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Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels (typelit.io)
1589 points by Octouroboros on Oct 6, 2020 | 378 comments
2.
Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption (eff.org)
1252 points by DyslexicAtheist on Oct 6, 2020 | 342 comments
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Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay (wsj.com)
1256 points by grej on Oct 6, 2020 | 1363 comments
4.
Q3 Linux touchpad update: Multitouch gesture test packages now ready (harding.blog)
419 points by wbharding on Oct 6, 2020 | 136 comments
5.
Eddie Van Halen has died (npr.org)
612 points by psim1 on Oct 6, 2020 | 192 comments
6.
How I remember what I learn (vasilishynkarenka.com)
556 points by flreln on Oct 6, 2020 | 125 comments
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U.S. House's antitrust report hints at break-up of big tech firms: lawmaker (reuters.com)
391 points by cblconfederate on Oct 6, 2020 | 482 comments
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DDR5 Is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix (anandtech.com)
271 points by ryansmccoy on Oct 6, 2020 | 207 comments
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Kube Doom, Kill Kubernetes Pods Using Id's Doom (github.com/storax)
257 points by nfrankel on Oct 5, 2020 | 80 comments
10.
Time for a WTF MySQL Moment (gbl08ma.com)
327 points by gbl08ma on Oct 6, 2020 | 114 comments
11.
Look ma, no mouse: Vimium (codefaster.substack.com)
235 points by code-faster on Oct 6, 2020 | 106 comments
12.
Elixir 1.11 (elixir-lang.org)
381 points by nifoc on Oct 6, 2020 | 101 comments
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Remote learning isn’t new: Radio instruction in the 1937 polio epidemic (theconversation.com)
168 points by rustoo on Oct 6, 2020 | 42 comments
14.
Toward an API for the Real Numbers (acolyer.org)
171 points by azhenley on Oct 6, 2020 | 81 comments
15.
What you could steal from the Kakoune code editor, and get away with (kakoune-editor.github.io)
222 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 5, 2020 | 94 comments
16.
Simulating Machines in Clojure (stopa.io)
161 points by stopachka on Oct 6, 2020 | 17 comments
17.
Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics: A Topical Index (astrosociety.org)
219 points by firebaze on Oct 5, 2020 | 70 comments
18.
A quick introduction to data parallelism in Julia (juliafolds.github.io)
160 points by amkkma on Oct 6, 2020 | 15 comments
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Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 100K emails [pdf] (electionemails2020.org)
139 points by randomwalker on Oct 5, 2020 | 55 comments
20.
Gradient Boosted Decision Trees (simonwardjones.co.uk)
150 points by simonwardjones on Oct 6, 2020 | 7 comments
21.
Venice holds back the water for first time in 1,200 years (cnn.com)
240 points by pseudolus on Oct 5, 2020 | 69 comments
22.
When Plants Go to War (nautil.us)
89 points by apophasis on Oct 6, 2020 | 22 comments
23.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 (nobelprize.org)
345 points by yesbabyyes on Oct 6, 2020 | 146 comments
24.
Why Life Can’t Be Simpler (fs.blog)
158 points by feross on Oct 5, 2020 | 167 comments
25.
Show HN: Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative (plausible.io)
351 points by markosaric on Oct 6, 2020 | 139 comments
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Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in (bbc.com)
216 points by pbhowmic on Oct 6, 2020 | 153 comments
27.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Compression (go-compression.github.io)
159 points by ohjeez on Oct 5, 2020 | 24 comments
28.
Parallel Tracks (defmacro.substack.com)
109 points by gringoDan on Oct 5, 2020 | 62 comments
29.
Humans are more closely related than we commonly think (scientificamerican.com)
157 points by headalgorithm on Oct 5, 2020 | 130 comments
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Show HN: Gurlic – Free and Open Communities (gurlic.com)
108 points by SubGenius on Oct 4, 2020 | 45 comments

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