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1.		Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at China's Request (npr.org)
		1069 points by dehrmann on June 13, 2020 \| 371 comments
2.		SQLite as an Application File Format (2014) (sqlite.org)
		567 points by afiori on June 13, 2020 \| 301 comments
3.		Flow browser passes the Acid tests (ekioh.com)
		525 points by methyl on June 13, 2020 \| 321 comments
4.		Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) (virginia.edu)
		194 points by _zhqs on June 12, 2020 \| 87 comments
5.		SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System (sagemath.org)
		380 points by gnramires on June 13, 2020 \| 74 comments
6.		Music Grid (music-grid.surge.sh)
		379 points by SeventhEpoch on June 13, 2020 \| 226 comments
7.		ULX3S: Hackable FPGA that runs Linux on RISC-V (ulx3s.github.io)
		205 points by herogreen on June 13, 2020 \| 79 comments
8.		Facebook News is filled with stories too mainstream to do well on the rest of FB (niemanlab.org)
		174 points by elsewhen on June 13, 2020 \| 131 comments
9.		Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly (github.com/xiph)
		203 points by mindfreeze on June 13, 2020 \| 123 comments
10.		Design electronics like it is 70s at CERN (photos.google.com)
		315 points by rbanffy on June 12, 2020 \| 79 comments
11.		Facebook establishing a venture arm to invest in startups (axios.com)
		198 points by doener on June 12, 2020 \| 155 comments
12.		Forecast, don't guesstimate your software projects (reaktor.com)
		217 points by casseys on June 12, 2020 \| 131 comments
13.		The Early History of F# [pdf] (acm.org)
		138 points by strangecasts on June 13, 2020 \| 77 comments
14.		The American Press Is Destroying Itself (taibbi.substack.com)
		489 points by cjbest on June 13, 2020 \| 566 comments
15.		Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe Systems Programming (thenewstack.io)
		523 points by adamnemecek on June 13, 2020 \| 440 comments
16.		“Huh” exists in all human languages, according to research (2019) (thelanguagenerds.com)
		238 points by ColinWright on June 13, 2020 \| 169 comments
17.		Show HN: Code Notes – A Gatsby theme for publishing code-related notes (zander.wtf)
		151 points by mrmartineau on June 13, 2020 \| 31 comments
18.		Math-as-Code (2015) (github.com/jam3)
		161 points by yinso on June 13, 2020 \| 128 comments
19.		How x86_64 Addresses Memory (yossarian.net)
		159 points by chmaynard on June 13, 2020 \| 72 comments
20.		HSBC moves from 65 relational databases into one global MongoDB database (diginomica.com)
		251 points by truth_seeker on June 13, 2020 \| 274 comments
21.		Lamphone: Real-Time Passive Sound Recovery from Light Bulb Vibrations (nassiben.com)
		125 points by sohkamyung on June 12, 2020 \| 30 comments
22.		Fountain pen ink properties (crlf.site)
		153 points by polm23 on June 12, 2020 \| 119 comments
23.		Ask HN: Is there any work being done in speech-to-code with deep learning?
		172 points by raidicy on June 12, 2020 \| 61 comments
24.		Bicycle Geometry Terms (99spokes.com)
		174 points by thanhhaimai on June 13, 2020 \| 74 comments
25.		Apple is building an operating system for health (divinations.substack.com)
		198 points by nbashaw on June 13, 2020 \| 175 comments
26.		The Sickness in Our Food Supply (nybooks.com)
		132 points by Thevet on June 12, 2020 \| 60 comments
27.		The blissfully escapist comic novels of PG Wodehouse (bbc.com)
		112 points by unquote on June 12, 2020 \| 57 comments
28.		Hermes – package manager and deployment tool for Linux (acha.ninja)
		123 points by ingve on June 12, 2020 \| 38 comments
29.		Weird Keyboards, Programmable Keyboards (gboards.ca)
		138 points by ecliptik on June 13, 2020 \| 107 comments
30.		Ansible Alternatives in Python (rfox.eu)
		146 points by alexeiz on June 13, 2020 \| 89 comments
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