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1.		Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack (coindesk.com)
		2595 points by megadeth on July 15, 2020 \| 1349 comments
2.		Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study (ncsu.edu)
		1782 points by sizzle on July 15, 2020 \| 1141 comments
3.		Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies (pragmaticengineer.com)
		1025 points by signa11 on July 15, 2020 \| 524 comments
4.		You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? (mrlacey.com)
		964 points by gregdoesit on July 14, 2020 \| 507 comments
5.		Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears (bbc.com)
		474 points by elorant on July 15, 2020 \| 273 comments
6.		Pinephone – “Community Edition: PostmarketOS” Linux smartphone (pine64.org)
		387 points by fsflover on July 15, 2020 \| 209 comments
7.		The global fertility rate is falling (bbc.com)
		485 points by NoRagrets on July 15, 2020 \| 820 comments
8.		Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack (blockchain.com)
		372 points by aliabd on July 15, 2020 \| 269 comments
9.		Riot is now Element (element.io)
		550 points by J_tt on July 15, 2020 \| 361 comments
10.		Understanding and writing a JPEG decoder in Python (yasoob.me)
		263 points by sfpoet on July 14, 2020 \| 47 comments
11.		Passbolt: Self hostable, open source, password manager for teams (passbolt.com)
		264 points by fosco on July 15, 2020 \| 99 comments
12.		Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill (2018) (azeria-labs.com)
		452 points by jayliew on July 15, 2020 \| 87 comments
13.		How to write technical posts so people will read them (2019) (reasonablypolymorphic.com)
		257 points by benhoyt on July 15, 2020 \| 54 comments
14.		Apple has €13bn Irish tax bill overturned (bbc.com)
		306 points by alvis on July 15, 2020 \| 468 comments
15.		Everything you need to know about OAuth 2.0 (gravitational.com)
		207 points by twakefield on July 15, 2020 \| 28 comments
16.		SEC issues $3.8M whistleblower award (sec.gov)
		214 points by chmaynard on July 14, 2020 \| 86 comments
17.		Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo (nydailynews.com)
		428 points by ryanmccullagh on July 15, 2020 \| 370 comments
18.		How SHA-2 works step-by-step (SHA-256) (qvault.io)
		203 points by lanecwagner on July 15, 2020 \| 21 comments
19.		Researchers generate complete human X chromosome sequence (genome.gov)
		123 points by mglauco on July 14, 2020 \| 48 comments
20.		Orthodox Privilege (paulgraham.com)
		610 points by razin on July 15, 2020 \| 910 comments
21.		Don't Panic! Better, Fewer, Syntax Errors for LR Parsers (soft-dev.org)
		114 points by matt_d on July 15, 2020 \| 39 comments
22.		Facebook and CMU Introduce TaBERT for Understanding Tabular Data Queries (syncedreview.com)
		79 points by Yuqing7 on July 14, 2020 \| 1 comment
23.		Launch HN: Legacy (YC S19) – we help men test and freeze their sperm
		193 points by khaledkteily on July 15, 2020 \| 100 comments
24.		Small satellites are radically remaking space exploration (arstechnica.com)
		104 points by rbanffy on July 13, 2020 \| 16 comments
25.		Sail Freight Projects Around the World (sailingdog.org)
		104 points by privong on July 15, 2020 \| 72 comments
26.		Element wins deal to supply half a million licences to two German states (sifted.eu)
		263 points by neiljohnson on July 15, 2020 \| 83 comments
27.		Twilio Acquires Electric Imp (twilio.com)
		87 points by dsalzman on July 14, 2020 \| 52 comments
28.		Open Satellite Project: The Open Source Satellite Project (github.com/opensatelliteproject)
		85 points by peter_d_sherman on July 14, 2020 \| 8 comments
29.		Potential large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands (nature.com)
		125 points by simonpure on July 14, 2020 \| 90 comments
30.		The accidentally resilient design of Athens apartments (bloomberg.com)
		174 points by pseudolus on July 15, 2020 \| 114 comments
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