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1.		India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps (techcrunch.com)
		1483 points by samdung on June 29, 2020 \| 795 comments
2.		Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple (anylist.com)
		1069 points by dirtae on June 29, 2020 \| 469 comments
3.		Klutz Press: books built for learning stuff (charlieharrington.com)
		358 points by whatrocks on June 29, 2020 \| 101 comments
4.		The KDE community is moving to GitLab (about.gitlab.com)
		419 points by caution on June 29, 2020 \| 159 comments
5.		Finishing a side project (hugozap.com)
		447 points by hugozap on June 28, 2020 \| 145 comments
6.		Textures.js is a JavaScript library for creating SVG patterns (riccardoscalco.it)
		494 points by bryanrasmussen on June 29, 2020 \| 43 comments
7.		The U.S. can now set its own rates for mail from China and other countries (ecomcrew.com)
		413 points by rjzzleep on June 29, 2020 \| 330 comments
8.		Windows98 Running in the Browser (copy.sh)
		421 points by tectonic on June 29, 2020 \| 266 comments
9.		Running Postgres in Kubernetes [pdf] (sched.com)
		232 points by craigkerstiens on June 29, 2020 \| 100 comments
10.		Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode (stormrider.io)
		307 points by billwear on June 28, 2020 \| 250 comments
11.		Apple and Facebook (stratechery.com)
		318 points by Amorymeltzer on June 29, 2020 \| 148 comments
12.		Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse (washingtonpost.com)
		795 points by coldsnap427 on June 29, 2020 \| 851 comments
13.		Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns (zdnet.com)
		428 points by coronadisaster on June 29, 2020 \| 442 comments
14.		Megadesk (tindie.com)
		290 points by robin_reala on June 29, 2020 \| 137 comments
15.		Weighing a Car with Tire Pressures (surjan.substack.com)
		171 points by as89 on June 29, 2020 \| 116 comments
16.		How remdesivir works, and why it's not the ultimate coronavirus killer (stanford.edu)
		160 points by chmaynard on June 29, 2020 \| 100 comments
17.		Make educated wireless router/AP upgrade decisions (duckware.com)
		398 points by rdslw on June 28, 2020 \| 86 comments
18.		Linux Kernel Is Still Seeing Driver Work for the Macintosh II (phoronix.com)
		187 points by caution on June 28, 2020 \| 119 comments
19.		Arduino FIDO2 Authenticator (ovcharov.me)
		176 points by snakeye on June 29, 2020 \| 88 comments
20.		A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly (pingcap.com)
		180 points by Caitin_Chen on June 29, 2020 \| 125 comments
21.		The History of Usenet and FidoNet (technicshistory.com)
		121 points by cfmcdonald on June 29, 2020 \| 32 comments
22.		Deep Chernoff Faces (ihatethefuture.com)
		138 points by pxx on June 29, 2020 \| 33 comments
23.		Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (2013) (yosefk.com)
		136 points by luu on June 29, 2020 \| 74 comments
24.		Taking Up Animation as a Hobby (yosefk.com)
		214 points by luu on June 28, 2020 \| 40 comments
25.		Console, the vital tool that Apple abandoned (eclecticlight.co)
		242 points by ingve on June 28, 2020 \| 50 comments
26.		Use Unix Pipes to Improve Chromecast Playback (alexdelorenzo.dev)
		174 points by lowmemcpu on June 29, 2020 \| 51 comments
27.		Better Geometry Through Graph Theory (2018) (ideolalia.com)
		161 points by prospero on June 28, 2020 \| 33 comments
28.		The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75B Netflix rival crash so fast? (theguardian.com)
		219 points by MindGods on June 29, 2020 \| 262 comments
29.		What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic (1991) (oracle.com)
		123 points by brudgers on June 27, 2020 \| 85 comments
30.		Neurons that fire together, wire together, but how? (dissociativediaries.com)
		127 points by Anon84 on June 29, 2020 \| 45 comments
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