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1.
Living Near Trees, Not Just Green Space, Improves Wellbeing (citylab.com)
664 points by Osiris30 on Aug 2, 2019 | 202 comments
2.
Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced (standardebooks.org)
820 points by BerislavLopac on Aug 2, 2019 | 129 comments
3.
Knuth on Huang's Sensitivity Proof: “I've got the proof down to one page” [pdf] (scottaaronson.com)
462 points by espeed on Aug 1, 2019 | 98 comments
4.
John Carmack on Parallel Implementations (2018) (sevangelatos.com)
271 points by drawkbox on Aug 1, 2019 | 44 comments
5.
A practical guide to CSS transitions and animations (prototypr.io)
267 points by tellmewhyfirst on Aug 2, 2019 | 43 comments
6.
35 Over 35 (theamericanscholar.org)
358 points by danso on Aug 1, 2019 | 118 comments
7.
The Art of Warez [video] (vimeo.com)
349 points by fcambus on Aug 2, 2019 | 95 comments
8.
Medieval people bathed regularly (going-medieval.com)
298 points by fanf2 on Aug 2, 2019 | 193 comments
9.
Contributing to the Mozilla code base (developer.mozilla.org)
342 points by new_here on Aug 2, 2019 | 150 comments
10.
KIP-500: Replace ZooKeeper with a Self-Managed Metadata Quorum (apache.org)
139 points by telekid on Aug 2, 2019 | 62 comments
11.
Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company (theverge.com)
284 points by espeed on Aug 1, 2019 | 224 comments
12.
Building a Programming Language Pt. 3 – Interpreting (drew.ltd)
129 points by drew-y on Aug 2, 2019 | 10 comments
13.
California farmers are planting solar panels as water supplies dry up (latimes.com)
199 points by lxm on Aug 1, 2019 | 149 comments
14.
Big O Notation – Using not-boring math to measure code’s efficiency (interviewcake.com)
178 points by rspivak on Aug 1, 2019 | 95 comments
15.
Kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years (latimes.com)
168 points by elliekelly on Aug 2, 2019 | 108 comments
16.
“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” (kernel.org)
361 points by doener on Aug 2, 2019 | 225 comments
17.
Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009) (improvingsoftware.com)
452 points by derwiki on Aug 2, 2019 | 430 comments
18.
Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off stock trades (cnbc.com)
195 points by gscott on Aug 1, 2019 | 314 comments
19.
Insured price $2,758, cash price $521 (latimes.com)
305 points by lxm on Aug 2, 2019 | 333 comments
20.
Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects (a16z.com)
117 points by imartin2k on Aug 2, 2019 | 23 comments
21.
SpaCy PyTorch Transformers (explosion.ai)
106 points by syllogism on Aug 2, 2019 | 11 comments
22.
Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns (techcrunch.com)
210 points by Doubleguitars on Aug 2, 2019 | 215 comments
23.
How to Write a Lisp Interpreter In Python (2010) (norvig.com)
132 points by KibbutzDalia on Aug 2, 2019 | 29 comments
24.
Vickrey–Clarke–Groves Auction (wikipedia.org)
82 points by dedalus on July 31, 2019 | 34 comments
25.
Ray tracing with uLisp (ulisp.com)
102 points by _19qg on July 30, 2019 | 10 comments
26.
Secretly Public Domain: Most books published in the US before 1964 (crummy.com)
286 points by BerislavLopac on Aug 2, 2019 | 62 comments
27.
Typed Properties in PHP 7.4 (stitcher.io)
205 points by brendt_gd on Aug 2, 2019 | 157 comments
28.
Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons (marketwatch.com)
95 points by blumomo on Aug 2, 2019 | 107 comments
29.
The “Terrascope”: On the Possibility of Using the Earth as an Atmospheric Lens (arxiv.org)
93 points by sohkamyung on Aug 2, 2019 | 14 comments
30.
An Ancient Egypt-to-Black Sea Route? Adventurers to Test Theory (phys.org)
57 points by dnetesn on July 31, 2019 | 5 comments

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