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1.		Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests (latimes.com)
		824 points by gamblor956 on Aug 21, 2020 \| 530 comments
2.		Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better (psyche.co)
		745 points by _zhqs on Aug 21, 2020 \| 305 comments
3.		Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable (petapixel.com)
		701 points by fraXis on Aug 20, 2020 \| 429 comments
4.		WordPressiOS Locked by App Store (twitter.com/photomatt)
		438 points by constantinum on Aug 21, 2020 \| 339 comments
5.		ReMarkable MicroSD (2019) (davisr.me)
		368 points by devnonymous on Aug 21, 2020 \| 129 comments
6.		An Update on MDN Web Docs (hacks.mozilla.org)
		361 points by weinzierl on Aug 21, 2020 \| 205 comments
7.		Ride through Wuppertal on ‘the flying train’ in clear footage from 1902 (thisiscolossal.com)
		327 points by gmays on Aug 21, 2020 \| 130 comments
8.		Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic (apnic.net)
		438 points by jakob223 on Aug 21, 2020 \| 211 comments
9.		Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons? (yoric.github.io)
		399 points by est31 on Aug 21, 2020 \| 336 comments
10.		The Splitgraph Data Delivery Network – query over 40k public datasets (splitgraph.com)
		297 points by mildbyte on Aug 21, 2020 \| 95 comments
11.		AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation (breakingdefense.com)
		331 points by MontagFTB on Aug 21, 2020 \| 423 comments
12.		Volunteers spot almost 100 cold brown dwarfs near our sun (space.com)
		196 points by wglb on Aug 21, 2020 \| 126 comments
13.		‘Electric mud’ teems with new, mysterious bacteria (sciencemag.org)
		205 points by bookofjoe on Aug 21, 2020 \| 66 comments
14.		Game Programming Patterns: Event Queue (2014) (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)
		264 points by tosh on Aug 21, 2020 \| 123 comments
15.		RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible (github.com/diygod)
		214 points by hawkoy on Aug 19, 2020 \| 75 comments
16.		The universe has made almost all the stars it will ever make (nautil.us)
		151 points by dnetesn on Aug 20, 2020 \| 64 comments
17.		F (2006) (nsl.com)
		175 points by tosh on Aug 21, 2020 \| 56 comments
18.		Trust Models (vitalik.ca)
		150 points by feross on Aug 21, 2020 \| 30 comments
19.		Breaking Samsung Firmware, or Turning Your S8/S9/S10 into a DIY “Proxmark” (pentestpartners.com)
		146 points by tapper on Aug 20, 2020 \| 24 comments
20.		Launch HN: Plum Mail (YC S20) – Email alternative for group conversations
		118 points by richardesigns on Aug 21, 2020 \| 65 comments
21.		University of Utah pays $457k to ransomware gang (zdnet.com)
		173 points by jpkoning on Aug 21, 2020 \| 196 comments
22.		Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth: study (phys.org)
		139 points by dnetesn on Aug 19, 2020 \| 42 comments
23.		The Elena Programming Language (elena-lang.github.io)
		91 points by 0xedb on Aug 20, 2020 \| 60 comments
24.		Corsair Gaming S-1 (sec.gov)
		97 points by kressaty on Aug 21, 2020 \| 101 comments
25.		Coherent: Unix variant for DOS compatible PCs (1994) [pdf] (autometer.de)
		81 points by ColinWright on Aug 20, 2020 \| 39 comments
26.		Leaked S-1 screenshots show Palantir losing $579M in 2019 (techcrunch.com)
		288 points by rvz on Aug 21, 2020 \| 187 comments
27.		Roblox is a MUD: The history of MUDs, virtual worlds and MMORPGs (medium.com/felipepepe)
		158 points by Kinrany on Aug 20, 2020 \| 109 comments
28.		Former Zoox employees sue, alleging rival offer was better than Amazon's (reuters.com)
		145 points by tempsy on Aug 21, 2020 \| 170 comments
29.		Linux from Scratch (linuxfromscratch.org)
		258 points by letientai299 on Aug 21, 2020 \| 86 comments
30.		ARX, Arthur and RISC OS (2012) (jellybaby.net)
		58 points by mr_golyadkin on Aug 20, 2020 \| 31 comments
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