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1.		I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency (twitter.com/cperciva)
		792 points by caiobegotti on Aug 9, 2020 \| 185 comments
2.		Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees (theverge.com)
		769 points by uptown on Aug 10, 2020 \| 747 comments
3.		What's it like to be an Octopus? (2017) (lrb.co.uk)
		334 points by samgilb on Aug 10, 2020 \| 162 comments
4.		PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later (nngroup.com)
		396 points by ciprian_craciun on Aug 10, 2020 \| 357 comments
5.		Over 400 vulnerabilities on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip (checkpoint.com)
		381 points by Flenser on Aug 10, 2020 \| 114 comments
6.		Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers (capitalandgrowth.org)
		490 points by jkuria on Aug 10, 2020 \| 515 comments
7.		Celebrate Woz's 70th (wozbday.com)
		393 points by salgernon on Aug 10, 2020 \| 162 comments
8.		How long does a freezer stay frozen when the power goes out? (woodgears.ca)
		427 points by cardamomo on Aug 10, 2020 \| 370 comments
9.		The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (2013) (freedom-to-tinker.com)
		298 points by t4h4 on Aug 10, 2020 \| 141 comments
10.		Launch HN: Rally.Video (YC S20) – Dynamic video platform for social groups
		194 points by Ali_Jiwani on Aug 10, 2020 \| 87 comments
11.		The Clean Network – United States Department of State (state.gov)
		347 points by sysoleg on Aug 10, 2020 \| 391 comments
12.		Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf] (house.gov)
		435 points by mosiuerbarso on Aug 10, 2020 \| 265 comments
13.		G Suite Doesn't Let You Contact Support Until Logged In. Locked Out = Stuck
		465 points by HelloThur on Aug 10, 2020 \| 135 comments
14.		Olric: Distributed in-memory data structures in Go (github.com/buraksezer)
		217 points by mastabadtomm on Aug 10, 2020 \| 27 comments
15.		That UPS you bought for your home server may not be as useful as you think (fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com)
		291 points by Bender on Aug 10, 2020 \| 412 comments
16.		Glasgow: Scots Army Knife for Electronics (github.com/glasgowembedded)
		167 points by tonyg on Aug 9, 2020 \| 27 comments
17.		React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features (reactjs.org)
		227 points by jack_hanford on Aug 10, 2020 \| 118 comments
18.		Kicking Off the Repl.it Programming Language Jam (repl.it)
		141 points by amasad on Aug 10, 2020 \| 72 comments
19.		CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better (nytimes.com)
		335 points by mitchbob on Aug 10, 2020 \| 668 comments
20.		A look back at memory models in 16-bit MS-DOS (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
		105 points by pjmlp on Aug 9, 2020 \| 52 comments
21.		Where do argc and argv come from? (briancallahan.net)
		191 points by signa11 on Aug 9, 2020 \| 105 comments
22.		The Three Bay Areas (2017) (thebolditalic.com)
		198 points by mdu96 on Aug 10, 2020 \| 86 comments
23.		GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree (github.com/github)
		208 points by tenet on Aug 9, 2020 \| 95 comments
24.		If it's a nice problem to have, don't solve it now (davidnicholaswilliams.com)
		144 points by davnicwil on Aug 10, 2020 \| 69 comments
25.		Wiltshire valley locals build their own mobile phone network (newscabal.co.uk)
		124 points by ColinWright on Aug 10, 2020 \| 26 comments
26.		How We Got the Favicon (2017) (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
		146 points by simonpure on Aug 10, 2020 \| 64 comments
27.		Photos from Bell Labs Datacenter in 1960s (2019) (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
		242 points by Zaheer on Aug 10, 2020 \| 71 comments
28.		GraalVM (graalvm.org)
		176 points by gjvc on Aug 9, 2020 \| 102 comments
29.		Codata in action, or how to connect FP and OOP (javiercasas.com)
		100 points by siraben on Aug 10, 2020 \| 54 comments
30.		More than 100 coal-fired plants have been converted to natural gas since 2011 (eia.gov)
		92 points by lawrenceyan on Aug 9, 2020 \| 60 comments
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