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1. Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them (thedrive.com)
900 points by x43b on Sept 1, 2020 | 473 comments
2. Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs (nvidia.com)
856 points by mkaic on Sept 1, 2020 | 927 comments
3. Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors (lunar.fyi)
468 points by car on Sept 1, 2020 | 137 comments
4. Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations (ardy.io)
186 points by fanf2 on Sept 1, 2020 | 66 comments
5. Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work (bloomberg.com)
440 points by Umofomia on Sept 1, 2020 | 241 comments
6. Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers (amazon.com)
347 points by sshroot on Sept 1, 2020 | 129 comments
7. Htop 3.0 (github.com/htop-dev)
604 points by DINKDINK on Sept 1, 2020 | 103 comments
8. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)
368 points by whoishiring on Sept 1, 2020 | 697 comments
9. Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’ (vice.com)
518 points by samdb on Sept 1, 2020 | 440 comments
10. GitHub Container Registry (github.blog)
345 points by todsacerdoti on Sept 1, 2020 | 88 comments
11. A Saudi prince's attempt to silence critics on Twitter (wired.com)
334 points by leoschwartz on Sept 1, 2020 | 96 comments
12. Mozilla research: Browsing histories are unique enough to identify users (zdnet.com)
238 points by chris_f on Sept 1, 2020 | 125 comments
13. Handcalcs: Automatically render Latex equations from Python math code (github.com/connorferster)
277 points by amrrs on Sept 1, 2020 | 51 comments
14. The database I wish I had (euandre.org)
375 points by todsacerdoti on Sept 1, 2020 | 228 comments
15. Why Privacy Matters (thistooshallgrow.com)
262 points by Clo_S on Sept 1, 2020 | 91 comments
16. Applebot (support.apple.com)
408 points by jonbaer on Sept 1, 2020 | 304 comments
17. Transit Costs Project (transitcosts.com)
118 points by plc95 on Sept 1, 2020 | 44 comments
18. Police across Canada are using predictive policing algorithms, report finds (vice.com)
186 points by pseudolus on Sept 1, 2020 | 211 comments
19. CERN at Home: Building a Particle Detector (clanhouse.com)
154 points by kasbah on Sept 1, 2020 | 25 comments
20. Best Practices for Testing in Java (2019) (phauer.com)
103 points by moks on Sept 1, 2020 | 95 comments
21. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2020)
184 points by whoishiring on Sept 1, 2020 | 343 comments
22. Platforms' current attempts to regulate misinformation amplify opinion power (tandfonline.com)
129 points by walterbell on Sept 1, 2020 | 146 comments
23. Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising content (bbc.com)
164 points by clouddrover on Sept 1, 2020 | 521 comments
24. JITSploitation I: A JIT Bug (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
92 points by gok on Sept 1, 2020 | 10 comments
25. The Sony “Star Eater” (2017) (markshelley.co.uk)
89 points by mjamm95 on Sept 1, 2020 | 41 comments
26. Mind Emulation Foundation (mindemulation.org)
93 points by gk1 on Sept 1, 2020 | 132 comments
27. RxDB – a real-time database on top of PouchDB (github.com/pubkey)
172 points by typingmonkey on Sept 1, 2020 | 47 comments
28. Show HN: I've built self-opening trash bin, I relax myself feeding garbage to it (github.com/ivanilves)
119 points by ivanilves on Aug 31, 2020 | 64 comments
29. FreeCol: Turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization (github.com/freecol)
146 points by galfarragem on Aug 31, 2020 | 57 comments
30. Why we are suing the Administration (tiktok.com)
292 points by yunong on Sept 1, 2020 | 462 comments

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