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1.		The Elephant at WWDC (eclecticlight.co)
		470 points by ingve on June 13, 2021 \| 205 comments
2.		I Miss the Old Internet (2019) (sffworld.com)
		500 points by sanmak on June 13, 2021 \| 424 comments
3.		Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox (theverge.com)
		541 points by what_ever on June 11, 2021 \| 319 comments
4.		Git for Computer Scientists (2010) (eagain.net)
		259 points by thanato0s on June 13, 2021 \| 101 comments
5.		Taildrop was kind of easy (tailscale.com)
		338 points by tptacek on June 12, 2021 \| 123 comments
6.		How to handle secrets on the command line (smallstep.com)
		321 points by tempodox on June 13, 2021 \| 75 comments
7.		Doing something is better than doing nothing for most people: study (2014) (virginia.edu)
		267 points by looperhacks on June 13, 2021 \| 194 comments
8.		Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature (flounder.online)
		243 points by Melchizedek on June 13, 2021 \| 193 comments
9.		The Schindler of Japan, Chihune Sugihara (tokyoweekender.com)
		239 points by se4u on June 13, 2021 \| 68 comments
10.		House lawmakers release anti-monopoly agenda for “a stronger online economy” (house.gov)
		212 points by rbanffy on June 13, 2021 \| 212 comments
11.		MS Paint IDE (ms-paint-i.de)
		241 points by scoopertrooper on June 12, 2021 \| 103 comments
12.		The PinePhone could bring the Linux mobile ecosystem to life (vice.com)
		268 points by ollieparanoid on June 13, 2021 \| 219 comments
13.		The code on the laptop in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable (twitter.com/andrew_taylor)
		548 points by fanf2 on June 12, 2021 \| 70 comments
14.		Cuda.jl v3.3: union types, debug info, graph APIs (juliagpu.org)
		156 points by ViralBShah on June 13, 2021 \| 32 comments
15.		A US socialite who gave it all up to become a Carmelite nun (bbc.com)
		150 points by pepys on June 11, 2021 \| 135 comments
16.		Programmer's Resignation from 1985 (glitchwrks.com)
		286 points by systems_glitch on June 12, 2021 \| 119 comments
17.		Twitch: Lessons Learned (twitter.com/eshear)
		176 points by tosh on June 9, 2021 \| 67 comments
18.		Forget going back to the office – people are just quitting instead (wsj.com)
		332 points by sologoub on June 13, 2021 \| 404 comments
19.		Linux on Chromebooks just might get me through a masters in computer science (aboutchromebooks.com)
		179 points by every on June 13, 2021 \| 180 comments
20.		A few thoughts on Fuchsia security (cr0.org)
		176 points by steveklabnik on June 12, 2021 \| 125 comments
21.		Skribilo: A Document Programming Framework (nongnu.org)
		119 points by Tomte on June 13, 2021 \| 22 comments
22.		My first Z80 assembly language program (nanochess.org)
		116 points by elvis70 on June 12, 2021 \| 31 comments
23.		I want to learn D3. I don’t want to learn Observable. Is that ok? (observablehq.com)
		155 points by throwawaybutwhy on June 13, 2021 \| 84 comments
24.		Procedural Butterfly (andersource.dev)
		56 points by exolymph on June 12, 2021 \| 6 comments
25.		How nasty was Nero, really? (newyorker.com)
		79 points by diodorus on June 10, 2021 \| 52 comments
26.		Is Sony's 140MB MiniDisc Drive the Next Betamax? (1996) (archive.org)
		93 points by ecliptik on June 13, 2021 \| 125 comments
27.		Hilton's 1967 plan for a space hotel (cnn.com)
		96 points by ZeljkoS on June 12, 2021 \| 74 comments
28.		Reducing Python String Memory Use in Apache Arrow 0.12 (2019) (apache.org)
		91 points by polm23 on June 11, 2021 \| 14 comments
29.		Social media are turbocharging the export of America’s political culture (economist.com)
		183 points by systemvoltage on June 13, 2021 \| 234 comments
30.		Solana Labs completes a $314M private token sale led by Andreessen Horowitz (solana.com)
		151 points by nikita on June 13, 2021 \| 337 comments
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