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1. Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products (buyforlifeproducts.com)
1392 points by hubraumhugo on Oct 7, 2020 | 398 comments
2. An earlier universe can still be observed today, says Roger Penrose (yahoo.com)
385 points by ordiblah on Oct 7, 2020 | 224 comments
3. DigitalOcean App Platform (digitalocean.com)
646 points by digianarchist on Oct 6, 2020 | 346 comments
4. PS5 Teardown [video] (youtube.com)
490 points by zdw on Oct 7, 2020 | 426 comments
5. 100k Stars (chromeexperiments.com)
471 points by evo_9 on Oct 6, 2020 | 172 comments
6. Leaving Mozilla (davidwalsh.name)
558 points by lebaux on Oct 7, 2020 | 161 comments
7. PostgreSQL community impact of 2nd Quadrant purchase (momjian.us)
300 points by grzm on Oct 7, 2020 | 98 comments
8. XB-1 Supersonic Rollout (boomsupersonic.com)
248 points by tomovo on Oct 7, 2020 | 284 comments
9. From its name to its drug interactions, there’s a lot going on with grapefruit (atlasobscura.com)
393 points by gilad on Oct 7, 2020 | 166 comments
10. Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC (chromium.org)
386 points by caution on Oct 7, 2020 | 418 comments
11. Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y (businessinsider.com)
324 points by xoxoy on Oct 7, 2020 | 574 comments
12. Calla – spatial video conferencing software based on Jitsi Meet (github.com/capnmidnight)
200 points by thekyle on Oct 7, 2020 | 85 comments
13. AI training method exceeds GPT-3 performance with fewer parameters (infoq.com)
247 points by kordlessagain on Oct 7, 2020 | 81 comments
14. Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious (dyno-might.github.io)
196 points by dyno-might on Oct 7, 2020 | 268 comments
15. Show HN: CLI plain-text notes & bookmarks with Git, sync, encryption, and more (github.com/xwmx)
240 points by xwmx on Oct 7, 2020 | 49 comments
16. Lessons learned from onboarding emails with no HTML styling (palabra.io)
171 points by pau_alcala on Oct 7, 2020 | 174 comments
17. Google and Oracle's decade-long copyright battle reaches Supreme Court (npr.org)
314 points by dataflow on Oct 7, 2020 | 415 comments
18. A socialite who hated washing dishes invented the automated dishwasher (ieee.org)
210 points by sohkamyung on Oct 7, 2020 | 213 comments
19. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 (nobelprize.org)
247 points by yesbabyyes on Oct 7, 2020 | 89 comments
20. Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes triple the density of lithium batteries (newatlas.com)
199 points by bornelsewhere on Oct 7, 2020 | 157 comments
21. An/TVs 3 Searchlight – 20 kW Xenon Arc viewable from space (brettpeabody.com)
217 points by MichaelZuo on Oct 7, 2020 | 54 comments
22. When do we become unable to learn a language like a native speaker? (2018) (scientificamerican.com)
147 points by vanusa on Oct 5, 2020 | 183 comments
23. Generalizing 'jq' and Traversal Systems using optics and standard monads (chrispenner.ca)
161 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 7, 2020 | 98 comments
24. DOMPurify bypass: XSS via HTML namespace confusion (securitum.com)
161 points by fanf2 on Oct 6, 2020 | 81 comments
25. Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP (vapor.network)
183 points by vapormache on Oct 7, 2020 | 108 comments
26. VSCode on Google Colab (amitness.com)
197 points by amitness on Oct 7, 2020 | 51 comments
27. The IRS is being investigated for using location data without a warrant (vice.com)
262 points by elorant on Oct 7, 2020 | 80 comments
28. USB3: Why it's a bit harder than USB2 (ktemkin.com)
237 points by panic on Oct 7, 2020 | 154 comments
29. Crouching T2, Hidden Danger (ironpeak.be)
226 points by xrayarx on Oct 7, 2020 | 110 comments
30. Designing a New Rust Class at Stanford: Safety in Systems Programming (reberhardt.com)
214 points by ksml on Oct 7, 2020 | 52 comments

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