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1. Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack (coindesk.com)
2595 points by megadeth on July 15, 2020 | 1349 comments
2. Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study (ncsu.edu)
1782 points by sizzle on July 15, 2020 | 1141 comments
3. Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies (pragmaticengineer.com)
1025 points by signa11 on July 15, 2020 | 524 comments
4. You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? (mrlacey.com)
964 points by gregdoesit on July 14, 2020 | 507 comments
5. Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears (bbc.com)
474 points by elorant on July 15, 2020 | 273 comments
6. Pinephone – “Community Edition: PostmarketOS” Linux smartphone (pine64.org)
387 points by fsflover on July 15, 2020 | 209 comments
7. The global fertility rate is falling (bbc.com)
485 points by NoRagrets on July 15, 2020 | 820 comments
8. Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack (blockchain.com)
372 points by aliabd on July 15, 2020 | 269 comments
9. Riot is now Element (element.io)
550 points by J_tt on July 15, 2020 | 361 comments
10. Understanding and writing a JPEG decoder in Python (yasoob.me)
263 points by sfpoet on July 14, 2020 | 47 comments
11. Passbolt: Self hostable, open source, password manager for teams (passbolt.com)
264 points by fosco on July 15, 2020 | 99 comments
12. Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill (2018) (azeria-labs.com)
452 points by jayliew on July 15, 2020 | 87 comments
13. How to write technical posts so people will read them (2019) (reasonablypolymorphic.com)
257 points by benhoyt on July 15, 2020 | 54 comments
14. Apple has €13bn Irish tax bill overturned (bbc.com)
306 points by alvis on July 15, 2020 | 468 comments
15. Everything you need to know about OAuth 2.0 (gravitational.com)
207 points by twakefield on July 15, 2020 | 28 comments
16. SEC issues $3.8M whistleblower award (sec.gov)
214 points by chmaynard on July 14, 2020 | 86 comments
17. Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo (nydailynews.com)
428 points by ryanmccullagh on July 15, 2020 | 370 comments
18. How SHA-2 works step-by-step (SHA-256) (qvault.io)
203 points by lanecwagner on July 15, 2020 | 21 comments
19. Researchers generate complete human X chromosome sequence (genome.gov)
123 points by mglauco on July 14, 2020 | 48 comments
20. Orthodox Privilege (paulgraham.com)
610 points by razin on July 15, 2020 | 910 comments
21. Don't Panic! Better, Fewer, Syntax Errors for LR Parsers (soft-dev.org)
114 points by matt_d on July 15, 2020 | 39 comments
22. Facebook and CMU Introduce TaBERT for Understanding Tabular Data Queries (syncedreview.com)
79 points by Yuqing7 on July 14, 2020 | 1 comment
23. Launch HN: Legacy (YC S19) – we help men test and freeze their sperm
193 points by khaledkteily on July 15, 2020 | 100 comments
24. Small satellites are radically remaking space exploration (arstechnica.com)
104 points by rbanffy on July 13, 2020 | 16 comments
25. Sail Freight Projects Around the World (sailingdog.org)
104 points by privong on July 15, 2020 | 72 comments
26. Element wins deal to supply half a million licences to two German states (sifted.eu)
263 points by neiljohnson on July 15, 2020 | 83 comments
27. Twilio Acquires Electric Imp (twilio.com)
87 points by dsalzman on July 14, 2020 | 52 comments
28. Open Satellite Project: The Open Source Satellite Project (github.com/opensatelliteproject)
85 points by peter_d_sherman on July 14, 2020 | 8 comments
29. Potential large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands (nature.com)
125 points by simonpure on July 14, 2020 | 90 comments
30. The accidentally resilient design of Athens apartments (bloomberg.com)
174 points by pseudolus on July 15, 2020 | 114 comments

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