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1. The Wrong Abstraction (2016) (sandimetz.com)
654 points by mkchoi212 on July 5, 2020 | 240 comments
2. UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster (jeffgeerling.com)
489 points by geerlingguy on July 5, 2020 | 113 comments
3. The Fourth of July (popehat.com)
329 points by apsec112 on July 4, 2020 | 300 comments
4. A Deep Introduction to JIT Compilers: JITs are not very Just-in-time (carolchen.me)
311 points by chrisseaton on July 5, 2020 | 97 comments
5. Florida becomes first state to enact DNA privacy law, blocking insurers (washingtonexaminer.com)
429 points by coronadisaster on July 5, 2020 | 122 comments
6. Ridiculous Math Problems (brown.edu)
219 points by martinlaz on July 5, 2020 | 39 comments
7. Beginner's Guide to Abstraction (jesseduffield.com)
243 points by jesseduffield on July 5, 2020 | 79 comments
8. A ‘viral’ new bird song in Canada is causing sparrows to change their tune (gizmodo.com)
291 points by Osiris30 on July 4, 2020 | 93 comments
9. Repairing your smartphone or installing a ROM will now be a crime in Mexico (xataka.com.mx)
350 points by nan0 on July 4, 2020 | 110 comments
10. Debubble (debubble.me)
241 points by apsec112 on July 3, 2020 | 92 comments
11. Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves (theguardian.com)
561 points by baylearn on July 5, 2020 | 236 comments
12. The cost to train an AI system is improving at 50x the pace of Moore’s Law (ark-invest.com)
254 points by kayza on July 5, 2020 | 54 comments
13. Hard Disk Hacking (2013) (spritesmods.com)
154 points by jacquesm on July 4, 2020 | 18 comments
14. Castle Game Engine: Cross-platform 3D and 2D game engine (github.com/castle-engine)
128 points by MindGods on July 5, 2020 | 20 comments
15. Parallel Programming in Multicore OCaml (github.com/prismlab)
150 points by pjmlp on July 5, 2020 | 15 comments
16. Pkg.jl telemetry should be opt-in (julialang.org)
118 points by boromi on July 5, 2020 | 81 comments
17. Rich Tables in the Terminal (github.com/willmcgugan)
298 points by willm on July 5, 2020 | 50 comments
18. Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
361 points by rxsel on July 4, 2020 | 812 comments
19. Onyx is violating the Linux kernel's license, refuses to release source code (reddit.com)
326 points by Lammy on July 5, 2020 | 93 comments
20. Lisp Badge: A single-board computer that you can program in uLisp (ulisp.com)
162 points by lnyan on July 4, 2020 | 25 comments
21. Bible API (bible-api.com)
373 points by otobrglez on July 5, 2020 | 288 comments
22. A Journey building a fast JSON parser and full JSONPath, Oj for Go (github.com/ohler55)
111 points by dcu on July 5, 2020 | 70 comments
23. Show HN: A simple Poker API to calculate the winning hand/s (pokerapi.dev)
85 points by GFuller on July 5, 2020 | 44 comments
24. Joseph Von Fraunhofer – The Glassmaker Who Sparked Astrophysics (2014) (nautil.us)
43 points by pseudolus on July 3, 2020 | 11 comments
25. Tell HN: Giving away my homebrew windmill
173 points by jacquesm on July 5, 2020 | 39 comments
26. Scaling Pandas: Comparing Dask, Ray, Modin, Vaex, and Rapids (datarevenue.com)
92 points by FHMS on July 5, 2020 | 33 comments
27. PurritoBin: Ultra fast, minimalistic, encrypted command line paste-bin (github.com/purritobin)
74 points by zdw on July 4, 2020 | 27 comments
28. The Unplanned Impact of Mathematics (nature.com)
76 points by memexy on July 4, 2020 | 54 comments
29. The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design (applypixels.com)
275 points by flowerlad on July 5, 2020 | 187 comments
30. Our Intellectual Property Laws Are Out of Control (2013) (popularmechanics.com)
149 points by smitty1e on July 5, 2020 | 104 comments

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