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1.

Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova 'snatched from street' in Minsk (www.theguardian.com)

173 points by RealityVoid 2020-09-07 | 12 comments

2.

Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok (www.bbc.com)

151 points by amai 2020-09-02 | 60 comments

3.

Vue.js 3 Released (github.com)

149 points by simulo 2020-09-18 | 20 comments

4.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion of Gender Equality, Dies at 87 (www.npr.org)

145 points by joubert 2020-09-18 | 51 comments

5.

I Thought I Would Have Accomplished a Lot More Today and Also Before I Was 35 (www.newyorker.com)

144 points by fergie 2020-08-29 | 71 comments

6.

Microsoft backs Epic in court filing (www.bbc.com)

139 points by colinprince 2020-08-24 | 90 comments

7.

Scrollbar Blindness (svenkadak.com)

133 points by kadfak 2020-08-27 | 68 comments

8.

'You're Not Allowed to Film': The Fight to Control Who Reports from Portland (reason.com)

129 points by Bostonian 2020-09-06 | 40 comments

9.

On All That Fuckery (www.tinykat.cafe)

128 points by idan 2020-08-27 | 41 comments

10.

Unity Software Inc S-1 (www.sec.gov)

127 points by swyx 2020-08-24 | 65 comments

11.

US Border Patrol Says It Can Create Repo of Emails, Keep Them for 75 Years (viewfromthewing.com)

112 points by hispanic 2020-08-23 | 46 comments

12.

Apple changes App Review process (developer.apple.com)

109 points by BigBalli 2020-08-31 | 99 comments

13.

Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking to access content (developer.apple.com)

107 points by Nextgrid 2020-09-11 | 40 comments

14.

New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others (www.cbc.ca)

105 points by apsec112 2020-08-20 | 16 comments

15.

Apple Fitness+ (www.apple.com)

104 points by tosh 2020-09-15 | 88 comments

16.

Blender 2.90 (www.blender.org)

103 points by makepanic 2020-08-31 | 27 comments

17.

Apple Tried Charging the Price of a New MacBook Pro for a Screen Replacement (web.archive.org)

99 points by plow-tycoon 2020-09-14 | 48 comments

18.

Google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from the Play Store (mathstodon.xyz)

99 points by ColinWright 2020-08-28 | 30 comments

19.

Emacs is special regarding UIs (lists.gnu.org)

98 points by signa11 2020-09-10 | 36 comments

20.

Why Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2014) (www.gnu.org)

97 points by crazypython 2020-09-15 | 68 comments

21.

TSA tries out another (illegal) biometric “ID verification” system (papersplease.org)

96 points by walterbell 2020-09-02 | 25 comments

22.

Show HN: Healthcare Is Dumb (healthcareisdumb.com)

96 points by antcas 2020-08-28 | 60 comments

23.

Trump offered to pardon Assange if provided source for Democratic emails, lawyer (www.reuters.com)

95 points by pseudolus 2020-09-18 | 31 comments

24.

Oracle Chosen as Winner in Deal for TikTok’s U.S. Operations (www.wsj.com)

94 points by doctoboggan 2020-09-13 | 49 comments

25.

FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler (github.com)

94 points by creolabs 2020-09-18 | 25 comments

26.

YouTube-DL Is Dying? (github.com)

94 points by llacb47 2020-08-28 | 35 comments

27.

F*** Cloud Messaging (telegra.ph)

93 points by anthropodie 2020-09-13 | 62 comments

28.

Amazon drops Linux support for generating Kindle ebooks (www.amazon.com)

90 points by umvi 2020-08-25 | 41 comments

29.

The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday (www.unixtimestamp.com)

89 points by dezmou 2020-09-12 | 19 comments

30.

Zig: Statement Regarding the Zen Programming Language (ziglang.org)

86 points by RabbitmqGuy 2020-09-15 | 15 comments

31.

American Academy of Sleep Medicine: Eliminate daylight saving time (aasm.org)

86 points by oftenwrong 2020-08-29 | 26 comments

32.

Palantir S-1 (www.sec.gov)

82 points by tempsy 2020-08-25 | 40 comments

33.

Bill Gates made his fortune through sheer robber-baronry (threader.app)

81 points by todsacerdoti 2020-09-12 | 49 comments

34.

I just lost 1,400 BTC (github.com)

80 points by agirgelen 2020-08-31 | 40 comments

35.

Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life (www.nationalgeographic.com)

80 points by frrp 2020-09-06 | 20 comments

36.

