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1.ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper (remarkable.com)
1410 points by punnerud on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 685 comments [ext]
2.Scrollbar Blindness (svenkadak.com)
877 points by _maye on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 563 comments [ext]
3.Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app? (twitter.com/spencerdailey)
697 points by spenvo on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 321 comments [ext]
4. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
4.Why Johnny Won't Upgrade (jacquesmattheij.com)
537 points by janvdberg on Aug 26, 2020 [ext] | 571 comments [ext]
5.The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft (thedrive.com)
490 points by tomohawk on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 246 comments [ext]
6.The Lounge – Modern web IRC client designed for self-hosting (github.com/thelounge)
223 points by Naac on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
7. Why fully automated AI cedes a more valuable design space (readwise.io)
73 points by nan9853 265 days ago | hide | 77 comments
7.Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy (theregister.com)
611 points by kiyanwang on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 244 comments [ext]
8.D3 6.0 (github.com/d3)
330 points by coldsnap427 on Aug 26, 2020 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
9.An Archive of a Different Type (archive.org)
206 points by josephscott on Aug 26, 2020 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
10. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 202 days ago | hide | 110 comments
10.A Short Guide to Minimal Web Development (2018) (meiert.com)
277 points by uberswe on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
11.Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website (cheapskatesguide.org)
244 points by sT370ma2 on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
12.Band-Limiting Procedural Textures (iquilezles.org)
205 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
13. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
13.Rust 1.46 (rust-lang.org)
391 points by pietroalbini on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 150 comments [ext]
14.Hard work vs. Long work (2011) (seths.blog)
208 points by arto on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
15.When Asbestos Was a Gift Fit for a King (jstor.org)
193 points by onychomys on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
16. Why Getting Funded Stopped Meaning Your Idea Was Good ()
70 points by kol7770 98 days ago | hide | 139 comments
16.Show HN: Olaf – Acoustic Fingerprinting on the ESP32 and in the Browser (0110.be)
166 points by joren- on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
17.Discovery of scholar's notes shine light on race to decipher Rosetta Stone (theguardian.com)
53 points by mikhailfranco on Aug 26, 2020 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
18.Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad (museapp.com)
266 points by adamwiggins on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 188 comments [ext]
19. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 169 days ago | hide | 48 comments
19.Rare plants that ‘bleed’ nickel (bbc.com)
113 points by pseudolus on Aug 26, 2020 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
20.Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps (buzzfeednews.com)
487 points by danso on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 294 comments [ext]
21.Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK government (carbonbrief.org)
350 points by open-source-ux on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 370 comments [ext]
22. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 84 days ago | hide | 14 comments
22.Nitrokey (nitrokey.com)
131 points by simonpure on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
23.A leap of faith: Committing to open source (github.com/readme)
175 points by 0xedb on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
24.Andy Matuschak's Notes (andymatuschak.org)
166 points by telotortium on Aug 26, 2020 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
25. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
25.The time it takes to run a paid newsletter (simonowens.substack.com)
92 points by exolymph on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
26.How satellite ‘megaconstellations’ will photobomb astronomy images (nature.com)
182 points by SiempreViernes on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 384 comments [ext]
27.Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part II (krebsonsecurity.com)
81 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
28. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
28.Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video] (youtube.com)
200 points by _urga on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 203 comments [ext]
29.TSMC and Graphcore Prepare for AI Acceleration on 3nm (anandtech.com)
144 points by rbanffy on Aug 27, 2020 [ext] | 133 comments [ext]
30.Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland (cedaei.com)
148 points by ceda_ei on Aug 26, 2020 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
31. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 218 days ago | hide | 175 comments

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