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31.		SerenityOS: Graphical Unix-like operating system with classic 90s UI (serenityos.org)
		296 points by Santosh83 on Aug 17, 2021 \| 129 comments
32.		Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill (abc.net.au)
		243 points by bryanrasmussen on Aug 17, 2021 \| 218 comments
33.		Burning Buried Sunshine (2003) (maths.org)
		59 points by dredmorbius on Aug 17, 2021 \| 23 comments
34.		PureBasic switches to a C backend (purebasic.fr)
		84 points by svenfaw on Aug 17, 2021 \| 67 comments
35.		Homa, a transport protocol to replace TCP for low-latency RPC in data centers (micahlerner.com)
		80 points by mlerner on Aug 17, 2021 \| 41 comments
36.		Edward de Bono Obituary (theguardian.com)
		84 points by edward on Aug 15, 2021 \| 27 comments
37.		Lumen – Self-hosted Lisp for Lua and JavaScript (github.com/sctb)
		68 points by sudobash1 on Aug 16, 2021 \| 24 comments
38.		Human algorithms are contagious but not genetic (adamjuliangoldstein.com)
		63 points by goldfish on Aug 17, 2021 \| 13 comments
39.		How elephants avoid cancer (2015) (nature.com)
		126 points by signa11 on Aug 17, 2021 \| 31 comments
40.		EC2 Boot Time Benchmarking (daemonology.net)
		108 points by cperciva on Aug 16, 2021 \| 57 comments
41.		Go 1.17 Release Notes (golang.org)
		197 points by aofeisheng on Aug 16, 2021 \| 218 comments
42.		Occlusion-Aware Video Object Inpainting (kelei.site)
		65 points by lnyan on Aug 17, 2021 \| 2 comments
43.		Linux Kernel Defence Map (github.com/a13xp0p0v)
		107 points by ingve on Aug 15, 2021 \| 29 comments
44.		Let's write a compiler, part 4: Testing (briancallahan.net)
		96 points by ingve on Aug 17, 2021 \| 6 comments
45.		1997: Netscape Crossware vs. the Windows Web (webdevelopmenthistory.com)
		65 points by codetrotter on Aug 16, 2021 \| 5 comments
46.		Mailable Live Animals (usps.com)
		224 points by bobbiechen on Aug 17, 2021 \| 163 comments
47.		Git 2.33 (github.blog)
		179 points by mikevm on Aug 17, 2021 \| 59 comments
48.		Reversing LZ91 from Commander Keen (lodsb.com)
		75 points by samrussellbg on Aug 17, 2021 \| 17 comments
49.		The Use of Formal Representations in Interfaces (1999) [pdf] (andymatuschak.org)
		52 points by goranmoomin on Aug 17, 2021 \| 3 comments
50.		Dallas police lose 8TB of data, impacting criminal cases (theregister.com)
		203 points by _bz2r on Aug 17, 2021 \| 76 comments
51.		Optical adversarial attack can change the meaning of road signs (unite.ai)
		58 points by geox on Aug 16, 2021 \| 86 comments
52.		Big Oil methane emissions: ‘significant gap’ between reality and reporting (reuters.com)
		227 points by samizdis on Aug 17, 2021 \| 61 comments
53.		Endless Sky: an open source space trading and combat game (endless-sky.github.io)
		237 points by blopker on Aug 16, 2021 \| 74 comments
54.		Sony's Robot Dog, Aibo (theguardian.com)
		73 points by leancz on Aug 17, 2021 \| 50 comments
55.		Atlas robot does parkour (bostondynamics.com)
		221 points by azhenley on Aug 17, 2021 \| 233 comments
56.		Moving Avoids California Tax? Not So Fast (forbes.com/sites/robertwood)
		128 points by dmitrygr on Aug 16, 2021 \| 193 comments
57.		Improved C syntax highlighting for Vim (github.com/pulkomandy)
		65 points by app4soft on Aug 16, 2021 \| 30 comments
58.		What was the last breakthrough in computer programming? (2019) (quora.com)
		132 points by ColinWright on Aug 17, 2021 \| 223 comments
59.		The Federal Writers’ Project fueled the cultural ferment of the New Deal era (jacobinmag.com)
		34 points by acsillag on Aug 15, 2021 \| 23 comments
60.		Evidence of fraud in an influential field experiment about dishonesty (datacolada.org)
		161 points by DominikPeters on Aug 17, 2021 \| 51 comments
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