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31.		High-performance, exactly-once, failure-oblivious distributed programming (2018) (christophermeiklejohn.com)
		129 points by cmeiklejohn on July 30, 2019 \| 26 comments
32.		ThorShield Energy Weapon Protection Fabric (thorshield.com)
		67 points by rolph on July 31, 2019 \| 68 comments
33.		How Sydney destroyed its trams for love of the car (theguardian.com)
		137 points by oska on July 31, 2019 \| 123 comments
34.		Cortex – An ML model deployment platform that runs in your AWS account (github.com/cortexlabs)
		65 points by ospillinger on July 31, 2019 \| 24 comments
35.		Drama – Draw user interfaces and create interactive prototypes (drama.app)
		165 points by robenkleene on July 31, 2019 \| 51 comments
36.		U.S. to set up plan aimed at allowing prescription drugs from Canada (latimes.com)
		169 points by ilamont on July 31, 2019 \| 234 comments
37.		The Stranding of the MV Shokalskiy (idlewords.com)
		88 points by myth_drannon on July 31, 2019 \| 6 comments
38.		Lefthook: Knock your team’s code back into shape (evilmartians.com)
		103 points by ingve on July 31, 2019 \| 49 comments
39.		Electron 6.0 (electronjs.org)
		190 points by fnordsensei on July 31, 2019 \| 268 comments
40.		“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76” (chromium.org)
		230 points by PieUser on July 30, 2019 \| 316 comments
41.		Survival in chessland [pdf] (tom7.org)
		128 points by bgschulman31 on July 28, 2019 \| 11 comments
42.		Why does unsubscribing from a newsletter take “a few days”? (twitter.com/joe8bit)
		246 points by scop on July 31, 2019 \| 114 comments
43.		How to Accomplish Big Things, Even When You Feel Small (unstoppable.me)
		213 points by rspivak on July 31, 2019 \| 64 comments
44.		Always the Model, Never the Artist (theparisreview.org)
		57 points by prismatic on July 29, 2019 \| 12 comments
45.		An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (2006) [pdf] (uchicago.edu)
		86 points by rspivak on July 31, 2019 \| 5 comments
46.		German prosecutors charge ex-Audi boss Stadler over emissions cheating (reuters.com)
		135 points by reddotX on July 31, 2019 \| 58 comments
47.		How to Save a Dying Language (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
		43 points by Tomte on July 29, 2019 \| 16 comments
48.		Study reveals how bacteria beat immune systems (exeter.ac.uk)
		62 points by dnetesn on July 29, 2019 \| 1 comment
49.		Phones Made the World an Office, Like It or Not (nytimes.com)
		61 points by DamnInteresting on July 31, 2019 \| 38 comments
50.		Slim Binaries (1997) (psu.edu)
		66 points by tosh on July 29, 2019 \| 39 comments
51.		High-Density Housing Near Public Transit Is Aim of San Diego Code Change (timesofsandiego.com)
		123 points by DoreenMichele on July 31, 2019 \| 147 comments
52.		Why Generics? (golang.org)
		218 points by johnvega on July 31, 2019 \| 254 comments
53.		Thamugadi, a Roman outpost in Algeria, was saved by the Sahara (nationalgeographic.com)
		57 points by ryan_j_naughton on July 31, 2019 \| 21 comments
54.		Revec: Program Rejuvenation Through Revectorization (github.com/revec)
		49 points by homarp on July 29, 2019 \| 5 comments
55.		New CSS Features in Firefox 68 (hacks.mozilla.org)
		108 points by bzbarsky on July 31, 2019 \| 44 comments
56.		We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know (2016) (lareviewofbooks.org)
		58 points by severine on July 30, 2019 \| 20 comments
57.		The Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry? (outsideonline.com)
		154 points by EastLondonCoder on July 31, 2019 \| 243 comments
58.		Has esketamine been overhyped? (gq-magazine.co.uk)
		25 points by behoove on July 30, 2019 \| 47 comments
59.		ConLangs: How to Construct a Language (ocw.mit.edu)
		59 points by carlosgg on July 31, 2019 \| 13 comments
60.		Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder’ Plant? (yale.edu)
		25 points by caprorso on July 30, 2019 \| 19 comments
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