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1.		Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing (zettlr.com)
		675 points by DerWOK on July 3, 2020 \| 261 comments
2.		Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight (mapbox.com)
		518 points by liotier on July 3, 2020 \| 163 comments
3.		2+1=4, by quinoa (efavdb.com)
		366 points by efavdb on July 3, 2020 \| 168 comments
4.		EU safety agency suspends Pakistani airlines' European authorisation (reuters.com)
		285 points by 8bitsrule on July 3, 2020 \| 162 comments
5.		The Silence Is Deafening (devonzuegel.com)
		438 points by pagade on July 3, 2020 \| 225 comments
6.		Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs (github.com/alfiopuglisi)
		343 points by todsacerdoti on July 3, 2020 \| 163 comments
7.		Tell HN: Airbnb now opts in your name and photo to data sharing
		391 points by zschuessler on July 3, 2020 \| 113 comments
8.		Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers (eff.org)
		337 points by samizdis on July 1, 2020 \| 223 comments
9.		Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScript Files? (twitter.com/immunda)
		394 points by ziodave on July 3, 2020 \| 111 comments
10.		Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in a new gigapixel image (openculture.com)
		258 points by omarchowdhury on July 3, 2020 \| 56 comments
11.		Anti-algorithmic music: How Bandcamp is helping artists beat the odds (residentadvisor.net)
		289 points by vemv on July 2, 2020 \| 104 comments
12.		Ask HN: Recommend a maths book for a teenager?
		297 points by andyjohnson0 on July 2, 2020 \| 187 comments
13.		Impressive backyard engineering on an obscure YouTube channel (thedrive.com)
		242 points by samizdis on July 2, 2020 \| 61 comments
14.		TaBERT: A new model for understanding queries over tabular data (facebook.com)
		153 points by speculator on July 3, 2020 \| 25 comments
15.		Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the psychology of authoritarianism (warontherocks.com)
		86 points by hoffmannesque on July 3, 2020 \| 15 comments
16.		The Walkman, Forty Years On (newyorker.com)
		153 points by kwindla on July 3, 2020 \| 126 comments
17.		Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1997) [pdf] (ams.org)
		226 points by srimukh on July 3, 2020 \| 52 comments
18.		GPT-3 Creative Fiction (gwern.net)
		234 points by ashin on July 3, 2020 \| 97 comments
19.		Queues are Databases (1995) (arxiv.org)
		96 points by anthony_barker on July 3, 2020 \| 30 comments
20.		On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final stage of grief (2019) (ryxcommar.com)
		175 points by yoloswagins on July 2, 2020 \| 103 comments
21.		Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks (poloclub.github.io)
		191 points by advanderveer on July 2, 2020 \| 21 comments
22.		QuickBasic64: Basic for the Modern Era (qb64.org)
		176 points by daitangio on July 3, 2020 \| 47 comments
23.		Colleges are reopening in fall, but many professors won’t be present (nytimes.com)
		124 points by pseudolus on July 3, 2020 \| 141 comments
24.		AsciiDoc Language Submitted to Eclipse Foundation (eclipse.org)
		105 points by sandGorgon on July 2, 2020 \| 49 comments
25.		A 1950s proposal to nuke Alaska (2015) (atlasobscura.com)
		139 points by yoloswagins on July 3, 2020 \| 144 comments
26.		Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking (vox.com)
		68 points by elorant on July 2, 2020 \| 13 comments
27.		A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		88 points by froasty on July 3, 2020 \| 14 comments
28.		Show HN: Ward – Minimalistic Server Dashboard (github.com/b-software)
		96 points by Pabyzu on July 2, 2020 \| 24 comments
29.		A Roundtable on Covid-19 and the Attention Economy (lareviewofbooks.org)
		34 points by apollinaire on July 1, 2020 \| 5 comments
30.		Show HN: The Book of Minecraft Modding (thebookofmodding.ml)
		150 points by tcode2k16 on July 3, 2020 \| 19 comments
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