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1.		I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] (house.gov)
		985 points by atarian on Aug 17, 2020 \| 357 comments
2.		What’s Flying Above Us? (skycircl.es)
		544 points by zuhayeer on Aug 17, 2020 \| 164 comments
3.		Apple expands independent repair program to Mac after US antitrust investigation (techcrunch.com)
		439 points by irontinkerer on Aug 17, 2020 \| 220 comments
4.		Apple, Epic, and the App Store (stratechery.com)
		508 points by kaboro on Aug 17, 2020 \| 762 comments
5.		Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall (wsj.com)
		719 points by tempsy on Aug 14, 2020 \| 1069 comments
6.		Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th (twitter.com/epicnewsroom)
		699 points by MBCook on Aug 17, 2020 \| 945 comments
7.		Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temperature since 1931 (washingtonpost.com)
		353 points by jbegley on Aug 17, 2020 \| 223 comments
8.		Next-Generation IBM POWER10 Processor (ibm.com)
		377 points by mbrobbel on Aug 17, 2020 \| 260 comments
9.		Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years (krebsonsecurity.com)
		436 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 17, 2020 \| 169 comments
10.		Response to Google open letter (accc.gov.au)
		375 points by ajdlinux on Aug 17, 2020 \| 318 comments
11.		Karpathy's MinGPT (github.com/karpathy)
		374 points by aliabd on Aug 17, 2020 \| 102 comments
12.		Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores (nature.com)
		254 points by dsr12 on Aug 17, 2020 \| 139 comments
13.		Google: Open Letter to Australians (about.google)
		452 points by skissane on Aug 17, 2020 \| 415 comments
14.		Pure Skill Minesweeper (andrewt.net)
		282 points by ColinWright on Aug 16, 2020 \| 99 comments
15.		Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety (newscientist.com)
		340 points by ingve on Aug 17, 2020 \| 288 comments
16.		A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29-year-old BSD (bsdimp.blogspot.com)
		238 points by fanf2 on Aug 17, 2020 \| 32 comments
17.		We should discuss soil as much as coal (2019) (gatesnotes.com)
		200 points by hkh on Aug 17, 2020 \| 128 comments
18.		The Computational Limits of Deep Learning (arxiv.org)
		168 points by ozdave on Aug 17, 2020 \| 73 comments
19.		Launch HN: Batch (YC S20) – Replays for event-driven systems
		154 points by dsies on Aug 17, 2020 \| 58 comments
20.		Understanding Recursive Queries in PostgreSQL (cybertec-postgresql.com)
		168 points by fdr on Aug 17, 2020 \| 43 comments
21.		A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity (2012) (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
		159 points by tosh on Aug 16, 2020 \| 68 comments
22.		Art of chording (artofchording.com)
		194 points by sieste on Aug 16, 2020 \| 88 comments
23.		XCSSET Mac Malware infects Xcode projects, performs UXSS attack on browsers (trendmicro.com)
		175 points by wincent on Aug 15, 2020 \| 53 comments
24.		Spinning Up in Deep RL (spinningup.openai.com)
		205 points by samrohn on Aug 17, 2020 \| 50 comments
25.		Linux PinePhone has physical kill switches for its cameras, mic, data, BT, Wi-Fi (androidpolice.com)
		282 points by ashitlerferad on Aug 17, 2020 \| 146 comments
26.		A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (2018) (smithsonianmag.com)
		108 points by aww_dang on Aug 17, 2020 \| 133 comments
27.		Show HN: Search the text of articles submitted to HN, with live updating (hndex.ml)
		119 points by 1a on Aug 17, 2020 \| 14 comments
28.		Nerves – Elixir Platform for IoT (nerves-project.org)
		220 points by rurban on Aug 17, 2020 \| 53 comments
29.		How the Black Sea shaped the ancient Mediterranean world (historytoday.com)
		108 points by apollinaire on Aug 16, 2020 \| 30 comments
30.		A circuit-like notation for lambda calculus (2015) (csvoss.com)
		105 points by apsec112 on Aug 17, 2020 \| 42 comments
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