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1.		Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties (nytimes.com)
		806 points by Anon84 on Sept 7, 2019 \| 694 comments
2.		Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing (wikimediafoundation.org)
		610 points by app4soft on Sept 7, 2019 \| 294 comments
3.		India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon (wsj.com)
		361 points by Anon84 on Sept 7, 2019 \| 255 comments
4.		Stellarium: A free open-source planetarium for your computer (stellarium.org)
		445 points by smacktoward on Sept 7, 2019 \| 56 comments
5.		CSRF is really dead (scotthelme.co.uk)
		313 points by psanford on Sept 6, 2019 \| 113 comments
6.		Goodreads Is Broken (onezero.medium.com)
		468 points by lxm on Sept 7, 2019 \| 288 comments
7.		From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out (nesslabs.com)
		318 points by anthilemoon on Sept 7, 2019 \| 73 comments
8.		Favorite Interview Questions (firstround.com)
		322 points by feifan on Sept 6, 2019 \| 128 comments
9.		M.I.T. Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein (newyorker.com)
		468 points by donohoe on Sept 7, 2019 \| 263 comments
10.		Troubles with the AWS web console (reddit.com)
		359 points by curtis on Sept 7, 2019 \| 233 comments
11.		Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking Their Jobs with Them (wsj.com)
		286 points by ericmay on Sept 7, 2019 \| 334 comments
12.		Door blows off Boeing 777X during stress test (komonews.com)
		181 points by ephesee on Sept 7, 2019 \| 113 comments
13.		Show HN: A simple Unix-like operating system that runs Doom (github.com/ozkl)
		233 points by ozkl on Sept 7, 2019 \| 42 comments
14.		Toy Stories: Children around the world with their most prized possessions (gabrielegalimberti.com)
		192 points by bookofjoe on Sept 7, 2019 \| 68 comments
15.		New micro-robots can break apart and remove biofilm or plaque from a tooth (humanbioscience.org)
		144 points by techben on Sept 7, 2019 \| 43 comments
16.		How a deadly fall revealed CIA secrets (theguardian.com)
		190 points by ljf on Sept 6, 2019 \| 86 comments
17.		How China is Cashing in on Group Chats (a16z.com)
		142 points by jmsflknr on Sept 7, 2019 \| 44 comments
18.		Book Summary: The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly (durmonski.com)
		60 points by durmonski on Sept 7, 2019 \| 16 comments
19.		Exim – remote attacker can execute programs with root privileges (exim.org)
		142 points by EMM_386 on Sept 7, 2019 \| 69 comments
20.		The days are long but the decades are short (2015) (samaltman.com)
		193 points by hvo on Sept 7, 2019 \| 33 comments
21.		The Technical Evolution of Vannevar Bush’s Memex (2008) (digitalhumanities.org)
		51 points by benbreen on Sept 6, 2019 \| 4 comments
22.		Writing papers for American college students has become lucrative overseas (nytimes.com)
		107 points by _ttg on Sept 7, 2019 \| 117 comments
23.		The True Size Of (thetruesize.com)
		155 points by slowhand09 on Sept 6, 2019 \| 49 comments
24.		New ways to make vertical farming stack up (economist.com)
		83 points by jkuria on Sept 6, 2019 \| 58 comments
25.		What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day? (gatesnotes.com)
		192 points by undefined1 on Sept 7, 2019 \| 156 comments
26.		Driving an Ambulance in the Age of Narcan (hazlitt.net)
		166 points by bookofjoe on Sept 5, 2019 \| 145 comments
27.		NYC Subway is replacing printed maps with low-resolution digital maps (twitter.com/nyctsubway)
		151 points by danso on Sept 6, 2019 \| 172 comments
28.		Why Americans pay more for lunch than Britons do (economist.com)
		106 points by blowski on Sept 6, 2019 \| 198 comments
29.		American Tycoons Created the Dinosaur (nautil.us)
		30 points by dnetesn on Sept 6, 2019 \| 10 comments
30.		LabStack: Multi-language programming playground (labstack.com)
		53 points by vishr on Sept 7, 2019 \| 13 comments
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