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1.		Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US letter carriers (pressherald.com)
		488 points by 80mph on July 27, 2020 \| 426 comments
2.		How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations (jalammar.github.io)
		398 points by dsr12 on July 27, 2020 \| 98 comments
3.		Double Entry Accounting for Developers (django-hordak.readthedocs.io)
		390 points by adamcharnock on July 27, 2020 \| 233 comments
4.		ACCC alleges Google misled consumers about expanded use of personal data (accc.gov.au)
		375 points by Khaine on July 27, 2020 \| 79 comments
5.		Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices (vocodes.com)
		462 points by echelon on July 27, 2020 \| 165 comments
6.		Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me? (support.google.com)
		476 points by mariocesar on July 27, 2020 \| 285 comments
7.		Quiet route planning for pedestrians in traffic noise polluted environments (uni-heidelberg.de)
		239 points by ericdanielski on July 27, 2020 \| 132 comments
8.		Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landing tests (businessinsider.com)
		332 points by apsec112 on July 27, 2020 \| 318 comments
9.		Facebook sues EU antitrust regulator for excessive data requests (reuters.com)
		222 points by ckastner on July 27, 2020 \| 148 comments
10.		Writing a file system from scratch in Rust (carlosgaldino.com)
		331 points by carlosgaldino on July 27, 2020 \| 59 comments
11.		Apache Arrow 1.0 (apache.org)
		361 points by dragonsh on July 27, 2020 \| 132 comments
12.		Spies can eavesdrop by watching a light bulb's vibrations (wired.com)
		268 points by lelf on July 26, 2020 \| 123 comments
13.		One company's plan to build a search engine Google can't beat (protocol.com)
		264 points by lxm on July 26, 2020 \| 321 comments
14.		Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power (bbc.com)
		230 points by pseudolus on July 27, 2020 \| 172 comments
15.		Appearances vs. Experiences: What Makes Us Happy (fs.blog)
		229 points by lxm on July 27, 2020 \| 97 comments
16.		It’s easier to manage four people than one person (staysaasy.com)
		267 points by chesterarthur on July 27, 2020 \| 90 comments
17.		Google to keep employees home until summer 2021 (wsj.com)
		413 points by tysone on July 27, 2020 \| 376 comments
18.		Sledding athletes are taking their lives (nytimes.com)
		201 points by mhb on July 26, 2020 \| 227 comments
19.		Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS (github.com/ther0n)
		176 points by aptgetrekt on July 27, 2020 \| 86 comments
20.		Harry Eng, the Master of the “Impossible Bottle” (puzzlemuseum.com)
		218 points by fortran77 on July 26, 2020 \| 86 comments
21.		How to pay your rent with your open source project (plausible.io)
		342 points by markosaric on July 27, 2020 \| 168 comments
22.		Ted Williams's Strike Zone (tedwilliams.com)
		157 points by dedalus on July 27, 2020 \| 63 comments
23.		Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of its serverless platform (cloudflare.com)
		250 points by skolos on July 27, 2020 \| 155 comments
24.		How did anyone do math in Roman numerals? (2017) (washingtoncitypaper.com)
		128 points by pmontra on July 27, 2020 \| 124 comments
25.		Are we in an AI Overhang? (lesswrong.com)
		261 points by andyljones on July 27, 2020 \| 274 comments
26.		Launch HN: Daybreak Health (YC S20) – Online counseling designed for teens
		58 points by alexalvarado on July 27, 2020 \| 32 comments
27.		Show HN: MathLingua – The Language of Mathematics (mathlingua.org)
		94 points by CatsAreCool on July 26, 2020 \| 46 comments
28.		The code I’m still ashamed of (2016) (freecodecamp.org)
		306 points by zdw on July 27, 2020 \| 172 comments
29.		Highlights from Git 2.28 (github.blog)
		201 points by programeris on July 27, 2020 \| 143 comments
30.		This month in 1939: How dead cattle led to the discovery of warfarin (pmlive.com)
		69 points by onetimemanytime on July 26, 2020 \| 16 comments
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