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1. Open Problems in Robotics (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
436 points by haltingproblem on Aug 19, 2020 | 227 comments
2. Can't you just right click? (lapcatsoftware.com)
1169 points by bangonkeyboard on Aug 19, 2020 | 746 comments
3. Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
1403 points by blickentwapft on Aug 19, 2020 | 644 comments
4. Apple helped make 'top secret' iPod for US government (bbc.co.uk)
508 points by sjcsjc on Aug 19, 2020 | 251 comments
5. Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition (npr.org)
552 points by stephenbez on Aug 19, 2020 | 1242 comments
6. Most “mandatory requirements” in corporations are imaginary (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
469 points by ingve on Aug 19, 2020 | 392 comments
7. Listen to Your Key: Towards Acoustics-based Physical Key Inference (nus.edu.sg)
349 points by vo2maxer on Aug 19, 2020 | 121 comments
8. Ultralight lithium-sulfur batteries for electric airplanes (ieee.org)
217 points by pross356 on Aug 19, 2020 | 176 comments
9. My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I (theatlantic.com)
324 points by magnifique on Aug 19, 2020 | 448 comments
10. Netflix Conductor: Open-source workflow orchestration engine (netflix.github.io)
253 points by swyx on Aug 19, 2020 | 79 comments
11. What harm do minimum wages do? (economist.com)
269 points by lxm on Aug 19, 2020 | 755 comments
12. Theheadless.dev – open source Puppeteer and Playwright knowledge base (theheadless.dev)
255 points by tnolet on Aug 19, 2020 | 99 comments
13. Practical Data Ethics (fast.ai)
168 points by tosh on Aug 19, 2020 | 28 comments
14. Implementing 'focus and reply' for Fastmail with JMAP (jvns.ca)
230 points by janvdberg on Aug 19, 2020 | 47 comments
15. Rust and C++ Interoperability in Chrome (chromium.org)
242 points by ytausky on Aug 19, 2020 | 138 comments
16. How Happy Couples Argue: Study (2019) (utk.edu)
187 points by InInteraction on Aug 19, 2020 | 110 comments
17. Launch HN: Quell (YC S20) – Immersive gaming and combat workout
170 points by douglaspaul on Aug 19, 2020 | 134 comments
18. 'Coup 53' tells the story of 1953 campaign by MI6 and CIA to oust Iran's leader (npr.org)
284 points by AndrewBissell on Aug 19, 2020 | 273 comments
19. Ice Lake AVX-512 Downclocking (travisdowns.github.io)
126 points by ingve on Aug 19, 2020 | 82 comments
20. Everything old is new again: binary security of WebAssembly (usenix.org)
133 points by hermanradtke on Aug 19, 2020 | 51 comments
21. Humanly Traversable Wormholes (arxiv.org)
149 points by apsec112 on Aug 18, 2020 | 129 comments
22. Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online
136 points by urs on Aug 19, 2020 | 47 comments
23. Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base (imprint.to)
196 points by sharjeelsayed on Aug 19, 2020 | 117 comments
24. Pibooth: A PhotoBooth application for Raspberry Pi and opencv compatible devices (github.com/pibooth)
95 points by angristan on Aug 17, 2020 | 1 comment
25. The Consortium for Python Data API Standards (data-apis.org)
102 points by BerislavLopac on Aug 18, 2020 | 36 comments
26. Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap (cnbc.com)
359 points by drocer88 on Aug 19, 2020 | 353 comments
27. Elastic 7.9 (elastic.co)
110 points by praseodym on Aug 19, 2020 | 24 comments
28. Mexican states are moving to ban the sale of junk food to children (washingtonpost.com)
318 points by hvo on Aug 19, 2020 | 282 comments
29. How many pieces can a puzzle have? (gottwurfelt.com)
105 points by sfg on Aug 18, 2020 | 67 comments
30. I’m A Teapot – HTTP status code 418 (httpstatuses.com)
153 points by gilad on Aug 19, 2020 | 118 comments

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