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1951.

Google refused to call out China over disinformation about Hong Kong (businessinsider.com)

55 points by ganeshkrishnan on Aug 23, 2019 | 17 comments

1952.

Ray tracing in Excel (pcgamer.com)

55 points by Impossible on Aug 22, 2019 | 16 comments

1953.

Chess2vec: Learning Vector Representations for Chess (2018) [pdf] (berkkapicioglu.com)

55 points by polm23 on Aug 16, 2019 | 14 comments

1954.

List of BBC Web Pages Removed from Google's Search Results During July 2019 (bbc.co.uk)

55 points by infodocket on Aug 21, 2019 | 14 comments

1955.

Using Wall Street secrets to reduce the cost of cloud infrastructure (techxplore.com)

55 points by dnetesn on Aug 17, 2019 | 11 comments

1956.

General Balanced Trees (1999) [pdf] (user.it.uu.se)

55 points by brudgers on Aug 17, 2019 | 11 comments

1957.

ICFP (International Conference on Functional Programming) 2019 Proceedings (dl.acm.org)

55 points by matt_d on Aug 3, 2019 | 9 comments

1958.

Humans Migrated to Mongolia Much Earlier Than Previously Believed (ucdavis.edu)

55 points by haditab on Aug 17, 2019 | 9 comments

1959.

Dividing Droplets Could Explain Origin of Life (quantamagazine.org)

55 points by eaguyhn on Aug 27, 2019 | 8 comments

1960.

MakerLisp Machine: An EZ80 CPU Card Running Bare-Metal Lisp [video] (youtube.com)

55 points by lelf on Aug 4, 2019 | 7 comments

1961.

Europe's record heat melted Swiss glaciers (sciencemag.org)

55 points by reddotX on Aug 5, 2019 | 6 comments

1962.

The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks (krebsonsecurity.com)

55 points by thecybernerd on Aug 19, 2019 | 1 comments

1963.

Experimental PlayStation 4 Emulator (github.com)

55 points by Aaronmacaron on Aug 11, 2019 | 0 comments

1964.

Why Don’t People Talk About Breaking Up Microsoft? (truthonthemarket.com)

54 points by alecstapp on Aug 12, 2019 | 71 comments

1965.

The ‘circle of trust’ behind the world’s first gene-edited babies (sciencemag.org)

54 points by sohkamyung on Aug 27, 2019 | 70 comments

1966.

How close are we to 3D printing the human heart? (humanbioscience.org)

54 points by benzine on Aug 15, 2019 | 39 comments

1967.

Jobs and Woz (2011) (filfre.net)

54 points by pmoriarty on Aug 18, 2019 | 38 comments

1968.

Rediscovering rules for ancient board games (vice.com)

54 points by elorant on Aug 23, 2019 | 26 comments

1969.

Dan Bunten and M.U.L.E. (2013) (filfre.net)

54 points by pmoriarty on Aug 14, 2019 | 19 comments

1970.

Google DeepMind Co-Founder Placed on Leave from AI Lab (bloomberg.com)

54 points by situational87 on Aug 21, 2019 | 19 comments

1971.

It may be possible to extract electricity directly from damp air (economist.com)

54 points by jkuria on Aug 3, 2019 | 15 comments

1972.

What is Haberman? (regexking.info)

54 points by dhotson on Aug 19, 2019 | 10 comments

1973.

Fires in Brazil (earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

54 points by turrini on Aug 22, 2019 | 7 comments

1974.

The Usefulness of Reinforcement Learning in Finance (2018) [pdf] (iaqf.org)

54 points by asimjalis on Aug 14, 2019 | 5 comments

1975.

Greek Artist Takis, Who Used Magnets to Create Pioneering Kinetic Art, Has Died (news.artnet.com)

54 points by mturmon on Aug 10, 2019 | 4 comments

1976.

David Koch, billionaire industrialist and Republican mega donor, dies aged 79 (theguardian.com)

54 points by edward on Aug 23, 2019 | 0 comments

1977.

Uber and Lyft Investors Are Looking for Signs of a Détente (bloomberg.com)

53 points by buboard on Aug 4, 2019 | 105 comments

1978.

The Next Recession Will Be About Sovereign Debt (cassandracapital.net)

53 points by joshuafkon on Aug 26, 2019 | 80 comments

1979.

How ‘Am I the Asshole?’ became the internet’s most profound query (dailydot.com)

53 points by starpilot on Aug 11, 2019 | 72 comments

1980.

Study shows e-bike riders get more exercise than cyclists (electrek.co)

53 points by kensai on Aug 11, 2019 | 66 comments