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1. Africa declared free of wild polio (bbc.com)
1387 points by riffraff on Aug 25, 2020 | 241 comments
2. Please read the paper before you comment (buttondown.email/hillelwayne)
719 points by azhenley on Aug 25, 2020 | 327 comments
3. Openwifi: Linux mac80211 compatible full-stack 802.11/Wi-Fi design based on SDR (github.com/open-sdr)
415 points by homarp on Aug 25, 2020 | 84 comments
4. Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data (nullsweep.com)
545 points by BCharlie on Aug 25, 2020 | 379 comments
5. How to Write in Plain English (plainenglish.co.uk)
724 points by zackhsi on Aug 25, 2020 | 313 comments
6. 2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park (nbcnews.com)
399 points by apsec112 on Aug 25, 2020 | 203 comments
7. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is stepping down after 21 years (footwearnews.com)
270 points by jchin on Aug 25, 2020 | 172 comments
8. OpenZFS Merged to FreeBSD (freebsd.org)
364 points by swills on Aug 25, 2020 | 180 comments
9. Global Mass Surveillance – The Fourteen Eyes (privacytools.io)
345 points by latexr on Aug 25, 2020 | 150 comments
10. Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence (gallup.com)
459 points by apsec112 on Aug 25, 2020 | 795 comments
11. Syllabus for Eric's PhD Students (docs.google.com)
299 points by EvgeniyZh on Aug 25, 2020 | 92 comments
12. Apple ordered to not block Epic’s Unreal Engine, Fortnite to stay off App Store (techcrunch.com)
409 points by jmsflknr on Aug 25, 2020 | 625 comments
13. Cat vs. panel heater: which is better? (oneroof.co.nz)
233 points by sillybilly on Aug 25, 2020 | 156 comments
14. Signifier – a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces (klim.co.nz)
249 points by firloop on Aug 25, 2020 | 87 comments
15. The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas (texasmonthly.com)
231 points by diaphanous on Aug 24, 2020 | 112 comments
16. Beating Google ReCaptcha and the funCaptcha using AWS Rekognition (bitbucket.org/pirates-of-silicon-hills)
190 points by nailer on Aug 25, 2020 | 120 comments
17. “Alexander the Grate” on living in the “interstices of the infrastructure” (smithsonianmag.com)
75 points by whocansay on Aug 25, 2020 | 40 comments
18. Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches (ethanrosenthal.com)
319 points by ethanahte on Aug 25, 2020 | 106 comments
19. Japan facing credit card number shortage (mainichi.jp)
180 points by steve_g on Aug 25, 2020 | 344 comments
20. How to clear a path through 60 feet of snow, Japanese style (2017) (atlasobscura.com)
99 points by sohkamyung on Aug 24, 2020 | 36 comments
21. FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets (guardicore.com)
132 points by DamnInteresting on Aug 23, 2020 | 46 comments
22. AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (github.com/aws)
111 points by yonasb on Aug 25, 2020 | 53 comments
23. Firefox Android Build that caused issues is working as intended (theregister.com)
115 points by kiyanwang on Aug 25, 2020 | 252 comments
24. Writing an SSDP Directory in Elixir (quinnwilton.com)
91 points by luu on Aug 24, 2020 | 14 comments
25. Expert predicts a major hurricane hitting Houston would be “America’s Chernobyl” (texasmonthly.com)
202 points by onetimemanytime on Aug 25, 2020 | 204 comments
26. A Chrome feature is creating load on global root DNS servers (arstechnica.com)
226 points by BerislavLopac on Aug 25, 2020 | 87 comments
27. GCD and the magic of subtraction (plumsempy.com)
67 points by maininformer on Aug 24, 2020 | 48 comments
28. US home construction surges 22.6%, third monthly increase (go.com)
159 points by apsec112 on Aug 25, 2020 | 243 comments
29. Clover: An all-in-one notebook (cloverapp.co)
122 points by robenkleene on Aug 25, 2020 | 85 comments
30. Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy (acm.org)
101 points by fofoz on Aug 25, 2020 | 13 comments

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