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1081.

Empty studio sets: BBC backgrounds for your video calls (bbc.co.uk)

139 points by open-source-ux on May 7, 2020 | 37 comments

1082.

Ginger milk curd (2014) (blog.khymos.org)

139 points by polm23 on May 12, 2020 | 36 comments

1083.

EdenSCM – A cross-platform, scalable source control management system (github.com)

139 points by imoldfella on May 9, 2020 | 31 comments

1084.

Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 1: Basic Camera, Diffuse, Emissive (blog.demofox.org)

139 points by ingve on May 26, 2020 | 6 comments

1085.

Vice Media Lays Off 155 Employees with Deepest Cuts in Digital Group (variety.com)

138 points by burnaboy on May 15, 2020 | 102 comments

1086.

Singing is the most accessible stress reliever (bbc.com)

138 points by laurex on May 20, 2020 | 81 comments

1087.

Sciter – Multiplatform HTML/CSS UI Engine for Desktop and Mobile Applications (sciter.com)

138 points by notRobot on May 13, 2020 | 74 comments

1088.

NSA “precomputed contact chaining” enhances phone-record tracking program (wired.com)

138 points by bookofjoe on May 24, 2020 | 49 comments

1089.

Clojure as a dependency (blog.danieljanus.pl)

138 points by nathell on May 4, 2020 | 42 comments

1090.

MTV VHS Recordings 1981 to 1989 [video] (archive.org)

138 points by shervinafshar on May 4, 2020 | 40 comments

1091.

OpenAutoComplete: Shell-agnostic, cross-platform autocomplete specification (github.com)

138 points by GamePad64 on May 21, 2020 | 26 comments

1092.

!!Con 2020 Livestream [video] (bangbangcon.com)

138 points by revx on May 10, 2020 | 16 comments

1093.

AWS EC2 General Price Cut (aws.amazon.com)

137 points by makeshifthoop on May 10, 2020 | 110 comments

1094.

Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in (stripe.com)

137 points by dochtman on May 28, 2020 | 69 comments

1095.

FBI serves warrant on Apple to access Senator's iCloud data (appleinsider.com)

137 points by clairity on May 14, 2020 | 45 comments

1096.

The Argument Against Quantum Computers and the Quantum Laws of Nature [pdf] (gilkalai.files.wordpress.com)

137 points by luu on May 24, 2020 | 23 comments

1097.

Two years in, GDPR defined by mixed signals, unbalanced enforcement (complianceweek.com)

136 points by joering2 on May 29, 2020 | 210 comments

1098.

Coronavirus will end the golden age for college towns (chicagobusiness.com)

136 points by walterbell on May 18, 2020 | 160 comments

1099.

How many people did it take to build the Great Pyramid? (spectrum.ieee.org)

136 points by samizdis on May 27, 2020 | 108 comments

1100.

Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS (theverge.com)

136 points by doener on May 7, 2020 | 58 comments

1101.

Safe: Set maximum capacity for any room, floor, or building (density.io)

135 points by jordanmessina on May 14, 2020 | 81 comments

1102.

Simulacra and Simulation (en.wikipedia.org)

135 points by vermilingua on May 12, 2020 | 79 comments

1103.

Emacs' Org-Mode and Syncthing = Perfect (2017) (hiepph.github.io)

135 points by RMPR on May 3, 2020 | 77 comments

1104.

House cancels vote to renew surveillance powers after Trump threatened veto (wsj.com)

135 points by albertop on May 28, 2020 | 36 comments

1105.

Dissecting an SSL Certificate (2017) (jvns.ca)

135 points by asamant on May 6, 2020 | 29 comments

1106.

Emulate legacy printer drivers for CUPS with QEMU (blog.project-insanity.org)

135 points by onny on May 29, 2020 | 29 comments

1107.

EA Is Releasing Command and Conquer and Red Alert’s Source Code (kotaku.com)

135 points by miobrien on May 21, 2020 | 23 comments

1108.

Orion’s Arm Universe Project: Collaborative Hard Sci-Fi Worldbuilding (orionsarm.com)

135 points by aspenmayer on May 24, 2020 | 19 comments

1109.

Using Neural Networks to Find Answers in Tables (ai.googleblog.com)

135 points by polm23 on May 4, 2020 | 8 comments

1110.

OnlyFans, influencers, and the politics of selling nudes during a pandemic (elle.com)

134 points by smacktoward on May 14, 2020 | 241 comments