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1.		YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views (astronaut.io)
		1362 points by monort on July 14, 2019 \| 232 comments
2.		Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (rootsofprogress.org)
		691 points by exolymph on July 15, 2019 \| 492 comments
3.		To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public (bloomberg.com)
		859 points by JumpCrisscross on July 15, 2019 \| 597 comments
4.		Landfill is underrated and recycling overrated (medium.com/robertwiblin)
		561 points by robertwiblin on July 14, 2019 \| 336 comments
5.		Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M (blender.org)
		736 points by brachi on July 15, 2019 \| 250 comments
6.		BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability (brendangregg.com)
		261 points by brendangregg on July 15, 2019 \| 38 comments
7.		Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete (medium.com/balidani)
		399 points by 0xdada on July 15, 2019 \| 120 comments
8.		How many kinds of USB-C to USB-C cables are there? (kernel.org)
		407 points by zdw on July 15, 2019 \| 204 comments
9.		Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day (bbc.co.uk)
		432 points by pmoriarty on July 15, 2019 \| 396 comments
10.		Florida DMV sells personal info to private companies, marketing firms (abcactionnews.com)
		466 points by green-eclipse on July 15, 2019 \| 142 comments
11.		After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles were stolen in one day (bloomberg.com)
		339 points by throwaway3627 on July 14, 2019 \| 226 comments
12.		Elements of Programming (elementsofprogramming.com)
		274 points by signa11 on July 15, 2019 \| 24 comments
13.		Mac Open Web (macopenweb.com)
		186 points by mrzool on July 15, 2019 \| 100 comments
14.		Defunctionalize the Continuation (pathsensitive.com)
		236 points by Darmani on July 15, 2019 \| 31 comments
15.		Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note (bbc.co.uk)
		664 points by hanoz on July 15, 2019 \| 298 comments
16.		Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design (onezero.medium.com)
		362 points by mnm1 on July 14, 2019 \| 292 comments
17.		'My son spent £3,160 in one game' (bbc.co.uk)
		221 points by open-source-ux on July 15, 2019 \| 330 comments
18.		From Laptop to Lambda: Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Containers [pdf] (stanford.edu)
		185 points by ingve on July 14, 2019 \| 18 comments
19.		Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software (wsj.com)
		204 points by psim1 on July 15, 2019 \| 58 comments
20.		Avoid Artificial Stupidity (mapflat.com)
		166 points by henrik_w on July 15, 2019 \| 63 comments
21.		New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model (imore.com)
		264 points by gbaygon on July 15, 2019 \| 188 comments
22.		Show HN: ImportDoc – Use the content from a Google Doc in any web page (importdoc.com)
		118 points by metafarer on July 15, 2019 \| 34 comments
23.		The Lyttle Lytton Contest (adamcadre.ac)
		87 points by plibither8 on July 15, 2019 \| 53 comments
24.		Show HN: Osgood – A secure, fast, and simple JavaScript server platform (github.com/intrinsiclabs)
		106 points by tlhunter on July 15, 2019 \| 22 comments
25.		Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force (news.mit.edu)
		107 points by xVedun on July 15, 2019 \| 24 comments
26.		Launch HN: Dataform (YC W18) – Build Reliable SQL Data Pipelines as a Team
		110 points by G2H on July 15, 2019 \| 36 comments
27.		Alice and Bob: A History of the World’s Most Famous Cryptographic Couple (2017) (cryptocouple.com)
		104 points by nkurz on July 13, 2019 \| 18 comments
28.		Pop culture loves the 'butterfly effect' and gets it wrong (boston.com)
		72 points by smacktoward on July 15, 2019 \| 64 comments
29.		How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk? (thehustle.co)
		151 points by Steven-Clarke on July 14, 2019 \| 141 comments
30.		Sending 1.2M Tweets (shkspr.mobi)
		78 points by edent on July 14, 2019 \| 19 comments
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