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1. Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement (twitter.com) 872 points by sneak 13 hours ago | 67 comments 2. DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors (buzzfeednews.com) 579 points by codezero 18 hours ago | 29 comments 3. People think they're calling restaurants directly but Grubhub is getting a fee (buzzfeednews.com) 444 points by lemonberry 18 hours ago | 31 comments 4. The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source (github.com) 426 points by giovannibajo1 20 hours ago | 16 comments 5. In Secretly Recorded Phone Calls, Officers Say Innocent People Were Framed (gothamist.com) 393 points by danso 2 hours ago | 15 comments 6. Never-before-seen “black nitrogen” plugs puzzle in periodic table (newatlas.com) 344 points by sahin-boydas 16 hours ago | 17 comments 7. Running Awk in parallel to process 256M records (ketancmaheshwari.github.io) 343 points by ketanmaheshwari 23 hours ago | 22 comments 8. Bell, Telus to use Nokia and Ericsson, not Huawei, in building their 5G networks (cbc.ca) 322 points by CalmStorm 14 hours ago | 20 comments 9. Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux (news.lenovo.com) 320 points by tpush 9 hours ago | 35 comments 10. Weirdos in the depression (blog.plover.com) 313 points by johndcook 6 hours ago | 33 comments 11. Software Engineering Within SpaceX (yasoob.me) 311 points by theanirudh 3 hours ago | 16 comments 12. Zoom transforms hype into huge jump in sales, customers (bloomberg.com) 308 points by baylearn 12 hours ago | 6 comments 13. A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests (github.com) 280 points by novia 14 hours ago | 28 comments 14. Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data (bloomberg.com) 243 points by spac 1 hour ago | 19 comments 15. Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC (github.com) 233 points by todsacerdoti 17 hours ago | 21 comments 16. Declining worker power vs. rising monopoly power: Explaining recent macro trends (voxeu.org) 231 points by hhs 3 hours ago | 19 comments 17. Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies (wsj.com) 207 points by Reedx 14 hours ago | 14 comments 18. Leave Facebook (om.co) 204 points by ingve 20 hours ago | 37 comments 19. Is a trillion-dollars worth of programming lying on the ground? (blog.cerebralab.com) 203 points by george3d6 5 hours ago | 68 comments 20. The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk (wirfs-brock.com) 187 points by matt_d 18 hours ago | 18 comments 21. The Dyson Battery Electric Vehicle (dyson.co.uk) 175 points by uptown 5 hours ago | 20 comments 22. A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling (sciencemag.org) 157 points by onemoresoop 4 hours ago | 23 comments 23. “Today, I submitted my resignation to Facebook” (linkedin.com) 156 points by aaronbrethorst 23 hours ago | 35 comments 24. Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem (aniccaresearch.tech) 154 points by hosolmaz 21 hours ago | 8 comments 25. FCC approves 100% foreign ownership of U.S. broadcast properties [pdf] (docs.fcc.gov) 153 points by aaronbrethorst 17 hours ago | 6 comments 26. Germany's Covid contact tracing app is Open Source (github.com) 151 points by fredrb 8 hours ago | 12 comments 27. Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO (reuters.com) 148 points by amaajemyfren 2 hours ago | 4 comments 28. Twitter account reposting everything Trump tweets, suspended within 3 days (mashable.com) 147 points by tobib 3 hours ago | 11 comments 29. Kerbal Space Program 2 release disrupted by corporate strife (bloomberg.com) 144 points by tboerstad 5 hours ago | 9 comments 30. Choosing between democracy and party, Americans will chose party over democracy (cambridge.org) 132 points by mrfusion 18 hours ago | 14 comments More

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