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1.		Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first (reuters.com)
		836 points by rbanffy on June 26, 2020 \| 605 comments
2.		When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com (facebook.com)
		1039 points by shiftpgdn on June 25, 2020 \| 425 comments
3.		The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers (chrishacken.com)
		553 points by joecool1029 on June 26, 2020 \| 236 comments
4.		Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks (theconversation.com)
		815 points by znpy on June 26, 2020 \| 532 comments
5.		Boston bans use of facial recognition technology (wbur.org)
		543 points by psychanarch on June 26, 2020 \| 158 comments
6.		Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections (facebook.com)
		375 points by DarkContinent on June 26, 2020 \| 644 comments
7.		Quora goes permanently remote-first (twitter.com/adamdangelo)
		488 points by swyx on June 25, 2020 \| 256 comments
8.		Dynamic linking (drewdevault.com)
		408 points by scrollaway on June 26, 2020 \| 244 comments
9.		Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores (theverge.com)
		489 points by snake117 on June 26, 2020 \| 277 comments
10.		Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters (buzzfeednews.com)
		369 points by psychanarch on June 26, 2020 \| 271 comments
11.		Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest (nautil.us)
		454 points by dnetesn on June 25, 2020 \| 96 comments
12.		Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify (stevebenjamins.com)
		384 points by imartin2k on June 26, 2020 \| 274 comments
13.		Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox (axios.com)
		334 points by mettler on June 26, 2020 \| 186 comments
14.		Curl Wttr.in (github.com/chubin)
		461 points by old-gregg on June 25, 2020 \| 122 comments
15.		Show HN: HiFiC – High-Fidelity Generative Image Compression – demo and paper (hific.github.io)
		281 points by atorodius on June 26, 2020 \| 89 comments
16.		Turn recipe websites into plain text (plainoldrecipe.com)
		329 points by vincent_s on June 26, 2020 \| 152 comments
17.		The value of Tor and anonymous contributions to Wikipedia (torproject.org)
		201 points by blendergeek on June 26, 2020 \| 85 comments
18.		Xbox Architecture (copetti.org)
		226 points by timeoperator on June 26, 2020 \| 73 comments
19.		What I learned from writing for The Onion for a month (2015) (wordsbyevanporter.com)
		224 points by bryanrasmussen on June 26, 2020 \| 114 comments
20.		A New Standard Deal (blog.ycombinator.com)
		168 points by todsacerdoti on June 26, 2020 \| 94 comments
21.		There is now a European standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff (ifixit.com)
		492 points by kackbein on June 26, 2020 \| 195 comments
22.		Extraordinary ‘megaflash’ lightning strikes cover several hundred kilometres (un.org)
		115 points by DyslexicAtheist on June 26, 2020 \| 73 comments
23.		'Black neutron star' discovery changes astronomy (bbc.com)
		136 points by wglb on June 25, 2020 \| 70 comments
24.		PHP Insights: Analyze the code quality of PHP projects (phpinsights.com)
		150 points by MindGods on June 26, 2020 \| 41 comments
25.		Building AI Trading Systems (dennybritz.com)
		215 points by dennybritz on June 26, 2020 \| 103 comments
26.		The Hitchhiker’s Guide to PlantUML (crashedmind.github.io)
		150 points by bambambazooka on June 26, 2020 \| 31 comments
27.		Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler (dropbox.tech)
		141 points by nicksundin on June 26, 2020 \| 68 comments
28.		Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers (aiprobook.com)
		225 points by dragandj on June 26, 2020 \| 75 comments
29.		Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 'to prevent confusion' (zdnet.com)
		234 points by fraqed on June 26, 2020 \| 325 comments
30.		What is a photon? (2017) (sigfpe.com)
		92 points by memexy on June 25, 2020 \| 66 comments
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