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1.		Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products (buyforlifeproducts.com)
		1392 points by hubraumhugo on Oct 7, 2020 \| 398 comments
2.		An earlier universe can still be observed today, says Roger Penrose (yahoo.com)
		385 points by ordiblah on Oct 7, 2020 \| 224 comments
3.		DigitalOcean App Platform (digitalocean.com)
		646 points by digianarchist on Oct 6, 2020 \| 346 comments
4.		PS5 Teardown [video] (youtube.com)
		490 points by zdw on Oct 7, 2020 \| 426 comments
5.		100k Stars (chromeexperiments.com)
		471 points by evo_9 on Oct 6, 2020 \| 172 comments
6.		Leaving Mozilla (davidwalsh.name)
		558 points by lebaux on Oct 7, 2020 \| 161 comments
7.		PostgreSQL community impact of 2nd Quadrant purchase (momjian.us)
		300 points by grzm on Oct 7, 2020 \| 98 comments
8.		XB-1 Supersonic Rollout (boomsupersonic.com)
		248 points by tomovo on Oct 7, 2020 \| 284 comments
9.		From its name to its drug interactions, there’s a lot going on with grapefruit (atlasobscura.com)
		393 points by gilad on Oct 7, 2020 \| 166 comments
10.		Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC (chromium.org)
		386 points by caution on Oct 7, 2020 \| 418 comments
11.		Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y (businessinsider.com)
		324 points by xoxoy on Oct 7, 2020 \| 574 comments
12.		Calla – spatial video conferencing software based on Jitsi Meet (github.com/capnmidnight)
		200 points by thekyle on Oct 7, 2020 \| 85 comments
13.		AI training method exceeds GPT-3 performance with fewer parameters (infoq.com)
		247 points by kordlessagain on Oct 7, 2020 \| 81 comments
14.		Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious (dyno-might.github.io)
		196 points by dyno-might on Oct 7, 2020 \| 268 comments
15.		Show HN: CLI plain-text notes & bookmarks with Git, sync, encryption, and more (github.com/xwmx)
		240 points by xwmx on Oct 7, 2020 \| 49 comments
16.		Lessons learned from onboarding emails with no HTML styling (palabra.io)
		171 points by pau_alcala on Oct 7, 2020 \| 174 comments
17.		Google and Oracle's decade-long copyright battle reaches Supreme Court (npr.org)
		314 points by dataflow on Oct 7, 2020 \| 415 comments
18.		A socialite who hated washing dishes invented the automated dishwasher (ieee.org)
		210 points by sohkamyung on Oct 7, 2020 \| 213 comments
19.		The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 (nobelprize.org)
		247 points by yesbabyyes on Oct 7, 2020 \| 89 comments
20.		Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes triple the density of lithium batteries (newatlas.com)
		199 points by bornelsewhere on Oct 7, 2020 \| 157 comments
21.		An/TVs 3 Searchlight – 20 kW Xenon Arc viewable from space (brettpeabody.com)
		217 points by MichaelZuo on Oct 7, 2020 \| 54 comments
22.		When do we become unable to learn a language like a native speaker? (2018) (scientificamerican.com)
		147 points by vanusa on Oct 5, 2020 \| 183 comments
23.		Generalizing 'jq' and Traversal Systems using optics and standard monads (chrispenner.ca)
		161 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 7, 2020 \| 98 comments
24.		DOMPurify bypass: XSS via HTML namespace confusion (securitum.com)
		161 points by fanf2 on Oct 6, 2020 \| 81 comments
25.		Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP (vapor.network)
		183 points by vapormache on Oct 7, 2020 \| 108 comments
26.		VSCode on Google Colab (amitness.com)
		197 points by amitness on Oct 7, 2020 \| 51 comments
27.		The IRS is being investigated for using location data without a warrant (vice.com)
		262 points by elorant on Oct 7, 2020 \| 80 comments
28.		USB3: Why it's a bit harder than USB2 (ktemkin.com)
		237 points by panic on Oct 7, 2020 \| 154 comments
29.		Crouching T2, Hidden Danger (ironpeak.be)
		226 points by xrayarx on Oct 7, 2020 \| 110 comments
30.		Designing a New Rust Class at Stanford: Safety in Systems Programming (reberhardt.com)
		214 points by ksml on Oct 7, 2020 \| 52 comments
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