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1. American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time (aasm.org)
1600 points by oftenwrong on Aug 29, 2020 | 486 comments
2. I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (newyorker.com)
1383 points by fergie on Aug 29, 2020 | 667 comments
3. Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion battery recycling operation (wsj.com)
421 points by Osiris30 on Aug 29, 2020 | 272 comments
4. Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps (hackerone.com)
510 points by tonny747 on Aug 29, 2020 | 196 comments
5. Intel's “cripple AMD” function (2019) (agner.org)
500 points by arto on Aug 28, 2020 | 104 comments
6. Life Is Short (2016) (paulgraham.com)
346 points by zuhayeer on Aug 29, 2020 | 164 comments
7. Sendgrid under siege from hacked accounts (krebsonsecurity.com)
199 points by elsewhen on Aug 29, 2020 | 146 comments
8. I Compiled NASA‘s Workmanship Standards into a Single PDF (archive.org)
283 points by muunbo on Aug 28, 2020 | 55 comments
9. Malloc Geiger Counter (github.com/laserallan)
238 points by mkeeter on Aug 28, 2020 | 81 comments
10. SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal (github.com/andmarti1424)
130 points by laktak on Aug 29, 2020 | 39 comments
11. Metcalf Sniper Attack (wikipedia.org)
210 points by rococode on Aug 29, 2020 | 161 comments
12. Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform (github.com/peterbrittain)
130 points by gilad on Aug 28, 2020 | 16 comments
13. Tell HN: Check medium's localstorage if you use adblock
360 points by ev1 on Aug 28, 2020 | 139 comments
14. Babylonian Multiplication in the shower (2016) (iquilezles.org)
75 points by plancien on Aug 28, 2020 | 15 comments
15. Don't trust default timeouts (robertovitillo.com)
139 points by kiyanwang on Aug 29, 2020 | 115 comments
16. DearPyGui (github.com/hoffstadt)
201 points by fractalb on Aug 29, 2020 | 71 comments
17. Hazel: A live functional programming environment featuring typed holes (hazel.org)
125 points by erwan on Aug 27, 2020 | 14 comments
18. Emoji simulator – a tool to make cellular automata, with emoji (ncase.me)
139 points by Books on Aug 29, 2020 | 20 comments
19. GH Archive (gharchive.org)
90 points by bluu00 on Aug 28, 2020 | 14 comments
20. Design Tip: Never Use Black (2012) (ianstormtaylor.com)
158 points by declanhaigh on Aug 28, 2020 | 162 comments
21. Pinterest cancels office lease in unbuilt project, citing work-from-home shift (sfchronicle.com)
199 points by CaliforniaKarl on Aug 29, 2020 | 147 comments
22. The Node Is Nonsense: Better ways to measure progress than Moore's law [pdf] (gwern.net)
71 points by saadalem on Aug 28, 2020 | 7 comments
23. Scientists build army of a million microrobots that fit inside hypodermic needle (cnet.com)
80 points by apsec112 on Aug 27, 2020 | 45 comments
24. A 189 Year Old Limitation on Inductor Size Has Been Broken (2018) (medium.com/starts-with-a-bang)
145 points by AHappyCamper on Aug 28, 2020 | 52 comments
25. The mysterious Cold War case of unidentified aircraft descending on Loring AFB (thedrive.com)
127 points by bookofjoe on Aug 29, 2020 | 48 comments
26. The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design (theguardian.com)
109 points by SirLJ on Aug 28, 2020 | 158 comments
27. Inventing Monads (stopa.io)
128 points by stopachka on Aug 29, 2020 | 122 comments
28. Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database [pdf] (vldb.org)
175 points by ngaut on Aug 28, 2020 | 48 comments
29. Graphtage: A New Semantic Diffing Tool (trailofbits.com)
104 points by mdelias on Aug 28, 2020 | 15 comments
30. Facebook’s ties to India’s ruling party complicate its fight against hate speech (time.com)
171 points by ashleshbiradar on Aug 29, 2020 | 95 comments

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