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1.		How to Make Almost Anything (cba.mit.edu)
		477 points by skbohra123 on June 13, 2015 \| 35 comments
2.		Why did Borland fail? (quora.com)
		381 points by networked on June 13, 2015 \| 261 comments
3.		Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (gnu.org)
		298 points by codelizard42 on June 13, 2015 \| 312 comments
4.		Why Go is doomed to succeed (texlution.com)
		291 points by dawkins on June 13, 2015 \| 313 comments
5.		HUSL – A human-friendly alternative to HSL (husl-colors.org)
		111 points by ScottWRobinson on June 13, 2015 \| 28 comments
6.		Software engineering blogs (github.com/kilimchoi)
		192 points by kilimchoi on June 13, 2015 \| 33 comments
7.		Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks (facebook.com)
		148 points by dweekly on June 13, 2015 \| 124 comments
8.		Why the US federal employee record breach is worse than others (caseysoftware.com)
		161 points by caseysoftware on June 13, 2015 \| 95 comments
9.		A brief introduction to OCaml (lexicallyscoped.com)
		136 points by fredyr on June 13, 2015 \| 36 comments
10.		Amazon Allowance (amazon.com)
		126 points by louhong on June 13, 2015 \| 71 comments
11.		Introduction to WebKit Content Blockers (webkit.org)
		110 points by glasshead969 on June 13, 2015 \| 46 comments
12.		A YouTube built for gamers (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		192 points by cleverjake on June 13, 2015 \| 125 comments
13.		68 Katy – 68000 Linux on a Solderless Breadboard (bigmessowires.com)
		125 points by peter_d_sherman on June 13, 2015 \| 29 comments
14.		Paxos Explained from Scratch [pdf] (uis.no)
		77 points by mzehrer on June 13, 2015 \| 3 comments
15.		Announcing “Exploring ES6” (2ality.com)
		136 points by EugeneOZ on June 13, 2015 \| 12 comments
16.		Hack4Detroit's indemnification clause (backupfreak.com)
		139 points by nanch on June 13, 2015 \| 43 comments
17.		Show HN: Tota11y – visualize and diagnose the accessibility issues on the web (khan.github.io)
		72 points by jordanscales on June 13, 2015 \| 10 comments
18.		The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment (newyorker.com)
		72 points by danso on June 13, 2015 \| 28 comments
19.		An Inside Look at Facebook’s Approach to Automation and Human Work (hbr.org)
		93 points by riqbal on June 13, 2015 \| 32 comments
20.		A Clojure library that implements the Logo programming language (github.com/google)
		50 points by aps-sids on June 13, 2015 \| 12 comments
21.		Tipu Sultan’s dream book (britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk)
		50 points by lermontov on June 13, 2015 \| 2 comments
22.		The Difference Between Saying 'Thank You' in Chinese and English (theatlantic.com)
		122 points by ColinWright on June 13, 2015 \| 116 comments
23.		Introducing the San Francisco system font (developer.apple.com)
		98 points by davidbarker on June 12, 2015 \| 82 comments
24.		Solving Verbal Questions in IQ Test by Knowledge-Powered Word Embedding [pdf] (arxiv.org)
		80 points by ilyaeck on June 13, 2015 \| 21 comments
25.		Plans for Redis 3.2 (antirez.com)
		115 points by mostafah on June 12, 2015 \| 26 comments
26.		Large-scale, well-typed edits in Unison, and reimagining version control (unisonweb.org)
		44 points by dahjelle on June 12, 2015 \| 11 comments
27.		Ember.js 1.13.0 and 2.0 Beta Released (emberjs.com)
		122 points by makepanic on June 13, 2015 \| 35 comments
28.		30% of US Workforce Need License to Perform Their Job (brookings.edu)
		131 points by jvrossb on June 13, 2015 \| 143 comments
29.		Downsides of Being Clever (entrepreneur.com)
		88 points by walterbell on June 13, 2015 \| 78 comments
30.		Writers Choose Their Favorite Words (newyorker.com)
		19 points by benbreen on June 13, 2015
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