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31.The custom ringtone industry paved the way for the app store and then vanished (onezero.medium.com)
120 points by AlexDragusin on Aug 2, 2020 | 97 comments
32.Open Source PCR Thermocycler (openpcr.org)
59 points by apsec112 on Aug 3, 2020 | 36 comments
33.Coronavirus: Iran cover-up of deaths revealed by data leak (bbc.com)
186 points by thdespou on Aug 3, 2020 | 125 comments
34.U.S. FAA proposes requiring key Boeing 737 MAX design changes (reuters.com)
139 points by rbanffy on Aug 3, 2020 | 248 comments
35.Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business (adamwathan.me)
308 points by adamwathan on Aug 2, 2020 | 109 comments
36.Google ‘BigBird’ Achieves SOTA Performance on Long-Context NLP Tasks (syncedreview.com)
96 points by Yuqing7 on Aug 3, 2020 | 27 comments
37.Bill English has died (latimes.com)
115 points by gjvc on Aug 2, 2020 | 29 comments
38.How to Run Turing Machines on Encrypted Data [pdf] (iacr.org)
70 points by skissane on Aug 1, 2020 | 2 comments
39.Wakaresaseya: private agents hired to end relationships (bbc.com)
219 points by pseudolus on Aug 3, 2020 | 143 comments
40.The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple (bbc.com)
185 points by bdz on Aug 2, 2020 | 130 comments
41.Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf] (ams.org)
74 points by benbreen on Aug 1, 2020 | 30 comments
42.A Close Call: How a Near Failure Propelled Me to Succeed [pdf] (ams.org)
63 points by noch on Aug 3, 2020 | 34 comments
43.PostgreSQL beginner guide (knowledgepill.it)
238 points by lukasbar on Aug 3, 2020 | 67 comments
44.Why aren’t we talking more about airborne transmission? (theatlantic.com)
301 points by KoftaBob on Aug 3, 2020 | 279 comments
45.Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal (reuters.com)
183 points by kumaranvpl on Aug 3, 2020 | 373 comments
46.Breaking into ASOS (os2museum.com)
41 points by kencausey on Aug 2, 2020 | 17 comments
47.Why Can't We All Just Get Along? Uncertain Biological Basis of Morality (2013) (theatlantic.com)
69 points by Hooke on Aug 2, 2020 | 65 comments
48.MNT Reform open source laptop with trackball (mntre.com)
94 points by brian_herman on Aug 3, 2020 | 31 comments
49.Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more marketing than medical evidence (cebm.net)
114 points by DanBC on Aug 3, 2020 | 87 comments
50.Julia 1.5 Highlights (julialang.org)
267 points by tosh on Aug 3, 2020 | 148 comments
51.Justice Department is scrutinizing takeover of Credit Karma by Intuit (propublica.org)
172 points by jbegley on Aug 3, 2020 | 81 comments
52.KLM to Lay Off 5k Employees Due to Covid-19 (kokpitherald.com)
89 points by cockpitherald on Aug 3, 2020 | 77 comments
53.Lessons from the use of personal knowledge questions at Google (2015) [pdf] (googleusercontent.com)
79 points by tptacek on Aug 2, 2020 | 36 comments
54.Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type Safety and Rust (thenewstack.io)
151 points by rsecora on Aug 3, 2020 | 228 comments
55.Live HDR+ and Dual Exposure Controls on Pixel 4 and 4a (googleblog.com)
74 points by theafh on Aug 3, 2020 | 41 comments
56.One year of automatic DB migrations from Git (abe-winter.github.io)
50 points by awinter-py on Aug 3, 2020 | 39 comments
57.Racket 7.8 (racket-lang.org)
171 points by samth on Aug 3, 2020 | 30 comments
58.Interviewing the “Passé” Way, For a Reason (no-kill-switch.ghost.io)
25 points by liveweird on Aug 2, 2020 | 47 comments
59.Lord and Taylor, Oldest U.S. Department Store, Files Bankruptcy (bnnbloomberg.ca)
77 points by gbourne on Aug 2, 2020 | 74 comments
60.Anachro-PC – The Anachronistic Personal Computer (jamesmunns.com)
55 points by MindGods on July 31, 2020 | 12 comments

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