Assange Hearing Day 7 (www.craigmurray.org.uk)

80 points by k1m 2020-09-09 | 28 comments

37.

Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern (www.brookings.edu)

79 points by ohjeez 2020-08-28 | 45 comments

38.

Pasco FL's predictive policing system monitors and harasses residents (www.tampabay.com)

79 points by kaydub 2020-09-03 | 24 comments

39.

Asana S-1 (www.sec.gov)

77 points by sean_lynch 2020-08-24 | 24 comments

40.

We Used Blank Spots in China's Maps to Investigate Xinjiang's Camps (www.buzzfeednews.com)

76 points by danso 2020-08-27 | 39 comments

41.

California Businesses Leave the State by the Thousands (www.hoover.org)

74 points by sahin-boydas 2020-09-14 | 110 comments

42.

ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook as close to paper as it gets (remarkable.com)

72 points by punnerud 2020-08-27 | 49 comments

43.

Facebook says Apple’s new iPhone update will disrupt online advertising (www.wsj.com)

71 points by burnaboy 2020-08-26 | 58 comments

44.

US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars (watson.brown.edu)

69 points by nibepins 2020-09-09 | 34 comments

45.

Tesla Model Y Owners Find Cooling System Made with Home Depot-Grade Fake Wood (www.thedrive.com)

69 points by dmd 2020-09-09 | 49 comments

46.

Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why? (duckduckgo.com)

69 points by ffpip 2020-08-25 | 74 comments

47.

Arizona DMV Sells Drivers' Photos and SSNs to Private Investigators (www.vice.com)

67 points by DyslexicAtheist 2020-08-28 | 10 comments

48.

Leaked S-1 screenshots show Palantir losing $579M in 2019 (techcrunch.com)

67 points by rvz 2020-08-21 | 31 comments

49.

A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged (elemental.medium.com)

67 points by mvgoogler 2020-09-02 | 14 comments

50.

Finally Confirmed Vitamin D Nearly Abolishes ICU Risk in Covid-19 (chrismasterjohnphd.com)

65 points by ahiknsr 2020-09-06 | 20 comments

51.

Rust 1.46.0 (blog.rust-lang.org)

65 points by pietroalbini 2020-08-27 | 6 comments

52.

Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy (www.theregister.com)

64 points by kiyanwang 2020-08-27 | 3 comments

53.

Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials (www.statnews.com)

64 points by sethbannon 2020-09-08 | 40 comments

54.

Chrome anchors are broken, Google has locked and is ignoring bug thread (support.google.com)

64 points by arghblarg 2020-09-03 | 4 comments

55.

Cloudflare is experiencing failures in its connections to hosts (www.cloudflarestatus.com)

63 points by artemisbot 2020-08-30 | 33 comments

56.

Disney Studios stops theaters from screening Black Panther (www.cbr.com)

62 points by supercopter 2020-09-01 | 5 comments

57.

Six months in, N95 mask shortages persist (www.npr.org)

62 points by mhb 2020-09-17 | 68 comments

58.

Apache Tika – a content analysis toolkit (tika.apache.org)

60 points by loa_in_ 2020-09-14 | 5 comments

59.

The Little Cards That Tell Police 'Let's Forget This Ever Happened' (www.vice.com)

60 points by danso 2020-09-02 | 62 comments

60.

Fasting improves chemotherapy results and protects from side effects (www.nature.com)

60 points by alz 2020-09-15 | 4 comments

61.

Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You (2000) (theanarchistlibrary.org)

59 points by fallingfrog 2020-09-05 | 72 comments

62.

25th Anniversary of the Theatrical Release of "Hackers" (www.hacktheplanet.com)

58 points by rbanffy 2020-09-15 | 35 comments

63.

An Update on MDN Web Docs (hacks.mozilla.org)

58 points by weinzierl 2020-08-21 | 19 comments

64.

Nvidia launches Ampere-based 30XX GPU lineup [video] (www.nvidia.com)

57 points by mkaic 2020-09-01 | 59 comments

65.

Kindle edition of Classic Computer Science Problems in Python is unauthorized (twitter.com)

56 points by WoodenChair 2020-09-07 | 14 comments

66.

F (2006) (www.nsl.com)

56 points by tosh 2020-08-21 | 8 comments

67.

Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases (www.theverge.com)

56 points by pier25 2020-08-22 | 15 comments

68.

