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31.		How iOS 15 makes apps launch faster (medium.com/geekculture)
		154 points by jshchnz on July 5, 2021 \| 59 comments
32.		New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional (theregister.com)
		207 points by rcarmo on July 5, 2021 \| 82 comments
33.		Cryptocurrency Blockchains Don’t Need to Be Energy Intensive (ieee.org)
		146 points by pseudolus on July 5, 2021 \| 288 comments
34.		The Good and the Limitations of Github Copilot (hrithwik.me)
		110 points by hrithwikbha on July 5, 2021 \| 139 comments
35.		The stock market speaks: How Dr. Alchian learned to build the bomb (2014) (sciencedirect.com)
		78 points by mmarq on July 1, 2021 \| 25 comments
36.		A primer on carbon pricing and carbon border adjustments (td.com)
		85 points by toomuchtodo on July 5, 2021 \| 42 comments
37.		‘Highly Irregular’ Review: An Eloquent Confusion (wsj.com)
		37 points by pepys on July 4, 2021 \| 8 comments
38.		AtGames Legends virtual pinball review: The better pre-built choice mostly (arstechnica.com)
		38 points by Tomte on July 5, 2021 \| 7 comments
39.		Freespin: C64 demo running on 1541 floppy drive (quiss.org)
		174 points by matthiaskramm on July 3, 2021 \| 30 comments
40.		World’s largest ever four day week trial in Iceland ‘overwhelming success’ (independent.co.uk)
		207 points by toomuchtodo on July 5, 2021 \| 120 comments
41.		European plan for gigantic new gravitational wave detector passes milestone (sciencemag.org)
		107 points by rbanffy on July 5, 2021 \| 87 comments
42.		Shadows Walking: With Wallace Stevens in New Haven (lareviewofbooks.org)
		31 points by samclemens on July 5, 2021 \| 1 comment
43.		Indiscriminate messaging and chatcontrol: Last chance to protest (patrick-breyer.de)
		237 points by ColinWright on July 5, 2021 \| 104 comments
44.		Reverse engineering the Motorola Sensorhub: Part 1 (ristovski.github.io)
		54 points by zdw on July 4, 2021 \| 12 comments
45.		Python Best Practices for a New Project in 2021 (mitelman.engineering)
		276 points by jedwhite on July 5, 2021 \| 237 comments
46.		Implementing Stripe-like idempotency keys in Postgres (2017) (brandur.org)
		62 points by joshxyz on July 4, 2021 \| 2 comments
47.		Cloud-Native Database Systems (2021) (purdue.edu)
		78 points by anhldbk on July 5, 2021 \| 28 comments
48.		Graph Programming (2020) (hyro.ai)
		92 points by Zivgid on July 4, 2021 \| 11 comments
49.		Chisel/FIRRTL Hardware Compiler Framework (chisel-lang.org)
		59 points by lnyan on July 5, 2021 \| 16 comments
50.		Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundreds dead in heat wave (npr.org)
		134 points by pseudolus on July 5, 2021 \| 153 comments
51.		Desperate Measures (historytoday.com)
		23 points by Vigier on July 5, 2021 \| 5 comments
52.		The perils of PR (economist.com)
		54 points by hhs on July 5, 2021 \| 23 comments
53.		BrainFlow (github.com/brainflow-dev)
		56 points by Altmetr on July 5, 2021 \| 18 comments
54.		After pressuring telecom firms, Myanmar's junta bans executives from leaving (reuters.com)
		92 points by peterkelly on July 5, 2021 \| 50 comments
55.		Seeking Enlightenment: Denis Diderot’s Letter on the Blind (1749) (publicdomainreview.org)
		21 points by Hooke on July 4, 2021
56.		GitHub Copilot regurgitates valid secrets (twitter.com/alexjc)
		201 points by petulla on July 5, 2021 \| 143 comments
57.		Biogen used an FDA back channel to win approval of its Alzheimer’s drug (statnews.com)
		120 points by lighttower on July 5, 2021 \| 39 comments
58.		‘Idempotency-Key’ IETF Standards Draft (brandur.org)
		49 points by U1F984 on July 5, 2021 \| 1 comment
59.		In praise of the novelization, pop fiction’s least reputable genre (quillette.com)
		42 points by howrude on July 5, 2021 \| 23 comments
60.		The Internet Classics Archive (1994) (classics.mit.edu)
		46 points by prox on July 4, 2021 \| 12 comments
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