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1. Support for right-to-repair laws slowly grows (arstechnica.com)
707 points by headalgorithm on June 20, 2019 | 240 comments
2. Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation (npr.org)
651 points by lgats on June 20, 2019 | 782 comments
3. Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby (sorbet.org)
617 points by abhorrence on June 20, 2019 | 268 comments
4. Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar (pock.dev)
584 points by dustinfarris on June 20, 2019 | 212 comments
5. Forget monoliths vs. microservices: cognitive load is what matters (techbeacon.com)
430 points by fancyfish on June 20, 2019 | 91 comments
6. Google Maps is filled with false business addresses pretending to be nearby (wsj.com)
358 points by JumpCrisscross on June 20, 2019 | 246 comments
7. Ask HN: What are the signs that you have a great manager?
585 points by rahulskn86 on June 20, 2019 | 214 comments
8. Firefox zero-day was used in attack against Coinbase employees, not its users (zdnet.com)
261 points by ga-vu on June 20, 2019 | 95 comments
9. Sony launches a taxi-hailing app in Tokyo (techcrunch.com)
197 points by imjennifer on June 20, 2019 | 101 comments
10. Smoltcp: A small TCP/IP stack in Rust (github.com/m-labs)
260 points by adamnemecek on June 20, 2019 | 113 comments
11. Civic honesty around the globe (science.sciencemag.org)
209 points by ojosilva on June 20, 2019 | 395 comments
12. The Chalk Market: Where Mathematicians Go to Get the Good Stuf (alumni.berkeley.edu)
211 points by mxcrossb on June 20, 2019 | 118 comments
13. Song of the Rarest Large Whale on Earth Recorded for the First Time (gizmodo.com)
124 points by autokill on June 20, 2019 | 37 comments
14. Things We Lost in the Flood: A Massively Multiplayer Loneliness Simulator (nwn.blogs.com)
202 points by Kroeler on June 19, 2019 | 46 comments
15. Can We Catch the Next ‘Oumuamua? (centauri-dreams.org)
113 points by elorant on June 20, 2019 | 55 comments
16. Show HN: A star map creation tool with Common Lisp (thestarmaps.com)
138 points by juanre on June 20, 2019 | 63 comments
17. Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May (monzo.com)
284 points by robinson-wall on June 20, 2019 | 94 comments
18. Continuous Partial Attention (wikipedia.org)
109 points by laurentdc on June 17, 2019 | 20 comments
19. How to Do Distributed Locking (2016) (kleppmann.com)
120 points by appwiz on June 19, 2019 | 13 comments
20. Why Google+ Failed (onezero.medium.com)
308 points by D_Guidi on June 20, 2019 | 364 comments
21. Canada becomes first G20 country to ban trade in shark fins (japantimes.co.jp)
218 points by Ultramanoid on June 20, 2019 | 36 comments
22. Getting 2FA Right in 2019 (trailofbits.com)
260 points by dguido on June 20, 2019 | 217 comments
23. Slack Is Going Public Without an IPO – How a Direct Listing Works (fortune.com)
175 points by srameshc on June 20, 2019 | 83 comments
24. XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding (arxiv.org)
79 points by asparagui on June 20, 2019 | 15 comments
25. In Japan, It’s a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home on Time? (nytimes.com)
173 points by pseudolus on June 18, 2019 | 179 comments
26. Gryphon: An open-source framework for algorithmic trading in cryptocurrency (gryphonframework.org)
236 points by reso on June 20, 2019 | 56 comments
27. ECMO pumps blood out of the body, oxygenates it and returns it to the body (khn.org)
137 points by howard941 on June 19, 2019 | 107 comments
28. Hit by Ransomware Attack, Florida City Agrees to Pay Hackers $600k (nytimes.com)
144 points by waynesoftware on June 19, 2019 | 115 comments
29. Vue RFC: Expose logic-related component options via function-based APIs instead (github.com/vuejs)
222 points by no1youknowz on June 20, 2019 | 246 comments
30. Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter (npr.org)
205 points by pseudolus on June 20, 2019 | 81 comments

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