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1. I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] (house.gov)
985 points by atarian on Aug 17, 2020 | 357 comments
2. What’s Flying Above Us? (skycircl.es)
544 points by zuhayeer on Aug 17, 2020 | 164 comments
3. Apple expands independent repair program to Mac after US antitrust investigation (techcrunch.com)
439 points by irontinkerer on Aug 17, 2020 | 220 comments
4. Apple, Epic, and the App Store (stratechery.com)
508 points by kaboro on Aug 17, 2020 | 762 comments
5. Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall (wsj.com)
719 points by tempsy on Aug 14, 2020 | 1069 comments
6. Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th (twitter.com/epicnewsroom)
699 points by MBCook on Aug 17, 2020 | 945 comments
7. Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temperature since 1931 (washingtonpost.com)
353 points by jbegley on Aug 17, 2020 | 223 comments
8. Next-Generation IBM POWER10 Processor (ibm.com)
377 points by mbrobbel on Aug 17, 2020 | 260 comments
9. Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years (krebsonsecurity.com)
436 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 17, 2020 | 169 comments
10. Response to Google open letter (accc.gov.au)
375 points by ajdlinux on Aug 17, 2020 | 318 comments
11. Karpathy's MinGPT (github.com/karpathy)
374 points by aliabd on Aug 17, 2020 | 102 comments
12. Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores (nature.com)
254 points by dsr12 on Aug 17, 2020 | 139 comments
13. Google: Open Letter to Australians (about.google)
452 points by skissane on Aug 17, 2020 | 415 comments
14. Pure Skill Minesweeper (andrewt.net)
282 points by ColinWright on Aug 16, 2020 | 99 comments
15. Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety (newscientist.com)
340 points by ingve on Aug 17, 2020 | 288 comments
16. A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29-year-old BSD (bsdimp.blogspot.com)
238 points by fanf2 on Aug 17, 2020 | 32 comments
17. We should discuss soil as much as coal (2019) (gatesnotes.com)
200 points by hkh on Aug 17, 2020 | 128 comments
18. The Computational Limits of Deep Learning (arxiv.org)
168 points by ozdave on Aug 17, 2020 | 73 comments
19. Launch HN: Batch (YC S20) – Replays for event-driven systems
154 points by dsies on Aug 17, 2020 | 58 comments
20. Understanding Recursive Queries in PostgreSQL (cybertec-postgresql.com)
168 points by fdr on Aug 17, 2020 | 43 comments
21. A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity (2012) (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
159 points by tosh on Aug 16, 2020 | 68 comments
22. Art of chording (artofchording.com)
194 points by sieste on Aug 16, 2020 | 88 comments
23. XCSSET Mac Malware infects Xcode projects, performs UXSS attack on browsers (trendmicro.com)
175 points by wincent on Aug 15, 2020 | 53 comments
24. Spinning Up in Deep RL (spinningup.openai.com)
205 points by samrohn on Aug 17, 2020 | 50 comments
25. Linux PinePhone has physical kill switches for its cameras, mic, data, BT, Wi-Fi (androidpolice.com)
282 points by ashitlerferad on Aug 17, 2020 | 146 comments
26. A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (2018) (smithsonianmag.com)
108 points by aww_dang on Aug 17, 2020 | 133 comments
27. Show HN: Search the text of articles submitted to HN, with live updating (hndex.ml)
119 points by 1a on Aug 17, 2020 | 14 comments
28. Nerves – Elixir Platform for IoT (nerves-project.org)
220 points by rurban on Aug 17, 2020 | 53 comments
29. How the Black Sea shaped the ancient Mediterranean world (historytoday.com)
108 points by apollinaire on Aug 16, 2020 | 30 comments
30. A circuit-like notation for lambda calculus (2015) (csvoss.com)
105 points by apsec112 on Aug 17, 2020 | 42 comments

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