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1. Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera (support.apple.com)
787 points by ra7 on July 10, 2020 | 954 comments
2. App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m (github.com/facebook)
596 points by reubensutton on July 10, 2020 | 432 comments
3. Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable (mongabay.com)
278 points by _lhhp on July 10, 2020 | 164 comments
4. Disabling Google 2FA doesn't need 2FA if you're already logged in (infoq.com)
390 points by Garbage on July 10, 2020 | 161 comments
5. Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’ (twitter.com/scotthickle)
546 points by danso on July 10, 2020 | 455 comments
6. LibreOffice: The Next Five Years (lwn.net)
412 points by ingve on July 10, 2020 | 425 comments
7. This Blog Is Now Running on Solar Power (louwrentius.com)
227 points by louwrentius on July 10, 2020 | 120 comments
8. Neural programmer better than Quicksort (arxiv.org)
282 points by nl on July 10, 2020 | 126 comments
9. Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for first time (nature.com)
233 points by pseudolus on July 9, 2020 | 43 comments
10. Jpeg2png: Silky smooth JPEG decoding – no more artifacts (2016) (github.com/victorvde)
187 points by todsacerdoti on July 10, 2020 | 109 comments
11. Hindley-Milner Type Inference (2012) (steshaw.org)
177 points by vyuh on July 10, 2020 | 184 comments
12. Computational Music Synthesis (gmu.edu)
181 points by triclops200 on July 9, 2020 | 39 comments
13. Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after their free trials expired (theverge.com)
198 points by elorant on July 10, 2020 | 193 comments
14. The Magic of Math in Modern Cryptography [video] (youtube.com)
137 points by gcnaccount on July 9, 2020 | 19 comments
15. On the Closing of Living Computers: Museum+Labs (rottedbits.blogspot.com)
203 points by aikinai on July 8, 2020 | 54 comments
16. Cooperative Linux – running Linux as a Windows driver (2011) (colinux.org)
115 points by ornxka on July 10, 2020 | 58 comments
17. ExSaaSperated: A blog about the struggle to start a sustainable SaaS (exsaasperated.com)
170 points by con-cat on July 10, 2020 | 42 comments
18. Evidence-based Software Engineering – book beta (coding-guidelines.com)
133 points by todsacerdoti on July 8, 2020 | 22 comments
19. Visualizing and Understanding JPEG Format (github.com/corkami)
215 points by yasoob on July 10, 2020 | 46 comments
20. Subway-style maps of roads of the Roman Empire (sashamaps.net)
175 points by bookofjoe on July 9, 2020 | 27 comments
21. Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows (php.net)
196 points by sirwitti on July 10, 2020 | 120 comments
22. Explaining RNNs without neural networks (explained.ai)
126 points by parrt on July 10, 2020 | 7 comments
23. Seemingly impossible functional programs (2007) (andrej.com)
87 points by ogogmad on July 10, 2020 | 23 comments
24. Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized (nature.com)
181 points by sega_sai on July 10, 2020 | 386 comments
25. Ask HN: Something like Khan Academy but full curriculum for grade schoolers?
283 points by jmspring on July 10, 2020 | 104 comments
26. Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup (2011) (forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret)
100 points by wallflower on July 10, 2020 | 148 comments
27. The Bourne collection: the history of online search (computerhistory.org)
44 points by dalke on July 9, 2020 | 6 comments
28. Blog Anonymously (uglyduck.ca)
210 points by bradley_taunt on July 10, 2020 | 460 comments
29. Programming at the REPL (2018) (clojure.org)
141 points by tosh on July 10, 2020 | 121 comments
30. Finding SARS-CoV-2 carriers by optimizing pooled testing at low prevalence [pdf] (medrxiv.org)
76 points by FuckButtons on July 9, 2020 | 27 comments

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