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1. Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns (techcrunch.com)
744 points by pyprism on June 13, 2017 | 443 comments
2. How is GNU `yes` so fast? (reddit.com)
872 points by ruleabidinguser on June 13, 2017 | 334 comments
3. Chuck Thacker has died (acm.org)
558 points by mpweiher on June 13, 2017 | 34 comments
4. The most accurate map for August 21’s total solar eclipse (nasa.gov)
311 points by cyanbane on June 13, 2017 | 170 comments
5. NumPy receives first ever funding, thanks to Moore Foundation (numfocus.org)
548 points by happy-go-lucky on June 13, 2017 | 84 comments
6. Lessons I’ve Learned from Three Million App Downloads (jordansmith.io)
491 points by jordansmithnz on June 12, 2017 | 114 comments
7. Program FPGAs with Go (reconfigure.io)
215 points by cjdrake on June 13, 2017 | 76 comments
8. Pistol sights (yarchive.net)
372 points by luu on June 13, 2017 | 323 comments
9. Modifying Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 to run on three immersive monitors (tinmith.net)
259 points by ywain on June 13, 2017 | 70 comments
10. The future of education is plain text (simplystatistics.org)
368 points by simplystats2 on June 13, 2017 | 334 comments
11. The Liver: A ‘Blob’ That Runs the Body (nytimes.com)
240 points by tysone on June 13, 2017 | 102 comments
12. Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path (hacks.mozilla.org)
335 points by petercooper on June 13, 2017 | 167 comments
13. Basic Principles of Visual Design (prototypr.io)
200 points by RPeres on June 13, 2017 | 34 comments
14. Eye-witness stories from Chernobyl (ironedcurtains.com)
154 points by vkb on June 12, 2017 | 121 comments
15. The Dangerous Irrelevance of String Theory (columbia.edu)
188 points by seycombi on June 12, 2017 | 109 comments
16. Tails 3.0 Released (boum.org)
188 points by sr2 on June 13, 2017 | 73 comments
17. Why Threads are a Bad Idea (for most purposes) (1995) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
175 points by erwan on June 13, 2017 | 148 comments
18. Running 10M PostgreSQL Indexes in Production (heap.engineering)
263 points by luu on June 13, 2017 | 65 comments
19. Remembering the Murder You Didn't Commit (newyorker.com)
140 points by danso on June 12, 2017 | 40 comments
20. Paradoxes of Probability and Other Statistical Strangeness (quillette.com)
181 points by robocaptain on June 13, 2017 | 88 comments
21. Securing your API: a modern alternative to CSRF tokens (mixmax.com)
156 points by skeggse on June 13, 2017 | 56 comments
22. Voc: a physical model of the vocal tract, written in ANSI C (pbat.ch)
161 points by adamnemecek on June 12, 2017 | 46 comments
23. Z-order curve usage to decrease dimensionality to 1 (ssahinkoc.blogspot.com)
105 points by delidumrul on June 12, 2017 | 34 comments
24. What is the oldest living organism on the planet? (bbc.com)
156 points by miraj on June 13, 2017 | 67 comments
25. Facebook Trains ImageNet in 1 Hour (nvidia.com)
160 points by jonbaer on June 12, 2017 | 48 comments
26. Generating executable files from scratch (github.com/cameronswinoga)
114 points by mabynogy on June 13, 2017 | 8 comments
27. Grammar Puss: The fallacies of the language mavens (1994) (newrepublic.com)
51 points by Tomte on June 12, 2017 | 31 comments
28. The Holder Report on Uber (nytimes.com)
294 points by sunils34 on June 13, 2017 | 213 comments
29. Battles and Dynasties at Lincoln Castle (blogs.bl.uk)
23 points by pepys on June 12, 2017 | 1 comment
30. Apple Mac computers targeted by ransomware and spyware (bbc.co.uk)
164 points by 0xbadf00d on June 13, 2017 | 115 comments

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