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31.Why query planning for streaming systems is hard (scattered-thoughts.net)
116 points by simonz05 on Aug 15, 2021 | 10 comments
32.India is leading IPv6 migration with 61.67% adoption (aelius.com)
276 points by quaintdev on Aug 15, 2021 | 281 comments
33.Root cause of failure, root cause of success (surfingcomplexity.blog)
76 points by henrik_w on Aug 14, 2021 | 49 comments
34.Avoiding Founder Burnout (waseem.substack.com)
84 points by wdaher on Aug 14, 2021 | 14 comments
35.Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria, 12500 Years Ago (nature.com)
93 points by rbanffy on Aug 14, 2021 | 27 comments
πŸ“š. People Are Worried About Deleveraging - Bloomberg (archive.ph)
19 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 328 days ago | archive
36.Opus – an open source parallel corpus (nlpl.eu)
56 points by edward on Aug 14, 2021 | 9 comments
37.Lenovo Selling Linux Laptops Directly in the US (lenovo.com)
244 points by ekianjo on Aug 15, 2021 | 148 comments
38.Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps [video] (bbc.com)
168 points by tagawa on Aug 15, 2021 | 40 comments
39.The Construction of Bit Mixers (jonkagstrom.com)
53 points by ot on Aug 14, 2021 | 7 comments
40.What we can learn from Google Plus (2014) (intercom.com)
66 points by vincent_s on Aug 13, 2021 | 62 comments
πŸ“š. Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits? (dbreunig.com)
8 min read | by Drew Breunig | saved 221 days ago | archive
41.Yescrypt – Scalable KDF and password hashing scheme (openwall.com)
52 points by zdw on Aug 14, 2021 | 16 comments
42.Wigner Crystals (2017) (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
45 points by leephillips on Aug 15, 2021 | 8 comments
43.Fermat's Library: software to help illuminate academic papers (fermatslibrary.com)
53 points by cl3misch on Aug 14, 2021 | 9 comments
44.A man growing lettuce for space station salads (bbc.com)
78 points by hiddencache on Aug 15, 2021 | 24 comments
45.Carvana’s success rides on used-car loans (wsj.com)
60 points by bookofjoe on Aug 15, 2021 | 132 comments
πŸ“š. Solugen (centuryofbio.com)
15 min read | by Elliot Hershberg | saved 560 days ago | archive
46.What the interns have wrought, 2021 edition (janestreet.com)
95 points by yminsky on Aug 14, 2021 | 62 comments
47.Progress Beats Perfect (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
101 points by ingve on Aug 14, 2021 | 28 comments
48.β€˜Ten years ago this was science fiction’: the rise of weedkilling robots (theguardian.com)
123 points by edward on Aug 15, 2021 | 39 comments
49.How can I get this 8 year old VBA 64-bit compiler bug fixed? (stackoverflow.com)
146 points by segfaultbuserr on Aug 15, 2021 | 36 comments
50.BPF Isn't Just About Speed (2020) (pchaigno.github.io)
73 points by yagizdegirmenci on Aug 14, 2021
πŸ“š. Heroku Walked So Railway Can Run (blog.railway.com)
9 min read | by Angelo Saraceno | saved 19 days ago | archive
51.How to compare two PDF documents (eclecticlight.co)
95 points by ingve on Aug 14, 2021 | 30 comments
52.California's dry season is turning into a permanent state of being (phys.org)
132 points by boshomi on Aug 15, 2021 | 184 comments
53.The Case for Optimism (warpnews.org)
120 points by razin on Aug 15, 2021 | 94 comments
54.Porn Spam on Google Maps (shkspr.mobi)
172 points by edent on Aug 15, 2021 | 122 comments
55.Why airlines no longer use rear-engine planes (traveller.com.au)
135 points by Stratoscope on Aug 15, 2021 | 70 comments
πŸ“š. The Microstructure of Wealth Transfer in Prediction Markets (jbecker.dev)
13 min read | by Jonathan Becker | saved 51 days ago | archive
56.Ian Fleming and American intelligence (Part 1) (2011) (oup.com)
28 points by pepys on Aug 14, 2021 | 10 comments
57.Boeing to ground Starliner indefinitely until valve issue solved (arstechnica.com)
76 points by throwaway888abc on Aug 15, 2021 | 42 comments
58.A growing area of high-hazard clearcuts and plantations are fueling forest fires (focusonvictoria.ca)
45 points by luu on Aug 13, 2021 | 10 comments
59.As cargo shipments boom, ship strikes imperil whales worldwide (latimes.com)
69 points by blacktulip on Aug 15, 2021 | 50 comments
60.Bottled water is 3,500 times worse for the environment than tap water (euronews.com)
184 points by kitkat_new on Aug 15, 2021 | 206 comments
πŸ“š. Post 43: Intentionally Making Close Friends (neelnanda.io)
22 min read | by Neel Nanda | saved 334 days ago | 23% read | archive

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