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1. U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly (nytimes.com)
1572 points by 1915cb1f on Oct 20, 2020 | 824 comments
2. Tom Lehrer releases song lyrics to public domain (tomlehrersongs.com)
486 points by kpozin on Oct 20, 2020 | 132 comments
3. Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur (twitter.com/patrickwardle)
1183 points by robenkleene on Oct 20, 2020 | 616 comments
4. Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon (reuters.com)
441 points by kungfudoi on Oct 20, 2020 | 208 comments
5. Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin (theverge.com)
515 points by rhd1729 on Oct 19, 2020 | 247 comments
6. Early Work (paulgraham.com)
577 points by harscoat on Oct 20, 2020 | 151 comments
7. America's True Unemployment Rate (axios.com)
419 points by jbegley on Oct 20, 2020 | 349 comments
8. Palo Alto Networks sends cease-and-desist letter to take down review videos (orca.security)
457 points by bonfire on Oct 20, 2020 | 132 comments
9. My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes (mtlynch.io)
380 points by mtlynch on Oct 20, 2020 | 194 comments
10. Most companies developing AI capabilities have yet to gain significant benefits (sloanreview.mit.edu)
355 points by sarapeyton on Oct 20, 2020 | 174 comments
11. Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t (moultano.wordpress.com)
356 points by r4um on Oct 20, 2020 | 142 comments
12. Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B (skhynix.com)
339 points by baybal2 on Oct 20, 2020 | 181 comments
13. Implementation plan for speeding up CPython (github.com/markshannon)
245 points by coldtea on Oct 20, 2020 | 137 comments
14. I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019) (hanselman.com)
426 points by IA21 on Oct 20, 2020 | 192 comments
15. Fast UTF-8 validation (lemire.me)
266 points by ingve on Oct 20, 2020 | 84 comments
16. Assorted Thoughts on Zig and Rust (scattered-thoughts.net)
343 points by ikskuh on Oct 20, 2020 | 296 comments
17. Moana Motunui Renderer on GPU (render-blog.com)
328 points by Impossible on Oct 20, 2020 | 49 comments
18. Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams (pitch.com)
242 points by zcam on Oct 20, 2020 | 116 comments
19. Show HN: Bunkerized-Nginx – Nginx Docker image secure by default (github.com/bunkerity)
221 points by bunkerity on Oct 20, 2020 | 88 comments
20. Galileo's Ground Segment Problem (berthub.eu)
141 points by liotier on Oct 20, 2020 | 48 comments
21. Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia (retool.com)
250 points by RyLuke on Oct 20, 2020 | 96 comments
22. Moxie Marlinspike has a plan to reclaim our privacy (newyorker.com)
287 points by konz on Oct 19, 2020 | 230 comments
23. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory (ssrn.com)
181 points by sushicalculus on Oct 19, 2020 | 19 comments
24. Combating abuse without backdoors (matrix.org)
208 points by Arathorn on Oct 19, 2020 | 169 comments
25. Beginner's Guide to Arguing Constructively (liamrosen.com)
213 points by liamrosen on Oct 19, 2020 | 103 comments
26. When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion (nytimes.com)
158 points by hodgesrm on Oct 19, 2020 | 361 comments
27. My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work (alinelerner.com)
180 points by leeny on Oct 20, 2020 | 292 comments
28. The Accelerating Adoption of Julia (lwn.net)
316 points by chmaynard on Oct 20, 2020 | 252 comments
29. The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance (hakibenita.com)
182 points by haki on Oct 20, 2020 | 16 comments
30. Show HN: Design Stripe or Hacker News-like favicons in seconds (formito.com)
199 points by hosshams on Oct 20, 2020 | 41 comments

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