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1. Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation (computerhistory.org)
342 points by beefhash on June 20, 2020 | 133 comments
2. A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Older Raspberry Pi (phoronix.com)
385 points by reddotX on June 20, 2020 | 104 comments
3. Why Figma Wins (kwokchain.com)
385 points by adriand on June 20, 2020 | 181 comments
4. RSS Box – RSS for websites that do not support RSS (rssbox.herokuapp.com)
353 points by mrzool on June 20, 2020 | 104 comments
5. NimConf 2020 Videos (nim-lang.org)
212 points by dom96 on June 20, 2020 | 73 comments
6. NYC passes POST Act, requiring police department to reveal surveillance tech (venturebeat.com)
324 points by colawars on June 20, 2020 | 91 comments
7. Strike a Solder Joint Behind Enemy Lines (hackaday.com)
216 points by fogus on June 19, 2020 | 41 comments
8. 11 Foot 8 – The Can-opener Bridge (11foot8.com)
181 points by IMAYousaf on June 20, 2020 | 202 comments
9. Representing Graphs by Knuth Trees (1974) [pdf] (virginia.edu)
100 points by bryanrasmussen on June 20, 2020 | 13 comments
10. An Intro to Compilers (2017) (nicoleorchard.com)
245 points by memexy on June 20, 2020 | 36 comments
11. Do the Real Thing (scotthyoung.com)
272 points by reedwolf on June 20, 2020 | 112 comments
12. Building an online community around learning from incidents (2019) (learningfromincidents.io)
90 points by vinnyglennon on June 20, 2020 | 5 comments
13. Ask HN: Google won't remove my site URL from random business using it on Maps
297 points by federicoponzi on June 20, 2020 | 135 comments
14. Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple ditching Intel (tedium.co)
261 points by kristianp on June 19, 2020 | 345 comments
15. Rediscovering the beauty of text on the internet (cheapskatesguide.org)
130 points by ColinWright on June 19, 2020 | 55 comments
16. A Technology Preview of Nginx Support for QUIC and HTTP/3 (nginx.com)
197 points by signa11 on June 20, 2020 | 104 comments
17. Solar storm risk and EMP attacks (chris-said.io)
144 points by csaid81 on June 20, 2020 | 67 comments
18. Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 (lwn.net)
217 points by chmaynard on June 19, 2020 | 146 comments
19. Ghoti (wikipedia.org)
317 points by marvindanig on June 20, 2020 | 239 comments
20. Let them paste passwords (2017) (ncsc.gov.uk)
186 points by notRobot on June 19, 2020 | 126 comments
21. Mac OS X Leopard and Xcode on iPad Pro (twitter.com/jankais3r)
172 points by tosh on June 19, 2020 | 52 comments
22. Billionaire, Board Game God and Tech's Hidden Disruptor (2019) (forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad)
105 points by fogus on June 19, 2020 | 49 comments
23. Open-source, DRM-free Kindle alternative (vice.com)
186 points by depressedCorgi on June 20, 2020 | 105 comments
24. From Head to Toe in the Ancient Maya World (archaeology.org)
40 points by diodorus on June 19, 2020 | 1 comment
25. ForgeFed: A federation protocol for interop between version control services (peers.community)
51 points by p4bl0 on June 19, 2020 | 6 comments
26. TiDB 4.0 GA Release (pingcap.com)
76 points by ceohockey60 on June 20, 2020 | 18 comments
27. DeCSS Haiku (wikipedia.org)
85 points by kick on June 18, 2020 | 8 comments
28. Nextdoor ends its program for forwarding suspicions to police (bloomberg.com)
177 points by pseudolus on June 20, 2020 | 121 comments
29. Osint Amateur Hour (secjuice.com)
77 points by duck on June 19, 2020 | 24 comments
30. The Power of Crossed Brain Wires: Synesthesia makes ordinary life marvelous (nautil.us)
49 points by dnetesn on June 19, 2020 | 33 comments

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