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1. When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number (pdf.zone)
2326 points by michael_fine on Sept 16, 2020 | 340 comments
2. Nova by Panic (nova.app)
1051 points by 0x0 on Sept 16, 2020 | 542 comments
3. The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents (axios.com)
591 points by jbegley on Sept 16, 2020 | 937 comments
4. Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME (material-shell.com)
641 points by doesntmeananyth on Sept 16, 2020 | 267 comments
5. Large-scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf] (encrypto.de)
287 points by sizzle on Sept 16, 2020 | 86 comments
6. Oculus Quest 2 (oculus.com)
351 points by sidhanthp on Sept 16, 2020 | 578 comments
7. Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market – senators don't buy it (npr.org)
338 points by belltaco on Sept 16, 2020 | 217 comments
8. Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine learning (github.com/cortexlabs)
190 points by calebkaiser on Sept 16, 2020 | 60 comments
9. iOS 14 is available today (apple.com)
341 points by todsacerdoti on Sept 16, 2020 | 431 comments
10. Endlessh: An SSH Tarpit (github.com/skeeto)
290 points by elliebike on Sept 16, 2020 | 105 comments
11. Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned Aerial System (manufacturing.net)
212 points by jayp1418 on Sept 16, 2020 | 194 comments
12. Congressional inquiry faults Boeing and FAA failures for deadly 737 Max crashes (npr.org)
359 points by pseudolus on Sept 16, 2020 | 246 comments
13. AWS IAM is having issues again (twitter.com/ryangartin)
226 points by rootforce on Sept 16, 2020 | 118 comments
14. Kirc – A tiny IRC client written in POSIX C99 (github.com/mcpcpc)
213 points by mcpcpc on Sept 16, 2020 | 102 comments
15. Python's Innards: Introduction (2010) (aknin.name)
167 points by johnsonjo on Sept 16, 2020 | 12 comments
16. Toonify Yourself (justinpinkney.com)
180 points by dsr12 on Sept 16, 2020 | 93 comments
17. New England's Dark Day (wikipedia.org)
107 points by samclemens on Sept 16, 2020 | 44 comments
18. What we learned after a year on Kubernetes (about.gitlab.com)
213 points by ecliptik on Sept 16, 2020 | 158 comments
19. Go’s Major Versioning Sucks – From a Fanboy (qvault.io)
167 points by lanecwagner on Sept 16, 2020 | 163 comments
20. A job at Yale in the 1960s set Susan Eggers on a path in computer science (yale.edu)
103 points by jacquesm on Sept 15, 2020 | 9 comments
21. Squash to monetise players’ physiological data to attract more eyeballs (indianexpress.com)
50 points by mhb on Sept 15, 2020 | 30 comments
22. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect [pdf] (cdar.berkeley.edu)
193 points by elcritch on Sept 15, 2020 | 38 comments
23. How to form a California LLC without a lawyer (feross.org)
156 points by feross on Sept 15, 2020 | 193 comments
24. Fintech in Chains (johnhcochrane.blogspot.com)
106 points by avoidboringppl on Sept 16, 2020 | 77 comments
25. Astrophysicists detect the strongest magnetic field in the universe (nanowerk.com)
97 points by blnqr on Sept 16, 2020 | 37 comments
26. Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux (theregister.com)
288 points by poisonborz on Sept 16, 2020 | 231 comments
27. Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company’s next robots (venturebeat.com)
116 points by sandwall on Sept 15, 2020 | 79 comments
28. Differentiable Dithering (peterstefek.me)
144 points by underanalyzer on Sept 15, 2020 | 47 comments
29. Pine64 September update (pine64.org)
225 points by jandeboevrie on Sept 16, 2020 | 86 comments
30. When Math Gets Impossibly Hard (quantamagazine.org)
109 points by bryanrasmussen on Sept 15, 2020 | 119 comments

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