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31.Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered? [ext]
392 points by 0mbre on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 269 comments [ext]
32.Walking Britain’s ‘deadliest path’ (washingtonpost.com)
63 points by pseudolus on July 28, 2019 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
33.What Hokusai’s Great Wave tells us about museums, copyright, online collections (medium.com/open-glam)
106 points by bryanrasmussen on July 28, 2019 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
4. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 120 days ago | hide | 105 comments
34.Work on production line of Boeing 737 Max ‘not adequately funded’ (bbc.co.uk)
243 points by ksajadi on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 136 comments [ext]
35.Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019 (treasury.gov.au)
155 points by darcys22 on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 205 comments [ext]
36.Data Engineering Cookbook (github.com/andkret)
382 points by charlysl on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
7. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
37.Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail (github.com/notqmail)
64 points by zdw on July 28, 2019 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
38.Suicide Attempters’ Long-Term Survival (hsph.harvard.edu)
145 points by EndXA on July 28, 2019 [ext] | 207 comments [ext]
39.Ask HN: Best Lisp for software development? [ext]
168 points by foobar123321 on July 28, 2019 [ext] | 133 comments [ext]
10. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 57 days ago | hide | 155 comments
40.Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications (henrikwarne.com)
169 points by rspivak on July 28, 2019 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
41.Gubernator: Cloud-Native Distributed Rate Limiting for Microservices (mailgun.com)
61 points by medmunds on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
42.Lahja – A generic event bus implementation written in Python (github.com/ethereum)
148 points by cburgdorf on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
13. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
43.RISC Is Unscalable (blackhole12.com)
192 points by signa11 on July 28, 2019 [ext] | 135 comments [ext]
44.More Older Couples Stay Together Because They Live Apart (wsj.com)
130 points by ytNumbers on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
45.OpenPDF 1.3.0 (github.com/librepdf)
191 points by roschdal on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
16. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
46.GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea (techcrunch.com)
284 points by jmsflknr on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 300 comments [ext]
47.Slack was down (slack.com)
308 points by geerlingguy on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 232 comments [ext]
48.A Shipwreck, 500 Years Old, Appears on the Baltic Seabed (nytimes.com)
68 points by curtis on July 27, 2019 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
19. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
49.Downward Mobility (1982) (nymag.com)
53 points by aniham on July 28, 2019 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
50.Ohio passes energy bill that bails out nuclear and coal plants, guts renewables (vox.com)
126 points by chdaniel on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
51.Polyscope: a C++ viewer and UI for the rapid prototyping of geometric algorithms (polyscope.run)
66 points by espeed on July 27, 2019 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
22. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
52.Improved seam carving with forward energy (avikdas.com)
93 points by akdas on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
53.Introduction to Decentralisation (ledgerpath.com)
77 points by theocs on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
54.Senior Citizens Struggle with Suicide as Loneliness and Isolation Set In (npr.org)
127 points by wallflower on July 28, 2019 [ext] | 161 comments [ext]
25. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 71 days ago | hide | 174 comments
55.Vahan (YC S19) is helping low-skilled workers in India find jobs on WhatsApp (techcrunch.com)
52 points by jmsflknr on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
56.America’s packaged food supply is ultra-processed (northwestern.edu)
68 points by xbeta on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
57.You Say What You Eat (archaeology.org)
80 points by 80mph on July 28, 2019 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
28. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
58.The Dark Ages of AI (1985) [pdf] (semanticscholar.org)
85 points by fpoling on July 28, 2019 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
59.Trump proposes forcing hospitals to disclose discount rates with insurers (wsj.com)
160 points by forgingahead on July 29, 2019 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
60.Engineers Don't Solve Problems (2018) (logicmag.io)
97 points by danielnixon on July 28, 2019 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
31. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments

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