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1.		New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others (cbc.ca)
		884 points by apsec112 on Aug 20, 2020 \| 202 comments
2.		Moving from YouTube to PeerTube (battlepenguin.com)
		738 points by djsumdog on Aug 20, 2020 \| 451 comments
3.		Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay (theverge.com)
		424 points by badwolf on Aug 20, 2020 \| 649 comments
4.		Citibank's $900M Blunder (finshots.in)
		348 points by superasn on Aug 20, 2020 \| 292 comments
5.		How to contact Google SRE by dropping a shell in Cloud SQL (offensi.com)
		639 points by fanf2 on Aug 19, 2020 \| 98 comments
6.		The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago (smithsonianmag.com)
		324 points by pseudolus on Aug 20, 2020 \| 136 comments
7.		How Shopify reduced storefront response times with a rewrite (shopify.com)
		350 points by vaillancourtmax on Aug 20, 2020 \| 73 comments
8.		The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis (lwn.net)
		360 points by ColinWright on Aug 20, 2020 \| 285 comments
9.		Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras (driesdepoorter.be)
		324 points by driesdep on Aug 19, 2020 \| 90 comments
10.		Foiling Electric Boat (candelaspeedboat.com)
		194 points by punnerud on Aug 20, 2020 \| 145 comments
11.		A deep dive into the official Docker image for Python (pythonspeed.com)
		189 points by itamarst on Aug 19, 2020 \| 61 comments
12.		Satellite warfare: An arms race is brewing in orbit (economist.com)
		167 points by bookofjoe on Aug 20, 2020 \| 111 comments
13.		Though forests burn, trees retake farmland globally as agroforestry advances (mongabay.com)
		193 points by TanakaTarou on Aug 19, 2020 \| 106 comments
14.		Math.min(Math.max(num, min), max) (twitter.com/jaffathecake)
		238 points by tosh on Aug 20, 2020 \| 271 comments
15.		The dual PhD problem of today’s startups (techcrunch.com)
		230 points by tosh on Aug 19, 2020 \| 120 comments
16.		Sending SPF and DMARC passing mail as any Gmail or G Suite customer (ezh.es)
		213 points by djsumdog on Aug 20, 2020 \| 49 comments
17.		The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (amazon.com)
		189 points by bdcravens on Aug 20, 2020 \| 120 comments
18.		The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia (twitter.com/liamosaur)
		437 points by noyesno on Aug 20, 2020 \| 114 comments
19.		Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang (quantamagazine.org)
		127 points by SirLJ on Aug 20, 2020 \| 162 comments
20.		Show HN: Say Less – AI summarization tool in the Gmail compose window (sayless.email)
		135 points by yoavz on Aug 20, 2020 \| 57 comments
21.		Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing
		264 points by borisandcrispin on Aug 20, 2020 \| 110 comments
22.		Parsing S-expressions in C (2019) (benpaulhanna.com)
		147 points by azhenley on Aug 20, 2020 \| 98 comments
23.		Rideshare operations are being suspended in California (lyft.com)
		534 points by el_duderino on Aug 20, 2020 \| 1078 comments
24.		Wirecard hired actors to fool auditors (manager-magazin.de)
		181 points by ramboldio on Aug 20, 2020 \| 191 comments
25.		Show HN: Compare Analysis Tools For Python, Ruby, C, PHP, Go (analysis-tools.dev)
		175 points by mre on Aug 20, 2020 \| 57 comments
26.		How to make a bee hotel [pdf] (foxleas.com)
		82 points by DanBC on Aug 20, 2020 \| 10 comments
27.		Former Uber executive charged with paying 'hush money' to conceal breach (npr.org)
		223 points by PatrolX on Aug 20, 2020 \| 132 comments
28.		Gmail and Google Drive Outage (google.com)
		244 points by severb on Aug 20, 2020 \| 84 comments
29.		Fortnite’s battle with Apple and Google could have an impact on news publishers (niemanlab.org)
		131 points by woldemariam on Aug 20, 2020 \| 329 comments
30.		Startup mistakes: Lessons from failed startups (failory.com)
		230 points by mitchbob on Aug 20, 2020 \| 74 comments
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