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1.		Africa declared free of wild polio (bbc.com)
		1387 points by riffraff on Aug 25, 2020 \| 241 comments
2.		Please read the paper before you comment (buttondown.email/hillelwayne)
		719 points by azhenley on Aug 25, 2020 \| 327 comments
3.		Openwifi: Linux mac80211 compatible full-stack 802.11/Wi-Fi design based on SDR (github.com/open-sdr)
		415 points by homarp on Aug 25, 2020 \| 84 comments
4.		Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data (nullsweep.com)
		545 points by BCharlie on Aug 25, 2020 \| 379 comments
5.		How to Write in Plain English (plainenglish.co.uk)
		724 points by zackhsi on Aug 25, 2020 \| 313 comments
6.		2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park (nbcnews.com)
		399 points by apsec112 on Aug 25, 2020 \| 203 comments
7.		Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is stepping down after 21 years (footwearnews.com)
		270 points by jchin on Aug 25, 2020 \| 172 comments
8.		OpenZFS Merged to FreeBSD (freebsd.org)
		364 points by swills on Aug 25, 2020 \| 180 comments
9.		Global Mass Surveillance – The Fourteen Eyes (privacytools.io)
		345 points by latexr on Aug 25, 2020 \| 150 comments
10.		Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence (gallup.com)
		459 points by apsec112 on Aug 25, 2020 \| 795 comments
11.		Syllabus for Eric's PhD Students (docs.google.com)
		299 points by EvgeniyZh on Aug 25, 2020 \| 92 comments
12.		Apple ordered to not block Epic’s Unreal Engine, Fortnite to stay off App Store (techcrunch.com)
		409 points by jmsflknr on Aug 25, 2020 \| 625 comments
13.		Cat vs. panel heater: which is better? (oneroof.co.nz)
		233 points by sillybilly on Aug 25, 2020 \| 156 comments
14.		Signifier – a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces (klim.co.nz)
		249 points by firloop on Aug 25, 2020 \| 87 comments
15.		The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas (texasmonthly.com)
		231 points by diaphanous on Aug 24, 2020 \| 112 comments
16.		Beating Google ReCaptcha and the funCaptcha using AWS Rekognition (bitbucket.org/pirates-of-silicon-hills)
		190 points by nailer on Aug 25, 2020 \| 120 comments
17.		“Alexander the Grate” on living in the “interstices of the infrastructure” (smithsonianmag.com)
		75 points by whocansay on Aug 25, 2020 \| 40 comments
18.		Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches (ethanrosenthal.com)
		319 points by ethanahte on Aug 25, 2020 \| 106 comments
19.		Japan facing credit card number shortage (mainichi.jp)
		180 points by steve_g on Aug 25, 2020 \| 344 comments
20.		How to clear a path through 60 feet of snow, Japanese style (2017) (atlasobscura.com)
		99 points by sohkamyung on Aug 24, 2020 \| 36 comments
21.		FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets (guardicore.com)
		132 points by DamnInteresting on Aug 23, 2020 \| 46 comments
22.		AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (github.com/aws)
		111 points by yonasb on Aug 25, 2020 \| 53 comments
23.		Firefox Android Build that caused issues is working as intended (theregister.com)
		115 points by kiyanwang on Aug 25, 2020 \| 252 comments
24.		Writing an SSDP Directory in Elixir (quinnwilton.com)
		91 points by luu on Aug 24, 2020 \| 14 comments
25.		Expert predicts a major hurricane hitting Houston would be “America’s Chernobyl” (texasmonthly.com)
		202 points by onetimemanytime on Aug 25, 2020 \| 204 comments
26.		A Chrome feature is creating load on global root DNS servers (arstechnica.com)
		226 points by BerislavLopac on Aug 25, 2020 \| 87 comments
27.		GCD and the magic of subtraction (plumsempy.com)
		67 points by maininformer on Aug 24, 2020 \| 48 comments
28.		US home construction surges 22.6%, third monthly increase (abcnews.go.com)
		159 points by apsec112 on Aug 25, 2020 \| 243 comments
29.		Clover: An all-in-one notebook (cloverapp.co)
		122 points by robenkleene on Aug 25, 2020 \| 85 comments
30.		Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy (acm.org)
		101 points by fofoz on Aug 25, 2020 \| 13 comments
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