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1. Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products (blog.mozilla.org)
1602 points by rebelwebmaster on Aug 11, 2020 | 1456 comments
2. Single Page Applications using Rust (sheshbabu.com)
886 points by rkwz on Aug 11, 2020 | 482 comments
3. How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model (deprocrastination.co)
804 points by vitabenes on Aug 11, 2020 | 280 comments
4. Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds (theguardian.com)
637 points by grawprog on Aug 10, 2020 | 252 comments
5. Bevy: A data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust (bevyengine.org)
556 points by adamnemecek on Aug 11, 2020 | 103 comments
6. Creating a QR Code step by step (nayuki.io)
329 points by marcobambini on Aug 11, 2020 | 41 comments
7. We Can Do Better Than SQL (edgedb.com)
414 points by kristianp on Aug 10, 2020 | 461 comments
8. The tragic physics of the deadly explosion in Beirut (wired.com)
264 points by ChuckMcM on Aug 10, 2020 | 175 comments
9. U.S. Marshals Service online auction – Fyre festival fraud scheme (txauction.com)
203 points by aranibatta on Aug 10, 2020 | 172 comments
10. Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election (wired.com)
612 points by ikse11 on Aug 11, 2020 | 277 comments
11. JuliaDB (juliadata.github.io)
232 points by dunefox on Aug 11, 2020 | 66 comments
12. TSA considers new system for flyers without ID (papersplease.org)
223 points by walterbell on Aug 11, 2020 | 289 comments
13. Lucid – the origin story (billwadge.wordpress.com)
58 points by rutenspitz on Aug 11, 2020 | 13 comments
14. Let’s implement a Bloom Filter (onatm.dev)
208 points by onatm on Aug 9, 2020 | 24 comments
15. Emacs 27.1 (lists.gnu.org)
370 points by ddavis on Aug 10, 2020 | 200 comments
16. Launch HN: Xkit (YC S18) – OAuth infrastructure as a service
138 points by tg3 on Aug 11, 2020 | 54 comments
17. I accidentally built a nudity/porn platform (elazzabi.com)
482 points by elazzabi_ on Aug 11, 2020 | 338 comments
18. Show HN: EventNative – An open-source, user event collection service (github.com/ksensehq)
228 points by pwys on Aug 11, 2020 | 45 comments
19. NetSurf, a multi-platform web browser (netsurf-browser.org)
202 points by butz on Aug 11, 2020 | 100 comments
20. Emulating Windows system calls in Linux (lwn.net)
180 points by mfilion on Aug 11, 2020 | 64 comments
21. Cloud Traffic (tbray.org)
156 points by MindGods on Aug 10, 2020 | 60 comments
22. Golang Desktop App with Webview/Lorca, WASM and Bazel (maori.geek.nz)
154 points by grahar64 on Aug 11, 2020 | 125 comments
23. Datadog releases Incident Management, Profiler, Error Tracking, and more (datadoghq.com)
167 points by dbenamy on Aug 11, 2020 | 75 comments
24. The periodic table, colour coded by the likely origin of each element (twitter.com/olivertlord)
168 points by prawn on Aug 10, 2020 | 76 comments
25. Classic books for tech leads or those aspiring to be (sourcelevel.io)
210 points by bmgoss on Aug 11, 2020 | 54 comments
26. Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham (brianjayjones.com)
91 points by amanuensis on Aug 11, 2020 | 55 comments
27. How airplanes counteract St. Elmo's Fire during thunderstorms (phys.org)
40 points by lelf on Aug 11, 2020 | 20 comments
28. A hidden network of 17th-century female spies (2019) (historytoday.com)
65 points by pepys on Aug 10, 2020 | 12 comments
29. Generative Art with CSS (2019) (commons.host)
129 points by bryanrasmussen on Aug 11, 2020 | 10 comments
30. The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce (1983) (esquire.com)
47 points by gumby on Aug 9, 2020 | 9 comments

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