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31.
Why the U.S. once set off a nuclear bomb in space (nationalgeographic.co.uk)
80 points by Hooke on Sept 2, 2021 | 56 comments
32.
GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website (gizmodo.com)
267 points by HiroProtagonist on Sept 4, 2021 | 366 comments
33.
Morse Code Palindromes (johndcook.com)
51 points by azhenley on Sept 4, 2021 | 8 comments
34.
The mysterious disappearance of the longest shrubbery (bbc.com)
54 points by benbreen on Sept 2, 2021 | 15 comments
35.
Bristol manuscript fragments of Merlin legend among the oldest of their kind (phys.org)
60 points by samizdis on Sept 2, 2021 | 9 comments
36.
Lessons Learned from Two Years as a Data Scientist (dawndrain.github.io)
141 points by jessedrain on Sept 2, 2021 | 83 comments
37.
Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes (utcc.utoronto.ca)
74 points by zdw on Sept 2, 2021 | 43 comments
38.
Why do they burn a man at Burning Man? (tedgioia.substack.com)
97 points by jger15 on Sept 4, 2021 | 114 comments
39.
Flowers Make a Nice Gift (echevarria.io)
214 points by ivanech on Sept 4, 2021 | 139 comments
40.
The little film SLR released a decade too early (kosmofoto.com)
33 points by Tomte on Sept 3, 2021 | 6 comments
41.
An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions a Year (2014) (epi.org)
201 points by paulpauper on Sept 4, 2021 | 111 comments
42.
A Brief, Fascinating History of Ambergris (smithsonianmag.com)
38 points by pseudolus on Sept 4, 2021 | 17 comments
43.
BigDecimal – JavaScript Polyfill for proposed Decimal data type (github.com/yaffle)
53 points by munrocket on Sept 3, 2021 | 18 comments
44.
The Invisible Rulebooks (rolltop-indigo.blogspot.com)
42 points by polm23 on Sept 4, 2021 | 1 comment
45.
The Age of the Essay (2004) (paulgraham.com)
34 points by Wowfunhappy on Sept 4, 2021 | 7 comments
46.
Sweden delivered the world’s first fossil fuel-free steel (forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter)
120 points by intellaughs on Sept 4, 2021 | 48 comments
47.
AR Art Exhibition in Germany (nrw-forum.de)
44 points by tmlye on Sept 2, 2021 | 1 comment
48.
New NTFS Read-Write Driver from Paragon Merged to Linux Kernel (kernel.org)
176 points by beshrkayali on Sept 4, 2021 | 56 comments
49.
ANA, JAL plan drone services to boost remote areas, own bottom lines (mainichi.jp)
34 points by tomohawk on Sept 4, 2021 | 6 comments
50.
Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and fixes typo so it works (pcgamer.com)
150 points by CarCooler on Sept 4, 2021 | 23 comments
51.
Theoretical modeling for cognitive science and psychology (computationalcognitivescience.github.io)
32 points by Schiphol on Sept 4, 2021 | 2 comments
52.
I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine (rachsmith.com)
144 points by unripe_syntax on Sept 3, 2021 | 154 comments
53.
Prevent duplicate cron job running (pankajtanwar.in)
24 points by the2ndfloorguy on Sept 1, 2021 | 45 comments
54.
Rescue of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman (wikipedia.org)
31 points by etherio on Sept 4, 2021 | 1 comment
55.
Unearthing the City Grid That Would Have Been in Central Park (2016) (newyorker.com)
40 points by walterbell on Sept 4, 2021 | 3 comments
56.
Ramp up your distributed transactions (bartoszsypytkowski.com)
44 points by yagizdegirmenci on Sept 3, 2021 | 3 comments
57.
PayPal Mafia (wikipedia.org)
110 points by domrdy on Sept 4, 2021 | 53 comments
58.
Scotland Joins the Growing Global Movement Towards a Four-Day Workweek (forbes.com/sites/jackkelly)
116 points by intellaughs on Sept 4, 2021 | 52 comments
59.
Y Combinator's Demo Day loses luster (axios.com)
125 points by samizdis on Sept 4, 2021 | 49 comments
60.
New Texas Abortion Law Likely to Unleash a Torrent of Lawsuits Against Education (eff.org)
118 points by gamontserrat on Sept 4, 2021 | 100 comments

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