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1.		The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business (ltse.com)
		896 points by ummonk on Sept 9, 2020 \| 535 comments
2.		New Zealand is about to test long-range wireless power transmission (singularityhub.com)
		398 points by walterbell on Sept 9, 2020 \| 317 comments
3.		Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet (sciencemag.org)
		474 points by bookofjoe on Sept 9, 2020 \| 126 comments
4.		I still use WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS (news.ycombinator.com)
		410 points by newducks on Sept 8, 2020 \| 207 comments
5.		AMD PSB Vendor Locks EPYC CPUs for Enhanced Security at a Cost (servethehome.com)
		342 points by virgulino on Sept 9, 2020 \| 254 comments
6.		AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag (arstechnica.com)
		513 points by Bender on Sept 9, 2020 \| 203 comments
7.		Why is there a normal galaxy sitting at the edge of the Universe? (syfy.com)
		335 points by Santosh83 on Sept 9, 2020 \| 240 comments
8.		Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail (mimestream.com)
		403 points by njhaveri on Sept 9, 2020 \| 272 comments
9.		I'm a Coffin Confessor (newsweek.com)
		307 points by mastazi on Sept 9, 2020 \| 147 comments
10.		Portable MRI promises to provide immediate diagnosis in virtually any setting (yale.edu)
		235 points by chmaynard on Sept 9, 2020 \| 84 comments
11.		How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping (nature.com)
		300 points by danso on Sept 9, 2020 \| 151 comments
12.		Getting Fiber to My Town [video] (youtube.com)
		296 points by janvdberg on Sept 9, 2020 \| 126 comments
13.		Async Views in Django 3.1 (testdriven.io)
		153 points by rohitsohlot on Sept 9, 2020 \| 81 comments
14.		.NET Memory Performance Analysis (github.com/maoni0)
		226 points by rbanffy on Sept 9, 2020 \| 39 comments
15.		Kubernetes YAML Generator (k8syaml.com)
		270 points by paulstovell on Sept 9, 2020 \| 121 comments
16.		Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan) performance better than expected (supergoodcode.com)
		179 points by mfilion on Sept 9, 2020 \| 90 comments
17.		Why Bayesian Stats Needs Monte-Carlo Methods (countbayesie.com)
		184 points by laplacesdemon48 on Sept 9, 2020 \| 98 comments
18.		Launch HN: Tappity (YC S20) – Keeping kids entertained with science
		146 points by tappityapp on Sept 9, 2020 \| 64 comments
19.		Elvish is a friendly interactive shell and an expressive programming language (elv.sh)
		149 points by fmakunbound on Sept 9, 2020 \| 49 comments
20.		The Native File System API allows web apps to save directly to files (web.dev)
		153 points by ausjke on Sept 8, 2020 \| 149 comments
21.		Promoted Add-ons Pilot (blog.mozilla.org)
		153 points by ameshkov on Sept 9, 2020 \| 130 comments
22.		What motivates the authors of video game walkthroughs and FAQs? (firstmonday.org)
		99 points by miobrien on Sept 7, 2020 \| 61 comments
23.		Apple II and Apple IIe emulators written in JavaScript and HTML5 (github.com/whscullin)
		121 points by chr15m on Sept 9, 2020 \| 55 comments
24.		Why Karachi Floods (dawn.com)
		136 points by allthings on Sept 7, 2020 \| 37 comments
25.		WireHole: Set up Pihole, WireGuard, and Unbound instantly (github.com/iamstoxe)
		242 points by byteknight on Sept 9, 2020 \| 73 comments
26.		Gravitricity – Fast, long-life energy storage (gravitricity.com)
		179 points by lelf on Sept 8, 2020 \| 279 comments
27.		Low-code, no-model recommendation system with GPT3 (medium.com/swlh)
		95 points by satorii on Sept 8, 2020 \| 62 comments
28.		Amazon demands we correct an article refering to an Echo as a “microphone” (nitter.net)
		322 points by DyslexicAtheist on Sept 9, 2020 \| 282 comments
29.		The Powder Toy (powdertoy.co.uk)
		107 points by severine on Sept 6, 2020 \| 37 comments
30.		The Fed now owns nearly 1/3 of all U.S. mortgages (thestreet.com)
		262 points by elsewhen on Sept 9, 2020 \| 331 comments
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