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1.
Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database (buzzfeednews.com)
698 points by pseudolus on July 22, 2020 | 397 comments
2.
First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO (eso.org)
654 points by rbanffy on July 22, 2020 | 171 comments
3.
Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear (scientificamerican.com)
650 points by prawn on July 22, 2020 | 189 comments
4.
Fawkes: Image “Cloaking” for Personal Privacy (uchicago.edu)
498 points by MindGods on July 22, 2020 | 121 comments
5.
Medium is not the home for your ideas (hulry.com)
574 points by rahulchowdhury on July 22, 2020 | 345 comments
6.
Terry Tao on some desirable properties of mathematical notation (mathoverflow.net)
393 points by jjhawk on July 21, 2020 | 217 comments
7.
How you 'attach' to people may explain a lot about your inner life (theguardian.com)
388 points by fredley on July 21, 2020 | 201 comments
8.
Show HN: MineSweeper implemented in 100% CSS and HTML – no JavaScript (github.com/propjockey)
390 points by JaneOri on July 22, 2020 | 92 comments
9.
Design Docs at Google (industrialempathy.com)
459 points by thesephist on July 22, 2020 | 187 comments
10.
Apple Security Research Device Program (developer.apple.com)
330 points by dewey on July 22, 2020 | 186 comments
11.
Amazon Ion (amzn.github.io)
307 points by BerislavLopac on July 22, 2020 | 110 comments
12.
Show HN: React Guitar – A guitar component for React (react-guitar.com)
242 points by 4lejandrito on July 22, 2020 | 41 comments
13.
Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019) (quantamagazine.org)
266 points by mmphosis on July 22, 2020 | 94 comments
14.
Build a toy quantum computer at home (dhruvonmath.com)
245 points by dhruvp on July 22, 2020 | 39 comments
15.
A React implementation of Spectrum, Adobe’s design system (adobe.com)
213 points by tga on July 22, 2020 | 71 comments
16.
Show HN: Datagridxl.js – No-nonsense fast Excel-like data table library (datagridxl.com)
238 points by robbiejs on July 21, 2020 | 131 comments
17.
Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers (thehill.com)
237 points by jonbaer on July 22, 2020 | 109 comments
18.
We Need a Yelp for Doctoral Programs (chronicle.com)
180 points by etattva on July 20, 2020 | 111 comments
19.
Semgrep: Lightweight static analysis for many languages (github.com/returntocorp)
202 points by kiyanwang on July 22, 2020 | 28 comments
20.
Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective (twitter.com/adamneumannscos)
488 points by artembugara on July 22, 2020 | 398 comments
21.
Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016) (programmingisterrible.com)
365 points by goranmoomin on July 22, 2020 | 109 comments
22.
The Cadence: How to Operate a SaaS Startup (medium.com/craft-ventures)
181 points by yarapavan on July 21, 2020 | 21 comments
23.
Launch HN: Reploy (YC S20) – Instant fullstack staging environments for web apps
114 points by podoman on July 22, 2020 | 84 comments
24.
Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable? (forgottenarbiter.github.io)
199 points by jsnell on July 21, 2020 | 139 comments
25.
Understand seed round dynamics in Silicon Valley (thevalley.substack.com)
94 points by massimosgrelli on July 22, 2020 | 37 comments
26.
Aristotle's Lost Book on Magic (2018) (ancientmedicine.org)
87 points by benbreen on July 22, 2020 | 25 comments
27.
Old-School Disk Partitions (bsdimp.blogspot.com)
91 points by zdw on July 21, 2020 | 7 comments
28.
Online classes are not worth cost of full tuition (thestar.com)
296 points by varbhat on July 22, 2020 | 313 comments
29.
SlateStarCodex Is Back Up (slatestarcodex.com)
260 points by bkohlmann on July 22, 2020 | 165 comments
30.
Elo sucks – better multiplayer rating systems for smaller games (2019) (medium.com/acolytefight)
161 points by brownbat on July 21, 2020 | 155 comments

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