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1. Level 3 Global Outage (nether.net)
914 points by dknecht on Aug 30, 2020 | 368 comments
2. Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs (webrtcforthecurious.com)
667 points by Sean-Der on Aug 30, 2020 | 72 comments
3. Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s monuments with Google Maps (rockpapershotgun.com)
321 points by danso on Aug 30, 2020 | 182 comments
4. A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects (github.com/vinayak-mehta)
342 points by submeta on Aug 30, 2020 | 49 comments
5. Tower Defense with a twist: all towers must be positioned with CSS Flexbox (flexboxdefense.com)
465 points by kissgyorgy on Aug 29, 2020 | 47 comments
6. New 50-metre deep crater opens up in Arctic tundra (siberiantimes.com)
302 points by wglb on Aug 30, 2020 | 109 comments
7. Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation (vimacapp.com)
375 points by dexterleng on Aug 30, 2020 | 73 comments
8. After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy in platform (forbes.com/sites/robertbryce)
539 points by elsewhen on Aug 30, 2020 | 471 comments
9. Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research (ldeming.com)
261 points by apsec112 on Aug 30, 2020 | 142 comments
10. Essentials of Programming Languages (eopl3.com)
237 points by gjvc on Aug 30, 2020 | 41 comments
11. The Recursive Universe (amandaghassaei.com)
234 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 30, 2020 | 51 comments
12. The Legend of GayBlade (archive.org)
210 points by polm23 on Aug 29, 2020 | 123 comments
13. So you want to roll your own crypto? (vnhacker.blogspot.com)
186 points by wglb on Aug 30, 2020 | 128 comments
14. Multi-Tenant Architectures (codonomics.com)
185 points by sirkarthik on Aug 30, 2020 | 99 comments
15. Exploring mullender.c – A deep dive into the first IOCCC winner (lainsystems.com)
150 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 30, 2020 | 35 comments
16. Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality (sciencealert.com)
186 points by walterbell on Aug 29, 2020 | 152 comments
17. The rise and fall of the industrial R&D lab (worksinprogress.co)
147 points by npalli on Aug 30, 2020 | 84 comments
18. Literate DevOps (howardism.org)
174 points by geocar on Aug 29, 2020 | 87 comments
19. How to Read a Log Scale (datawrapper.de)
132 points by Solstinox on Aug 30, 2020 | 25 comments
20. We Know How to Prevent Megafires (propublica.org)
184 points by philips on Aug 30, 2020 | 103 comments
21. First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found has finally been studied in detail (phys.org)
113 points by woldemariam on Aug 28, 2020 | 39 comments
22. Low-level details of the Zen 2 microarchitecture [pdf] (agner.org)
163 points by ekoutanov on Aug 29, 2020 | 13 comments
23. How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2003) (github.com/droogans)
164 points by guavaNinja on Aug 30, 2020 | 85 comments
24. Lord of the Manor: a medieval city builder game (lordofthemanor.io)
158 points by morrishsieh on Aug 30, 2020 | 22 comments
25. The Unexpected Elegance of Irrigation Systems from Above (atlasobscura.com)
85 points by pseudolus on Aug 30, 2020 | 35 comments
26. Yml Coding (cloud.google.com)
97 points by undefinednull on Aug 30, 2020 | 82 comments
27. Matplot++ – A Plotting Tool for C++ (github.com/alandefreitas)
137 points by ponderingfish on Aug 30, 2020 | 20 comments
28. The “menu engineers” who optimize restaurant revenue (thehustle.co)
223 points by Anon84 on Aug 30, 2020 | 156 comments
29. All Circuits Are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse (1995) (calpoly.edu)
132 points by beagle3 on Aug 30, 2020 | 14 comments
30. TSMC Builds a Dedicated 28nm Fab for Sony Orders (image-sensors-world.blogspot.com)
103 points by mlacks on Aug 30, 2020 | 62 comments

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