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1.
Websites that look like desktop GUIs (simone.computer)
981 points by fanf2 on July 4, 2020 | 183 comments
2.
Where Am I? NYTimes or Google? (theinternetbytes.com)
1130 points by rwoll on July 4, 2020 | 355 comments
3.
De-escalating social media conflict (nickpunt.com)
583 points by npunt on July 4, 2020 | 335 comments
4.
A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternative to the web (toffelblog.xyz)
415 points by flatlanderwoman on July 4, 2020 | 347 comments
5.
After many false starts, hydrogen power might now bear fruit (economist.com)
211 points by helsinkiandrew on July 4, 2020 | 330 comments
6.
Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes (bennettfeely.com)
457 points by bennettfeely on July 4, 2020 | 180 comments
7.
Bitcoin From Scratch – Part 1 (monokh.com)
293 points by monokh on July 3, 2020 | 69 comments
8.
From context collapse to content collapse (roughtype.com)
224 points by MindGods on July 4, 2020 | 109 comments
9.
Scuba diver accidentally discovers prehistoric industrial complex in Mexico (nationalpost.com)
249 points by aritraghosh007 on July 4, 2020 | 85 comments
10.
Intro to Fully Homomorphic Encryption (higashi.tech)
126 points by yuedongze on July 3, 2020 | 30 comments
11.
Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was met with skepticism (theconversation.com)
179 points by Thevet on July 4, 2020 | 202 comments
12.
Sphere Eversion (rreusser.github.io)
202 points by colinprince on July 3, 2020 | 45 comments
13.
The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (1991) (utexas.edu)
80 points by rutenspitz on July 3, 2020 | 33 comments
14.
Scaling Linux Services: Before accepting connections (theojulienne.io)
175 points by theojulienne on July 4, 2020 | 29 comments
15.
Learn to Create and Flex Flexagons (loki3.com)
69 points by bhy on July 4, 2020 | 15 comments
16.
MaXX Interactive Desktop: A Re-Implementation of the IRIX Interactive Desktop (maxxinteractive.com)
166 points by rbanffy on July 4, 2020 | 132 comments
17.
Tinc – A Virtual Private Network (VPN) Daemon (tinc-vpn.org)
158 points by simonpure on July 4, 2020 | 51 comments
18.
SSH Emergency Access (smallstep.com)
165 points by based2 on July 4, 2020 | 72 comments
19.
Founder-driven life sciences companies (axial.substack.com)
60 points by elkingtowa on July 4, 2020 | 40 comments
20.
Differential privacy tools from MS Research and Harvard (blogs.microsoft.com)
95 points by op03 on July 2, 2020 | 20 comments
21.
Harmful Workload Generator for PostgreSQL (github.com/lesovsky)
135 points by tirumaraiselvan on July 4, 2020 | 7 comments
22.
Neural Supersampling for Real-Time Rendering (fb.com)
102 points by jsheard on July 2, 2020 | 45 comments
23.
Cronk: Long-lost beverage resurrected after 120 years (theguardian.com)
131 points by pseudolus on July 4, 2020 | 30 comments
24.
LIGO Black hole merger may have optical confirmation (caltech.edu)
93 points by throwaway2048 on July 4, 2020 | 10 comments
25.
Closos: Specification of a Lisp operating system (2013) [pdf] (metamodular.com)
90 points by ska80 on July 4, 2020 | 22 comments
26.
Web Design Museum 1991 – 2006 (webdesignmuseum.org)
104 points by kome on July 3, 2020 | 14 comments
27.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: The rise and fall of the five stages of grief (bbc.com)
60 points by asplake on July 3, 2020 | 18 comments
28.
Building a BASIC Interpreter, '80s style (able.bio)
77 points by new_here on July 3, 2020 | 14 comments
29.
Students built a 16th-century engineer’s book-reading machine (atlasobscura.com)
62 points by pseudolus on July 3, 2020 | 19 comments
30.
Targeted MitM attacks using information leakage in SSH clients [pdf] (fzi.de)
69 points by based2 on July 4, 2020 | 83 comments

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