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1. Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments (federalreserve.gov)
683 points by tigerlily on Aug 9, 2020 | 420 comments
2. Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data (alec.fyi)
560 points by abarrettwilsdon on Aug 9, 2020 | 195 comments
3. Firefox Voice (voice.mozilla.org)
427 points by makeworld on Aug 8, 2020 | 154 comments
4. Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok (twiktwok.github.io)
378 points by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Aug 9, 2020 | 98 comments
5. EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership (eff.org)
274 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 9, 2020 | 26 comments
6. Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed (nytimes.com)
236 points by samsolomon on Aug 7, 2020 | 355 comments
7. Fire your bad customers (preetamnath.com)
393 points by grwthckrmstr on Aug 9, 2020 | 273 comments
8. The German front in rare color photos, 1914-1918 (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
376 points by pmoriarty on Aug 9, 2020 | 83 comments
9. Rome: A Linter for JavaScript and TypeScript (romefrontend.dev)
303 points by acemarke on Aug 8, 2020 | 136 comments
10. People work longer and different hours under lockdown (workplaceinsight.net)
285 points by hhs on Aug 9, 2020 | 267 comments
11. Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media (wired.com)
344 points by dgellow on Aug 9, 2020 | 461 comments
12. SMT Solving on an iPhone (2018) (utexas.edu)
224 points by marcobambini on Aug 9, 2020 | 149 comments
13. ThinkPad 560E (pappp.net)
181 points by djsumdog on Aug 9, 2020 | 71 comments
14. i8080 precise replica in Verilog, based on reverse engineering of real die (github.com/1801bm1)
112 points by kens on Aug 9, 2020 | 29 comments
15. A Female Artist Who Shaped Manga History (theatlantic.com)
109 points by apollinaire on Aug 8, 2020 | 45 comments
16. Typing Is Hard (typing-is-hard.ch)
260 points by lelf on Aug 8, 2020 | 79 comments
17. Linux 5.8-rc1 (kernel.org)
242 points by john-shaffer on Aug 9, 2020 | 149 comments
18. Stopping deepfake news with an AI algorithm that can tell when a face doesnt fit (spie.org)
146 points by rustoo on Aug 9, 2020 | 100 comments
19. Vertigo – a public domain 3D flight simulator (2003) (stjerneskud.info)
125 points by app4soft on Aug 9, 2020 | 91 comments
20. Run LLVM Assembly in the Browser (kripken.github.io)
95 points by rahimiali on Aug 9, 2020 | 11 comments
21. Real Time Machine Learning (2019) [pdf] (darpa.mil)
156 points by apsec112 on Aug 8, 2020 | 17 comments
22. ZipPy: fast and lightweight Python 3 implementation using the Truffle framework (github.com/securesystemslab)
120 points by gjvc on Aug 9, 2020 | 36 comments
23. Hiroshima (1946) (newyorker.com)
181 points by kibwen on Aug 9, 2020 | 158 comments
24. There’s no such thing as a tech expert anymore (wired.com)
130 points by snadahalli on Aug 9, 2020 | 106 comments
25. Low-cost measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets (advances.sciencemag.org)
107 points by pat2man on Aug 9, 2020 | 88 comments
26. Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX (github.com/cloudhut)
164 points by weeco on Aug 9, 2020 | 32 comments
27. Australia fast-tracks plan to send solar power to Singapore (bloomberg.com)
96 points by riffraff on Aug 7, 2020 | 130 comments
28. SpaceX and ULA win billions in Pentagon rocket contracts (cnbc.com)
102 points by PatrolX on Aug 8, 2020 | 147 comments
29. Algorithmic Theories of Everything (2000) (arxiv.org)
96 points by canjobear on Aug 8, 2020 | 32 comments
30. Interviewing Chandrayaan 1’s Mission Director on India’s role in the Moon race (jatan.space)
68 points by uncertainquark on Aug 8, 2020 | 3 comments

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