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1. Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US letter carriers (pressherald.com)
488 points by 80mph on July 27, 2020 | 426 comments
2. How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations (jalammar.github.io)
398 points by dsr12 on July 27, 2020 | 98 comments
3. Double Entry Accounting for Developers (django-hordak.readthedocs.io)
390 points by adamcharnock on July 27, 2020 | 233 comments
4. ACCC alleges Google misled consumers about expanded use of personal data (accc.gov.au)
375 points by Khaine on July 27, 2020 | 79 comments
5. Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices (vocodes.com)
462 points by echelon on July 27, 2020 | 165 comments
6. Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me? (support.google.com)
476 points by mariocesar on July 27, 2020 | 285 comments
7. Quiet route planning for pedestrians in traffic noise polluted environments (uni-heidelberg.de)
239 points by ericdanielski on July 27, 2020 | 132 comments
8. Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landing tests (businessinsider.com)
332 points by apsec112 on July 27, 2020 | 318 comments
9. Facebook sues EU antitrust regulator for excessive data requests (reuters.com)
222 points by ckastner on July 27, 2020 | 148 comments
10. Writing a file system from scratch in Rust (carlosgaldino.com)
331 points by carlosgaldino on July 27, 2020 | 59 comments
11. Apache Arrow 1.0 (apache.org)
361 points by dragonsh on July 27, 2020 | 132 comments
12. Spies can eavesdrop by watching a light bulb's vibrations (wired.com)
268 points by lelf on July 26, 2020 | 123 comments
13. One company's plan to build a search engine Google can't beat (protocol.com)
264 points by lxm on July 26, 2020 | 321 comments
14. Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power (bbc.com)
230 points by pseudolus on July 27, 2020 | 172 comments
15. Appearances vs. Experiences: What Makes Us Happy (fs.blog)
229 points by lxm on July 27, 2020 | 97 comments
16. It’s easier to manage four people than one person (staysaasy.com)
267 points by chesterarthur on July 27, 2020 | 90 comments
17. Google to keep employees home until summer 2021 (wsj.com)
413 points by tysone on July 27, 2020 | 376 comments
18. Sledding athletes are taking their lives (nytimes.com)
201 points by mhb on July 26, 2020 | 227 comments
19. Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS (github.com/ther0n)
176 points by aptgetrekt on July 27, 2020 | 86 comments
20. Harry Eng, the Master of the “Impossible Bottle” (puzzlemuseum.com)
218 points by fortran77 on July 26, 2020 | 86 comments
21. How to pay your rent with your open source project (plausible.io)
342 points by markosaric on July 27, 2020 | 168 comments
22. Ted Williams's Strike Zone (tedwilliams.com)
157 points by dedalus on July 27, 2020 | 63 comments
23. Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of its serverless platform (cloudflare.com)
250 points by skolos on July 27, 2020 | 155 comments
24. How did anyone do math in Roman numerals? (2017) (washingtoncitypaper.com)
128 points by pmontra on July 27, 2020 | 124 comments
25. Are we in an AI Overhang? (lesswrong.com)
261 points by andyljones on July 27, 2020 | 274 comments
26. Launch HN: Daybreak Health (YC S20) – Online counseling designed for teens
58 points by alexalvarado on July 27, 2020 | 32 comments
27. Show HN: MathLingua – The Language of Mathematics (mathlingua.org)
94 points by CatsAreCool on July 26, 2020 | 46 comments
28. The code I’m still ashamed of (2016) (freecodecamp.org)
306 points by zdw on July 27, 2020 | 172 comments
29. Highlights from Git 2.28 (github.blog)
201 points by programeris on July 27, 2020 | 143 comments
30. This month in 1939: How dead cattle led to the discovery of warfarin (pmlive.com)
69 points by onetimemanytime on July 26, 2020 | 16 comments

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