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1. Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust (lwn.net)
648 points by dochtman on Aug 31, 2020 | 354 comments
2. App Review process updates (developer.apple.com)
541 points by BigBalli on Aug 31, 2020 | 639 comments
3. The Architecture of Open Source Applications (aosabook.org)
395 points by letientai299 on Aug 31, 2020 | 67 comments
4. Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city center in Italy (texasmonthly.com)
380 points by pseudolus on Aug 31, 2020 | 544 comments
5. The surreal art of ‘unnatural lighting’ (nationalgeographic.com)
347 points by tumidpandora on Aug 31, 2020 | 87 comments
6. Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months (twitter.com/fchollet)
471 points by bpesquet on Aug 31, 2020 | 264 comments
7. FedEx feeder plane takes flight without pilot in test for Reliable Robotics (commercialappeal.com)
197 points by apsec112 on Aug 31, 2020 | 177 comments
8. Do we really travel through time with the speed of light? (backreaction.blogspot.com)
354 points by laurex on Aug 31, 2020 | 201 comments
9. Motivation – Keli Language (gitbook.io)
285 points by azhenley on Aug 31, 2020 | 290 comments
10. PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition (pine64.org)
349 points by jandeboevrie on Aug 31, 2020 | 166 comments
11. Show HN: ML From Scratch – free online textbook (dafriedman97.github.io)
259 points by dafrdman on Aug 31, 2020 | 54 comments
12. Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (2009) (petersmagnusson.org)
311 points by ahupp on Aug 31, 2020 | 440 comments
13. Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018) (newyorker.com)
279 points by aarestad on Aug 31, 2020 | 317 comments
14. Mathematicians Report New Discovery About the Dodecahedron (quantamagazine.org)
172 points by theafh on Aug 31, 2020 | 69 comments
15. 3D face: fast, accurate and stable reconstruction (github.com/cleardusk)
146 points by cleardusk on Aug 31, 2020 | 21 comments
16. Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones (thedrive.com)
246 points by eplanit on Aug 30, 2020 | 354 comments
17. Google, the Stupidity Amplifier (2016) (gregegan.net)
270 points by Santosh83 on Aug 31, 2020 | 187 comments
18. Ruby: We have decided to go forward to 3.0 this year (github.com/ruby)
325 points by anshul on Aug 31, 2020 | 131 comments
19. How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries (longreads.com)
236 points by lxm on Aug 30, 2020 | 58 comments
20. Intel MKL on AMD Zen (danieldk.eu)
142 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 31, 2020 | 51 comments
21. How NASA and ISRO discovered water on the Moon (jatan.space)
172 points by uncertainquark on Aug 31, 2020 | 35 comments
22. Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage (cloudflare.com)
271 points by danfritz on Aug 31, 2020 | 62 comments
23. Researchers are developing a battery powered by diamonds made from nuclear waste (wired.com)
105 points by lysp on Aug 31, 2020 | 96 comments
24. 2020's Existentialist Turn (bostonreview.net)
102 points by lermontov on Aug 31, 2020 | 63 comments
25. What Shell Am I Using? (wallyjones.com)
108 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 29, 2020 | 49 comments
26. Banks create money, but it's less impressive than it sounds (attejuvonen.fi)
221 points by baobabKoodaa on Aug 30, 2020 | 222 comments
27. Italian Ruby (github.com/pluvie)
206 points by kinduff on Aug 31, 2020 | 170 comments
28. Sum Types in Julia and Rust (andreaskroepelin.de)
123 points by xiaodai on Aug 31, 2020 | 66 comments
29. K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers (k-stash.com)
82 points by masc98 on Aug 29, 2020 | 44 comments
30. How should we build the APIs of tomorrow? (increment.com)
131 points by mooreds on Aug 31, 2020 | 47 comments

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