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31.
H. G. Wells and the Uncertainties of Progress (publicdomainreview.org)
44 points by pseudolus on Aug 11, 2019 | 11 comments
32.
Japanese addressing system (wikipedia.org)
80 points by jakestein on Aug 9, 2019 | 64 comments
33.
War and drugs: Together since forever (knowablemagazine.org)
48 points by knowablemag on Aug 9, 2019 | 13 comments
34.
Claude Lévi-Strauss: Science, myths and the mystical (the-tls.co.uk)
37 points by Thevet on Aug 11, 2019 | 1 comment
35.
Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out (nytimes.com)
147 points by furcyd on Aug 11, 2019 | 258 comments
36.
Warning as 4G Hotspots Are Hacked (pentestpartners.com)
96 points by walterbell on Aug 11, 2019 | 21 comments
37.
Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the current record of 16 MB (hutter1.net)
141 points by tosh on Aug 11, 2019 | 101 comments
38.
Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives and Why We Don't Talk about It (nd.edu)
198 points by lisper on Aug 11, 2019 | 96 comments
39.
The Life and Death of an American Indie Press (lithub.com)
36 points by samclemens on Aug 10, 2019 | 4 comments
40.
Random walkers illuminate a math problem (scitation.org)
49 points by bryanrasmussen on Aug 11, 2019 | 7 comments
41.
The Methane Detectives: On the Trail of a Global Warming Mystery (undark.org)
67 points by spzx on Aug 11, 2019 | 2 comments
42.
A Personal History of Modeless Text Editing and Cut/Copy-Paste (2012) [pdf] (worrydream.com)
50 points by smacktoward on Aug 11, 2019 | 16 comments
43.
China successfully launches its largest reusable rocket (globaltimes.cn)
46 points by velmu on Aug 11, 2019 | 27 comments
44.
Studies in Power: An Interview with Robert Caro (2018) (nybooks.com)
37 points by dempedempe on Aug 9, 2019 | 3 comments
45.
Architecting Containers: Understanding User Space vs. Kernel Space (2015) (redhat.com)
85 points by melenaboija on Aug 11, 2019 | 4 comments
46.
Fairy wrens teach familial ‘passwords’ to their unborn chicks (2012) (discovermagazine.com)
51 points by dotism on Aug 11, 2019 | 6 comments
47.
Lightweight Static Guarantees (okmij.org)
42 points by sctb on Aug 11, 2019 | 6 comments
48.
The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems (2002) (arxiv-vanity.com)
95 points by tosh on Aug 11, 2019 | 14 comments
49.
Death of the Neighborhood Bar (bostonmagazine.com)
102 points by maxerickson on Aug 11, 2019 | 154 comments
50.
China manufactures a ballpoint pen all by itself (2017) (washingtonpost.com)
68 points by unnawut on Aug 11, 2019 | 30 comments
51.
Asynchronous Exceptions in Practice (2017) (simonmar.github.io)
39 points by auggierose on Aug 10, 2019
52.
Transporting a portable operating system: UNIX to an IBM minicomputer (1983) [pdf] (sci-hub.se)
34 points by fanf2 on Aug 10, 2019 | 4 comments
53.
Ornate netsuke were practical status symbols (atlasobscura.com)
33 points by tintinnabula on Aug 10, 2019 | 6 comments
54.
The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018) (nybooks.com)
50 points by casefields on Aug 11, 2019 | 52 comments
55.
Russia, after protests, tells Google not to advertise “illegal” events (reuters.com)
108 points by rumcajz on Aug 11, 2019 | 84 comments
56.
Simulating Futures in Extended Common Lisp (1988) [pdf] (nasa.gov)
34 points by enthd on Aug 11, 2019 | 1 comment
57.
Coroutines and C++ DSLs for Human Scale Concurrency (snsystems.com)
27 points by znpy on Aug 11, 2019 | 7 comments
58.
Faster AMP on the Origin: AMP and SSR (amp.dev)
34 points by mpweiher on Aug 11, 2019 | 99 comments
59.
The Best Financial Advice I Ever Got (wsj.com)
58 points by RickJWagner on Aug 11, 2019 | 64 comments
60.
An Actor Lost in the Background (lareviewofbooks.org)
22 points by prismatic on Aug 10, 2019 | 2 comments

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