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1. Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest (axios.com)
528 points by cwwc on Oct 25, 2020 | 383 comments
2. YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git (github.com/github)
1098 points by madars on Oct 25, 2020 | 315 comments
3. Pandoc – A universal document converter (pandoc.org)
756 points by johnsonjo on Oct 24, 2020 | 168 comments
4. Hackers hijack and publish mental health data of hundreds of people (foreigner.fi)
417 points by aaron695 on Oct 25, 2020 | 365 comments
5. New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars (newatlas.com)
425 points by bookofjoe on Oct 25, 2020 | 252 comments
6. Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship” (buzzfeednews.com)
505 points by aspenmayer on Oct 25, 2020 | 187 comments
7. Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet (nytimes.com)
345 points by justinzollars on Oct 25, 2020 | 283 comments
8. I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers (terraaeon.com)
618 points by sT370ma2 on Oct 25, 2020 | 673 comments
9. Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F (socketsite.com)
396 points by kyleblarson on Oct 25, 2020 | 494 comments
10. Standard ML in 2020 (eatonphil.com)
313 points by eatonphil on Oct 25, 2020 | 120 comments
11. Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access (ahmadhaghighi.com)
365 points by pabs3 on Oct 25, 2020 | 333 comments
12. Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story (taibbi.substack.com)
471 points by eyeball on Oct 25, 2020 | 567 comments
13. The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? (phoronix.com)
429 points by caution on Oct 25, 2020 | 692 comments
14. Wheelmap.org - A map of wheelchair accessible places (wheelmap.org)
228 points by l1am0 on Oct 25, 2020 | 72 comments
15. Books in .txt format for AI training purposes (twitter.com/theshawwn)
232 points by sillysaurusx on Oct 25, 2020 | 91 comments
16. Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good (gamespot.com)
433 points by AdmiralAsshat on Oct 24, 2020 | 242 comments
17. Origami Simulator (origamisimulator.org)
233 points by parisianka on Oct 25, 2020 | 23 comments
18. Geeking Out with UEFI (oofhours.com)
143 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 25, 2020 | 40 comments
19. After 14 years a new printed UK Amiga magazine (amiga-addict.com)
148 points by doener on Oct 25, 2020 | 52 comments
20. MuditaOS: An open-source, e-ink mobile OS (mudita.com)
211 points by ajeetdsouza on Oct 23, 2020 | 94 comments
21. Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply (ieee.org)
134 points by kouzant on Oct 24, 2020 | 120 comments
22. Thrust Vectoring at Model Scale (bps.space)
189 points by tosh on Oct 25, 2020 | 33 comments
23. Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to? (nameserve.rs)
283 points by Fileformat on Oct 25, 2020 | 96 comments
24. Vdx – An intuitive CLI for processing video, powered by FFmpeg (github.com/yuanqing)
152 points by cheeaun on Oct 23, 2020 | 51 comments
25. Fighting Rust's Expressive Type System (thefuntastic.com)
143 points by boyter on Oct 23, 2020 | 80 comments
26. RFC 8905 – The 'payto' URI Scheme for Payments (ietf.org)
151 points by kwk1 on Oct 25, 2020 | 94 comments
27. Indiana Jones, Rambo, and others ended up in 1980s Czechoslovak text-adventures (arstechnica.com)
80 points by thread_id on Oct 24, 2020 | 4 comments
28. Interview with David Vélez, founder of Brazil’s Nubank (sequoiacap.com)
61 points by krn on Oct 24, 2020 | 14 comments
29. Binwalk: Firmware Analysis Tool (github.com/refirmlabs)
88 points by Memosyne on Oct 24, 2020 | 10 comments
30. Mathematics for Computer Science (2017) [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
156 points by Schiphol on Oct 23, 2020 | 29 comments

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