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1981.

China charges two detained Canadians with espionage (reuters.com)

55 points by jbegley on Jun 19, 2020 | 6 comments

1982.

Plotting (mitxela.com)

55 points by threeme3 on Jun 6, 2020 | 5 comments

1983.

Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned (boredpanda.com)

55 points by SimplyUseless on Jun 27, 2020 | 5 comments

1984.

How Epidemics End (bostonreview.net)

55 points by lilrhody on Jun 30, 2020 | 4 comments

1985.

Probing a Cloud of the Fifth State of Matter (Bose-Einstein Condensate) on ISS (sciencealert.com)

55 points by vishesh92 on Jun 11, 2020 | 2 comments

1986.

Fidelity chief warns of global corporate solvency crisis (ft.com)

54 points by samizdis on Jun 7, 2020 | 70 comments

1987.

Agonising surgery paved the way for anaesthetics (bbc.com)

54 points by Tomte on Jun 29, 2020 | 61 comments

1988.

Anti-Ghosting (landing.coolermaster.com)

54 points by arkj on Jun 2, 2020 | 44 comments

1989.

The Hardest Part of Working at a Growth Startup (staysaasy.com)

54 points by svmanager on Jun 28, 2020 | 35 comments

1990.

Glassomer: Glass shaping at room temperature (glassomer.com)

54 points by lucioperca on Jun 18, 2020 | 34 comments

1991.

Tracking solar collector without electronics (2011) [video] (youtube.com)

54 points by dmos62 on Jun 7, 2020 | 31 comments

1992.

An enormous theorem: the classification of finite simple groups (2006) (plus.maths.org)

54 points by ur-whale on Jun 16, 2020 | 26 comments

1993.

Why whales sing: it’s a question of culture (spectator.co.uk)

54 points by tintinnabula on Jun 11, 2020 | 21 comments

1994.

Letters to a Young Poet (1903) (carrothers.com)

54 points by msvan on Jun 14, 2020 | 12 comments

1995.

Simulating Hydraulic Erosion (jobtalle.com)

54 points by schnautzi on Jun 23, 2020 | 10 comments

1996.

Hummingbird: Compile trained ML models into tensor computation (github.com)

54 points by polm23 on Jun 7, 2020 | 9 comments

1997.

The new system architecture of Apple Silicon Macs [video] (developer.apple.com)

54 points by olliej on Jun 24, 2020 | 8 comments

1998.

Curve Detecting Neurons (distill.pub)

54 points by sdenton4 on Jun 29, 2020 | 6 comments

1999.

Protesters Shelter in DC Home Overnight After Being Attacked by Police (nbcwashington.com)

54 points by evo_9 on Jun 2, 2020 | 0 comments

2000.

Changes to our content policy, our board, and where we’re going from here (old.reddit.com)

53 points by ComodoHacker on Jun 6, 2020 | 92 comments

2001.

Parallels Desktop for Mac Running on Mac with Apple Silicon (parallels.com)

53 points by theBashShell on Jun 24, 2020 | 71 comments

2002.

UCSF admits it paid NetWalker more than $1M ransom (databreaches.net)

53 points by hakh on Jun 28, 2020 | 67 comments

2003.

Switzerland's lockdown has sharply reduced the cases of Covid-19 (actu.epfl.ch)

53 points by deepaksurti on Jun 6, 2020 | 65 comments

2004.

We could see an orbital launch of SpaceX’s Starship this year (universetoday.com)

53 points by headalgorithm on Jun 12, 2020 | 54 comments

2005.

Kids and Time (jefftk.com)

53 points by luu on Jun 4, 2020 | 48 comments

2006.

The Internet is too unsafe: We need more hackers (medium.com)

53 points by yakkomajuri on Jun 28, 2020 | 48 comments

2007.

Preliminary Theory of the In-Group Contrarian (outsidertheory.com)

53 points by fullshark on Jun 22, 2020 | 46 comments

2008.

Show HN: ProsperStack – Use Stripe to automatically prevent cancellations (prosperstack.com)