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1.		Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement (twitter.com/nicoagrant)
		1094 points by sneak on June 3, 2020 \| 458 comments
2.		SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Seattle Internet Exchange (peeringdb.com)
		715 points by walrus01 on June 3, 2020 \| 291 comments
3.		ACLU sues Minnesota for police violence against the press (aclu.org)
		758 points by soraminazuki on June 3, 2020 \| 247 comments
4.		Software Engineering Within SpaceX (yasoob.me)
		591 points by theanirudh on June 3, 2020 \| 313 comments
5.		Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms (npr.org)
		416 points by evo_9 on June 3, 2020 \| 575 comments
6.		A photo is crashing some Android phones (bbc.com)
		377 points by pseudolus on June 3, 2020 \| 226 comments
7.		Never-before-seen “black nitrogen” plugs puzzle in periodic table (newatlas.com)
		358 points by sahin on June 3, 2020 \| 121 comments
8.		How to write a toy JVM (zserge.com)
		335 points by oftenwrong on June 2, 2020 \| 86 comments
9.		Bell, Telus to use Nokia and Ericsson, not Huawei, in building their 5G networks (cbc.ca)
		330 points by CalmStorm on June 3, 2020 \| 191 comments
10.		OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera (github.com/johnboiles)
		395 points by mistersquid on June 3, 2020 \| 155 comments
11.		Show HN: Stock Performance of US Senators (govtrades.com)
		246 points by bingdig on June 3, 2020 \| 113 comments
12.		Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines (os2museum.com)
		274 points by abbeyj on June 2, 2020 \| 102 comments
13.		Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux (lenovo.com)
		379 points by tpush on June 3, 2020 \| 200 comments
14.		Declining worker power vs. rising monopoly power: explaining recent macro trends (voxeu.org)
		409 points by hhs on June 3, 2020 \| 454 comments
15.		A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling (sciencemag.org)
		325 points by onemoresoop on June 3, 2020 \| 360 comments
16.		Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone photos (scalzi.com)
		243 points by Tomte on June 2, 2020 \| 419 comments
17.		In Mathematics, It Often Takes a Good Map to Find Answers (quantamagazine.org)
		153 points by yarapavan on June 3, 2020 \| 23 comments
18.		Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO (reuters.com)
		319 points by amaajemyfren on June 3, 2020 \| 173 comments
19.		In Secretly Recorded Phone Calls, Officers Say Innocent People Were Framed (gothamist.com)
		598 points by danso on June 3, 2020 \| 293 comments
20.		Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC (github.com/cowbell)
		242 points by todsacerdoti on June 3, 2020 \| 73 comments
21.		Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data (bloomberg.com)
		383 points by spac on June 3, 2020 \| 189 comments
22.		Refactor vs. Rewrite (remesh.blog)
		198 points by ntietz on June 2, 2020 \| 118 comments
23.		Show HN: Squawk – Walkie Talkie for Teams (squawk.to)
		153 points by zumachase on June 3, 2020 \| 114 comments
24.		The Contagion of Concern: Game theory of how anxiety spreads (adamjuliangoldstein.com)
		137 points by goldfish on June 3, 2020 \| 13 comments
25.		The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk (wirfs-brock.com)
		202 points by matt_d on June 2, 2020 \| 137 comments
26.		Kerbal Space Program 2 release disrupted by corporate strife (bloomberg.com)
		312 points by tboerstad on June 3, 2020 \| 143 comments
27.		How much do we need the police? (npr.org)
		277 points by js2 on June 3, 2020 \| 464 comments
28.		Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies (wsj.com)
		214 points by undefined1 on June 3, 2020 \| 114 comments
29.		Weirdos in the depression (plover.com)
		389 points by johndcook on June 3, 2020 \| 308 comments
30.		Show HN: Basic.css – Classless CSS Starter File (github.com/vladocar)
		153 points by vladocar on June 3, 2020 \| 65 comments
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