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1. Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years (bbc.co.uk)
775 points by Qworg on Sept 14, 2020 | 373 comments
2. I lost €4k in a Facebook scam (github.com/niek)
614 points by babuskov on Sept 14, 2020 | 405 comments
3. Trapped in his body for 12 years, a man breaks free (2015) (npr.org)
404 points by varbhat on Sept 14, 2020 | 133 comments
4. Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of Venus – an indicator of possible life? (ras.ac.uk)
497 points by istinetz on Sept 14, 2020 | 265 comments
5. Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere (twitter.com/brianroemmele)
591 points by mromanuk on Sept 13, 2020 | 319 comments
6. Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications (cri.dev)
356 points by christian_fei on Sept 14, 2020 | 314 comments
7. What's so hard about PDF text extraction? (filingdb.com)
406 points by fagnerbrack on Sept 13, 2020 | 235 comments
8. Repl.it Database (repl.it)
319 points by amasad on Sept 14, 2020 | 115 comments
9. Britain’s CO2 Emissions Have Fallen to Levels Last Seen in 1890 (2018) (yale.edu)
286 points by apsec112 on Sept 14, 2020 | 151 comments
10. Q: A faster re-implementaiton of jq written in Reason Native/OCaml (github.com/davesnx)
250 points by davesnx on Sept 14, 2020 | 192 comments
11. Research questions that could have a big social impact, organised by discipline (80000hours.org)
180 points by apsec112 on Sept 14, 2020 | 169 comments
12. WebRTC Samples (webrtc.github.io)
176 points by simonpure on Sept 14, 2020 | 42 comments
13. Oblique Strategies (wikipedia.org)
203 points by tomasreimers on Sept 14, 2020 | 54 comments
14. How I stay motivated working on my long-term project (durmonski.com)
238 points by durmonski on Sept 14, 2020 | 61 comments
15. How to Be Helpful Online (nedbatchelder.com)
154 points by ingve on Sept 14, 2020 | 57 comments
16. If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (npr.org)
119 points by sandwall on Sept 14, 2020 | 66 comments
17. Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S. (wsj.com)
474 points by doctoboggan on Sept 13, 2020 | 326 comments
18. The compositor is evil (raphlinus.github.io)
248 points by raphlinus on Sept 14, 2020 | 175 comments
19. A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics (medium.com/bellmar)
179 points by mbellotti on Sept 14, 2020 | 59 comments
20. Maxima – A Computer Algebra System built with Lisp (sourceforge.net)
173 points by dragonsh on Sept 14, 2020 | 64 comments
21. Archaeologists with drones discover pre-Columbian earthworks in Kansas (arstechnica.com)
100 points by Thevet on Sept 12, 2020 | 45 comments
22. Algorithms are changing what we read online (thewalrus.ca)
101 points by pseudolus on Sept 14, 2020 | 41 comments
23. Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master: The Medieval Guild (2018) (philosophicalsociety.org)
74 points by bribri on Sept 14, 2020 | 35 comments
24. Going to elite Indian colleges improves earnings, but not test scores (economist.com)
141 points by blueblisters on Sept 14, 2020 | 91 comments
25. Riding the RISC-V wave (semiengineering.com)
173 points by lawrenceyan on Sept 13, 2020 | 78 comments
26. Multi-Armed Bandits and the Stitch Fix Experimentation Platform (stitchfix.com)
74 points by jonbaer on Sept 13, 2020 | 9 comments
27. Bootstrapping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code (2008) (twu.net)
104 points by tosh on Sept 12, 2020 | 53 comments
28. Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry (reuters.com)
263 points by nabla9 on Sept 14, 2020 | 190 comments
29. Feds seize ‘counterfeit Apple AirPods’ that are actually OnePlus Buds (theverge.com)
269 points by brundolf on Sept 14, 2020 | 274 comments
30. Ask HN: What do you think about “The Social Dilemma”?
331 points by messo on Sept 14, 2020 | 248 comments

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