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1.		What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type? (nsaphra.github.io)
		986 points by panic on Aug 10, 2019 \| 385 comments
2.		A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers (twitter.com/tamasgorbe)
		558 points by allthebest on Aug 10, 2019 \| 200 comments
3.		The Door Problem of Combat Design (gamasutra.com)
		281 points by danso on Aug 8, 2019 \| 120 comments
4.		Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest (bloomberg.com)
		322 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 10, 2019 \| 331 comments
5.		Creeping normality (wikipedia.org)
		218 points by Ismair on Aug 10, 2019 \| 73 comments
6.		How Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun punished the computers of the day [video] (arstechnica.com)
		202 points by Tomte on Aug 9, 2019 \| 167 comments
7.		The Problem at Yale Is Not Free Speech (palladiummag.com)
		332 points by jseliger on Aug 10, 2019 \| 167 comments
8.		Parallelism in PostgreSQL (percona.com)
		173 points by fanf2 on Aug 10, 2019 \| 26 comments
9.		Analyzing the Facebook ads placed by the US presidential candidates (medium.com/applied-data-science)
		139 points by datashrimp on Aug 10, 2019 \| 35 comments
10.		Ted Chiang: Realist of a Larger Reality (publicbooks.org)
		167 points by apollinaire on Aug 9, 2019 \| 36 comments
11.		IBM Stops Buybacks to Pay for Red Hat (investorplace.com)
		173 points by mathattack on Aug 10, 2019 \| 187 comments
12.		Energy Storage Investments Boom as Battery Costs Halve in the Next Decade (bnef.com)
		127 points by zeristor on Aug 10, 2019 \| 132 comments
13.		Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally (github.com/kickball)
		138 points by chovy on Aug 9, 2019 \| 25 comments
14.		42 Hours of Buckminster Fuller might be just the vision we need (cdm.link)
		112 points by evolve2k on Aug 9, 2019 \| 16 comments
15.		Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting too often in a group (techcrunch.com)
		170 points by jmsflknr on Aug 10, 2019 \| 198 comments
16.		Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live (2013) (nautil.us)
		113 points by dnetesn on Aug 10, 2019 \| 7 comments
17.		Cisco is making it more difficult to use used hardware (ifixit.com)
		178 points by turtlegrids on Aug 10, 2019 \| 92 comments
18.		DEF CON and Stack Overflow: What Our Traffic Says About Cybersecurity (stackoverflow.blog)
		147 points by susam on Aug 10, 2019 \| 32 comments
19.		Electric motor design claims remarkable improvements (newatlas.com)
		164 points by bmh on Aug 10, 2019 \| 139 comments
20.		Escape rooms are big business (vox.com)
		166 points by axiomdata316 on Aug 9, 2019 \| 136 comments
21.		New research on PTSD in elephants and other animals (cbc.ca)
		73 points by pseudolus on Aug 9, 2019 \| 34 comments
22.		The Rule of 2 (googlesource.com)
		146 points by akendo on Aug 9, 2019 \| 54 comments
23.		Show HN: Historical order book reconstruction API for crypto markets (tardis.dev)
		78 points by tardis_thad on Aug 10, 2019 \| 30 comments
24.		Patterns on goods designed to trigger Automated License Plate Readers (adversarialfashion.com)
		171 points by vanderburgt on Aug 10, 2019 \| 58 comments
25.		FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone (thehill.com)
		175 points by miles on Aug 10, 2019 \| 395 comments
26.		Five new Real-Time detections of fast radio bursts with UTMOST (oup.com)
		71 points by howard941 on Aug 10, 2019 \| 12 comments
27.		I am a horse in the land of booleans (iloveponies.github.io)
		87 points by tosh on Aug 10, 2019 \| 85 comments
28.		Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment [pdf] (psyarxiv.com)
		91 points by ascertain on Aug 10, 2019 \| 12 comments
29.		LucidScience – Electronic Projects and Tutorials (lucidscience.com)
		71 points by phodo on Aug 10, 2019 \| 3 comments
30.		Show HN: Bashfs – Run commands as your filesystem (github.com/pcgrosen)
		97 points by __init on Aug 10, 2019 \| 34 comments
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