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31.		Why did old phone numbers start with letters? (2015) (mentalfloss.com)
		87 points by thunderbong on Aug 31, 2023 \| 142 comments
32.		The End of the Googleverse (theverge.com)
		218 points by CharlesW on Aug 30, 2023 \| 278 comments
33.		Tell HN: UC Berkeley's CS61A/B/C are the best courses to learn CS and coding
		243 points by ggr2342 on Aug 31, 2023 \| 72 comments
34.		The Terraform Registry Terms of Service have been updated (github.com/opentffoundation)
		294 points by yankcrime on Aug 31, 2023 \| 132 comments
35.		IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it (theverge.com)
		245 points by rntn on Aug 31, 2023 \| 123 comments
36.		NASA officials sound alarm over future of the Deep Space Network (arstechnica.com)
		214 points by bpierre on Aug 31, 2023 \| 134 comments
37.		Docker Is Four Things (matthiasportzel.com)
		211 points by MatthiasPortzel on Aug 31, 2023 \| 218 comments
38.		Cheetah: A Lightweight Virtual Machine Manager for macOS (macspot.net)
		94 points by darcyliu on Aug 31, 2023 \| 53 comments
39.		The Tera Computer System (1990) (psu.edu)
		50 points by twoodfin on Aug 30, 2023 \| 21 comments
40.		Chandrayaan-3 confirms presence of sulfur and other elements on lunar South Pole (scienceswitch.com)
		209 points by conse_lad on Aug 31, 2023 \| 12 comments
41.		Shell abandons its plan to offset CO2 emissions (bloomberg.com)
		291 points by jatorre on Aug 31, 2023 \| 307 comments
42.		The case for Nushell (jntrnr.com)
		105 points by lukastyrychtr on Aug 29, 2023 \| 141 comments
43.		A case for dynamic scoring of high-skilled immigration (slowboring.com)
		78 points by btilly on Aug 30, 2023 \| 183 comments
44.		The boy who stole Half-Life 2 (2011) (eurogamer.net)
		190 points by grubbs on Aug 31, 2023 \| 94 comments
45.		The open source saxophone project (2017) (stohrermusic.com)
		66 points by georgeoliver on Aug 29, 2023 \| 11 comments
46.		Film Review: BlackBerry (anarchonomicon.substack.com)
		100 points by walterbell on Aug 29, 2023 \| 95 comments
47.		Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability (samiramly.com)
		128 points by jxmorris12 on Aug 30, 2023 \| 106 comments
48.		Sourcegraph: Incident involving unauthorized admin access (sourcegraph.com)
		81 points by 0xedb on Aug 30, 2023 \| 30 comments
49.		The Cynical Genius Illusion (2018) (sagepub.com)
		53 points by sebg on Aug 31, 2023 \| 34 comments
50.		Lego Ideas: Insect Collection – Botanicals meets animals (brothers-brick.com)
		76 points by sohkamyung on Aug 29, 2023 \| 17 comments
51.		Three Antiquities Traffickers and Their Fall from Grace (hyperallergic.com)
		37 points by Geekette on Aug 29, 2023 \| 21 comments
52.		Keep your files inside your VM (msimkunas.lt)
		85 points by exec1 on Aug 31, 2023 \| 71 comments
53.		The Decline and Rise of IBM (1996) (sloanreview.mit.edu)
		45 points by 1970-01-01 on Aug 31, 2023 \| 44 comments
54.		Goodreads is terrible for books – why can’t we all quit it? (thewalrus.ca)
		205 points by pseudolus on Aug 31, 2023 \| 208 comments
55.		Microsoft is unbundling Teams from Office in Europe to address regulator concern (theverge.com)
		155 points by rntn on Aug 31, 2023 \| 170 comments
56.		Produce HTML from S-Expressions (github.com/lelanthran)
		61 points by lelanthran on Aug 30, 2023 \| 61 comments
57.		AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5M Lines, Entire Linux Kernel at 34.8M (phoronix.com)
		148 points by TangerineDream on Aug 31, 2023 \| 73 comments
58.		Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents (facebookresearch.github.io)
		54 points by falkaer on Aug 31, 2023 \| 27 comments
59.		*@gmail.com (xkcd.com)
		222 points by ufjfjjfjfj on Aug 31, 2023 \| 202 comments
60.		Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification (theguardian.com)
		144 points by duringmath on Aug 30, 2023 \| 108 comments
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