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1.		Tesla Makes Offer to Acquire SolarCity (teslamotors.com)
		708 points by runesoerensen on June 21, 2016 \| 389 comments
2.		Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat (npr.org)
		667 points by nradov on June 21, 2016 \| 452 comments
3.		“PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as customers’ files” (seafile.de)
		1030 points by zolder on June 21, 2016 \| 340 comments
4.		Tech Companies Fight Back After Years of Being Deluged with Secret FBI Requests (theintercept.com)
		263 points by uptown on June 21, 2016 \| 73 comments
5.		A Third of Valve Is Now Working on VR (uploadvr.com)
		296 points by jn1234 on June 21, 2016 \| 197 comments
6.		Apple launches coding camps for kids in its retail stores (techcrunch.com)
		250 points by pavornyoh on June 21, 2016 \| 171 comments
7.		Ethereum is Doomed (nakamotoinstitute.org)
		299 points by kushti on June 20, 2016 \| 209 comments
8.		Image Hosting on Reddit (reddit.com)
		191 points by mg on June 21, 2016 \| 158 comments
9.		Netflix Billing Migration to AWS (netflix.com)
		219 points by hepha1979 on June 21, 2016 \| 119 comments
10.		Chasing the DAO Attacker’s Wake – A second exploit (pdaian.com)
		194 points by freedaemon on June 21, 2016 \| 171 comments
11.		Show HN: Writing my first interpreter in C for fun (github.com/incrediblesound)
		109 points by jhedwards on June 21, 2016 \| 52 comments
12.		A tale of two cryptocurrencies: Ethereum and Bitcoin’s ongoing challenges (tonyarcieri.com)
		144 points by bascule on June 21, 2016 \| 73 comments
13.		Table-oriented programming (2002) (oocities.org)
		122 points by open-source-ux on June 21, 2016 \| 64 comments
14.		Web Service Efficiency at Instagram with Python (engineering.instagram.com)
		195 points by ksashikumar on June 21, 2016 \| 51 comments
15.		Los Angeles is suing a landlord for evicting tenants to rent units on Airbnb (qz.com)
		109 points by lxm on June 21, 2016 \| 91 comments
16.		Visualising the .NET Garbage Collector (mattwarren.org)
		148 points by matthewwarren on June 20, 2016 \| 24 comments
17.		Iris: Fast back-end web framework for Go (iris-go.com)
		179 points by chenzhekl on June 21, 2016 \| 120 comments
18.		An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms (sebastianruder.com)
		168 points by tim_sw on June 21, 2016 \| 21 comments
19.		One Year as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow (varianceexplained.org)
		189 points by var_explained on June 20, 2016 \| 44 comments
20.		Elixir v1.3 released (elixir-lang.org)
		451 points by andruby on June 21, 2016 \| 121 comments
21.		Why Do Islands Induce Dwarfism? (sapiens.org)
		98 points by mhb on June 21, 2016 \| 50 comments
22.		CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography Doesn't Exist (schneier.com)
		268 points by CapitalistCartr on June 21, 2016 \| 98 comments
23.		A Perl toolchain for building micro-services at scale (semantics3.com)
		142 points by ramanan on June 21, 2016 \| 52 comments
24.		An interactive way of blogging about JavaScript (klipse.tech)
		137 points by viebel on June 21, 2016 \| 33 comments
25.		Causal feedbacks in climate change (nature.com)
		64 points by gtt on June 21, 2016 \| 39 comments
26.		How to Pick Your Battles on a Software Team (atomicobject.com)
		190 points by philk10 on June 21, 2016 \| 136 comments
27.		Robotic Motion Planning in Real-Time (duke.edu)
		71 points by cbames89 on June 20, 2016 \| 12 comments
28.		“Guccifer2”'s second release from DNC hack (guccifer2.wordpress.com)
		122 points by chvid on June 21, 2016 \| 92 comments
29.		End of the road for MacNN: 21 years of changes for Apple, and for us (macnn.com)
		74 points by aaronbrethorst on June 21, 2016 \| 28 comments
30.		Google's geographer-in-chief (fastcompany.com)
		54 points by pastalex on June 20, 2016 \| 7 comments
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