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31. NASA is looking for people who want to spend a year simulating a mission on Mars (theblaze.com)
133 points by RickJWagner on Aug 7, 2021 | 88 comments
32. Benjamin Banneker’s Broods of Cicadas (historytoday.com)
33 points by Petiver on Aug 5, 2021
33. The World’s Largest Astronomy Museum Opens Its Doors (architecturaldigest.com)
49 points by fortran77 on Aug 7, 2021 | 1 comment
34. Psychogeography: A Purposeful Drift Through the City (mitpress.mit.edu)
43 points by lermontov on Aug 6, 2021 | 5 comments
35. Ask HN: Inconsistent expression calculation between programming languages
83 points by mingodad on Aug 6, 2021 | 62 comments
36. Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to big infrastructure bill (techcrunch.com)
193 points by belter on Aug 7, 2021 | 126 comments
37. Squatting or Kneeling May Be Beneficial for Health (usc.edu)
98 points by lxm on Aug 7, 2021 | 87 comments
38. The Dead Mac Scrolls (1992) (archive.org)
69 points by ecliptik on Aug 7, 2021 | 12 comments
39. What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed? (thewalrus.ca)
97 points by pseudolus on Aug 7, 2021 | 217 comments
40. The Era of Cheap Natural Gas Ends as Prices Surge by 1000% (bloomberg.com)
172 points by montalbano on Aug 7, 2021 | 217 comments
41. What comes after open source? (2019) (denisnazarov.com)
55 points by simonpure on Aug 7, 2021 | 34 comments
42. Mixed views on new DNS top level domains (utcc.utoronto.ca)
60 points by goranmoomin on Aug 7, 2021 | 41 comments
43. The Mighty Fallen: Argentina and the Great Depression (historytoday.com)
59 points by Thevet on Aug 6, 2021 | 95 comments
44. Planning for Servers in 2022 and Beyond (servethehome.com)
67 points by vanburen on Aug 7, 2021 | 36 comments
45. Capturing the Disappearing Sounds of the Workplace (bbc.co.uk)
41 points by Kaibeezy on Aug 7, 2021 | 35 comments
46. My debloating experience with Poco F3 (mete.dev)
45 points by mtrcn on Aug 7, 2021 | 27 comments
47. Scientists make discovery of dead zones where nothing can live on two US coasts (thehill.com)
79 points by DocFeind on Aug 7, 2021 | 40 comments
48. A woman who rifles through New York’s garbage, exposing the city’s excesses (theguardian.com)
108 points by laurex on Aug 7, 2021 | 50 comments
49. World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast (afr.com)
130 points by jay_kyburz on Aug 7, 2021 | 138 comments
50. Captcha Patent Is an All-American Nightmare (eff.org)
115 points by CTOSian on Aug 7, 2021 | 26 comments
51. NPM silently suspends package adoption (twitter.com/andrewmd5)
77 points by Aloha on Aug 7, 2021 | 36 comments
52. World’s Oldest Coin Mint Discovered in 2,800-Year-Old Chinese Foundry (artnews.com)
50 points by pseudolus on Aug 7, 2021 | 10 comments
53. WeWork Book: The $10T Mirage (axios.com)
104 points by elsewhen on Aug 7, 2021 | 112 comments
54. Pandas Manual [pdf] (pydata.org)
56 points by agarren on Aug 7, 2021 | 68 comments
55. Homelessness is about housing (slowboring.com)
93 points by jseliger on Aug 6, 2021 | 155 comments
56. [flagged] Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens (2015) (plos.org)
90 points by jules-jules on Aug 7, 2021 | 81 comments
57. Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope (daringfireball.net)
103 points by amanzi on Aug 7, 2021 | 32 comments
58. Ultra Wide Monitors – A pain in the neck? (2020) (learnergo.com)
60 points by siva7 on Aug 7, 2021 | 88 comments
59. ‘Massive melting event’ sinks billions of tons of Greenland ice amid heat wave (accuweather.com)
86 points by vegetablepotpie on Aug 7, 2021 | 42 comments
60. Out of control and rising: why Bitcoin has Nigeria’s government in a panic (theguardian.com)
53 points by dsr12 on Aug 7, 2021 | 77 comments

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