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31.
I Tried Hiding from Big Tech in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets (bloomberg.com)
127 points by leirbagarc on Aug 9, 2019 | 92 comments
32.
Climate change: Marine heatwaves kill coral instantly (bbc.com)
146 points by pseudolus on Aug 9, 2019 | 64 comments
33.
Food is free if you know where to look (fallingfruit.org)
161 points by eldfgl on Aug 9, 2019 | 91 comments
34.
What Is Zig's Comptime? (kristoff.it)
116 points by luu on Aug 8, 2019 | 40 comments
35.
A journalist discovered and reunited identical twins (latimes.com)
89 points by wglb on Aug 9, 2019 | 7 comments
36.
AMD EPYC processors come to Google, and to Google Cloud (cloud.google.com)
197 points by jhealy on Aug 9, 2019 | 84 comments
37.
History of Clarus the Dogcow (512pixels.net)
71 points by ajuhasz on Aug 9, 2019 | 8 comments
38.
‘To Get Things More Real’: An Interview with Ira Glass (nybooks.com)
68 points by tintinnabula on Aug 8, 2019
39.
As Scotland's 'Trainspotting' Generation Ages, the Dead Pile Up (nytimes.com)
116 points by notathing on Aug 8, 2019 | 92 comments
40.
U.S. Holds Off on Huawei Licenses as China Halts Crop-Buying (bloomberg.com)
68 points by tareqak on Aug 9, 2019 | 61 comments
41.
Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn? (nytimes.com)
212 points by mmq on Aug 9, 2019 | 159 comments
42.
Show HN: I built a poker site with Haskell (github.com/therewillbecode)
157 points by zzeder on Aug 9, 2019 | 118 comments
43.
HarmonyOS is Huawei’s Android alternative for smartphones and smart home devices (techcrunch.com)
174 points by jmsflknr on Aug 9, 2019 | 205 comments
44.
The Suicides in South Korea, and the Suicide of South Korea (lareviewofbooks.org)
86 points by kwindla on Aug 9, 2019 | 79 comments
45.
Crypto CTF (toc.tf)
69 points by factoreal on Aug 9, 2019 | 16 comments
46.
CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom: Study (bloomberg.com)
179 points by kgwgk on Aug 9, 2019 | 85 comments
47.
The lat/lon floating point delusion (datafix.com.au)
149 points by eaguyhn on Aug 9, 2019 | 149 comments
48.
America’s social-media addiction is getting worse (economist.com)
143 points by seagullz on Aug 9, 2019 | 179 comments
49.
Is Ebola Evolving into a Deadlier Virus? (newyorker.com)
79 points by pseudolus on Aug 9, 2019 | 78 comments
50.
Carla – Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research (carla.org)
95 points by jonbaer on Aug 9, 2019 | 5 comments
51.
Summer camps use facial recognition so parents can watch from home (sfgate.com)
61 points by wallflower on Aug 8, 2019 | 44 comments
52.
Eleven Ordinary Twenty-Somethings With $250B Riding on Their Lives (bloomberg.com)
84 points by mxfh on Aug 9, 2019 | 26 comments
53.
Major power failure affects homes and transport (bbc.co.uk)
69 points by zimpenfish on Aug 9, 2019 | 47 comments
54.
The Utopian Promise of Adorno’s ‘Open Thinking,’ Fifty Years On (nybooks.com)
58 points by kwindla on Aug 8, 2019 | 36 comments
55.
A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5k Check (nytimes.com)
92 points by hvo on Aug 9, 2019 | 104 comments
56.
Welcome to Black Hat, where the attendees are the threat (wsj.com)
70 points by psim1 on Aug 9, 2019 | 38 comments
57.
Dark Matter from Scalar Field Fluctuations (aps.org)
46 points by bookofjoe on Aug 9, 2019 | 48 comments
58.
Launch HN: Together (YC S19) – App to facilitate employee-employee mentoring
78 points by nathan_gold on Aug 9, 2019 | 9 comments
59.
Frosted Glass/Panel Effect, Cross Browser Solution, Vanilla JavaScript and CSS (github.com/cryptodescriptor)
48 points by frosted-panel on Aug 9, 2019 | 22 comments
60.
Show HN: I'm building a robot that cuts hair, starting with beard trims [video] (youtube.com)
104 points by dopeboy on Aug 9, 2019 | 90 comments

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