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1. The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017) (uchicago.edu)
874 points by wtracy on Sept 18, 2020 | 369 comments
2. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died (npr.org)
1738 points by _zhqs on Sept 18, 2020 | 1452 comments
3. Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB (github.com/raspberrypi)
672 points by ethanpil on Sept 18, 2020 | 261 comments
4. Vue.js 3 (github.com/vuejs)
768 points by simulo on Sept 18, 2020 | 305 comments
5. Use long flags when scripting (2013) (changelog.com)
468 points by maple3142 on Sept 18, 2020 | 189 comments
6. rg3d: Rust 3D game engine with an FPS demo game and scene editor (github.com/mrdimas)
398 points by adamnemecek on Sept 18, 2020 | 134 comments
7. FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler (github.com/freecad)
619 points by marcobambini on Sept 18, 2020 | 268 comments
8. CEO of Cyber Fraud Startup NS8 Arrested by FBI, Facing Fraud Charges (forbes.com/sites/davidjeans)
266 points by lxm on Sept 18, 2020 | 157 comments
9. It was more efficient to blow up a real 747 than to use miniatures or CGI (cinemablend.com)
323 points by a5withtrrs on Sept 18, 2020 | 217 comments
10. Giant Pacific Octopus (nationalgeographic.com)
221 points by simonebrunozzi on Sept 18, 2020 | 190 comments
11. Show HN: ugit – Learn Git Internals by Building Git in Python (leshenko.net)
309 points by nikital on Sept 18, 2020 | 30 comments
12. Iron, How Did They Make It? Part I, Mining (acoup.blog)
272 points by dddddaviddddd on Sept 18, 2020 | 68 comments
13. Arm Officially Supports Panfrost Open-Source Mali GPU Driver Development (cnx-software.com)
182 points by conductor on Sept 18, 2020 | 81 comments
14. How I bypassed Cloudflare's SQL Injection filter (astrocamel.com)
235 points by gskourou on Sept 18, 2020 | 101 comments
15. CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT (github.com/cadquery)
134 points by OJFord on Sept 18, 2020 | 46 comments
16. SiFive to Debut RISC-V PC for Developers Based on Freedom U740 Next-Gen SoC (cnx-software.com)
170 points by guerby on Sept 18, 2020 | 59 comments
17. Backdoors and other vulnerabilities in HiSilicon based hardware video encoders (kojenov.com)
194 points by blablablub on Sept 18, 2020 | 63 comments
18. How the US Hacked ISIS (npr.org)
166 points by a0zU on Sept 18, 2020 | 114 comments
19. Array Programming with NumPy (nature.com)
290 points by hardmaru on Sept 17, 2020 | 111 comments
20. John Carmack’s presentation at Facebook Connect [video] (youtube.com)
295 points by tosh on Sept 18, 2020 | 166 comments
21. On Browser Tabs (abuqader.substack.com)
121 points by aqader on Sept 17, 2020 | 186 comments
22. Ice (hivewired.wordpress.com)
273 points by pshaw on Sept 17, 2020 | 52 comments
23. To All the Jobs I Had Before (elisabethirgens.github.io)
327 points by ingve on Sept 17, 2020 | 84 comments
24. What happened to Firefox Send? (support.mozilla.org)
426 points by Techbrunch on Sept 18, 2020 | 258 comments
25. How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient? (cmhb.de)
241 points by giuliomagnifico on Sept 18, 2020 | 391 comments
26. Nvidia Ampere GA102 GPU Architecture [pdf] (nvidia.com)
90 points by pjmlp on Sept 18, 2020 | 49 comments
27. Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras (bloomberg.com)
319 points by drewem on Sept 18, 2020 | 203 comments
28. Visualize Data Structures in VSCode (addyosmani.com)
178 points by feross on Sept 18, 2020 | 16 comments
29. Space Tethers: Stringing Up the Solar System (toughsf.blogspot.com)
144 points by sohkamyung on Sept 17, 2020 | 55 comments
30. ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win U.S. deal as deadline looms (reuters.com)
83 points by adventured on Sept 18, 2020 | 111 comments

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