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31. To design and develop an interactive globe (stripe.com)
192 points by tambourine_man on Sept 2, 2020 | 66 comments
32. TSA tries out another biometric system (papersplease.org)
296 points by walterbell on Sept 2, 2020 | 247 comments
33. Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok (bbc.com)
515 points by amai on Sept 2, 2020 | 306 comments
34. A round-up of topology-based papers at ICML 2020 (rieck.me)
106 points by Pseudomanifold on Sept 2, 2020 | 4 comments
35. Law allows police to seize and sell cars of non-lawbreakers, keeping proceeds (kstp.com)
312 points by clouddrover on Sept 2, 2020 | 208 comments
36. Git-Based Wiki (bit-101.com)
136 points by ingve on Sept 2, 2020 | 83 comments
37. Gertrude Elion's “antiviral odyssey” (nationalgeographic.com)
43 points by tdhttt on Sept 2, 2020 | 6 comments
38. Show HN: Asroute – View unique networks traversed by traceroute (github.com/stevenpack)
58 points by steven_pack on Sept 2, 2020 | 17 comments
39. Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and Online JSON Validators (jvt.me)
202 points by goranmoomin on Sept 2, 2020 | 164 comments
40. Shared salary spreadsheet reveals Microsoft employee earnings for a second year (onezero.medium.com)
217 points by pslattery on Sept 2, 2020 | 245 comments
41. Possible detection of a black hole with a mass thought to be impossible (quantamagazine.org)
94 points by pseudolus on Sept 2, 2020 | 41 comments
42. Tips for stable and portable software (begriffs.com)
84 points by begriffs on Sept 2, 2020 | 63 comments
43. Why is OOP still so widely spread? (stackoverflow.blog)
212 points by ingve on Sept 2, 2020 | 476 comments
44. Fast Supernovae Detection Using Neural Networks (tensorflow.org)
39 points by dsr12 on Sept 2, 2020 | 13 comments
45. Multiple Western Digital 5400RPM drives are actually 7200RPM drives (reddit.com)
131 points by hosteur on Sept 2, 2020 | 60 comments
46. Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy (axios.com)
240 points by srameshc on Sept 2, 2020 | 355 comments
47. How big is a neutron star? (symmetrymagazine.org)
64 points by raattgift on Sept 2, 2020 | 49 comments
48. NeoAxis Game Engine 2020.5 (neoaxis.com)
58 points by IvanEfimov on Sept 1, 2020 | 18 comments
49. In Defense of a Switch (pkolaczk.github.io)
56 points by pkolaczk on Sept 2, 2020 | 46 comments
50. Solar Foods closes Series A financing for its first commercial factory (solarfoods.fi)
68 points by htnsao on Sept 2, 2020 | 59 comments
51. AWS Tagging Best Practices: Using Terraform and CloudFormation to Enforce Tags (cloudforecast.io)
63 points by toeknee123 on Sept 2, 2020 | 25 comments
52. The Race to Save 'Contact Languages' (bbc.com)
37 points by pseudolus on Sept 2, 2020 | 82 comments
53. Burning the Books: A history of knowledge under attack (literaryreview.co.uk)
51 points by pseudolus on Sept 2, 2020 | 11 comments
54. Show HN: Lacona – Search and natural language commands for Mac (lacona.app)
36 points by brandonhorst on Sept 2, 2020 | 18 comments
55. Two musings on the design of compiler warnings (quuxplusone.github.io)
35 points by ingve on Sept 2, 2020 | 26 comments
56. Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea (bbc.com)
57 points by LandR on Sept 2, 2020 | 51 comments
57. What the world can learn from the UK's A-level grading fiasco (lse.ac.uk)
39 points by ransith on Sept 2, 2020 | 87 comments
58. Anatomy of a Bubble – Tesla and Bitcoin (endlessmetrics.substack.com)
68 points by makaimc on Sept 2, 2020 | 80 comments
59. Facebook to block news on Australian sites after new law, riling lawmakers (reuters.com)
63 points by 80mph on Sept 1, 2020 | 78 comments
60. Pakistan blocks Tinder, Grindr and other apps (theguardian.com)
51 points by sbmthakur on Sept 2, 2020 | 91 comments

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