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1. Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store (theverge.com)
1704 points by ardit33 on Aug 13, 2020 | 1432 comments
2. Thank You MDN (ilovemdn.org)
1283 points by peterbe on Aug 12, 2020 | 319 comments
3. Young children would rather explore than get rewards (osu.edu)
698 points by kyle_morris_ on Aug 13, 2020 | 237 comments
4. Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants (apnews.com)
558 points by pizza on Aug 13, 2020 | 746 comments
5. Stopping phishing campaigns with Bash (blog.haschek.at)
457 points by geek_at on Aug 13, 2020 | 161 comments
6. A free video streaming service that runs on a ESP32 (github.com/rossumur)
352 points by juanpabloaj on Aug 13, 2020 | 48 comments
7. Adventures in Improving AI Economics (a16z.com)
249 points by oliver101 on Aug 13, 2020 | 75 comments
8. NSA Owns Everything (2015) (thinkst.com)
355 points by smokelegend on Aug 13, 2020 | 248 comments
9. Vitamin D, part 1: back to basics (devaboone.com)
395 points by conorh on Aug 13, 2020 | 143 comments
10. The Languages Which Almost Became CSS (eager.io)
154 points by wyclif on Aug 11, 2020 | 68 comments
11. Transparent OLEDs (oled.com)
189 points by ChuckMcM on Aug 11, 2020 | 162 comments
12. InvoiceNet: Neural network to extract information from invoice documents (github.com/naivehobo)
189 points by homarp on Aug 11, 2020 | 33 comments
13. Why is there only one Snap Store? (merlijn.sebrechts.be)
175 points by reddotX on Aug 12, 2020 | 360 comments
14. Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees (twitter.com/markgurman)
595 points by xoxoy on Aug 13, 2020 | 489 comments
15. Why Write ADRs (github.blog)
207 points by imsky on Aug 13, 2020 | 61 comments
16. YC Startup School: Build Sprint and Equity-Free Grants (blog.ycombinator.com)
179 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 13, 2020 | 51 comments
17. Office Drama on macOS (objective-see.com)
160 points by LaSombra on Aug 11, 2020 | 91 comments
18. The physics of why hot water sometimes freezes faster than cold water (smithsonianmag.com)
160 points by nate on Aug 13, 2020 | 106 comments
19. Can we do better than our C compiler? (briancallahan.net)
119 points by signa11 on Aug 13, 2020 | 55 comments
20. Virtual Machines for Multi-Tenancy in Varnish (medium.com/fwsgonzo)
63 points by ingve on Aug 13, 2020 | 11 comments
21. Google's differential privacy library (github.com/google)
167 points by simonpure on Aug 13, 2020 | 32 comments
22. Air pollution is worse than we thought (vox.com)
323 points by elorant on Aug 13, 2020 | 233 comments
23. Launch HN: Liyfe Clinic (YC S20) – Telemedicine for breast cancer
70 points by littlesnail on Aug 13, 2020 | 27 comments
24. DIY Satellite Ground Station to Receive NOAA Images (publiclab.org)
162 points by cromulent on Aug 12, 2020 | 34 comments
25. Epic Games has filed legal papers in response to Apple [pdf] (unrealengine.com)
674 points by warp on Aug 13, 2020 | 642 comments
26. Self-publishing and the 2nd edition of Ansible for DevOps (jeffgeerling.com)
136 points by geerlingguy on Aug 13, 2020 | 22 comments
27. A New Chapter for PyPy (morepypy.blogspot.com)
155 points by zbb on Aug 13, 2020 | 62 comments
28. Handles Are the Better Pointers (2018) (floooh.github.com)
144 points by fanf2 on Aug 13, 2020 | 106 comments
29. Metaplane – A metadata catalog for modern data teams (metaplane.dev)
81 points by curvature on Aug 13, 2020 | 20 comments
30. Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git (github.com/byron)
259 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 13, 2020 | 188 comments

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