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1. This electrical transmission tower has a problem (twitter.com/tubetimeus)
1666 points by danso on Sept 17, 2020 | 460 comments
2. 21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
690 points by janvdberg on Sept 17, 2020 | 269 comments
3. Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, joining forces for a more reliable Web (archive.org)
711 points by jgrahamc on Sept 17, 2020 | 147 comments
4. Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
1656 points by wasteme on Sept 17, 2020 | 729 comments
5. GitHub CLI 1.0 (github.blog)
663 points by todsacerdoti on Sept 17, 2020 | 212 comments
6. An Introduction to Data Oriented Design with Rust (jamesmcm.github.io)
430 points by headalgorithm on Sept 17, 2020 | 157 comments
7. Germany will violate international agreements with Unitary Patent, says FFII (ffii.org)
403 points by zoobab on Sept 17, 2020 | 277 comments
8. We Don’t Like Our Underground House (dengarden.com)
473 points by NoRagrets on Sept 17, 2020 | 311 comments
9. Cory Doctorow is fighting back against Amazon's Audible (fastcompany.com)
234 points by raybb on Sept 16, 2020 | 180 comments
10. Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade (bbc.co.uk)
295 points by lloyd678 on Sept 17, 2020 | 229 comments
11. Nvidia Broadcast App (nvidia.com)
263 points by ryneandal on Sept 17, 2020 | 151 comments
12. We made an open source ESP8266 dev board for makers (github.com/maloufsleep)
233 points by pcbmaker20 on Sept 17, 2020 | 139 comments
13. Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith (shopify.com)
312 points by kenrose on Sept 17, 2020 | 125 comments
14. Scientists say a mind-bending rhythm in the brain can act like ketamine (npr.org)
324 points by pseudolus on Sept 17, 2020 | 142 comments
15. Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa (spacetelescope.org)
211 points by jmsflknr on Sept 17, 2020 | 97 comments
16. FB to curb internal debate over sensitive issues amid employee discord (wsj.com)
266 points by mful on Sept 17, 2020 | 493 comments
17. Ultra Safe Nuclear (usnc.com)
324 points by dongobongo on Sept 17, 2020 | 523 comments
18. Kb: A minimalist hacker-oriented knowledge base manager (github.com/gnebbia)
199 points by nebbiolo on Sept 17, 2020 | 53 comments
19. I overslept because iOS 14 disabled my alarm (annoying.technology)
496 points by dewey on Sept 17, 2020 | 316 comments
20. DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren’t all Scandinavian (cam.ac.uk)
98 points by gmays on Sept 17, 2020 | 91 comments
21. Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations (foundation.mozilla.org)
201 points by fraqed on Sept 17, 2020 | 173 comments
22. Tor 0day: Finding IP Addresses (hackerfactor.com)
257 points by dyslexit on Sept 17, 2020 | 117 comments
23. How I learned to charge my customers (idiallo.com)
212 points by benrmatthews on Sept 16, 2020 | 81 comments
24. Google, nobody asked for a new Blogger interface (tenfourfox.blogspot.com)
192 points by classichasclass on Sept 16, 2020 | 132 comments
25. How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (1996) [pdf] (gwern.net)
111 points by tosh on Sept 17, 2020 | 123 comments
26. The Rise and Fall of Pret a Manger (wired.co.uk)
100 points by Oras on Sept 17, 2020 | 184 comments
27. Rails Concerns: To Concern or Not to Concern (appsignal.com)
75 points by nikolalsvk on Sept 17, 2020 | 49 comments
28. A Concurrency Cost Hierarchy (travisdowns.github.io)
147 points by signa11 on Sept 16, 2020 | 26 comments
29. Bakeware – Compile Elixir applications into single executable binaries (github.com/spawnfest)
182 points by tempodox on Sept 16, 2020 | 50 comments
30. The Battle over Dyslexia (theguardian.com)
67 points by oska on Sept 17, 2020 | 79 comments

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