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Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study (cbc.ca)
785 points by simonebrunozzi on Sept 27, 2019 | 368 comments
2.
New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases (sciencemag.org)
382 points by bookofjoe on Sept 26, 2019 | 217 comments
3.
The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (allthatsinteresting.com)
302 points by heshiebee on Sept 27, 2019 | 86 comments
4.
MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud (krebsonsecurity.com)
401 points by headalgorithm on Sept 27, 2019 | 244 comments
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Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 Max Crashes (wsj.com)
339 points by piccirello on Sept 27, 2019 | 308 comments
6.
Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018) (nytimes.com)
213 points by ignored on Sept 27, 2019 | 378 comments
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GitHub releases an ImageNet for code and a CodeSearchNet challenge (github.blog)
428 points by slewis on Sept 26, 2019 | 93 comments
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Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300M, then things got messy (cnn.com)
200 points by danso on Sept 27, 2019 | 272 comments
9.
SNES Cartridges and Enhancement Chips (twitter.com/i)
256 points by ilamont on Sept 27, 2019 | 110 comments
10.
An erroneous paper on religion and generosity is retracted (psychologytoday.com)
213 points by okfine on Sept 27, 2019 | 158 comments
11.
On Sharding (tbray.org)
205 points by Isofarro on Sept 27, 2019 | 40 comments
12.
Cormac McCarthy on how to write a science paper (nature.com)
326 points by danso on Sept 27, 2019 | 68 comments
13.
The Spinner (thespinner.net)
377 points by MaysonL on Sept 27, 2019 | 196 comments
14.
Crafting Interpreters: Closures (craftinginterpreters.com)
269 points by azhenley on Sept 27, 2019 | 60 comments
15.
Elements of Clojure (therepl.net)
381 points by tosh on Sept 27, 2019 | 69 comments
16.
Culture Fit Interview Questions (hire.google.com)
269 points by Raj7k on Sept 27, 2019 | 181 comments
17.
The One Man MMO Project (onemanmmo.com)
274 points by larksimian on Sept 27, 2019 | 117 comments
18.
Yogababble (profgalloway.com)
244 points by JumpCrisscross on Sept 27, 2019 | 86 comments
19.
Be wary of functions which take several parameters of the same type (cheney.net)
218 points by ngaut on Sept 26, 2019 | 234 comments
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The curious economics of being ripped off on holiday (timharford.com)
190 points by hhs on Sept 27, 2019 | 149 comments
21.
Facebook tries hiding Like counts to fight envy (techcrunch.com)
130 points by nradov on Sept 26, 2019 | 96 comments
22.
Application Layering – A Pattern for Extensible Elixir Application Design (aaronrenner.io)
193 points by aaronrenner on Sept 27, 2019 | 17 comments
23.
Self-serve first: an overlooked paradigm underlying great software companies (medium.com/gokulrajaram)
175 points by feross on Sept 26, 2019 | 49 comments
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Twitter launches its ‘Hide Replies’ feature in the US and Japan (techcrunch.com)
118 points by antibland on Sept 26, 2019 | 107 comments
25.
Upstreaming multipath TCP (lwn.net)
167 points by pabs3 on Sept 27, 2019 | 67 comments
26.
Black Blacker Than Vantablack (dezeen.com)
102 points by compilers on Sept 27, 2019 | 94 comments
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US doctors are hoping to start offering women vaginal fluid transplants (bbc.com)
107 points by Tomte on Sept 27, 2019 | 57 comments
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California's ‘Surprise’ Billing Law Is Protecting Patients and Angering Doctors (nytimes.com)
169 points by avocado4 on Sept 27, 2019 | 234 comments
29.
Web Development Simplified with Svelte (objectcomputing.com)
254 points by gavreh on Sept 26, 2019 | 159 comments
30.
Analysis of Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back Atari ST Floppy Disks (2009) (dmweb.free.fr)
76 points by userbinator on Sept 27, 2019 | 15 comments

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