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61.Rain at the Summit of Greenland (nsidc.org)
132 points by Kaibeezy on Aug 19, 2021 | 45 comments
62.California family dies under mysterious circumstances (npr.org)
112 points by pseudolus on Aug 20, 2021 | 137 comments
63.The geoglyph known as the Cerne Abbas Giant has a new estimated age (atlasobscura.com)
18 points by pepys on Aug 18, 2021 | 5 comments
64.Bats Love To Babble, Just Like Humans (npr.org)
36 points by pseudolus on Aug 20, 2021 | 6 comments
65. [flagged] Uber prices seem to increase when phone battery is low (twitter.com/nerdyandnatural)
190 points by eatonphil on Aug 20, 2021 | 121 comments
66.Free Software, not as in ‘free speech’, nor as in ‘free beer’ (ahmadhaghighi.com)
241 points by MrRolling on Aug 20, 2021 | 233 comments
67.Google is dismantling its health division (businessinsider.com)
145 points by ra7 on Aug 20, 2021 | 100 comments
68.Tesla AI Day [video] (tesla.com)
118 points by Geee on Aug 20, 2021 | 176 comments
69.A plant that cannot die (independent.co.uk)
52 points by midnightcity on Aug 20, 2021 | 10 comments
70.New SARS-CoV-2 variants have changed the pandemic. What will the virus do next? (sciencemag.org)
97 points by lnyan on Aug 20, 2021 | 23 comments
71.Hush-Hush Boom-Boom: Spymasters (lrb.co.uk)
25 points by jbegley on Aug 19, 2021
72.Apple's Past Sideloading Plans (macrumors.com)
94 points by mortenjorck on Aug 20, 2021 | 7 comments
73. [dupe] Rain falls on peak of Greenland ice cap for first time on record (theguardian.com)
54 points by perfunctory on Aug 20, 2021 | 2 comments
74.CFC ban bought us time to fight climate change, say scientists (bbc.co.uk)
53 points by montalbano on Aug 20, 2021 | 3 comments
75.Celebrating Gene Roddenberry's 100th Birthday (psychologytoday.com)
44 points by _Microft on Aug 19, 2021 | 55 comments
76.The Spine Collector (vulture.com)
21 points by drdee on Aug 18, 2021 | 4 comments
77.Scratching the surface: perf stat and Hyper-Threading (uninformativ.de)
26 points by zdw on Aug 20, 2021 | 2 comments
78.I won over $55M in the lottery, but didn’t tell my friends or family (marketwatch.com)
155 points by lxm on Aug 20, 2021 | 257 comments
79.Sad, lonely people more likely to be ‘natural’ social psychologists (2018) (yale.edu)
77 points by penguin_booze on Aug 20, 2021 | 71 comments
80. [dupe] Tesla AI Day Live Stream [video] (youtube.com)
64 points by jonbaer on Aug 20, 2021 | 63 comments
81.How database indexing works internally (blog.pankajtanwar.in)
70 points by the2ndfloorguy on Aug 19, 2021 | 24 comments
82.Ask HN: What LinkedIn alternatives don't suck?
58 points by LinkedInSucks on Aug 20, 2021 | 59 comments
83.Feeding cows seaweed cuts 99% of greenhouse gas emissions from their burps (independent.co.uk)
45 points by Tomte on Aug 20, 2021 | 59 comments
84.The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving (2019) (espn.com)
54 points by Tomte on Aug 19, 2021 | 102 comments
85.Human in Robot Costume Good Metaphor for How Close Tesla Is to A.I (thedrive.com)
42 points by tomohawk on Aug 20, 2021 | 13 comments
86. [flagged] SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are getting ‘out of control’ (independent.co.uk)
64 points by hiddencache on Aug 20, 2021 | 78 comments
87.Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’ (2020) (contexts.org)
86 points by rayiner on Aug 20, 2021 | 204 comments
88. [flagged] Apple forced an employee to handover “pics of my boobs” (twitter.com/ashleygjovik)
72 points by dlgeek on Aug 20, 2021 | 32 comments
89.What happens when all of your co-workers quit? (thecut.com)
66 points by rustoo on Aug 20, 2021 | 61 comments
90.Merchants can keep charging your card even if it's cancelled/expired (visa.com)
65 points by jongunter1 on Aug 20, 2021 | 54 comments

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