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1. Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests (latimes.com)
824 points by gamblor956 on Aug 21, 2020 | 530 comments
2. Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better (psyche.co)
745 points by _zhqs on Aug 21, 2020 | 305 comments
3. Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable (petapixel.com)
701 points by fraXis on Aug 20, 2020 | 429 comments
4. WordPressiOS Locked by App Store (twitter.com/photomatt)
438 points by constantinum on Aug 21, 2020 | 339 comments
5. ReMarkable MicroSD (2019) (davisr.me)
368 points by devnonymous on Aug 21, 2020 | 129 comments
6. An Update on MDN Web Docs (hacks.mozilla.org)
361 points by weinzierl on Aug 21, 2020 | 205 comments
7. Ride through Wuppertal on ‘the flying train’ in clear footage from 1902 (thisiscolossal.com)
327 points by gmays on Aug 21, 2020 | 130 comments
8. Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic (apnic.net)
438 points by jakob223 on Aug 21, 2020 | 211 comments
9. Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons? (yoric.github.io)
399 points by est31 on Aug 21, 2020 | 336 comments
10. The Splitgraph Data Delivery Network – query over 40k public datasets (splitgraph.com)
297 points by mildbyte on Aug 21, 2020 | 95 comments
11. AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation (breakingdefense.com)
331 points by MontagFTB on Aug 21, 2020 | 423 comments
12. Volunteers spot almost 100 cold brown dwarfs near our sun (space.com)
196 points by wglb on Aug 21, 2020 | 126 comments
13. ‘Electric mud’ teems with new, mysterious bacteria (sciencemag.org)
205 points by bookofjoe on Aug 21, 2020 | 66 comments
14. Game Programming Patterns: Event Queue (2014) (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)
264 points by tosh on Aug 21, 2020 | 123 comments
15. RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible (github.com/diygod)
214 points by hawkoy on Aug 19, 2020 | 75 comments
16. The universe has made almost all the stars it will ever make (nautil.us)
151 points by dnetesn on Aug 20, 2020 | 64 comments
17. F (2006) (nsl.com)
175 points by tosh on Aug 21, 2020 | 56 comments
18. Trust Models (vitalik.ca)
150 points by feross on Aug 21, 2020 | 30 comments
19. Breaking Samsung Firmware, or Turning Your S8/S9/S10 into a DIY “Proxmark” (pentestpartners.com)
146 points by tapper on Aug 20, 2020 | 24 comments
20. Launch HN: Plum Mail (YC S20) – Email alternative for group conversations
118 points by richardesigns on Aug 21, 2020 | 65 comments
21. University of Utah pays $457k to ransomware gang (zdnet.com)
173 points by jpkoning on Aug 21, 2020 | 196 comments
22. Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth: study (phys.org)
139 points by dnetesn on Aug 19, 2020 | 42 comments
23. Elena Programming Language (elena-lang.github.io)
91 points by 0xedb on Aug 20, 2020 | 60 comments
24. Corsair Gaming S-1 (sec.gov)
97 points by kressaty on Aug 21, 2020 | 101 comments
25. Coherent: Unix variant for DOS compatible PCs (1994) [pdf] (autometer.de)
81 points by ColinWright on Aug 20, 2020 | 39 comments
26. Leaked S-1 screenshots show Palantir losing $579M in 2019 (techcrunch.com)
288 points by rvz on Aug 21, 2020 | 187 comments
27. Roblox is a MUD: The history of MUDs, virtual worlds and MMORPGs (medium.com/felipepepe)
158 points by Kinrany on Aug 20, 2020 | 109 comments
28. Former Zoox employees sue, alleging rival offer was better than Amazon's (reuters.com)
145 points by tempsy on Aug 21, 2020 | 170 comments
29. Linux from Scratch (linuxfromscratch.org)
258 points by letientai299 on Aug 21, 2020 | 86 comments
30. ARX, Arthur and RISC OS (2012) (jellybaby.net)
58 points by mr_golyadkin on Aug 20, 2020 | 31 comments

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