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31.
Armoured Commander: The WWII Tank Commander Roguelike (armouredcommander.com)
109 points by smacktoward on Aug 17, 2019 | 21 comments
32.
GNU Parallel 2018 (zenodo.org)
150 points by Tomte on Aug 17, 2019 | 68 comments
33.
Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf] (uchicago.edu)
80 points by aidanrocke on Aug 17, 2019 | 48 comments
34.
Salvator Mundi and the unreality of the art market (the-tls.co.uk)
42 points by blegh on Aug 14, 2019 | 14 comments
35.
VMware Octant web-based platform to better understand Kubernetes clusters (github.com/vmware)
64 points by nwrk on Aug 17, 2019 | 6 comments
36.
U.S. Weighs Selling 50- and 100-Year Bonds After Yields Plummet (bloomberg.com)
101 points by sndean on Aug 17, 2019 | 121 comments
37.
The Dawn of the Age of Geoengineering (elidourado.com)
66 points by barry-cotter on Aug 16, 2019 | 28 comments
38.
Across the Universe, a star exploded so violently that it annihilated itself (syfy.com)
94 points by Santosh83 on Aug 17, 2019 | 54 comments
39.
In Santa Barbara Channel, underwater sound system keeps whales and ships apart (latimes.com)
33 points by pseudolus on Aug 16, 2019 | 13 comments
40.
Siri, Privacy, and Trust (daringfireball.net)
131 points by baxtr on Aug 17, 2019 | 26 comments
41.
Wells Fargo Closed Their Accounts, but the Fees Continued to Mount (nytimes.com)
135 points by howard941 on Aug 17, 2019 | 75 comments
42.
Show HN: distri: a Linux distribution to research fast package management (stapelberg.ch)
92 points by secure on Aug 17, 2019 | 66 comments
43.
Dissidents Are Using Shortwave Radio to Broadcast News into China (defenseone.com)
140 points by jonbaer on Aug 17, 2019 | 67 comments
44.
Humans Migrated to Mongolia Much Earlier Than Previously Believed (ucdavis.edu)
55 points by haditab on Aug 17, 2019 | 9 comments
45.
Melting Greenland Is Awash in Sand (nytimes.com)
64 points by onetimemanytime on Aug 17, 2019 | 54 comments
46.
Diagnostics with Tracing, a Unified Instrumentation System for Rust (tokio.rs)
89 points by thramp on Aug 14, 2019 | 11 comments
47.
Deep Operation (wikipedia.org)
41 points by godelmachine on Aug 17, 2019 | 6 comments
48.
Taming OpenAPI using Racket to create a DSL (squareup.com)
74 points by spdegabrielle on Aug 16, 2019 | 47 comments
49.
Maybe We Should Stop Creating Inscrutable CLIs (philosophicalhacker.com)
118 points by kmdupree on Aug 17, 2019 | 156 comments
50.
Announcing New AMD EPYC-based Azure Virtual Machines (azure.microsoft.com)
94 points by fniephaus on Aug 17, 2019 | 4 comments
51.
The Rat Spill (hakaimagazine.com)
16 points by anarbadalov on Aug 14, 2019 | 1 comment
52.
WeWork’s 17th employee: I was not offered options (twitter.com/tristajaye)
138 points by seapunk on Aug 17, 2019 | 73 comments
53.
Project BillVision (1995) (archive.org)
16 points by Lammy on Aug 17, 2019
54.
A Hacker Talks Security, Consent, and Why He Hacked a Buttplug (gizmodo.com)
42 points by qdot76367 on Aug 17, 2019 | 6 comments
55.
In Praise of Pretty Books (washingtonpost.com)
33 points by prismatic on Aug 15, 2019 | 6 comments
56.
'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish (theguardian.com)
96 points by SmkyMt on Aug 17, 2019 | 63 comments
57.
The Power of Speaking Polari (laphamsquarterly.org)
24 points by lermontov on Aug 14, 2019 | 2 comments
58.
Greenland could become China's Arctic base (2018) (bbc.co.uk)
38 points by zeristor on Aug 17, 2019 | 39 comments
59.
The Mystery of Why Gas Pump Interface Design Sucks So Badly (jalopnik.com)
50 points by t23 on Aug 17, 2019 | 65 comments
60.
Choice Hotels Suffers Data Breach, Exposing 700k Customer Records (securitymagazine.com)
56 points by neogodless on Aug 16, 2019 | 11 comments

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