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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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