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1.		The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017) (uchicago.edu)
		874 points by wtracy on Sept 18, 2020 \| 369 comments
2.		Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died (npr.org)
		1738 points by _zhqs on Sept 18, 2020 \| 1452 comments
3.		Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB (github.com/raspberrypi)
		672 points by ethanpil on Sept 18, 2020 \| 261 comments
4.		Vue.js 3 (github.com/vuejs)
		768 points by simulo on Sept 18, 2020 \| 305 comments
5.		Use long flags when scripting (2013) (changelog.com)
		468 points by maple3142 on Sept 18, 2020 \| 189 comments
6.		rg3d: Rust 3D game engine with an FPS demo game and scene editor (github.com/mrdimas)
		398 points by adamnemecek on Sept 18, 2020 \| 134 comments
7.		FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler (github.com/freecad)
		619 points by marcobambini on Sept 18, 2020 \| 268 comments
8.		CEO of Cyber Fraud Startup NS8 Arrested by FBI, Facing Fraud Charges (forbes.com/sites/davidjeans)
		266 points by lxm on Sept 18, 2020 \| 157 comments
9.		It was more efficient to blow up a real 747 than to use miniatures or CGI (cinemablend.com)
		323 points by a5withtrrs on Sept 18, 2020 \| 217 comments
10.		Giant Pacific Octopus (nationalgeographic.com)
		221 points by simonebrunozzi on Sept 18, 2020 \| 190 comments
11.		Show HN: ugit – Learn Git Internals by Building Git in Python (leshenko.net)
		309 points by nikital on Sept 18, 2020 \| 30 comments
12.		Iron, How Did They Make It? Part I, Mining (acoup.blog)
		272 points by dddddaviddddd on Sept 18, 2020 \| 68 comments
13.		Arm Officially Supports Panfrost Open-Source Mali GPU Driver Development (cnx-software.com)
		182 points by conductor on Sept 18, 2020 \| 81 comments
14.		How I bypassed Cloudflare's SQL Injection filter (astrocamel.com)
		235 points by gskourou on Sept 18, 2020 \| 101 comments
15.		CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT (github.com/cadquery)
		134 points by OJFord on Sept 18, 2020 \| 46 comments
16.		SiFive to Debut RISC-V PC for Developers Based on Freedom U740 Next-Gen SoC (cnx-software.com)
		170 points by guerby on Sept 18, 2020 \| 59 comments
17.		Backdoors and other vulnerabilities in HiSilicon based hardware video encoders (kojenov.com)
		194 points by blablablub on Sept 18, 2020 \| 63 comments
18.		How the US Hacked ISIS (npr.org)
		166 points by a0zU on Sept 18, 2020 \| 114 comments
19.		Array Programming with NumPy (nature.com)
		290 points by hardmaru on Sept 17, 2020 \| 111 comments
20.		John Carmack’s presentation at Facebook Connect [video] (youtube.com)
		295 points by tosh on Sept 18, 2020 \| 166 comments
21.		On Browser Tabs (abuqader.substack.com)
		121 points by aqader on Sept 17, 2020 \| 186 comments
22.		Ice (hivewired.wordpress.com)
		273 points by pshaw on Sept 17, 2020 \| 52 comments
23.		To All the Jobs I Had Before (elisabethirgens.github.io)
		327 points by ingve on Sept 17, 2020 \| 84 comments
24.		What happened to Firefox Send? (support.mozilla.org)
		426 points by Techbrunch on Sept 18, 2020 \| 258 comments
25.		How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient? (cmhb.de)
		241 points by giuliomagnifico on Sept 18, 2020 \| 391 comments
26.		Nvidia Ampere GA102 GPU Architecture [pdf] (nvidia.com)
		90 points by pjmlp on Sept 18, 2020 \| 49 comments
27.		Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras (bloomberg.com)
		319 points by drewem on Sept 18, 2020 \| 203 comments
28.		Visualize Data Structures in VSCode (addyosmani.com)
		178 points by feross on Sept 18, 2020 \| 16 comments
29.		Space Tethers: Stringing Up the Solar System (toughsf.blogspot.com)
		144 points by sohkamyung on Sept 17, 2020 \| 55 comments
30.		ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win U.S. deal as deadline looms (reuters.com)
		83 points by adventured on Sept 18, 2020 \| 111 comments
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