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31.		Tartaglia, Cardano and Ferrari – 16th Century Mathematics (storyofmathematics.com)
		64 points by rsj_hn on Sept 21, 2019 \| 8 comments
32.		Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard [pdf] (duke.edu)
		77 points by ibobev on Sept 21, 2019 \| 50 comments
33.		The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella (bloomberg.com)
		153 points by baylearn on Sept 21, 2019 \| 55 comments
34.		Australian universities are accused of trading free speech for cash (economist.com)
		183 points by baylearn on Sept 21, 2019 \| 65 comments
35.		Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more (chromium.org)
		103 points by joeyespo on Sept 21, 2019 \| 75 comments
36.		Wagner: totalizing master of endless melodies (the-tls.co.uk)
		37 points by unquote on Sept 20, 2019
37.		A Taxonomy of Moats (reactionwheel.net)
		70 points by pagade on Sept 21, 2019 \| 6 comments
38.		Low-Memory Neural Network Training: A Technical Report (arxiv.org)
		58 points by wildermuthn on Sept 21, 2019 \| 3 comments
39.		Georgia's entire voter file potentially compromised after voting machine theft (wsbtv.com)
		111 points by anigbrowl on Sept 21, 2019 \| 61 comments
40.		Substantial Rise in Catalytic Converter Thefts (bbc.co.uk)
		53 points by Kaibeezy on Sept 21, 2019 \| 49 comments
41.		Apple neutered ad blockers in Safari, and users didn't say a thing (zdnet.com)
		190 points by jmsflknr on Sept 21, 2019 \| 171 comments
42.		America has two economies, and they’re diverging fast (brookings.edu)
		194 points by siberianbear on Sept 21, 2019 \| 156 comments
43.		Soviet Officer Stanislav Petrov, 'The Man Who Saved the World' (2017) (npr.org)
		128 points by Anon84 on Sept 21, 2019 \| 19 comments
44.		Overrated: Ludwig Wittgenstein (standpointmag.co.uk)
		35 points by ordiblah on Sept 20, 2019 \| 48 comments
45.		Comet gateway discovered to inner solar system (phys.org)
		30 points by dnetesn on Sept 20, 2019
46.		iPhone 11 has the fastest single-core performance of any Apple computer (twitter.com/elkmovie)
		128 points by tambourine_man on Sept 21, 2019 \| 89 comments
47.		Do Stocks Outperform Treasury Bills? (2018) (ssrn.com)
		59 points by ZeljkoS on Sept 21, 2019 \| 61 comments
48.		Bots Help Moderate Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.blog)
		37 points by foxfired on Sept 20, 2019 \| 14 comments
49.		Snowden: Why I Decided Not To Delete My Old Internet Posts (theintercept.com)
		78 points by LVB on Sept 21, 2019 \| 41 comments
50.		Inside Bill’s Brain (netflix.com)
		110 points by ceecko on Sept 21, 2019 \| 96 comments
51.		Painting with Math Formulas in Google Sheets [video] (youtube.com)
		26 points by dustmop on Sept 21, 2019 \| 2 comments
52.		More on Chrome updates and headers (2018) (unsearcher.org)
		44 points by Ratanay on Sept 21, 2019 \| 28 comments
53.		Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze (theguardian.com)
		55 points by blue_devil on Sept 21, 2019 \| 40 comments
54.		Three Mile Island closes for good (cbsnews.com)
		45 points by tannhaeuser on Sept 21, 2019 \| 60 comments
55.		Denmark's Jyske Bank lowers its negative rates on deposits (reuters.com)
		80 points by klauslovgreen on Sept 21, 2019 \| 111 comments
56.		Victoria's Angel (literaryreview.co.uk)
		16 points by pepys on Sept 19, 2019
57.		Appreciating R: The Ease of Testing Linear Model Assumptions (joshualoong.com)
		41 points by jtloong on Sept 20, 2019 \| 3 comments
58.		Aerial Saw Is Boon to Line Trimming (tdworld.com)
		27 points by akehrer on Sept 19, 2019 \| 12 comments
59.		Bioreactor Captures as Much Carbon as an Acre of Trees (futurism.com)
		59 points by vinnyglennon on Sept 21, 2019 \| 74 comments
60.		Hold That Recession: U.S. Indicators Are Trouncing Forecasts (bloomberg.com)
		44 points by undefined1 on Sept 21, 2019 \| 64 comments
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