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1. Factorio 1.0 (factorio.com)
1878 points by Akronymus on Aug 14, 2020 | 615 comments
2. Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives (maritime-executive.com)
632 points by tafda on Aug 14, 2020 | 518 comments
3. A Database of Historical Cookbooks (atlasobscura.com)
272 points by sohkamyung on Aug 14, 2020 | 63 comments
4. What's the future of Servo? (github.com/servo)
578 points by 0xedb on Aug 14, 2020 | 418 comments
5. Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus (stanforddaily.com)
401 points by danso on Aug 14, 2020 | 460 comments
6. Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes (qrpicture.com)
482 points by pickledcods on Aug 14, 2020 | 106 comments
7. Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86 (androidpolice.com)
827 points by atriix on Aug 14, 2020 | 475 comments
8. Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps (arstechnica.com)
461 points by trulyrandom on Aug 14, 2020 | 590 comments
9. Arecibo radio telescope goes dark after snapped cable shreds dish (sciencemag.org)
261 points by rmason on Aug 13, 2020 | 64 comments
10. Why the Mauritius oil spill is so serious (bbc.com)
304 points by irontinkerer on Aug 13, 2020 | 104 comments
11. Unicode in five minutes (2013) (richardjharris.github.io)
279 points by jstanley on Aug 14, 2020 | 41 comments
12. Report: Most Americans have no real choice in internet providers (ilsr.org)
314 points by rmason on Aug 14, 2020 | 173 comments
13. Expiring vs. permanent skills (collaborativefund.com)
246 points by tonyedgecombe on Aug 13, 2020 | 104 comments
14. Redefining what sustainable fishing means (nautil.us)
155 points by dnetesn on Aug 14, 2020 | 119 comments
15. Launch HN: Tella (YC S20) – Collaborative video editing in the browser
221 points by 9ranty on Aug 14, 2020 | 81 comments
16. Global wave discovery ends 220-year search (quantamagazine.org)
179 points by tejohnso on Aug 14, 2020 | 40 comments
17. Hubble finds that Betelgeuse's dimming is likely due to ejection of gases (phys.org)
150 points by dnetesn on Aug 14, 2020 | 45 comments
18. Entropy explained, with sheep (2016) (aatishb.com)
216 points by mlejva on Aug 13, 2020 | 97 comments
19. Sigil – A free, open-source, multi-platform eBook editor (github.com/sigil-ebook)
200 points by bryanrasmussen on Aug 13, 2020 | 58 comments
20. Django Async: What's new and what's next? (deepsource.io)
148 points by sanketsaurav on Aug 14, 2020 | 93 comments
21. Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better (growthclub.online)
227 points by rmason on Aug 13, 2020 | 132 comments
22. A Nixon deepfake, a 'moon disaster' speech and an information ecosystem at risk (scientificamerican.com)
126 points by mrkn1 on Aug 14, 2020 | 78 comments
23. What's new in PHP 8? (stitcher.io)
214 points by maydemir on Aug 13, 2020 | 168 comments
24. Ask HN: Has anyone migrated off containerized infrastructure?
345 points by murkt on Aug 13, 2020 | 358 comments
25. Benign data races considered harmful (bartoszmilewski.com)
82 points by signa11 on Aug 14, 2020 | 58 comments
26. Street View of 1940s New York (1940s.nyc)
248 points by msaltz on Aug 14, 2020 | 76 comments
27. I Love MDN, or the cult of the free in action (quirksmode.org)
417 points by MindGods on Aug 14, 2020 | 233 comments
28. RethinkDB 2.4.1 (rethinkdb.com)
203 points by gabor-boros on Aug 14, 2020 | 16 comments
29. What programmers need to know about encodings and charsets (2011) (kunststube.net)
70 points by neiesc on Aug 14, 2020 | 22 comments
30. German digital bank N26 is facing outcry from its staff over management (cnbc.com)
204 points by doener on Aug 14, 2020 | 175 comments

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