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1. Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal (politico.com)
1722 points by AndrewBissell on Sept 2, 2020 | 472 comments
2. Most-favorited Hacker News posts (observablehq.com)
1266 points by tlarkworthy on Sept 2, 2020 | 259 comments
3. How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k monitors (haim.dev)
458 points by car on Sept 2, 2020 | 228 comments
4. Programming with Categories (brendanfong.com)
342 points by kercker on Sept 2, 2020 | 108 comments
5. Bardcore (wikipedia.org)
454 points by ogogmad on Sept 2, 2020 | 164 comments
6. The Odyssey – Alexander Pope translation (1725) (gutenberg.org)
112 points by bookofjoe on Sept 2, 2020 | 116 comments
7. Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions (vice.com)
608 points by danso on Sept 2, 2020 | 435 comments
8. Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years? A blank check in 1993 (medium.com/andrewghobrial)
440 points by KoftaBob on Sept 1, 2020 | 562 comments
9. Unix Wars (2000) (livinginternet.com)
145 points by bluu00 on Sept 2, 2020 | 87 comments
10. Patreon Raises $90M Series E at $1.2B Valuation (patreon.com)
334 points by upis on Sept 2, 2020 | 319 comments
11. Lesser-known Web APIs (greenroots.info)
400 points by Sandeepg33k on Sept 2, 2020 | 128 comments
12. Supercomputer analysis of Covid-19 leads to new theory (elemental.medium.com)
469 points by mvgoogler on Sept 2, 2020 | 147 comments
13. Intel Launches 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake (anandtech.com)
207 points by pella on Sept 2, 2020 | 208 comments
14. Release of methane gas from the seafloor in the Southern Hemisphere (lnu.se)
211 points by spaniard89277 on Sept 2, 2020 | 126 comments
15. Lo-Fi Player (tensorflow.org)
286 points by hardmaru on Sept 2, 2020 | 43 comments
16. The Hash Monster: ESP-32 Tamagotchi for WiFi Cracking (telescope.ac)
180 points by wolframio on Sept 2, 2020 | 28 comments
17. Inside the HP Nanoprocessor (righto.com)
133 points by picture on Sept 2, 2020 | 41 comments
18. On modern hardware the min-max heap beats a binary heap (probablydance.com)
244 points by pedro84 on Sept 2, 2020 | 43 comments
19. Essential C (2003) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
183 points by th33ngineer on Sept 2, 2020 | 82 comments
20. India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China (bbc.com)
376 points by sameer_hacker on Sept 2, 2020 | 251 comments
21. Linux from Scratch 10.0 (linuxfromscratch.org)
219 points by caution on Sept 2, 2020 | 49 comments
22. Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
319 points by mettamage on Sept 2, 2020 | 354 comments
23. Kubernetes: Make your services faster by removing CPU limits (erickhun.com)
129 points by iansinnott on Sept 2, 2020 | 107 comments
24. Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds (bbc.com)
250 points by dependenttypes on Sept 2, 2020 | 364 comments
25. Hints and Principles for Computer System Design [pdf] (dropbox.com)
124 points by matt_d on Sept 2, 2020 | 11 comments
26. Craigstarter: DIY Replacement for Kickstarter (github.com/cmod)
163 points by peterldowns on Sept 2, 2020 | 35 comments
27. Using Clojure in the command line with Babashka (karimarttila.fi)
152 points by Borkdude on Sept 2, 2020 | 36 comments
28. XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis (google.github.io)
122 points by victor82 on Sept 2, 2020 | 54 comments
29. Accidental Pinhole and Pinspeck Cameras (2014) (csail.mit.edu)
147 points by arseny-n on Sept 2, 2020 | 33 comments
30. The Economics of Skyscraper Height (buildingtheskyline.org)
76 points by keiferski on Sept 2, 2020 | 77 comments

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