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1.		Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime (reddit.com)
		1043 points by huhtenberg on Aug 5, 2020 \| 400 comments
2.		Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0 (blog.mozilla.org)
		789 points by Bender on Aug 5, 2020 \| 471 comments
3.		Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed (techcrunch.com)
		483 points by Scaevolus on Aug 4, 2020 \| 418 comments
4.		Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels (axios.com)
		417 points by 0xedb on Aug 5, 2020 \| 333 comments
5.		Satellite images of the Beirut explosion site – before and after (knightlab.com)
		394 points by huhtenberg on Aug 5, 2020 \| 218 comments
6.		Changes to SameSite Cookie Behavior – A Call to Action for Web Developers (hacks.mozilla.org)
		231 points by weinzierl on Aug 5, 2020 \| 110 comments
7.		Arcosanti (wikipedia.org)
		230 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 5, 2020 \| 71 comments
8.		Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf] (math.harvard.edu)
		234 points by bryanrasmussen on Aug 5, 2020 \| 91 comments
9.		[dupe] Show HN: Unscreen – Automatically remove video backgrounds with ML (unscreen.com)
		215 points by groe on Aug 5, 2020 \| 107 comments
10.		SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video] (youtube.com)
		530 points by lpellis on Aug 4, 2020 \| 383 comments
11.		The Hacker Way: How I taught my nephew to program (stopa.io)
		260 points by stopachka on Aug 5, 2020 \| 79 comments
12.		Chat Bubble Blindness (atlistmaps.com)
		283 points by quickthrower2 on Aug 5, 2020 \| 186 comments
13.		WebGL Fluid Experiment (2014) (haxiomic.github.io)
		200 points by maxraz on Aug 5, 2020 \| 54 comments
14.		Instacart shoppers besieged by bots that snatch lucrative orders (seattletimes.com)
		189 points by wallflower on Aug 4, 2020 \| 139 comments
15.		Google’s search monopoly complicates a mental health crisis (bloombergquint.com)
		180 points by woldemariam on Aug 5, 2020 \| 156 comments
16.		The Fundamental Axiom of Floating Point Arithmetic (johnbcoughlin.com)
		172 points by johnbcoughlin on Aug 5, 2020 \| 60 comments
17.		Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf] (borsche.de)
		360 points by black6 on Aug 5, 2020 \| 256 comments
18.		What is 5D chess? (chessbase.com)
		225 points by hawkoy on Aug 4, 2020 \| 105 comments
19.		File System Interfaces for Go – Draft Design (googlesource.com)
		176 points by networkimprov on Aug 5, 2020 \| 110 comments
20.		Luau – A fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua (roblox.github.io)
		163 points by panic on Aug 5, 2020 \| 87 comments
21.		London traders hit $500M jackpot when oil went negative (bloomberg.com)
		185 points by Inconel on Aug 4, 2020 \| 127 comments
22.		Launch HN: Speedscale (YC S20) – Automatically create tests from actual traffic
		137 points by Inchull on Aug 5, 2020 \| 39 comments
23.		In a warming world, New England’s trees are storing more carbon (news.harvard.edu)
		83 points by chmaynard on Aug 4, 2020 \| 75 comments
24.		What is Jio, and why are tech’s biggest players suddenly obsessed with it? (onezero.medium.com)
		125 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 5, 2020 \| 105 comments
25.		Order of magnitude estimate of Beirut explosion at 3 kilotons of TNT (twitter.com/sinabooeshaghi)
		258 points by sinab on Aug 4, 2020 \| 247 comments
26.		A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf] (ethz.ch)
		163 points by tosh on Aug 5, 2020 \| 137 comments
27.		How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020 (blog.mozilla.org)
		217 points by pitterpatter on Aug 5, 2020 \| 48 comments
28.		Chrome Music Lab (chromeexperiments.com)
		171 points by Sparkenstein on Aug 4, 2020 \| 30 comments
29.		Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire (utwente.nl)
		101 points by behnamoh on Aug 5, 2020 \| 18 comments
30.		Wasabi fire alarm a lifesaver for the deaf (2008) (reuters.com)
		78 points by EndXA on Aug 5, 2020 \| 37 comments
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