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1.		On Trouser Pockets (sambleckley.com)
		769 points by diiq on July 18, 2020 \| 390 comments
2.		Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org (domainnamewire.com)
		989 points by feross on July 18, 2020 \| 135 comments
3.		Hugelkultur: Raised Garden Beds (richsoil.com)
		401 points by jschwartzi on July 18, 2020 \| 148 comments
4.		Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020 (cloudflare.com)
		522 points by tomklein on July 17, 2020 \| 213 comments
5.		Powerful AI Can Now Be Trained on a Single Computer (ieee.org)
		282 points by MindGods on July 17, 2020 \| 94 comments
6.		An update on our security incident (blog.twitter.com)
		547 points by psanford on July 18, 2020 \| 287 comments
7.		Krita, OpenGL and Qt (valdyas.org)
		295 points by todsacerdoti on July 18, 2020 \| 205 comments
8.		NoiseTorch: Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux written in Go (github.com/lawl)
		390 points by ClawsOnPaws on July 18, 2020 \| 90 comments
9.		How do I design a game from scratch? A primer on core loops (teamavocado.co)
		241 points by NuclearTide on July 17, 2020 \| 42 comments
10.		Booting to 'Hello Rust' on x86_64 (micouy.github.io)
		248 points by micouay on July 18, 2020 \| 36 comments
11.		Swiss Political System: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know (250bpm.com)
		304 points by zdw on July 18, 2020 \| 241 comments
12.		Lies, damn lies, and front-end tracking (alexeymk.com)
		183 points by AlexeyMK on July 15, 2020 \| 96 comments
13.		How ultra-black fish disappear in the deepest seas (nytimes.com)
		122 points by aaronharnly on July 18, 2020 \| 32 comments
14.		How Mormons built a startup ecosystem in Utah (marker.medium.com)
		196 points by simonebrunozzi on July 18, 2020 \| 243 comments
15.		Dixie cups became the breakout startup of the 1918 pandemic (fastcompany.com)
		172 points by lxm on July 18, 2020 \| 134 comments
16.		The Intel 8086 processor's registers: from chip to transistors (righto.com)
		148 points by chmaynard on July 18, 2020 \| 38 comments
17.		Show HN: Simple Ops – My new microstartup after three years of indie hacking (simpleops.io)
		280 points by 1hakr on July 18, 2020 \| 109 comments
18.		The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves (quoteinvestigator.com)
		141 points by stepstop on July 17, 2020 \| 53 comments
19.		Samsung Blu-ray players bricked because of an XML config file (theregister.com)
		213 points by jgome on July 18, 2020 \| 175 comments
20.		Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additional $130M (iblnews.org)
		137 points by rglullis on July 18, 2020 \| 115 comments
21.		WebTorrent Desktop 0.23 (github.com/webtorrent)
		120 points by feross on July 18, 2020 \| 36 comments
22.		PIFuHD: High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization (shunsukesaito.github.io)
		89 points by jonbaer on July 18, 2020 \| 19 comments
23.		Could IPOs be replaced by blank check acquisitions (SPAC)? (quora.com)
		77 points by kaboro on July 18, 2020 \| 65 comments
24.		Ancient human ancestors carved handaxe from a hippo femur 1.4M years ago: study (cnn.com)
		80 points by clouddrover on July 18, 2020 \| 42 comments
25.		What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory (quantamagazine.org)
		79 points by pseudolus on July 17, 2020 \| 18 comments
26.		Typed Lisp, a Primer (2019) (alhassy.github.io)
		107 points by jedimind on July 18, 2020 \| 26 comments
27.		Levandowski files suit against Uber [pdf] (eternum.io)
		112 points by MrSandman on July 18, 2020 \| 91 comments
28.		A new material helps transistors become vanishingly small (economist.com)
		80 points by lxm on July 17, 2020 \| 10 comments
29.		Views on Error Handling (dannas.name)
		96 points by dannas on July 18, 2020 \| 91 comments
30.		Windows on Raspberry (worproject.ml)
		125 points by T-A on July 18, 2020 \| 108 comments
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