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1.		Factorio 1.0 (factorio.com)
		1878 points by Akronymus on Aug 14, 2020 \| 615 comments
2.		Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives (maritime-executive.com)
		632 points by tafda on Aug 14, 2020 \| 518 comments
3.		A Database of Historical Cookbooks (atlasobscura.com)
		272 points by sohkamyung on Aug 14, 2020 \| 63 comments
4.		What's the future of Servo? (github.com/servo)
		578 points by 0xedb on Aug 14, 2020 \| 418 comments
5.		Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus (stanforddaily.com)
		401 points by danso on Aug 14, 2020 \| 460 comments
6.		Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes (qrpicture.com)
		482 points by pickledcods on Aug 14, 2020 \| 106 comments
7.		Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86 (androidpolice.com)
		827 points by atriix on Aug 14, 2020 \| 475 comments
8.		Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps (arstechnica.com)
		461 points by trulyrandom on Aug 14, 2020 \| 590 comments
9.		Arecibo radio telescope goes dark after snapped cable shreds dish (sciencemag.org)
		261 points by rmason on Aug 13, 2020 \| 64 comments
10.		Why the Mauritius oil spill is so serious (bbc.com)
		304 points by irontinkerer on Aug 13, 2020 \| 104 comments
11.		Unicode in five minutes (2013) (richardjharris.github.io)
		279 points by jstanley on Aug 14, 2020 \| 41 comments
12.		Report: Most Americans have no real choice in internet providers (ilsr.org)
		314 points by rmason on Aug 14, 2020 \| 173 comments
13.		Expiring vs. permanent skills (collaborativefund.com)
		246 points by tonyedgecombe on Aug 13, 2020 \| 104 comments
14.		Redefining what sustainable fishing means (nautil.us)
		155 points by dnetesn on Aug 14, 2020 \| 119 comments
15.		Launch HN: Tella (YC S20) – Collaborative video editing in the browser
		221 points by 9ranty on Aug 14, 2020 \| 81 comments
16.		Global wave discovery ends 220-year search (quantamagazine.org)
		179 points by tejohnso on Aug 14, 2020 \| 40 comments
17.		Hubble finds that Betelgeuse's dimming is likely due to ejection of gases (phys.org)
		150 points by dnetesn on Aug 14, 2020 \| 45 comments
18.		Entropy explained, with sheep (2016) (aatishb.com)
		216 points by mlejva on Aug 13, 2020 \| 97 comments
19.		Sigil – A free, open-source, multi-platform eBook editor (github.com/sigil-ebook)
		200 points by bryanrasmussen on Aug 13, 2020 \| 58 comments
20.		Django Async: What's new and what's next? (deepsource.io)
		148 points by sanketsaurav on Aug 14, 2020 \| 93 comments
21.		Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better (growthclub.online)
		227 points by rmason on Aug 13, 2020 \| 132 comments
22.		A Nixon deepfake, a 'moon disaster' speech and an information ecosystem at risk (scientificamerican.com)
		126 points by mrkn1 on Aug 14, 2020 \| 78 comments
23.		What's new in PHP 8? (stitcher.io)
		214 points by maydemir on Aug 13, 2020 \| 168 comments
24.		Ask HN: Has anyone migrated off containerized infrastructure?
		345 points by murkt on Aug 13, 2020 \| 358 comments
25.		Benign data races considered harmful (bartoszmilewski.com)
		82 points by signa11 on Aug 14, 2020 \| 58 comments
26.		Street View of 1940s New York (1940s.nyc)
		248 points by msaltz on Aug 14, 2020 \| 76 comments
27.		I Love MDN, or the cult of the free in action (quirksmode.org)
		417 points by MindGods on Aug 14, 2020 \| 233 comments
28.		RethinkDB 2.4.1 (rethinkdb.com)
		203 points by gabor-boros on Aug 14, 2020 \| 16 comments
29.		What programmers need to know about encodings and charsets (2011) (kunststube.net)
		70 points by neiesc on Aug 14, 2020 \| 22 comments
30.		German digital bank N26 is facing outcry from its staff over management (cnbc.com)
		204 points by doener on Aug 14, 2020 \| 175 comments
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