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31.		The custom ringtone industry paved the way for the app store and then vanished (onezero.medium.com)
		120 points by AlexDragusin on Aug 2, 2020 \| 97 comments
32.		Open Source PCR Thermocycler (openpcr.org)
		59 points by apsec112 on Aug 3, 2020 \| 36 comments
33.		Coronavirus: Iran cover-up of deaths revealed by data leak (bbc.com)
		186 points by thdespou on Aug 3, 2020 \| 125 comments
34.		U.S. FAA proposes requiring key Boeing 737 MAX design changes (reuters.com)
		139 points by rbanffy on Aug 3, 2020 \| 248 comments
35.		Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business (adamwathan.me)
		308 points by adamwathan on Aug 2, 2020 \| 109 comments
36.		Google ‘BigBird’ Achieves SOTA Performance on Long-Context NLP Tasks (syncedreview.com)
		96 points by Yuqing7 on Aug 3, 2020 \| 27 comments
37.		Bill English has died (latimes.com)
		115 points by gjvc on Aug 2, 2020 \| 29 comments
38.		How to Run Turing Machines on Encrypted Data [pdf] (iacr.org)
		70 points by skissane on Aug 1, 2020 \| 2 comments
39.		Wakaresaseya: private agents hired to end relationships (bbc.com)
		219 points by pseudolus on Aug 3, 2020 \| 143 comments
40.		The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple (bbc.com)
		185 points by bdz on Aug 2, 2020 \| 130 comments
41.		Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf] (ams.org)
		74 points by benbreen on Aug 1, 2020 \| 30 comments
42.		A Close Call: How a Near Failure Propelled Me to Succeed [pdf] (ams.org)
		63 points by noch on Aug 3, 2020 \| 34 comments
43.		PostgreSQL beginner guide (knowledgepill.it)
		238 points by lukasbar on Aug 3, 2020 \| 67 comments
44.		Why aren’t we talking more about airborne transmission? (theatlantic.com)
		301 points by KoftaBob on Aug 3, 2020 \| 279 comments
45.		Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal (reuters.com)
		183 points by kumaranvpl on Aug 3, 2020 \| 373 comments
46.		Breaking into ASOS (os2museum.com)
		41 points by kencausey on Aug 2, 2020 \| 17 comments
47.		Why Can't We All Just Get Along? Uncertain Biological Basis of Morality (2013) (theatlantic.com)
		69 points by Hooke on Aug 2, 2020 \| 65 comments
48.		MNT Reform open source laptop with trackball (mntre.com)
		94 points by brian_herman on Aug 3, 2020 \| 31 comments
49.		Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more marketing than medical evidence (cebm.net)
		114 points by DanBC on Aug 3, 2020 \| 87 comments
50.		Julia 1.5 Highlights (julialang.org)
		267 points by tosh on Aug 3, 2020 \| 148 comments
51.		Justice Department is scrutinizing takeover of Credit Karma by Intuit (propublica.org)
		172 points by jbegley on Aug 3, 2020 \| 81 comments
52.		KLM to Lay Off 5k Employees Due to Covid-19 (kokpitherald.com)
		89 points by cockpitherald on Aug 3, 2020 \| 77 comments
53.		Lessons from the use of personal knowledge questions at Google (2015) [pdf] (googleusercontent.com)
		79 points by tptacek on Aug 2, 2020 \| 36 comments
54.		Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type Safety and Rust (thenewstack.io)
		151 points by rsecora on Aug 3, 2020 \| 228 comments
55.		Live HDR+ and Dual Exposure Controls on Pixel 4 and 4a (googleblog.com)
		74 points by theafh on Aug 3, 2020 \| 41 comments
56.		One year of automatic DB migrations from Git (abe-winter.github.io)
		50 points by awinter-py on Aug 3, 2020 \| 39 comments
57.		Racket 7.8 (racket-lang.org)
		171 points by samth on Aug 3, 2020 \| 30 comments
58.		Interviewing the “Passé” Way, For a Reason (no-kill-switch.ghost.io)
		25 points by liveweird on Aug 2, 2020 \| 47 comments
59.		Lord and Taylor, Oldest U.S. Department Store, Files Bankruptcy (bnnbloomberg.ca)
		77 points by gbourne on Aug 2, 2020 \| 74 comments
60.		Anachro-PC – The Anachronistic Personal Computer (jamesmunns.com)
		55 points by MindGods on July 31, 2020 \| 12 comments
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