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31. Show HN: Jet – in-memory, fault-tolerant, distributed stream processing (github.com/hazelcast)
129 points by cangencer on Aug 11, 2020 | 55 comments
32. A broken cable smashed a hole 100 feet wide in the Arecibo Observatory (businessinsider.com)
132 points by djsumdog on Aug 12, 2020 | 65 comments
33. Why are currently no ads on Techdirt? apparently Google thinks we're dangerous (techdirt.com)
251 points by MaysonL on Aug 12, 2020 | 153 comments
34. Amazon’s business model meets Sweden’s labor unions (politico.eu)
162 points by ptr on Aug 12, 2020 | 146 comments
35. Show HN: dstack – an open-source tool to build data applications easily
134 points by kaudinya on Aug 12, 2020 | 29 comments
36. The Hatpin Peril (2014) (smithsonianmag.com)
39 points by danbolt on Aug 12, 2020 | 70 comments
37. Show HN: NeuralCam Live – Using ML to Turn iPhones into Smart Webcams (neural.cam)
117 points by soonpls on Aug 12, 2020 | 64 comments
38. Unraveling the Mindset of Victimhood (scientificamerican.com)
156 points by Udik on Aug 12, 2020 | 63 comments
39. Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?
212 points by thatcodingdude on Aug 12, 2020 | 317 comments
40. Git: Deletion of merged branches taken beyond shell hacks (github.com/hartwork)
81 points by spyc on Aug 12, 2020 | 36 comments
41. Airbnb Plans to File Confidentially for IPO in August (wsj.com)
95 points by minimaxir on Aug 11, 2020 | 146 comments
42. Taylor Series and Accelerometers (jeremykun.com)
67 points by signa11 on Aug 12, 2020 | 14 comments
43. Storybook 6.0 your new favourite tool for front-end development (medium.com/storybookjs)
168 points by winkerVSbecks on Aug 12, 2020 | 63 comments
44. QEMU should move from C to Rust (vmsplice.net)
208 points by rwmj on Aug 12, 2020 | 209 comments
45. Deplacy: CUI-Based Tree Visualizer for Universal Dependencies (github.com/koichiyasuoka)
28 points by polm23 on Aug 11, 2020
46. A Honeybee’s Tongue Is More Swiss Army Knife Than Ladle (nytimes.com)
38 points by pseudolus on Aug 12, 2020 | 4 comments
47. ZX Spectrum Next – Issue 2 (kickstarter.com)
75 points by ibobev on Aug 12, 2020 | 61 comments
48. Broken Cable Damages Arecibo Observatory (ucf.edu)
72 points by robin_reala on Aug 12, 2020 | 11 comments
49. Ea­ves­drop­ping En­cryp­ted LTE Calls With Re­VoL­TE (revolte-attack.net)
124 points by Eduard on Aug 12, 2020 | 14 comments
50. Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well (2019) (techdirt.com)
51 points by dredmorbius on Aug 12, 2020 | 57 comments
51. What killed Quayside, Sidewalk Labs’ ambitious smart city in Toronto? (onezero.medium.com)
58 points by pslattery on Aug 12, 2020 | 109 comments
52. Where the missing middle of housing isn't missing (strongtowns.org)
60 points by jseliger on Aug 12, 2020 | 138 comments
53. Show HN: Orchest – Data Science Pipelines
64 points by ricklamers on Aug 12, 2020 | 30 comments
54. Mozilla has laid off their dev tools people and the entire MDN team (twitter.com/stevealee)
314 points by claviska on Aug 12, 2020 | 178 comments
55. The Social Media Problem (jacquesmattheij.com)
73 points by janvdberg on Aug 12, 2020 | 166 comments
56. The Musk Ox and Me (newyorker.com)
21 points by benbreen on Aug 12, 2020 | 1 comment
57. Belarus election: Police use live fire on protesters in Brest (bbc.com)
187 points by selfsimilar on Aug 12, 2020 | 34 comments
58. Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams (twitter.com/directhex)
230 points by MrBuddyCasino on Aug 12, 2020 | 160 comments
59. Freedom is not simple (arp242.net)
86 points by goranmoomin on Aug 12, 2020 | 129 comments
60. Sumner Redstone, media mogul who headed Viacom, has died (reuters.com)
25 points by dredmorbius on Aug 12, 2020 | 14 comments

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