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1.		Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo (iphoneincanada.ca)
		771 points by _qulr on Aug 8, 2020 \| 333 comments
2.		Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN (hndex.org)
		442 points by mcovalt on Aug 7, 2020 \| 78 comments
3.		UPI: India's Unified Payments Interface (the-other-side.blog)
		345 points by zero_kool on Aug 8, 2020 \| 178 comments
4.		C.I.A. Lacing (2014) (fieggen.com)
		218 points by scrps on Aug 8, 2020 \| 89 comments
5.		Wheat yield potential in controlled-environment vertical farms (pnas.org)
		106 points by tosh on Aug 8, 2020 \| 188 comments
6.		Reverse-engineering the Intel 8086's instruction register (righto.com)
		229 points by picture on Aug 8, 2020 \| 55 comments
7.		Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others (2014) (hndex.org)
		360 points by hawkoy on Aug 8, 2020 \| 391 comments
8.		IAM is hard – Thoughts on $80M fine from the Capital One Breach (twitter.com/kmcquade3)
		241 points by bharatsb on Aug 8, 2020 \| 122 comments
9.		Electric cooker an easy, efficient way to sanitize N95 masks, study finds (illinois.edu)
		201 points by johnny313 on Aug 8, 2020 \| 126 comments
10.		Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands (protocol.com)
		321 points by kiyanwang on Aug 8, 2020 \| 274 comments
11.		Water beetles that survive being swallowed by frogs (scientificamerican.com)
		87 points by zenit-mf-1 on Aug 8, 2020 \| 22 comments
12.		The Psychedelic Inspiration for Hypercard (2018) (mondo2000.com)
		229 points by bobbiechen on Aug 7, 2020 \| 109 comments
13.		Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?
		359 points by throwaway3189 on Aug 8, 2020 \| 214 comments
14.		Drivers who keep their windows down are exposed to 80 percent more air pollution (surrey.ac.uk)
		207 points by clouddrover on Aug 8, 2020 \| 228 comments
15.		Snapdragon chip flaws put 1B Android phones at risk of data theft (arstechnica.com)
		247 points by frankjr on Aug 8, 2020 \| 118 comments
16.		Florida Current is weaker now than at any point in the past century (whoi.edu)
		71 points by hhs on Aug 7, 2020 \| 15 comments
17.		So You Want to Learn Physics (2016) (susanjfowler.com)
		249 points by apsec112 on Aug 8, 2020 \| 124 comments
18.		Debt collector profits soar with people flush and easy to find (bloomberg.com)
		204 points by pseudolus on Aug 8, 2020 \| 181 comments
19.		Popcorn Computer’s Pocket P.C. Open Sourced (popcorncomputer.com)
		126 points by nullagent on Aug 7, 2020 \| 62 comments
20.		Audio from Scratch with Go: Extracting Breakpoints (dylanmeeus.github.io)
		146 points by Insanity on Aug 8, 2020 \| 25 comments
21.		Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong (arstechnica.com)
		175 points by arunbahl on Aug 7, 2020 \| 208 comments
22.		An attempt to make a font look more handwritten (jvns.ca)
		171 points by zdw on Aug 8, 2020 \| 47 comments
23.		How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company (wsj.com)
		329 points by ilamont on Aug 8, 2020 \| 249 comments
24.		Bootstrap finance and the cost of other people's money [pdf] (cust.edu.pk)
		111 points by sturza on Aug 8, 2020 \| 33 comments
25.		Oatly: The New Coke? (divinations.substack.com)
		456 points by dshipper on Aug 8, 2020 \| 410 comments
26.		How to become a good theoretical physicist (goodtheorist.science)
		95 points by apsec112 on Aug 7, 2020 \| 50 comments
27.		Cheap FPGA Development Boards (joelw.id.au)
		124 points by homarp on Aug 8, 2020 \| 61 comments
28.		Tunable Delete Aware LSM Engine (bu.edu)
		69 points by abby_3017 on Aug 8, 2020 \| 5 comments
29.		A Linux driver to connect PATA/IDE directly to GPIO (github.com/manawyrm)
		146 points by crizzlenizzle on Aug 8, 2020 \| 25 comments
30.		Smartphone Hardening non-root Guide 2.0 (for normal people) (lemmy.ml)
		107 points by URfejk on Aug 8, 2020 \| 29 comments
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