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1. Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime (reddit.com)
1043 points by huhtenberg on Aug 5, 2020 | 400 comments
2. Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0 (blog.mozilla.org)
789 points by LinuxBender on Aug 5, 2020 | 471 comments
3. Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed (techcrunch.com)
483 points by Scaevolus on Aug 4, 2020 | 418 comments
4. Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels (axios.com)
417 points by 0xedb on Aug 5, 2020 | 333 comments
5. Satellite images of the Beirut explosion site – before and after (knightlab.com)
394 points by huhtenberg on Aug 5, 2020 | 218 comments
6. Changes to SameSite Cookie Behavior – A Call to Action for Web Developers (hacks.mozilla.org)
231 points by weinzierl on Aug 5, 2020 | 110 comments
7. Arcosanti (wikipedia.org)
230 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 5, 2020 | 71 comments
8. Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf] (math.harvard.edu)
234 points by bryanrasmussen on Aug 5, 2020 | 91 comments
9. [dupe] Show HN: Unscreen – Automatically remove video backgrounds with ML (unscreen.com)
215 points by groe on Aug 5, 2020 | 107 comments
10. SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video] (youtube.com)
530 points by lpellis on Aug 4, 2020 | 383 comments
11. The Hacker Way: How I taught my nephew to program (stopa.io)
260 points by stopachka on Aug 5, 2020 | 79 comments
12. Chat Bubble Blindness (atlistmaps.com)
283 points by quickthrower2 on Aug 5, 2020 | 186 comments
13. WebGL Fluid Experiment (2014) (haxiomic.github.io)
200 points by maxraz on Aug 5, 2020 | 54 comments
14. Instacart shoppers besieged by bots that snatch lucrative orders (seattletimes.com)
189 points by wallflower on Aug 4, 2020 | 139 comments
15. Google’s search monopoly complicates a mental health crisis (bloombergquint.com)
180 points by woldemariam on Aug 5, 2020 | 156 comments
16. The Fundamental Axiom of Floating Point Arithmetic (johnbcoughlin.com)
172 points by johnbcoughlin on Aug 5, 2020 | 60 comments
17. Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf] (borsche.de)
360 points by black6 on Aug 5, 2020 | 256 comments
18. What is 5D chess? (chessbase.com)
225 points by hawkoy on Aug 4, 2020 | 105 comments
19. File System Interfaces for Go – Draft Design (googlesource.com)
176 points by networkimprov on Aug 5, 2020 | 110 comments
20. Luau – A fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua (roblox.github.io)
163 points by panic on Aug 5, 2020 | 87 comments
21. London traders hit $500M jackpot when oil went negative (bloomberg.com)
185 points by Inconel on Aug 4, 2020 | 127 comments
22. Launch HN: Speedscale (YC S20) – Automatically create tests from actual traffic
137 points by Inchull on Aug 5, 2020 | 39 comments
23. In a warming world, New England’s trees are storing more carbon (news.harvard.edu)
83 points by chmaynard on Aug 4, 2020 | 75 comments
24. What is Jio, and why are tech’s biggest players suddenly obsessed with it? (onezero.medium.com)
125 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 5, 2020 | 105 comments
25. Order of magnitude estimate of Beirut explosion at 3 kilotons of TNT (twitter.com/sinabooeshaghi)
258 points by sinab on Aug 4, 2020 | 247 comments
26. A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf] (ethz.ch)
163 points by tosh on Aug 5, 2020 | 137 comments
27. How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020 (blog.mozilla.org)
217 points by pitterpatter on Aug 5, 2020 | 48 comments
28. Chrome Music Lab (chromeexperiments.com)
171 points by Sparkenstein on Aug 4, 2020 | 30 comments
29. Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire (utwente.nl)
101 points by behnamoh on Aug 5, 2020 | 18 comments
30. Wasabi fire alarm a lifesaver for the deaf (2008) (reuters.com)
78 points by EndXA on Aug 5, 2020 | 37 comments

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