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1.		Ebola Is Now Curable (wired.com)
		1232 points by NoRagrets on Aug 12, 2019 \| 154 comments
2.		Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click (sparktoro.com)
		755 points by adamcarson on Aug 13, 2019 \| 513 comments
3.		Proteins That May Restore Damaged Sound-Detecting Cells in the Ear (hopkinsmedicine.org)
		510 points by laurex on Aug 13, 2019 \| 95 comments
4.		Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours (universetoday.com)
		610 points by cyanbane on Aug 13, 2019 \| 244 comments
5.		One City Saved $5M by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm (routefifty.com)
		350 points by emrosecoleman on Aug 12, 2019 \| 153 comments
6.		Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt (engineering.squarespace.com)
		426 points by memset on Aug 13, 2019 \| 152 comments
7.		Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator (divjoy.com)
		511 points by makeee on Aug 13, 2019 \| 131 comments
8.		Down the Rabbit-Hole (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
		430 points by janvdberg on Aug 13, 2019 \| 84 comments
9.		Anxiety Looks Different in Men (wsj.com)
		395 points by andygcook on Aug 12, 2019 \| 220 comments
10.		The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now arrived in Latin America (nationalgeographic.com)
		253 points by reddotX on Aug 13, 2019 \| 191 comments
11.		We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up (2015) (filfre.net)
		265 points by pmoriarty on Aug 13, 2019 \| 235 comments
12.		GNU Radio 3.8 (gnuradio.org)
		268 points by eplanit on Aug 12, 2019 \| 67 comments
13.		Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More (yack.io)
		246 points by 7961636B6572 on Aug 13, 2019 \| 171 comments
14.		Minify Your SVGs (victorzhou.com)
		264 points by vzhou842 on Aug 12, 2019 \| 65 comments
15.		Removing One Maine Dam 20 Years Ago Changed Everything (therevelator.org)
		180 points by howard941 on Aug 13, 2019 \| 96 comments
16.		The “terrible” 3 cent MCU – a short survey of sub $0.10 microcontrollers (cpldcpu.wordpress.com)
		252 points by jerryr on Aug 13, 2019 \| 94 comments
17.		Somehow I Became Respectable (theparisreview.org)
		170 points by shange on Aug 13, 2019 \| 113 comments
18.		The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look (aeon.co)
		237 points by lxm on Aug 12, 2019 \| 240 comments
19.		Supercomputers will start building a 3D map of the world (c4isrnet.com)
		141 points by jonbaer on Aug 13, 2019 \| 77 comments
20.		Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer (vice.com)
		215 points by kccqzy on Aug 11, 2019 \| 150 comments
21.		If you want developers to adopt your software, make it less risky (2017) (reifyworks.com)
		117 points by mooreds on Aug 13, 2019 \| 43 comments
22.		The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (1960) (gizmodo.com)
		109 points by Tomte on Aug 11, 2019 \| 20 comments
23.		How the Pentagon Comes Up with Code Words and Secret Project Nicknames (thedrive.com)
		116 points by jonbaer on Aug 12, 2019 \| 15 comments
24.		GitHub stars won’t pay your rent (medium.com/kitze)
		426 points by tosh on Aug 13, 2019 \| 176 comments
25.		Urgent/11 – Zero Day Vulnerabilities Impacting VxWorks (armis.com)
		125 points by phantom_oracle on Aug 13, 2019 \| 71 comments
26.		Turkmenistan on the brink of collapse? (cnn.com)
		106 points by Tomte on Aug 11, 2019 \| 102 comments
27.		My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB Memory (louwrentius.com)
		239 points by louwrentius on Aug 13, 2019 \| 213 comments
28.		Launch HN: Shift Health (YC S19) – Understand Your Healthcare Costs Pre-Visit
		86 points by Hydrick3232 on Aug 13, 2019 \| 56 comments
29.		Michael Cicconetti (wikipedia.org)
		201 points by vezycash on Aug 13, 2019 \| 89 comments
30.		Crispr pioneer among University of California researchers boycotting Elsevier (chemistryworld.com)
		208 points by r0n0j0y on Aug 13, 2019 \| 44 comments
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