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1.		Olympus quits camera business after 84 years (bbc.com)
		689 points by Element_ on June 25, 2020 \| 374 comments
2.		An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT (stanford.edu)
		903 points by abecedarius on June 25, 2020 \| 351 comments
3.		Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin (coindesk.com)
		716 points by ur-whale on June 25, 2020 \| 280 comments
4.		Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott (reuters.com)
		535 points by hhs on June 25, 2020 \| 332 comments
5.		Symbian Won (shkspr.mobi)
		512 points by edent on June 25, 2020 \| 284 comments
6.		Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, aviation minister says (cnn.com)
		506 points by imartin2k on June 25, 2020 \| 342 comments
7.		Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible (github.com/team-video)
		276 points by dxchester on June 25, 2020 \| 208 comments
8.		Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains Its Complexity and Origins [video] (youtube.com)
		315 points by doener on June 25, 2020 \| 134 comments
9.		Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS lookups in Firefox (arstechnica.com)
		272 points by trulyrandom on June 25, 2020 \| 203 comments
10.		Eastern European Movies (easterneuropeanmovies.com)
		388 points by danielam on June 24, 2020 \| 178 comments
11.		A Renaissance painting reveals how breeding changed watermelons (2015) (vox.com)
		130 points by lelf on June 24, 2020 \| 49 comments
12.		Street-Fighting Mathematics (mitpress.mit.edu)
		327 points by memexy on June 25, 2020 \| 72 comments
13.		The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM architecture (ieee.org)
		169 points by lproven on June 25, 2020 \| 229 comments
14.		Perceptions of musical octaves are learned, not wired in the brain (quantamagazine.org)
		140 points by gpvos on June 24, 2020 \| 111 comments
15.		Krita 4.3.0 (krita.org)
		370 points by dragonsh on June 25, 2020 \| 83 comments
16.		Julian Assange charged in superseding indictment (justice.gov)
		394 points by DyslexicAtheist on June 25, 2020 \| 398 comments
17.		You might as well be a great copy editor (regehr.org)
		144 points by dannas on June 24, 2020 \| 54 comments
18.		Logistic regression from scratch (philippmuens.com)
		156 points by pmuens on June 25, 2020 \| 61 comments
19.		How we test the TeamCity UI (jetbrains.com)
		120 points by el_duderino on June 25, 2020 \| 55 comments
20.		Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even when it’s offensive (latimes.com)
		394 points by undefined1 on June 24, 2020 \| 564 comments
21.		The largest city in each 10x10 degree latitude/longitude box (plover.com)
		211 points by fanf2 on June 25, 2020 \| 158 comments
22.		Query-Based Compiler Architectures (ollef.github.io)
		117 points by matt_d on June 25, 2020 \| 33 comments
23.		The Eviction Tracking System: Monitor the number of U.S. eviction cases (evictionlab.org)
		119 points by hhs on June 24, 2020 \| 80 comments
24.		Linux to begin tightening up ability to write to CPU MSRs from user-space (phoronix.com)
		125 points by rbanffy on June 25, 2020 \| 32 comments
25.		Michael Hawley of MIT's Media Lab has died (nytimes.com)
		133 points by bransonf on June 25, 2020 \| 37 comments
26.		We use too many damn modals (2018) (modalzmodalzmodalz.com)
		252 points by juancampa on June 25, 2020 \| 120 comments
27.		Wirecard files for insolvency after financial hole laid bare (dw.com)
		210 points by tchalla on June 25, 2020 \| 159 comments
28.		How to write PureScript react components to replace JavaScript (thomashoneyman.com)
		99 points by JacksonGariety on June 25, 2020 \| 72 comments
29.		Faster Integer Parsing (kholdstare.github.io)
		168 points by fanf2 on June 25, 2020 \| 42 comments
30.		Show HN: Relay – Event-driven DevOps automation (relay.sh)
		100 points by product1087 on June 25, 2020 \| 32 comments
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