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1.
Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life (jmoore.dev)
1257 points by ra7 on Aug 22, 2020 | 616 comments
2.
VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment (archive.org)
524 points by mssdvd on Aug 22, 2020 | 142 comments
3.
Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools (thesephist.com)
497 points by thesephist on Aug 22, 2020 | 150 comments
4.
Fast.ai releases new deep learning course, libraries, and book (fast.ai)
799 points by amardeep on Aug 21, 2020 | 81 comments
5.
Rosatom releases previously classified documentary video of Tsar Bomba nuke test (thebarentsobserver.com)
448 points by vinnyglennon on Aug 22, 2020 | 226 comments
6.
Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases (theverge.com)
518 points by pier25 on Aug 22, 2020 | 371 comments
7.
Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports (nintendosmash.com)
289 points by Gamermeme on Aug 21, 2020 | 370 comments
8.
Future of DeepSpeech / STT after recent changes at Mozilla (discourse.mozilla.org)
147 points by trowngon on Aug 22, 2020 | 74 comments
9.
Mystery of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua gets trickier (scientificamerican.com)
227 points by Osiris30 on Aug 22, 2020 | 227 comments
10.
Activists find camera inside box on power pole near union organizer’s home (fox13memphis.com)
342 points by badRNG on Aug 21, 2020 | 184 comments
11.
College Notebook of Isaac Newton (cam.ac.uk)
283 points by Insanity on Aug 21, 2020 | 69 comments
12.
AngelCAD: Script-based 3D solid modeller (arnholm.github.io)
105 points by app4soft on Aug 22, 2020 | 68 comments
13.
Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012) (joeyh.name)
266 points by pmoriarty on Aug 22, 2020 | 220 comments
14.
GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about (technologyreview.com)
253 points by headalgorithm on Aug 22, 2020 | 297 comments
15.
Ventoy: A new bootable USB solution (ventoy.net)
394 points by mmphosis on Aug 22, 2020 | 106 comments
16.
How the world’s largest garbage dump evolved into a green oasis (nytimes.com)
77 points by mcone on Aug 21, 2020 | 43 comments
17.
AutoCXX: Safely call C++ from Rust with auto generated bindings (github.com/google)
174 points by Jarred on Aug 22, 2020 | 143 comments
18.
Help Make the 19th Century Searchable (archive.org)
169 points by polm23 on Aug 22, 2020 | 38 comments
19.
macOS Security and Privacy Guide (github.com/drduh)
323 points by Nginx487 on Aug 22, 2020 | 89 comments
20.
Show HN: Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you're sleeping (npmjs.com)
119 points by aramalipoor on Aug 22, 2020 | 55 comments
21.
Code for The Economist's election model for 2020 (github.com/theeconomist)
166 points by person_of_color on Aug 22, 2020 | 154 comments
22.
Uber and Lyft competitors ready if service is suspended in California (cnbc.com)
127 points by lxm on Aug 21, 2020 | 187 comments
23.
Rogue planets could outnumber the stars (phys.org)
101 points by dnetesn on Aug 22, 2020 | 85 comments
24.
Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized communication (matrix.org)
269 points by dunefox on Aug 21, 2020 | 96 comments
25.
WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2 (mikrotik.com)
148 points by pozibrothers on Aug 22, 2020 | 74 comments
26.
Bread, How Did They Make It? Part IV: Markets, Merchants and the Tax Man (acoup.blog)
112 points by Kednicma on Aug 22, 2020 | 12 comments
27.
Reverse-engineering the 8086's Arithmetic/Logic Unit from die photos (righto.com)
102 points by abbeyj on Aug 22, 2020 | 38 comments
28.
Today is Earth Overshoot Day – (08/22) (overshootday.org)
132 points by Kydlaw on Aug 22, 2020 | 31 comments
29.
Pilo: Raspberry Pi-Powered Lights-Out Remote Server Management (bloomqu.ist)
120 points by gilad on Aug 21, 2020 | 19 comments
30.
Zero G: Some German mobile users still waiting for a signal (apnews.com)
76 points by jonbaer on Aug 21, 2020 | 93 comments

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