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1.		How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters (unicodepowersymbol.com)
		1181 points by adamnemecek on June 23, 2016 \| 413 comments
2.		Defending Our Brand (letsencrypt.org)
		1346 points by alexbilbie on June 23, 2016 \| 263 comments
3.		Twilio opens trading at $23.99 per share (techcrunch.com)
		358 points by doppp on June 23, 2016 \| 168 comments
4.		Crispr Wins Key Approval to Fight Cancer in Human Trials (bloomberg.com)
		349 points by adventured on June 23, 2016 \| 85 comments
5.		Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test (opera.com)
		302 points by doener on June 23, 2016 \| 210 comments
6.		Phoenix 1.2 (github.com/phoenixframework)
		404 points by peruvian on June 23, 2016 \| 55 comments
7.		APL compiler targeting a typed array intermediate language (github.com/melsman)
		123 points by Athas on June 23, 2016 \| 29 comments
8.		Apple confirms iOS kernel code left unencrypted intentionally (techcrunch.com)
		340 points by shritesh on June 23, 2016 \| 155 comments
9.		Coconut – Pythonic functional programming language (coconut-lang.org)
		259 points by jonbaer on June 23, 2016 \| 130 comments
10.		Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass (webpass.net)
		304 points by dweekly on June 22, 2016 \| 128 comments
11.		Real-time crash reporting tool Sentry raises $9M (techcrunch.com)
		214 points by termostaatti on June 23, 2016 \| 67 comments
12.		The Rule of 72 (2007) (betterexplained.com)
		323 points by shubhamjain on June 23, 2016 \| 92 comments
13.		Write Code to Rewrite Your Code: jscodeshift (datasciencecentral.com)
		82 points by PaulHoule on June 23, 2016 \| 21 comments
14.		Simple Windows GUI Application Written in Go (gist.github.com)
		107 points by dsr12 on June 23, 2016 \| 63 comments
15.		The Toronto Raptors are using IBM’s Watson in the draft (vice.com)
		93 points by ericzawo on June 23, 2016 \| 47 comments
16.		A Stark Nuclear Warning (nybooks.com)
		168 points by jseliger on June 22, 2016 \| 149 comments
17.		Lessons from Doom (2010) (vectorpoem.com)
		167 points by Kristine1975 on June 23, 2016 \| 89 comments
18.		Happy 20th Birthday, Quake (rome.ro)
		213 points by miiiiiike on June 23, 2016 \| 144 comments
19.		Cygwin library now available under GNU LGPL (redhat.com)
		125 points by rcarmo on June 23, 2016 \| 73 comments
20.		Time-travel queries in CockroachDB (cockroachlabs.com)
		135 points by ivank on June 23, 2016 \| 52 comments
21.		Telephony, SMS, and MMS APIs (docs.google.com)
		122 points by Glibaudio on June 23, 2016 \| 46 comments
22.		Why Great Entrepreneurs Are Older Than You Think (2014) (forbes.com/sites/krisztinaholly)
		112 points by plessthanpt05 on June 22, 2016 \| 31 comments
23.		Controlling the ‘referer’ header (fastmail.com)
		86 points by nmjenkins on June 23, 2016 \| 30 comments
24.		Typography for User Interfaces (viljamis.com)
		157 points by samsolomon on June 22, 2016 \| 25 comments
25.		Railway oriented programming (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)
		148 points by douche on June 22, 2016 \| 57 comments
26.		ThinLTO: Scalable and Incremental Link-Time Optimization for LLVM (llvm.org)
		99 points by DannyBee on June 23, 2016 \| 18 comments
27.		Solar System Internet on the ISS (nasa.gov)
		76 points by MaxLeiter on June 22, 2016 \| 17 comments
28.		Show HN: BBC Good Food Scraper in Go (github.com/sleepypikachu)
		92 points by sleepychu on June 23, 2016 \| 23 comments
29.		Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Receiving Data (packagecloud.io)
		144 points by lindvall on June 23, 2016 \| 9 comments
30.		Close Encounters of the Java Memory Model Kind (shipilev.net)
		109 points by signa11 on June 22, 2016 \| 65 comments
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