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1.		Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B (bethesda.net)
		1185 points by MaximumMadness on Sept 21, 2020 \| 779 comments
2.		On the Use of a Life (daemonology.net)
		1275 points by cperciva on Sept 20, 2020 \| 265 comments
3.		I no longer build software (github.com/docker)
		1287 points by tagawa on Sept 21, 2020 \| 856 comments
4.		Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing? (amnesty.org)
		716 points by mlthoughts2018 on Sept 21, 2020 \| 405 comments
5.		New Steve Jobs recordings from the '80s released (sfgate.com)
		360 points by mindcrime on Sept 21, 2020 \| 132 comments
6.		Things we learned running Postgres 13 (pganalyze.com)
		377 points by lfittl on Sept 21, 2020 \| 49 comments
7.		My least favorite Rust type (ridiculousfish.com)
		380 points by ridiculous_fish on Sept 21, 2020 \| 270 comments
8.		Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity (danielmiessler.com)
		431 points by gempir on Sept 21, 2020 \| 435 comments
9.		I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018) (privacyinternational.org)
		305 points by weare138 on Sept 21, 2020 \| 179 comments
10.		Domains for the Rest of Us (domainsfortherestofus.com)
		347 points by andreygrehov on Sept 21, 2020 \| 199 comments
11.		Chrome Web Store payments deprecation (chrome.com)
		270 points by hibiscus4156 on Sept 21, 2020 \| 169 comments
12.		Is revenue model more important than culture? (somehowmanage.com)
		238 points by Ozzie_osman on Sept 21, 2020 \| 114 comments
13.		We need young programmers; We need old programmers (ploeh.dk)
		283 points by mrcsharp on Sept 21, 2020 \| 257 comments
14.		Haskell RecordDotSyntax language extension proposal (Accepted) (github.com/ghc-proposals)
		179 points by harporoeder on Sept 21, 2020 \| 103 comments
15.		Generative Bad Handwriting (avinayak.github.io)
		192 points by atulvi on Sept 20, 2020 \| 18 comments
16.		Pricing Low-Touch SaaS (stripe.com)
		218 points by pvsukale3 on Sept 21, 2020 \| 77 comments
17.		A Time Leap Challenge for Sat Solving (arxiv.org)
		100 points by panic on Sept 21, 2020 \| 11 comments
18.		Build Personal Moats (eriktorenberg.substack.com)
		173 points by jger15 on Sept 20, 2020 \| 78 comments
19.		Cobaul: A COBOL to WebAssembly Compiler (github.com/cloudflare)
		120 points by rhabarba on Sept 21, 2020 \| 54 comments
20.		Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos (annotate.tv)
		154 points by matiastucci on Sept 21, 2020 \| 61 comments
21.		John Cleese Discusses Creativity, Monty Python, and Artichokes (newyorker.com)
		143 points by fortran77 on Sept 21, 2020 \| 59 comments
22.		The Kivaloo Data Store (tarsnap.com)
		154 points by wallflower on Sept 21, 2020 \| 77 comments
23.		Companies can track your phone’s movements to target ads (arstechnica.com)
		167 points by pseudolus on Sept 21, 2020 \| 140 comments
24.		The unrealized potential of federation (drewdevault.com)
		194 points by als0 on Sept 20, 2020 \| 197 comments
25.		The Black Vault: A FOIA obsessive’s UFO-filled empire (cjr.org)
		93 points by samclemens on Sept 19, 2020 \| 43 comments
26.		Show HN: Compile Ruby to C (github.com/agrafix)
		153 points by agrafix on Sept 21, 2020 \| 109 comments
27.		Update on Mozilla WebThings (discourse.mozilla.org)
		132 points by benfrancis on Sept 21, 2020 \| 61 comments
28.		Revisiting Apple Notes (6): The Protobuf (ciofecaforensics.com)
		132 points by LaSombra on Sept 20, 2020 \| 49 comments
29.		Stanisław Leśniewski: rethinking the philosophy of mathematics [pdf] (biblio.ugent.be)
		71 points by danielam on Sept 19, 2020 \| 14 comments
30.		How to take meeting notes (barehands.substack.com)
		229 points by flreln on Sept 21, 2020 \| 126 comments
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