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1. Security by obscurity is underrated (utkusen.com)
939 points by goranmoomin on Sept 11, 2020 | 510 comments
2. 'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about that task (medium.com/robertwiblin)
543 points by robertwiblin on Sept 11, 2020 | 135 comments
3. Apple: Person-to-person experiences do not have to use in-app purchase (developer.apple.com)
338 points by BigBalli on Sept 11, 2020 | 468 comments
4. Scaling Erlang Developer Experience at WhatsApp [pdf] (codesync.global)
308 points by anuragsoni on Sept 11, 2020 | 96 comments
5. Implement BeamAsm – A JIT for Erlang/OTP (github.com/erlang)
233 points by di4na on Sept 11, 2020 | 32 comments
6. Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destruction, scientists warn (bbc.com)
391 points by acdanger on Sept 11, 2020 | 265 comments
7. April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp [video] (youtube.com)
103 points by tosh on Sept 10, 2020 | 23 comments
8. Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking to access content (developer.apple.com)
373 points by Nextgrid on Sept 11, 2020 | 259 comments
9. Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017) (ieee.org)
353 points by abixb on Sept 11, 2020 | 196 comments
10. Raccoon Attack (raccoon-attack.com)
203 points by wglb on Sept 11, 2020 | 51 comments
11. Redox: Unix-Like Operating System in Rust (redox-os.org)
242 points by bpierre on Sept 11, 2020 | 106 comments
12. Let employees sell their equity (burke.dev)
267 points by craigkerstiens on Sept 11, 2020 | 276 comments
13. Show HN: Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query (octoproject.github.io)
241 points by khalidlafi on Sept 11, 2020 | 58 comments
14. BEHEMOTH – Big Electronic Human-Energized Machine, Only Too Heavy (microship.com)
174 points by robin_reala on Sept 11, 2020 | 48 comments
15. How I operated as a staff engineer at Heroku (amyunger.com)
380 points by craigkerstiens on Sept 10, 2020 | 84 comments
16. Home Studio Setup Costs Compared – 1980s And Now (pro-tools-expert.com)
181 points by brudgers on Sept 10, 2020 | 166 comments
17. Contradictions in Roman law left incurable headaches for its judges (historytoday.com)
172 points by diodorus on Sept 11, 2020 | 156 comments
18. EWW: Emacs Web Wowser (gnu.org)
160 points by tosh on Sept 11, 2020 | 51 comments
19. Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare' (bbc.co.uk)
198 points by Kaibeezy on Sept 11, 2020 | 395 comments
20. How do you reason about a probabilistic distributed system? (ahelwer.ca)
112 points by ahelwer on Sept 11, 2020 | 15 comments
21. Drone firm DJI promises 'local data mode' to fend off US government's mooted ban (theregister.com)
119 points by LinuxBender on Sept 11, 2020 | 102 comments
22. I built an app to fix my depression (elifiner.com)
275 points by zoozla on Sept 11, 2020 | 176 comments
23. A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitrogen (2018) (smithsonianmag.com)
98 points by NoRagrets on Sept 10, 2020 | 86 comments
24. Vinyl LPs Sell More Than CDs for the First Time in 3 Decades (synthtopia.com)
174 points by anigbrowl on Sept 11, 2020 | 220 comments
25. USB Mass Storage and USB-Attached SCSI Are Both SCSI (devever.net)
77 points by hlandau on Sept 11, 2020 | 39 comments
26. Myth-busting article about radiation hardened microchips for space applications (habr.com)
109 points by amartology on Sept 10, 2020 | 64 comments
27. In-App Purchase Rules (marco.org)
241 points by 0xQSL on Sept 11, 2020 | 82 comments
28. State of Self-Serve Website Building in 2020 (sprune.com)
153 points by nreece on Sept 9, 2020 | 121 comments
29. The lack of namespaces on crates.io is a feature (samsieber.tech)
108 points by LinuxBender on Sept 11, 2020 | 191 comments
30. Decision Table Patterns (hillelwayne.com)
112 points by MindGods on Sept 10, 2020 | 22 comments

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