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1.		Adblocking: How about Nah? (eff.org)
		918 points by dredmorbius on July 27, 2019 \| 534 comments
2.		The Roots of Boeing’s 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight (nytimes.com)
		382 points by tafda on July 27, 2019 \| 198 comments
3.		Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal condition (cnn.com)
		427 points by actraub on July 27, 2019 \| 142 comments
4.		Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth (seattletimes.com)
		275 points by swamp40 on July 26, 2019 \| 152 comments
5.		Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning (sciencedaily.com)
		324 points by lxm on July 27, 2019 \| 196 comments
6.		Biology is the New Tech: Letter from a conference on CRISPR (airmail.news)
		171 points by spking on July 27, 2019 \| 316 comments
7.		Discrete Differential Geometry: An Applied Introduction [pdf] (cmu.edu)
		230 points by adamnemecek on July 27, 2019 \| 41 comments
8.		Siri records fights, doctor’s appointments, and sex, and contractors hear it (arstechnica.com)
		267 points by vatueil on July 27, 2019 \| 122 comments
9.		Purescript-native can now target Golang (purescript.org)
		171 points by maxekman on July 27, 2019 \| 33 comments
10.		A history sheds light on venture capital’s ties to military-industrial complex (bookforum.com)
		83 points by hhs on July 27, 2019 \| 10 comments
11.		The Problem of Mindfulness (aeon.co)
		226 points by gerbilly on July 26, 2019 \| 152 comments
12.		Metaphors We Believe By (aaronzlewis.com)
		129 points by jger15 on July 26, 2019 \| 5 comments
13.		Perils of Constructors (matklad.github.io)
		197 points by jasonpeacock on July 27, 2019 \| 53 comments
14.		Why we don't use Galileo's last name (2009) (slate.com)
		223 points by never-the-bride on July 27, 2019 \| 169 comments
15.		Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) (norvig.com)
		174 points by saranshk on July 27, 2019 \| 87 comments
16.		Antikythera Mechanism (wikipedia.org)
		83 points by EndXA on July 27, 2019 \| 35 comments
17.		SMT Solvers in Software Security (2012) (usenix.org)
		80 points by SE_Student on July 27, 2019 \| 6 comments
18.		The Aesthetic Beauty of Math (theparisreview.org)
		96 points by lxm on July 26, 2019 \| 17 comments
19.		Hard Drive of Hearing: Disks That Eavesdrop with a Synthesized Microphone [pdf] (umich.edu)
		96 points by gwern on July 27, 2019 \| 32 comments
20.		Show HN: Library for a Travel Service to Optimize Time During Trip to a City (github.com/igushev)
		64 points by igushev on July 27, 2019 \| 14 comments
21.		OOP Before OOP with Simula (twobithistory.org)
		82 points by bibyte on July 26, 2019 \| 19 comments
22.		Teenage hackers are offered a second chance under European experiment (cyberscoop.com)
		97 points by ga-vu on July 24, 2019 \| 49 comments
23.		Show HN: A Demo IDE for Scheme (kennethfriedman.org)
		97 points by kennethfriedman on July 26, 2019 \| 17 comments
24.		Raspberry Pi Model Railway Automation (phwallen.github.io)
		106 points by bjoko on July 27, 2019 \| 23 comments
25.		Amazon Transcribe Streaming Now Supports WebSockets (amazon.com)
		105 points by WalterSobchak on July 27, 2019 \| 23 comments
26.		Wanderland: A journey through Iran’s wild west (1843magazine.com)
		73 points by 80mph on July 25, 2019 \| 10 comments
27.		The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery (2018) (theatlantic.com)
		81 points by CraneWorm on July 27, 2019 \| 226 comments
28.		Visualizing and exploring sorting algorithms in two dimensions (dotink.co)
		74 points by thesephist on July 26, 2019 \| 19 comments
29.		Open source all-iron battery for renewable energy storage (sciencedirect.com)
		137 points by stevewilhelm on July 27, 2019 \| 56 comments
30.		The Library Card Project: The Ease of Forming Anonymous Companies in the U.S. (gfintegrity.org)
		198 points by resalisbury on July 26, 2019 \| 240 comments
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