.com)
391 points by prepend on Sept 12, 2020 | 194 comments
4. The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday (unixtimestamp.com)
453 points by dezmou on Sept 12, 2020 | 203 comments
5. How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled (npr.org)
687 points by everybodyknows on Sept 11, 2020 | 313 comments
6. Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can drive (theguardian.com)
416 points by davidodio on Sept 11, 2020 | 405 comments
7. Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest (bbc.com)
282 points by mitchbob on Sept 12, 2020 | 210 comments
8. PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade” (twitter.com/archiemcphee)
404 points by _Microft on Sept 12, 2020 | 208 comments
9. How to stream audio from your phone to your laptop with PulseAudio (bash-prompt.net)
213 points by manjana on Sept 11, 2020 | 125 comments
10. C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) (digitalmars.com)
232 points by todsacerdoti on Sept 12, 2020 | 374 comments
11. What's wrong with social science and how to fix it (fantasticanachronism.com)
142 points by michael_fine on Sept 11, 2020 | 101 comments
12. SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B (ft.com)
332 points by JumpCrisscross on Sept 12, 2020 | 260 comments
13. Hiring the first head of marketing at a startup (helenmin.com)
169 points by tosh on Sept 11, 2020 | 74 comments
14. Transformers Are Graph Neural Networks (thegradient.pub)
132 points by hughzhang on Sept 12, 2020 | 25 comments
15. Bastion Fort (wikipedia.org)
76 points by ferros on Sept 12, 2020 | 49 comments
16. Fastmac – A macOS instance or Linux shell (github.com/fastai)
216 points by tosh on Sept 12, 2020 | 88 comments
17. Show HN: Bit Serial CPU (github.com/howerj)
99 points by howerj on Sept 11, 2020 | 17 comments
18. Freeman Dyson’s letters offer another glimpse of genius (newyorker.com)
99 points by Hooke on Sept 12, 2020 | 57 comments
19. Noise.sh – a digital signal processing spreadsheet for sound design (noise.sh)
168 points by adriancooney on Sept 11, 2020 | 8 comments
20. Coordination, Good and Bad (vitalik.ca)
126 points by dayve on Sept 12, 2020 | 87 comments
21. A controversial company using DNA to sketch the faces of criminals (nature.com)
99 points by DamnInteresting on Sept 11, 2020 | 64 comments
22. From Rust to TypeScript (valand.dev)
213 points by valand on Sept 12, 2020 | 153 comments
23. On “Learning to Summarize” (nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)
61 points by luu on Sept 12, 2020 | 9 comments
24. Luau: Augmenting Lua’s Syntax with Types (medium.com/roblox-tech-blog)
85 points by Apakovtac on Sept 11, 2020 | 49 comments
25. Emacs-Helm development is now stalled (github.com/emacs-helm)
220 points by maximilianroos on Sept 12, 2020 | 114 comments
26. Changelog for Elixir v1.11 (github.com/elixir-lang)
153 points by lobo_tuerto on Sept 12, 2020 | 93 comments
27. OpenPGP in Rust: The Sequoia Project (lwn.net)
129 points by todsacerdoti on Sept 12, 2020 | 57 comments
28. Poor Connections: A long history of videotelephony (cabinetmagazine.org)
41 points by autokill on Sept 11, 2020 | 4 comments
29. Ravi: A dialect of Lua with optional static typing and JIT (github.com/dibyendumajumdar)
87 points by RossBencina on Sept 12, 2020 | 8 comments
30. Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic (npr.org)
397 points by DyslexicAtheist on Sept 12, 2020 | 232 comments

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