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31.		FBI probe: nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction of original shipment (reuters.com)
		235 points by yyyk on July 31, 2021 \| 166 comments
32.		Platform teaches nonexperts to use machine learning (cornell.edu)
		62 points by PaulHoule on July 30, 2021 \| 13 comments
33.		Daniel Hale Receives 45-Month Sentence for Releasing Drone Documents (thedissenter.org)
		293 points by yesenadam on July 31, 2021 \| 173 comments
34.		AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them helped (technologyreview.com)
		151 points by gumby on July 30, 2021 \| 116 comments
35.		Firefox lost 50M users since 2019 (firefox.com)
		377 points by freediver on July 31, 2021 \| 598 comments
36.		Algorithmic Complexity of Left-Pad (2016) (accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com)
		68 points by goranmoomin on July 31, 2021 \| 25 comments
37.		Yi – The Haskell-Scriptable Editor (github.com/yi-editor)
		64 points by pabs3 on July 31, 2021 \| 4 comments
38.		Department of Justice Statement on SolarWinds Update (justice.gov)
		101 points by afrcnc on July 31, 2021 \| 19 comments
39.		Italian Pronunciation: A Primer for Singers (2016) (stanford.edu)
		61 points by AceyMan on July 31, 2021 \| 47 comments
40.		Why Programmer-Specified Aliasing Is a Bad Idea (2004) [pdf] (psu.edu)
		39 points by tjalfi on July 30, 2021 \| 26 comments
41.		Fencers Refused to Fight. Then Came the Rule That Changed the Sport (wsj.com)
		71 points by CaliforniaKarl on July 31, 2021 \| 86 comments
42.		Strict memcpy() bounds checking for the Linux kernel (lwn.net)
		70 points by pabs3 on July 31, 2021 \| 43 comments
43.		Safari extension rejected because developer not “reputable” (twitter.com/thomasareed)
		203 points by ksec on July 31, 2021 \| 91 comments
44.		Show HN: PaperDelivery – fetch articles from your Twitter feed (paperdelivery.co)
		49 points by lonesword on July 31, 2021 \| 28 comments
45.		Recursion in SQL Explained Visually (2020) (denis-lukichev.medium.com)
		108 points by Tomte on July 31, 2021 \| 11 comments
46.		A century of science fiction that changed how we think about the environment (mitpress.mit.edu)
		47 points by conanxin on July 31, 2021 \| 5 comments
47.		Single-celled organism has evolved a natural mechanical computer (newscientist.com)
		61 points by vijayr02 on July 30, 2021 \| 40 comments
48.		Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor (arxiv.org)
		63 points by kordlessagain on July 31, 2021 \| 6 comments
49.		DNS Privacy Considerations (rfc-editor.org)
		59 points by mooreds on July 30, 2021 \| 32 comments
50.		Benchmarking Your Ruby with time_up (testdouble.com)
		34 points by mooreds on July 30, 2021 \| 3 comments
51.		300 Megawatt Tesla battery catches fire (drive.com.au)
		82 points by Thorentis on July 30, 2021 \| 119 comments
52.		The Human Brain in Numbers: A Linearly Scaled-Up Primate Brain (2009) (nih.gov)
		46 points by graderjs on July 31, 2021 \| 24 comments
53.		Mirror image DNA polymerase has been engineered (twitter.com/eigenrobot)
		53 points by apsec112 on July 30, 2021 \| 20 comments
54.		Murray's jailing is latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism (jonathan-cook.net)
		106 points by k1m on July 31, 2021 \| 41 comments
55.		How to become a bad theoretical physicist (2017) (uu.nl)
		39 points by alokrai on July 31, 2021 \| 32 comments
56.		Current Stimulation of the Midbrain Nucleus in Pigeons for Avian Flight Control (mdpi.com)
		22 points by tjalfi on July 30, 2021 \| 10 comments
57.		The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea (vice.com)
		91 points by artfulhippo on July 31, 2021 \| 56 comments
58.		Comma Three Devkit (comma.ai)
		95 points by roborovskis on July 31, 2021 \| 60 comments
59.		In-Browser OCR (ian-nai.github.io)
		49 points by gitgud on July 31, 2021 \| 22 comments
60.		Better Business Intelligence in Elixir with Livebook (fly.io)
		47 points by sergiomattei on July 31, 2021 \| 7 comments
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