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1.		Security by obscurity is underrated (utkusen.com)
		939 points by goranmoomin on Sept 11, 2020 \| 510 comments
2.		'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about that task (medium.com/robertwiblin)
		543 points by robertwiblin on Sept 11, 2020 \| 135 comments
3.		Apple: Person-to-person experiences do not have to use in-app purchase (developer.apple.com)
		338 points by BigBalli on Sept 11, 2020 \| 468 comments
4.		Scaling Erlang Developer Experience at WhatsApp [pdf] (codesync.global)
		308 points by anuragsoni on Sept 11, 2020 \| 96 comments
5.		Implement BeamAsm – A JIT for Erlang/OTP (github.com/erlang)
		233 points by di4na on Sept 11, 2020 \| 32 comments
6.		Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destruction, scientists warn (bbc.com)
		391 points by acdanger on Sept 11, 2020 \| 265 comments
7.		April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp [video] (youtube.com)
		103 points by tosh on Sept 10, 2020 \| 23 comments
8.		Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking to access content (developer.apple.com)
		373 points by Nextgrid on Sept 11, 2020 \| 259 comments
9.		Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017) (ieee.org)
		353 points by abixb on Sept 11, 2020 \| 196 comments
10.		Raccoon Attack (raccoon-attack.com)
		203 points by wglb on Sept 11, 2020 \| 51 comments
11.		Redox: Unix-Like Operating System in Rust (redox-os.org)
		242 points by bpierre on Sept 11, 2020 \| 106 comments
12.		Let employees sell their equity (burke.dev)
		267 points by craigkerstiens on Sept 11, 2020 \| 276 comments
13.		Show HN: Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query (octoproject.github.io)
		241 points by khalidlafi on Sept 11, 2020 \| 58 comments
14.		BEHEMOTH – Big Electronic Human-Energized Machine, Only Too Heavy (microship.com)
		174 points by robin_reala on Sept 11, 2020 \| 48 comments
15.		How I operated as a staff engineer at Heroku (amyunger.com)
		380 points by craigkerstiens on Sept 10, 2020 \| 84 comments
16.		Home Studio Setup Costs Compared – 1980s And Now (pro-tools-expert.com)
		181 points by brudgers on Sept 10, 2020 \| 166 comments
17.		Contradictions in Roman law left incurable headaches for its judges (historytoday.com)
		172 points by diodorus on Sept 11, 2020 \| 156 comments
18.		EWW: Emacs Web Wowser (gnu.org)
		160 points by tosh on Sept 11, 2020 \| 51 comments
19.		Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare' (bbc.co.uk)
		198 points by Kaibeezy on Sept 11, 2020 \| 395 comments
20.		How do you reason about a probabilistic distributed system? (ahelwer.ca)
		112 points by ahelwer on Sept 11, 2020 \| 15 comments
21.		Drone firm DJI promises 'local data mode' to fend off US government's mooted ban (theregister.com)
		119 points by Bender on Sept 11, 2020 \| 102 comments
22.		I built an app to fix my depression (elifiner.com)
		275 points by zoozla on Sept 11, 2020 \| 176 comments
23.		A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitrogen (2018) (smithsonianmag.com)
		98 points by NoRagrets on Sept 10, 2020 \| 86 comments
24.		Vinyl LPs Sell More Than CDs for the First Time in 3 Decades (synthtopia.com)
		174 points by anigbrowl on Sept 11, 2020 \| 220 comments
25.		USB Mass Storage and USB-Attached SCSI Are Both SCSI (devever.net)
		77 points by hlandau on Sept 11, 2020 \| 39 comments
26.		Myth-busting article about radiation hardened microchips for space applications (habr.com)
		109 points by amartology on Sept 10, 2020 \| 64 comments
27.		In-App Purchase Rules (marco.org)
		241 points by 0xQSL on Sept 11, 2020 \| 82 comments
28.		State of Self-Serve Website Building in 2020 (sprune.com)
		153 points by nreece on Sept 9, 2020 \| 121 comments
29.		The lack of namespaces on crates.io is a feature (samsieber.tech)
		108 points by Bender on Sept 11, 2020 \| 191 comments
30.		Decision Table Patterns (hillelwayne.com)
		112 points by MindGods on Sept 10, 2020 \| 22 comments
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