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Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices (oculus.com)
1858 points by superted on Aug 18, 2020 | 1025 comments
2.
Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics (umami.is)
820 points by bananaoomarang on Aug 18, 2020 | 227 comments
3.
Canon's cloud platform has lost users' files and can't restore them (digitalcameraworld.com)
646 points by chvik on Aug 18, 2020 | 399 comments
4.
Modeling a Wealth Tax (paulgraham.com)
645 points by tosh on Aug 18, 2020 | 1705 comments
5.
The Death of Corporate Research Labs (dshr.org)
355 points by banjo_milkman on Aug 18, 2020 | 178 comments
6.
Haskell Mini-Patterns Handbook (kowainik.github.io)
328 points by gluegadget on Aug 18, 2020 | 30 comments
7.
If founders treated their investors the same way they treated their employees (rajivprab.com)
679 points by whack on Aug 18, 2020 | 266 comments
8.
Dependency (xkcd.com)
808 points by kjhughes on Aug 17, 2020 | 294 comments
9.
Graphical Linear Algebra (graphicallinearalgebra.net)
287 points by guerrilla on Aug 18, 2020 | 82 comments
10.
Show HN: Archivy – Self-hosted knowledge base embedded into your filesystem (github.com/uzay-g)
219 points by etherio on Aug 18, 2020 | 58 comments
11.
Laying the foundation for Rust’s future (rust-lang.org)
643 points by steveklabnik on Aug 18, 2020 | 186 comments
12.
APL386 Unicode – An APL Font (abrudz.github.io)
136 points by chrispsn on Aug 18, 2020 | 65 comments
13.
Architecture of the Nintendo DS (copetti.org)
351 points by Polylactic_acid on Aug 18, 2020 | 103 comments
14.
Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) (magcius.github.io)
326 points by goranmoomin on Aug 18, 2020 | 89 comments
15.
2.5M Medical Records Leaked by AI Company (securethoughts.com)
320 points by wglb on Aug 18, 2020 | 142 comments
16.
Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting (github.com/alias-rahil)
255 points by alias-rahil on Aug 18, 2020 | 80 comments
17.
Show HN: Dropbase 2.0 – Turn offline files into live databases (dropbase.io)
261 points by jimmyechan on Aug 17, 2020 | 114 comments
18.
The life-changing love of Paul Dirac (2015) (theconversation.com)
137 points by anthilemoon on Aug 18, 2020 | 47 comments
19.
Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research (bbc.com)
314 points by clouddrover on Aug 18, 2020 | 198 comments
20.
Old salt mine is the first emission-free compressed air energy facility (2019) (cbc.ca)
80 points by luu on Aug 18, 2020 | 122 comments
21.
Black Sky satellites return images just 58 hours after launch (techcrunch.com)
122 points by ChuckMcM on Aug 17, 2020 | 114 comments
22.
Lost Advanced Civilizations (overcomingbias.com)
136 points by headalgorithm on Aug 18, 2020 | 128 comments
23.
Voxel Plotting with Gnuplot 5.4 (lwn.net)
108 points by leephillips on Aug 18, 2020 | 8 comments
24.
Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
327 points by OnWriting on Aug 18, 2020 | 308 comments
25.
Launch HN: Synth (YC S20) – Realistic, synthetic test data for your app
121 points by openquery on Aug 18, 2020 | 48 comments
26.
Kotlin 1.4 (jetbrains.com)
225 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2020 | 235 comments
27.
Let’s Learn x86-64 Assembly: Part 0 – Setup and First Steps (gpfault.net)
180 points by nice_byte on Aug 18, 2020 | 38 comments
28.
An Ecology of Mind: A daughter's portrait of Gregory Bateson (anecologyofmind.com)
69 points by apsec112 on Aug 17, 2020 | 24 comments
29.
Language-Agnostic Bert Sentence Embedding (googleblog.com)
74 points by theafh on Aug 18, 2020 | 35 comments
30.
Essential Coding Theory [pdf] (buffalo.edu)
154 points by noch on Aug 18, 2020 | 19 comments

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