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1.		Lenin was a mushroom (wikipedia.org)
		574 points by Smaug123 on June 22, 2016 \| 178 comments
2.		In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery (quantamagazine.org)
		550 points by DiabloD3 on June 22, 2016 \| 139 comments
3.		New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity (quantamagazine.org)
		422 points by aethertap on June 22, 2016 \| 43 comments
4.		Mozilla Awards $385k to Open Source Projects (blog.mozilla.org)
		280 points by nandaja on June 22, 2016 \| 98 comments
5.		How Google Is Remaking Itself for “Machine Learning First” (backchannel.com)
		274 points by steven on June 22, 2016 \| 116 comments
6.		German government agrees to ban fracking indefinitely (reuters.com)
		210 points by ck2 on June 22, 2016 \| 115 comments
7.		Where have all the iOS games gone? (minotaurproject.co.uk)
		313 points by chadaustin on June 22, 2016 \| 207 comments
8.		More awful IoT stuff (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
		384 points by edward on June 22, 2016 \| 240 comments
9.		Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala (epfl.ch)
		287 points by tycondryus on June 22, 2016 \| 162 comments
10.		Show HN: A secure, open source U2F token you can make with $4.5 worth of parts (github.com/conorpp)
		267 points by conorpp on June 22, 2016 \| 92 comments
11.		Erlang/OTP 19.0 has been released (erlang.org)
		288 points by johlo on June 22, 2016 \| 43 comments
12.		Concrete AI Safety Problems (openai.com)
		221 points by aston on June 22, 2016 \| 94 comments
13.		Why isn’t the fundamental theorem of arithmetic obvious? (2011) (gowers.wordpress.com)
		225 points by ColinWright on June 22, 2016 \| 197 comments
14.		Relativistic-microwave theory of ball lightning (nature.com)
		152 points by fitzwatermellow on June 22, 2016 \| 35 comments
15.		Progress Towards 100% HTTPS, June 2016 (letsencrypt.org)
		220 points by dankohn1 on June 22, 2016 \| 106 comments
16.		FCC to Investigate Raised RF Noise Floor (hackaday.com)
		154 points by nvk on June 22, 2016 \| 85 comments
17.		The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
		178 points by sndean on June 22, 2016 \| 87 comments
18.		JavaScript Performance Updates in Microsoft Edge and Chakra (windows.com)
		143 points by hellojs on June 22, 2016 \| 50 comments
19.		On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (2011) (norvig.com)
		152 points by kercker on June 22, 2016 \| 102 comments
20.		Restoring YC's Xerox Alto, day 1: Power supplies and disk interface (righto.com)
		117 points by kens on June 22, 2016 \| 23 comments
21.		Eve Developer Diary, March — Part 1: UI (incidentalcomplexity.com)
		72 points by dahjelle on June 22, 2016 \| 47 comments
22.		Numerai, a hedge fund built by a community of anonymous data scientists (medium.com/numerai)
		178 points by joeykrug on June 21, 2016 \| 81 comments
23.		Emacs Live (2013) (overtone.github.io)
		114 points by sndean on June 22, 2016 \| 43 comments
24.		M 122: Advanced Operating Systems (2015) (uoa.gr)
		97 points by kercker on June 22, 2016 \| 16 comments
25.		Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice (plos.org)
		98 points by kctess5 on June 22, 2016 \| 5 comments
26.		India launches 20 satellites in single mission (bbc.com)
		283 points by chetangole on June 22, 2016 \| 101 comments
27.		The VoltAir Project (google.github.io)
		76 points by nodivbyzero on June 22, 2016 \| 8 comments
28.		Art and taste in the age of the Internet (newyorker.com)
		54 points by miraj on June 22, 2016 \| 12 comments
29.		Scribble: The Racket Documentation Tool (racket-lang.org)
		89 points by Tomte on June 22, 2016 \| 21 comments
30.		Broken Hardware, Fixes and Hacks Over 8 Years (hookrace.net)
		63 points by def- on June 21, 2016 \| 23 comments
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