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1. Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first (reuters.com)
836 points by rbanffy on June 26, 2020 | 605 comments
2. When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com (facebook.com)
1039 points by shiftpgdn on June 25, 2020 | 425 comments
3. The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers (chrishacken.com)
553 points by joecool1029 on June 26, 2020 | 236 comments
4. Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks (theconversation.com)
815 points by znpy on June 26, 2020 | 532 comments
5. Boston bans use of facial recognition technology (wbur.org)
543 points by psychanarch on June 26, 2020 | 158 comments
6. Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections (facebook.com)
375 points by DarkContinent on June 26, 2020 | 644 comments
7. Quora goes permanently remote-first (twitter.com/adamdangelo)
488 points by swyx on June 25, 2020 | 256 comments
8. Dynamic linking (drewdevault.com)
408 points by scrollaway on June 26, 2020 | 244 comments
9. Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores (theverge.com)
489 points by snake117 on June 26, 2020 | 277 comments
10. Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters (buzzfeednews.com)
369 points by psychanarch on June 26, 2020 | 271 comments
11. Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest (nautil.us)
454 points by dnetesn on June 25, 2020 | 96 comments
12. Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify (stevebenjamins.com)
384 points by imartin2k on June 26, 2020 | 274 comments
13. Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox (axios.com)
334 points by mettler on June 26, 2020 | 186 comments
14. Curl Wttr.in (github.com/chubin)
461 points by old-gregg on June 25, 2020 | 122 comments
15. Show HN: HiFiC – High-Fidelity Generative Image Compression – demo and paper (hific.github.io)
281 points by atorodius on June 26, 2020 | 89 comments
16. Turn recipe websites into plain text (plainoldrecipe.com)
329 points by vincent_s on June 26, 2020 | 152 comments
17. The value of Tor and anonymous contributions to Wikipedia (torproject.org)
201 points by blendergeek on June 26, 2020 | 85 comments
18. Xbox Architecture (copetti.org)
226 points by timeoperator on June 26, 2020 | 73 comments
19. What I learned from writing for The Onion for a month (2015) (wordsbyevanporter.com)
224 points by bryanrasmussen on June 26, 2020 | 114 comments
20. A New Standard Deal (blog.ycombinator.com)
168 points by todsacerdoti on June 26, 2020 | 94 comments
21. There is now a European standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff (ifixit.com)
492 points by kackbein on June 26, 2020 | 195 comments
22. Extraordinary ‘megaflash’ lightning strikes cover several hundred kilometres (un.org)
115 points by DyslexicAtheist on June 26, 2020 | 73 comments
23. 'Black neutron star' discovery changes astronomy (bbc.com)
136 points by wglb on June 25, 2020 | 70 comments
24. PHP Insights: Analyze the code quality of PHP projects (phpinsights.com)
150 points by MindGods on June 26, 2020 | 41 comments
25. Building AI Trading Systems (dennybritz.com)
215 points by dennybritz on June 26, 2020 | 103 comments
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to PlantUML (crashedmind.github.io)
150 points by bambambazooka on June 26, 2020 | 31 comments
27. Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler (dropbox.tech)
141 points by nicksundin on June 26, 2020 | 68 comments
28. Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers (aiprobook.com)
225 points by dragandj on June 26, 2020 | 75 comments
29. Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 'to prevent confusion' (zdnet.com)
234 points by fraqed on June 26, 2020 | 325 comments
30. What is a photon? (2017) (sigfpe.com)
92 points by memexy on June 25, 2020 | 66 comments

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