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1. Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B (bethesda.net)
1185 points by MaximumMadness on Sept 21, 2020 | 779 comments
2. On the Use of a Life (daemonology.net)
1275 points by cperciva on Sept 20, 2020 | 265 comments
3. I no longer build software (github.com/docker)
1287 points by tagawa on Sept 21, 2020 | 856 comments
4. Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing? (amnesty.org)
716 points by mlthoughts2018 on Sept 21, 2020 | 405 comments
5. New Steve Jobs recordings from the '80s released (sfgate.com)
360 points by mindcrime on Sept 21, 2020 | 132 comments
6. Things we learned running Postgres 13 (pganalyze.com)
377 points by lfittl on Sept 21, 2020 | 49 comments
7. My least favorite Rust type (ridiculousfish.com)
380 points by ridiculous_fish on Sept 21, 2020 | 270 comments
8. Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity (danielmiessler.com)
431 points by gempir on Sept 21, 2020 | 435 comments
9. I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018) (privacyinternational.org)
305 points by weare138 on Sept 21, 2020 | 179 comments
10. Domains for the Rest of Us (domainsfortherestofus.com)
347 points by andreygrehov on Sept 21, 2020 | 199 comments
11. Chrome Web Store payments deprecation (chrome.com)
270 points by hibiscus4156 on Sept 21, 2020 | 169 comments
12. Is revenue model more important than culture? (somehowmanage.com)
238 points by Ozzie_osman on Sept 21, 2020 | 114 comments
13. We need young programmers; We need old programmers (ploeh.dk)
283 points by mrcsharp on Sept 21, 2020 | 257 comments
14. Haskell RecordDotSyntax language extension proposal (Accepted) (github.com/ghc-proposals)
179 points by harporoeder on Sept 21, 2020 | 103 comments
15. Generative Bad Handwriting (avinayak.github.io)
192 points by atulvi on Sept 20, 2020 | 18 comments
16. Pricing Low-Touch SaaS (stripe.com)
218 points by pvsukale3 on Sept 21, 2020 | 77 comments
17. A Time Leap Challenge for Sat Solving (arxiv.org)
100 points by panic on Sept 21, 2020 | 11 comments
18. Build Personal Moats (eriktorenberg.substack.com)
173 points by jger15 on Sept 20, 2020 | 78 comments
19. Cobaul: A COBOL to WebAssembly Compiler (github.com/cloudflare)
120 points by rhabarba on Sept 21, 2020 | 54 comments
20. Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos (annotate.tv)
154 points by matiastucci on Sept 21, 2020 | 61 comments
21. John Cleese Discusses Creativity, Monty Python, and Artichokes (newyorker.com)
143 points by fortran77 on Sept 21, 2020 | 59 comments
22. The Kivaloo Data Store (tarsnap.com)
154 points by wallflower on Sept 21, 2020 | 77 comments
23. Companies can track your phone’s movements to target ads (arstechnica.com)
167 points by pseudolus on Sept 21, 2020 | 140 comments
24. The unrealized potential of federation (drewdevault.com)
194 points by als0 on Sept 20, 2020 | 197 comments
25. The Black Vault: A FOIA obsessive’s UFO-filled empire (cjr.org)
93 points by samclemens on Sept 19, 2020 | 43 comments
26. Show HN: Compile Ruby to C (github.com/agrafix)
153 points by agrafix on Sept 21, 2020 | 109 comments
27. Update on Mozilla WebThings (discourse.mozilla.org)
132 points by benfrancis on Sept 21, 2020 | 61 comments
28. Revisiting Apple Notes (6): The Protobuf (ciofecaforensics.com)
132 points by LaSombra on Sept 20, 2020 | 49 comments
29. Stanisław Leśniewski: rethinking the philosophy of mathematics [pdf] (biblio.ugent.be)
71 points by danielam on Sept 19, 2020 | 14 comments
30. How to take meeting notes (barehands.substack.com)
229 points by flreln on Sept 21, 2020 | 126 comments

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