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1.		Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home (returntonow.net)
		850 points by rmason on June 21, 2019 \| 221 comments
2.		Information is like snacks, money, and drugs to the brain (haas.berkeley.edu)
		478 points by EndXA on June 21, 2019 \| 125 comments
3.		SSH gets protection against side-channel attacks (undeadly.org)
		430 points by throw0101a on June 21, 2019 \| 158 comments
4.		Why brilliant people lose their touch (timharford.com)
		432 points by hhs on June 21, 2019 \| 193 comments
5.		YInMn Blue (wikipedia.org)
		212 points by zeristor on June 21, 2019 \| 97 comments
6.		“Banclist.com is probably the most lucrative direct messaging platform” (twitter.com/patio11)
		210 points by evilsimon on June 21, 2019 \| 70 comments
7.		We tried to publish a replication of a Science paper in Science (slate.com)
		290 points by hhs on June 21, 2019 \| 156 comments
8.		Thirty-three Miniatures: Applications of Linear Algebra (2012) [pdf] (cuni.cz)
		346 points by matt_d on June 21, 2019 \| 13 comments
9.		STM32 Open Source Multimeter (embedblog.eu)
		264 points by lelf on June 21, 2019 \| 57 comments
10.		India has the highest data usage per smartphone (thehindu.com)
		282 points by zadd on June 20, 2019 \| 249 comments
11.		Is Firefox better than Chrome? It comes down to privacy (washingtonpost.com)
		421 points by donohoe on June 21, 2019 \| 213 comments
12.		The age of electric flight is finally upon us (bbc.com)
		192 points by rbanffy on June 21, 2019 \| 265 comments
13.		Which has more sales: a single long checkout form or a multi-step one? (capitalandgrowth.org)
		336 points by jkuria on June 21, 2019 \| 147 comments
14.		A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore (webkit.org)
		211 points by stablemap on June 21, 2019 \| 89 comments
15.		Another Book on Data Science – Learn R and Python in Parallel (anotherbookondatascience.com)
		214 points by zelda_1 on June 21, 2019 \| 93 comments
16.		Walmart Pleads Guilty After a Decade of Bribes (nytimes.com)
		289 points by rrego on June 20, 2019 \| 206 comments
17.		Writing HTML in HTML (ankarstrom.se)
		213 points by john-aj on June 20, 2019 \| 164 comments
18.		ICFP Programming Contest 2019 (icfpcontest2019.github.io)
		99 points by Jtsummers on June 21, 2019 \| 18 comments
19.		New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines: Homo luzonensis (nationalgeographic.com)
		152 points by curtis on June 21, 2019 \| 84 comments
20.		C, Fortran, and single-character strings (lwn.net)
		102 points by ingve on June 21, 2019 \| 40 comments
21.		Old systems can't cope with congested skies, vested interests block reform (economist.com)
		76 points by blue_devil on June 21, 2019 \| 21 comments
22.		The boring genius of how Atrium kills legal busy work (techcrunch.com)
		108 points by walterbell on June 21, 2019 \| 33 comments
23.		Solving the heat equation: Differential equations, chapter 3 [video] (youtube.com)
		144 points by espeed on June 21, 2019 \| 13 comments
24.		RISC-V formal spec public review (github.com/riscv)
		116 points by edwintorok on June 20, 2019 \| 34 comments
25.		Who does that for anyone? The films of Jean-Pierre Melville (lrb.co.uk)
		51 points by swibbler on June 21, 2019 \| 10 comments
26.		Gmail confidential mode is not secure or private (protonmail.com)
		356 points by rahuldottech on June 21, 2019 \| 218 comments
27.		To Build a Better Teapot, Researchers Create Liquid Helix (physicscentral.com)
		68 points by boulos on June 21, 2019 \| 3 comments
28.		'Living drug' offers hope to terminal blood cancer patients (bbc.co.uk)
		91 points by lifeisstillgood on June 21, 2019 \| 38 comments
29.		Show HN: I wrote a maze traversal program in Clojure (github.com/netb258)
		91 points by netb258 on June 21, 2019 \| 27 comments
30.		The Tragedy of the Common Lisp: Why Large Languages Explode (medium.com/erights)
		113 points by mpweiher on June 20, 2019 \| 120 comments
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