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1.		When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number (pdf.zone)
		2326 points by michael_fine on Sept 16, 2020 \| 340 comments
2.		Nova by Panic (nova.app)
		1051 points by 0x0 on Sept 16, 2020 \| 542 comments
3.		The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents (axios.com)
		591 points by jbegley on Sept 16, 2020 \| 937 comments
4.		Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME (material-shell.com)
		641 points by doesntmeananyth on Sept 16, 2020 \| 267 comments
5.		Large-scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf] (encrypto.de)
		287 points by sizzle on Sept 16, 2020 \| 86 comments
6.		Oculus Quest 2 (oculus.com)
		351 points by sidhanthp on Sept 16, 2020 \| 578 comments
7.		Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market – senators don't buy it (npr.org)
		338 points by belltaco on Sept 16, 2020 \| 217 comments
8.		Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine learning (github.com/cortexlabs)
		190 points by calebkaiser on Sept 16, 2020 \| 60 comments
9.		iOS 14 is available today (apple.com)
		341 points by todsacerdoti on Sept 16, 2020 \| 431 comments
10.		Endlessh: An SSH Tarpit (github.com/skeeto)
		290 points by elliebike on Sept 16, 2020 \| 105 comments
11.		Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned Aerial System (manufacturing.net)
		212 points by jayp1418 on Sept 16, 2020 \| 194 comments
12.		Congressional inquiry faults Boeing and FAA failures for deadly 737 Max crashes (npr.org)
		359 points by pseudolus on Sept 16, 2020 \| 246 comments
13.		AWS IAM is having issues again (twitter.com/ryangartin)
		226 points by rootforce on Sept 16, 2020 \| 118 comments
14.		Kirc – A tiny IRC client written in POSIX C99 (github.com/mcpcpc)
		213 points by mcpcpc on Sept 16, 2020 \| 102 comments
15.		Python's Innards: Introduction (2010) (aknin.name)
		167 points by johnsonjo on Sept 16, 2020 \| 12 comments
16.		Toonify Yourself (justinpinkney.com)
		180 points by dsr12 on Sept 16, 2020 \| 93 comments
17.		New England's Dark Day (wikipedia.org)
		107 points by samclemens on Sept 16, 2020 \| 44 comments
18.		What we learned after a year on Kubernetes (about.gitlab.com)
		213 points by ecliptik on Sept 16, 2020 \| 158 comments
19.		Go’s Major Versioning Sucks – From a Fanboy (qvault.io)
		167 points by lanecwagner on Sept 16, 2020 \| 163 comments
20.		A job at Yale in the 1960s set Susan Eggers on a path in computer science (yale.edu)
		103 points by jacquesm on Sept 15, 2020 \| 9 comments
21.		Squash to monetise players’ physiological data to attract more eyeballs (indianexpress.com)
		50 points by mhb on Sept 15, 2020 \| 30 comments
22.		The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect [pdf] (cdar.berkeley.edu)
		193 points by elcritch on Sept 15, 2020 \| 38 comments
23.		How to form a California LLC without a lawyer (feross.org)
		156 points by feross on Sept 15, 2020 \| 193 comments
24.		Fintech in Chains (johnhcochrane.blogspot.com)
		106 points by avoidboringppl on Sept 16, 2020 \| 77 comments
25.		Astrophysicists detect the strongest magnetic field in the universe (nanowerk.com)
		97 points by blnqr on Sept 16, 2020 \| 37 comments
26.		Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux (theregister.com)
		288 points by poisonborz on Sept 16, 2020 \| 231 comments
27.		Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company’s next robots (venturebeat.com)
		116 points by sandwall on Sept 15, 2020 \| 79 comments
28.		Differentiable Dithering (peterstefek.me)
		144 points by underanalyzer on Sept 15, 2020 \| 47 comments
29.		Pine64 September update (pine64.org)
		225 points by jandeboevrie on Sept 16, 2020 \| 86 comments
30.		When Math Gets Impossibly Hard (quantamagazine.org)
		109 points by bryanrasmussen on Sept 15, 2020 \| 119 comments
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