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1.		Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google (lwn.net)
		737 points by beachwood23 on July 28, 2020 \| 332 comments
2.		ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly (bbc.co.uk)
		669 points by goodcanadian on July 28, 2020 \| 449 comments
3.		1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App (github.com/felixrieseberg)
		556 points by yboris on July 28, 2020 \| 155 comments
4.		Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group after delays (reuters.com)
		559 points by myrandomcomment on July 28, 2020 \| 519 comments
5.		One hour of slow breathing changed my life (theguardian.com)
		550 points by viburnum on July 27, 2020 \| 321 comments
6.		GitHub Public Roadmap (github.com/github)
		483 points by nicolas_ on July 28, 2020 \| 142 comments
7.		Perfect Edition: A lightweight, responsive web e-book template (github.com/robinsloan)
		248 points by coldsnap427 on July 28, 2020 \| 69 comments
8.		WasmBoxC: Simple, Fast, and VM-Less Sandboxing (kripken.github.io)
		224 points by syrusakbary on July 28, 2020 \| 106 comments
9.		OCaml: Add support to iOS/Mac ARM64 (github.com/ocaml)
		244 points by wczekalski on July 28, 2020 \| 100 comments
10.		Launch HN: QuestDB (YC S20) – Fast open source time series database
		357 points by bluestreak on July 28, 2020 \| 167 comments
11.		The Galaksija computer was a craze in 1980s Yugoslavia (tribunemag.co.uk)
		250 points by viburnum on July 28, 2020 \| 81 comments
12.		The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014) (slatestarcodex.com)
		267 points by apsec112 on July 28, 2020 \| 214 comments
13.		Scientists pull living microbes, possibly 100M years old, from beneath the sea (sciencemag.org)
		157 points by walterbell on July 28, 2020 \| 60 comments
14.		Google’s top search result is Google (themarkup.org)
		385 points by danso on July 28, 2020 \| 304 comments
15.		How Did the Casio F91W Become a Terrorist Icon? (reaperfeed.com)
		266 points by joeschmoe83 on July 28, 2020 \| 136 comments
16.		Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Think seminar, July 1982 (folklore.org)
		135 points by tosh on July 28, 2020 \| 29 comments
17.		Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life (puri.sm)
		144 points by Stephen304 on July 28, 2020 \| 90 comments
18.		Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores (reuters.com)
		322 points by callwaiting on July 28, 2020 \| 293 comments
19.		Firefox 79 (hacks.mozilla.org)
		379 points by caution on July 28, 2020 \| 188 comments
20.		Did fish sauce in Vietnam come from ancient Rome via the Silk Road? (scmp.com)
		104 points by Thevet on July 28, 2020 \| 111 comments
21.		We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015) (newyorker.com)
		256 points by thesumofall on July 27, 2020 \| 360 comments
22.		The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer [video] (youtube.com)
		125 points by tosh on July 28, 2020 \| 36 comments
23.		Not an Amazon Problem (tbray.org)
		428 points by ciprian_craciun on July 28, 2020 \| 366 comments
24.		The Regular Expression Visualizer, Simulator and Cross-Compiler Tool (robertelder.org)
		197 points by robertelder on July 28, 2020 \| 43 comments
25.		Procedural cityscapes creation: Openstreetmap import in Unity and Houdini Engine (stinaflodstrom.com)
		141 points by liotier on July 27, 2020 \| 29 comments
26.		The worst tool for the job (johndcook.com)
		221 points by ColinWright on July 28, 2020 \| 191 comments
27.		A new way to control experimentation with dreams (news.mit.edu)
		94 points by apsec112 on July 27, 2020 \| 42 comments
28.		Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019) (davidwalsh.name)
		298 points by brlnwest on July 28, 2020 \| 214 comments
29.		Move over Graphene? Here Comes Borophene (realclearscience.com)
		79 points by DamnInteresting on July 28, 2020 \| 37 comments
30.		Fewer premature babies born since Covid-19 lockdown (cbc.ca)
		204 points by breitling on July 28, 2020 \| 175 comments
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