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1.		Frances Allen has died (ibm.com)
		892 points by ntumlin on Aug 5, 2020 \| 101 comments
2.		Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects (msn.com)
		1194 points by Shivetya on Aug 6, 2020 \| 469 comments
3.		20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions (twitter.com/deletescape)
		1062 points by phoe-krk on Aug 6, 2020 \| 444 comments
4.		Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0 (ycombinator.com)
		635 points by tosh on Aug 6, 2020 \| 65 comments
5.		Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates (theverge.com)
		621 points by virde on Aug 6, 2020 \| 506 comments
6.		A crash course on hacking satellites (nyan-sat.com)
		420 points by PatrolX on Aug 6, 2020 \| 62 comments
7.		The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project root directories (github.com/nodejs)
		356 points by flaque on Aug 5, 2020 \| 199 comments
8.		Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connected (github.com/hephaest0s)
		385 points by berkas1 on Aug 6, 2020 \| 188 comments
9.		OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh (github.com/acidanthera)
		342 points by reimertz on Aug 6, 2020 \| 211 comments
10.		Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second (github.com/simdjson)
		503 points by lorenzfx on Aug 6, 2020 \| 151 comments
11.		Compiler Explorer (godbolt.org)
		303 points by stmw on Aug 5, 2020 \| 48 comments
12.		A new design ship in the Philippines is partly powered by wave energy (bbc.com)
		215 points by awk on Aug 6, 2020 \| 94 comments
13.		Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles (illinois.edu)
		266 points by doener on Aug 6, 2020 \| 163 comments
14.		Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the thousands (bnnbloomberg.ca)
		213 points by finphil on Aug 6, 2020 \| 268 comments
15.		Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer (stripe.com)
		199 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 6, 2020 \| 83 comments
16.		Launch HN: Datafold (YC S20) – Diff Tool for SQL Databases
		189 points by hichkaker on Aug 6, 2020 \| 76 comments
17.		The ‘solar canals’ making smart use of India’s space (bbc.com)
		148 points by palo3 on Aug 4, 2020 \| 70 comments
18.		NeRF in the Wild: reconstructing 3D scenes from internet photography (nerf-w.github.io)
		218 points by tambourine_man on Aug 6, 2020 \| 124 comments
19.		Lab mice have a chill, and that may be messing up study results (2016) (statnews.com)
		104 points by apsec112 on Aug 6, 2020 \| 66 comments
20.		Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software (amazon.com)
		126 points by joelg on Aug 6, 2020 \| 19 comments
21.		Auth is now available in Supabase (YC S20) (supabase.io)
		173 points by kiwicopple on Aug 6, 2020 \| 50 comments
22.		Cluster of 295 Chrome extensions caught hijacking Google and Bing search results (zdnet.com)
		204 points by Bender on Aug 6, 2020 \| 87 comments
23.		Node Modules at War: Why CommonJS and ES Modules Can’t Get Along (redfin.engineering)
		193 points by dfabulich on Aug 6, 2020 \| 147 comments
24.		Herbie: Automatically Improving Floating Point Accuracy (uwplse.org)
		152 points by lelf on Aug 6, 2020 \| 17 comments
25.		Surviving Django, if you care about databases (varrazzo.com)
		172 points by pauloxnet on Aug 6, 2020 \| 217 comments
26.		Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release (techcrunch.com)
		351 points by lxm on Aug 6, 2020 \| 428 comments
27.		Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?
		212 points by trevett on Aug 5, 2020 \| 222 comments
28.		Touch Typing on a Gamepad (darkshadow.io)
		110 points by krisfris on Aug 5, 2020 \| 57 comments
29.		Take Gitlab to the command line with GLab, an open-source Gitlab CLI tool (github.com/profclems)
		157 points by profclems on Aug 6, 2020 \| 74 comments
30.		Blissymbols (wikipedia.org)
		81 points by polm23 on Aug 5, 2020 \| 46 comments
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