Facebook doesn't plan to take strong action against anti-vaccination posts (www.axios.com)

55 points by bmcn2020 2020-09-09 | 50 comments

69.

Caddy Server Is Acquired By Apilayer (www.ardanlabs.com)

55 points by theBashShell 2020-09-10 | 15 comments

70.

First time in 175 years, Scientific American endorses a presidential candidate (www.scientificamerican.com)

54 points by rbanffy 2020-09-15 | 24 comments

71.

Professor suspended for saying 那个 (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

54 points by nojs 2020-09-07 | 24 comments

72.

Solar Panels Are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash (www.wired.com)

54 points by jocker12 2020-08-23 | 22 comments

73.

Relativty – a $200 Open-Source VR HMD with a 2K 120FPS display, SteamVR support (www.relativty.com)

54 points by karanganesan 2020-09-10 | 5 comments

74.

Sweeping internal Facebook memo: “I have blood on my hands” (arstechnica.com)

53 points by doctorshady 2020-09-15 | 3 comments

75.

Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users (keepthescore.co)

53 points by caspii 2020-09-04 | 34 comments

76.

Persisting as a Solo Founder (vishnu.tech)

52 points by vishnumohandas 2020-08-23 | 15 comments

77.

Amazon launches Halo: tracks activity, body fat, emotions (press.aboutamazon.com)

52 points by matco11 2020-08-27 | 59 comments

78.

Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauritius (news.mongabay.com)

52 points by ilamont 2020-09-16 | 15 comments

79.

Save ARM (savearm.co.uk)

52 points by baal80spam 2020-09-14 | 17 comments

80.

Fennel (fennel-lang.org)

52 points by tosh 2020-09-06 | 2 comments

81.

Kubernetes 1.19 (github.com)

51 points by gtirloni 2020-08-26 | 13 comments

82.

Giant Pacific Octopus (www.nationalgeographic.com)

51 points by simonebrunozzi 2020-09-18 | 15 comments

83.

How Shopify made storefront response times 4x faster (engineering.shopify.com)

50 points by vaillancourtmax 2020-08-20 | 1 comments

84.

Germany will violate 3 international agreements with Unitary Patent, says FFII (ffii.org)

50 points by zoobab 2020-09-17 | 10 comments

85.

DotNet Core Benchmarks Consistently Beat JVM (benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net)

50 points by throwaway13337 2020-08-22 | 19 comments

86.

No-Code vs. Pro-Code: A New Hope (journeyapps.com)

50 points by ochiba 2020-09-09 | 2 comments

87.

Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app? (twitter.com)

50 points by spenvo 2020-08-27 | 8 comments

88.

Big Basin as we know it is gone (sempervirens.org)

50 points by moultano 2020-08-21 | 14 comments

89.

Oculus Quest 2, the next generation of all-in-one vr (www.oculus.com)

50 points by sidhanthp 2020-09-16 | 86 comments

90.

The Recursive Universe (www.amandaghassaei.com)

50 points by todsacerdoti 2020-08-30 | 3 comments

91.

Show HN: ORM for TypeScript with no query-builder, supporting full SQL queries (github.com)

50 points by Seb-C 2020-09-03 | 13 comments

92.

The Technical Interview Is an Ego Trip (blog.kowsheek.com)

49 points by kowsheek 2020-09-11 | 41 comments

93.

First U.S. Small Nuclear Reactor Design Is Approved (www.scientificamerican.com)

49 points by lambdasquirrel 2020-09-15 | 4 comments

94.

Why Is 1 World Trade Center Missing from Spider-Man? (www.stevenbuccini.com)

49 points by tosh 2020-09-17 | 23 comments

95.

My Favorite Rust Function Signature (www.brandonsmith.ninja)

49 points by brundolf 2020-09-17 | 20 comments

96.

Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later (www.fox17online.com)

48 points by benryon 2020-09-10 | 17 comments

97.

Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years (www.bbc.co.uk)

48 points by Qworg 2020-09-14 | 17 comments

98.

Chadwick Boseman Is Dead (www.bbc.com)

48 points by DarkContinent 2020-08-29 | 7 comments

99.

NSA Chief Who Oversaw Sweeping Domestic Phone Surveillance Joins Amazon Board (www.zerohedge.com)

48 points by markus_zhang 2020-09-09 | 2 comments

100.

Ex-Neuralink employees describe rushed timelines clashing with science’s pace (www.statnews.com)

48 points by DanielleMolloy 2020-08-30 | 32 comments

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