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1.		The Sci-Hub Effect: Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations (arxiv.org)
		754 points by lnyan on July 2, 2020 \| 92 comments
2.		Abstract Wikipedia (wikimedia.org)
		798 points by infodocket on July 2, 2020 \| 227 comments
3.		LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke (twitter.com/doncubed)
		928 points by dondonleroy on July 2, 2020 \| 360 comments
4.		DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers (github.com/duckduckgo)
		824 points by commotionfever on July 1, 2020 \| 488 comments
5.		Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive (spacejam.com)
		707 points by olingern on July 2, 2020 \| 266 comments
6.		A researcher on how to live a happy life (ox.ac.uk)
		365 points by neoplatonian on July 1, 2020 \| 199 comments
7.		Boeing quietly pulls plug on the 747, closing era of jumbo jets (bloomberg.com)
		302 points by burnaboy on July 2, 2020 \| 210 comments
8.		Json-Base – Database built as JSON files (github.com/devs-garden)
		144 points by davidbarker on July 2, 2020 \| 177 comments
9.		Estonian Electronic Identity Card: Security Flaws in Key Management (usenix.org)
		222 points by dcbadacd on July 2, 2020 \| 80 comments
10.		LFortran: Modern interactive LLVM-based Fortran compiler (lfortran.org)
		151 points by kergonath on July 2, 2020 \| 68 comments
11.		Crooked to the Millimetre (ethz.ch)
		228 points by montalbano on July 2, 2020 \| 37 comments
12.		What is the core of the Python programming language? (snarky.ca)
		232 points by BerislavLopac on July 1, 2020 \| 128 comments
13.		The BEAM Book (2017) (stenmans.org)
		232 points by hazbo on July 2, 2020 \| 22 comments
14.		Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked (bbc.com)
		334 points by bogle on July 2, 2020 \| 365 comments
15.		Algolia introduces pay-as-you-go pricing for search (blog.algolia.com)
		155 points by jlemoine on July 2, 2020 \| 98 comments
16.		RCE on Telia Routers (full-disclosure.eu)
		199 points by theshrike79 on July 2, 2020 \| 49 comments
17.		RedHat Mandrel Makes Java Native (infoq.com)
		176 points by shortlived on July 2, 2020 \| 139 comments
18.		HotSpot compiler: Stack allocation prototype for C2 (java.net)
		137 points by The_rationalist on July 2, 2020 \| 45 comments
19.		Urban Gilgamesh: What the earliest epic tells us about living in an ancient city (laphamsquarterly.org)
		137 points by Vigier on July 2, 2020 \| 65 comments
20.		GShard: Scaling giant models with conditional computation and automatic sharding (arxiv.org)
		112 points by MrUssek on July 2, 2020 \| 35 comments
21.		The caretakers of Sealand, the most stubborn micronation (atlasobscura.com)
		155 points by stevekemp on July 1, 2020 \| 58 comments
22.		Hazard pay in focus as essential workers earn less than the jobless (npr.org)
		296 points by coronadisaster on July 1, 2020 \| 339 comments
23.		New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears (wired.com)
		134 points by fortran77 on July 2, 2020 \| 60 comments
24.		Web Dark Ages (pavellaptev.github.io)
		230 points by jslakro on July 1, 2020 \| 147 comments
25.		Synthetic Data for Deep Learning (2019) (arxiv.org)
		95 points by arseny-n on July 2, 2020 \| 48 comments
26.		Robin Williams, an acid trip, and moral panic: “Blame Canada” at the Oscars (theringer.com)
		200 points by AndrewBissell on July 2, 2020 \| 118 comments
27.		The Reformer – Pushing the limits of language modeling (colab.research.google.com)
		62 points by datashrimp on July 2, 2020 \| 13 comments
28.		Fixing critical vulnerabilities in Apache's remote desktop (checkpoint.com)
		75 points by miles on July 2, 2020 \| 8 comments
29.		OpenNMT: Open-Source Neural Machine Translation with Torch Mathematical Toolkit (github.com/opennmt)
		59 points by dragonsh on July 1, 2020 \| 9 comments
30.		A man who saved a generation of premature babies (2016) (bbc.co.uk)
		91 points by EndXA on July 1, 2020 \| 16 comments
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