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1.		Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years (bbc.co.uk)
		775 points by Qworg on Sept 14, 2020 \| 373 comments
2.		I lost €4k in a Facebook scam (github.com/niek)
		614 points by babuskov on Sept 14, 2020 \| 405 comments
3.		Trapped in his body for 12 years, a man breaks free (2015) (npr.org)
		404 points by varbhat on Sept 14, 2020 \| 133 comments
4.		Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of Venus – an indicator of possible life? (ras.ac.uk)
		497 points by istinetz on Sept 14, 2020 \| 265 comments
5.		Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere (twitter.com/brianroemmele)
		591 points by mromanuk on Sept 13, 2020 \| 319 comments
6.		Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications (cri.dev)
		356 points by christian_fei on Sept 14, 2020 \| 314 comments
7.		What's so hard about PDF text extraction? (filingdb.com)
		406 points by fagnerbrack on Sept 13, 2020 \| 235 comments
8.		Repl.it Database (repl.it)
		319 points by amasad on Sept 14, 2020 \| 115 comments
9.		Britain’s CO2 Emissions Have Fallen to Levels Last Seen in 1890 (2018) (yale.edu)
		286 points by apsec112 on Sept 14, 2020 \| 151 comments
10.		Q: A faster re-implementaiton of jq written in Reason Native/OCaml (github.com/davesnx)
		250 points by davesnx on Sept 14, 2020 \| 192 comments
11.		Research questions that could have a big social impact, organised by discipline (80000hours.org)
		180 points by apsec112 on Sept 14, 2020 \| 169 comments
12.		WebRTC Samples (webrtc.github.io)
		176 points by simonpure on Sept 14, 2020 \| 42 comments
13.		Oblique Strategies (wikipedia.org)
		203 points by tomasreimers on Sept 14, 2020 \| 54 comments
14.		How I stay motivated working on my long-term project (durmonski.com)
		238 points by durmonski on Sept 14, 2020 \| 61 comments
15.		How to Be Helpful Online (nedbatchelder.com)
		154 points by ingve on Sept 14, 2020 \| 57 comments
16.		If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (npr.org)
		119 points by sandwall on Sept 14, 2020 \| 66 comments
17.		Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S. (wsj.com)
		474 points by doctoboggan on Sept 13, 2020 \| 326 comments
18.		The compositor is evil (raphlinus.github.io)
		248 points by raphlinus on Sept 14, 2020 \| 175 comments
19.		A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics (medium.com/bellmar)
		179 points by mbellotti on Sept 14, 2020 \| 59 comments
20.		Maxima – A Computer Algebra System built with Lisp (sourceforge.net)
		173 points by dragonsh on Sept 14, 2020 \| 64 comments
21.		Archaeologists with drones discover pre-Columbian earthworks in Kansas (arstechnica.com)
		100 points by Thevet on Sept 12, 2020 \| 45 comments
22.		Algorithms are changing what we read online (thewalrus.ca)
		101 points by pseudolus on Sept 14, 2020 \| 41 comments
23.		Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master: The Medieval Guild (2018) (philosophicalsociety.org)
		74 points by bribri on Sept 14, 2020 \| 35 comments
24.		Going to elite Indian colleges improves earnings, but not test scores (economist.com)
		141 points by blueblisters on Sept 14, 2020 \| 91 comments
25.		Riding the RISC-V wave (semiengineering.com)
		173 points by lawrenceyan on Sept 13, 2020 \| 78 comments
26.		Multi-Armed Bandits and the Stitch Fix Experimentation Platform (stitchfix.com)
		74 points by jonbaer on Sept 13, 2020 \| 9 comments
27.		Bootstrapping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code (2008) (twu.net)
		104 points by tosh on Sept 12, 2020 \| 53 comments
28.		Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry (reuters.com)
		263 points by nabla9 on Sept 14, 2020 \| 190 comments
29.		Feds seize ‘counterfeit Apple AirPods’ that are actually OnePlus Buds (theverge.com)
		269 points by brundolf on Sept 14, 2020 \| 274 comments
30.		Ask HN: What do you think about “The Social Dilemma”?
		331 points by messo on Sept 14, 2020 \| 248 comments
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