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1.		American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time (aasm.org)
		1600 points by oftenwrong on Aug 29, 2020 \| 486 comments
2.		I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (newyorker.com)
		1383 points by fergie on Aug 29, 2020 \| 668 comments
3.		Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion battery recycling operation (wsj.com)
		421 points by Osiris30 on Aug 29, 2020 \| 272 comments
4.		Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps (hackerone.com)
		510 points by tonny747 on Aug 29, 2020 \| 196 comments
5.		Intel's “cripple AMD” function (2019) (agner.org)
		500 points by arto on Aug 28, 2020 \| 104 comments
6.		Life Is Short (2016) (paulgraham.com)
		346 points by zuhayeer on Aug 29, 2020 \| 164 comments
7.		Sendgrid under siege from hacked accounts (krebsonsecurity.com)
		199 points by elsewhen on Aug 29, 2020 \| 146 comments
8.		I Compiled NASA‘s Workmanship Standards into a Single PDF (archive.org)
		283 points by muunbo on Aug 28, 2020 \| 55 comments
9.		Malloc Geiger Counter (github.com/laserallan)
		238 points by mkeeter on Aug 28, 2020 \| 81 comments
10.		SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal (github.com/andmarti1424)
		130 points by laktak on Aug 29, 2020 \| 39 comments
11.		Metcalf Sniper Attack (wikipedia.org)
		210 points by rococode on Aug 29, 2020 \| 161 comments
12.		Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform (github.com/peterbrittain)
		130 points by gilad on Aug 28, 2020 \| 16 comments
13.		Tell HN: Check medium's localstorage if you use adblock
		360 points by ev1 on Aug 28, 2020 \| 139 comments
14.		Babylonian Multiplication in the shower (2016) (iquilezles.org)
		75 points by plancien on Aug 28, 2020 \| 15 comments
15.		Don't trust default timeouts (robertovitillo.com)
		139 points by kiyanwang on Aug 29, 2020 \| 115 comments
16.		DearPyGui (github.com/hoffstadt)
		201 points by fractalb on Aug 29, 2020 \| 71 comments
17.		Hazel: A live functional programming environment featuring typed holes (hazel.org)
		125 points by erwan on Aug 27, 2020 \| 14 comments
18.		Emoji simulator – a tool to make cellular automata, with emoji (ncase.me)
		139 points by Books on Aug 29, 2020 \| 20 comments
19.		GH Archive (gharchive.org)
		90 points by bluu00 on Aug 28, 2020 \| 14 comments
20.		Design Tip: Never Use Black (2012) (ianstormtaylor.com)
		158 points by declanhaigh on Aug 28, 2020 \| 162 comments
21.		Pinterest cancels office lease in unbuilt project, citing work-from-home shift (sfchronicle.com)
		199 points by CaliforniaKarl on Aug 29, 2020 \| 147 comments
22.		The Node Is Nonsense: Better ways to measure progress than Moore's law [pdf] (gwern.net)
		71 points by saadalem on Aug 28, 2020 \| 7 comments
23.		Scientists build army of a million microrobots that fit inside hypodermic needle (cnet.com)
		80 points by apsec112 on Aug 27, 2020 \| 45 comments
24.		A 189 Year Old Limitation on Inductor Size Has Been Broken (2018) (medium.com/starts-with-a-bang)
		145 points by AHappyCamper on Aug 28, 2020 \| 52 comments
25.		The mysterious Cold War case of unidentified aircraft descending on Loring AFB (thedrive.com)
		127 points by bookofjoe on Aug 29, 2020 \| 48 comments
26.		The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design (theguardian.com)
		109 points by SirLJ on Aug 28, 2020 \| 158 comments
27.		Inventing Monads (stopa.io)
		128 points by stopachka on Aug 29, 2020 \| 122 comments
28.		Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database [pdf] (vldb.org)
		175 points by ngaut on Aug 28, 2020 \| 48 comments
29.		Graphtage: A New Semantic Diffing Tool (trailofbits.com)
		104 points by mdelias on Aug 28, 2020 \| 15 comments
30.		Facebook’s ties to India’s ruling party complicate its fight against hate speech (time.com)
		171 points by ashleshbiradar on Aug 29, 2020 \| 95 comments
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