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1861.

A Circumplanetary Disk Around PDS70 C [pdf] (eso.org)

72 points by leephillips on Aug 19, 2021 | 15 comments

1862.

A giant crawling brain: the world of termites (2018) (theguardian.com)

72 points by NotSwift on Aug 6, 2021 | 14 comments

1863.

Data Wrangler (observablehq.com)

72 points by polm23 on Aug 21, 2021 | 8 comments

1864.

Secret IRS Files Reveal How Ultrawealthy Gained by Trump “Big Beautiful Tax Cut” (propublica.org)

72 points by DocFeind on Aug 11, 2021 | 2 comments

1865.

I didn’t know how to write about my sister’s death, so I had AI do it for me (believermag.com)

71 points by gozzoo on Aug 14, 2021 | 108 comments

1866.

YAML and Configuration Files (utcc.utoronto.ca)

71 points by signa11 on Aug 14, 2021 | 93 comments

1867.

Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011) (kalzumeus.com)

71 points by Donckele on Aug 19, 2021 | 89 comments

1868.

Ultraprocessed Foods Now Comprise 2/3 of Calories in Children and Teen Diets (now.tufts.edu)

71 points by prostoalex on Aug 17, 2021 | 82 comments

1869.

Please, stop forcing a dark theme on a web-site visitors

71 points by Mikho on Aug 23, 2021 | 79 comments

1870.

An Animal’s Place (2002) (michaelpollan.com)

71 points by cheese_goddess on Aug 2, 2021 | 67 comments

1871.

Handful of cities driving urban greenhouse gas emissions (reuters.com)

71 points by ilamont on Aug 9, 2021 | 66 comments

1872.

Firefighters bring large battery fire near Geelong under control (news.cfa.vic.gov.au)

71 points by doener on Aug 3, 2021 | 63 comments

1873.

Music streaming payouts comparison (freeyourmusic.com)

71 points by bartoszhernas on Aug 30, 2021 | 61 comments

1874.

More and more humans are growing an extra artery, showing we're still evolving (sciencealert.com)

71 points by donatzsky on Aug 26, 2021 | 43 comments

1875.

Better Coordination, or Better Software? (jessitron.com)

71 points by mooreds on Aug 24, 2021 | 22 comments

1876.

Practical introduction to algebraic datatypes (ADTs) in TypeScript (medium.com)

71 points by elnygren on Aug 10, 2021 | 21 comments

1877.

The Official Aztec C Online Museum (2009) (aztecmuseum.ca)

71 points by elvis70 on Aug 9, 2021 | 19 comments

1878.

Burning Out and Finding Stability (2019) (destroytoday.com)

71 points by absolute100 on Aug 30, 2021 | 17 comments

1879.

The radical power of the book index (prospectmagazine.co.uk)

71 points by diodorus on Aug 27, 2021 | 13 comments

1880.

NIST’s Quantum Crystal Could Be a New Dark Matter Sensor (nist.gov)

71 points by geox on Aug 5, 2021 | 10 comments

1881.

Creating a VPN Gateway with a Unikernel Running WireGuard (nanovms.com)

71 points by eyberg on Aug 30, 2021 | 10 comments

1882.

The Anglo-Saxon Classroom (historytoday.com)

71 points by Thevet on Aug 17, 2021 | 7 comments

1883.

Show HN: Learn to identify the birds at any location (github.com)

71 points by Myrmornis on Aug 4, 2021 | 5 comments

1884.

Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse (theguardian.com)

71 points by bifftastic on Aug 5, 2021 | 1 comments

1885.

Palantir bought $50M in gold bars in August as cash pile grows (cnbc.com)

70 points by hncurious on Aug 17, 2021 | 73 comments

1886.

The new chief chaplain at Harvard is an atheist (nytimes.com)

70 points by bookofjoe on Aug 29, 2021 | 68 comments

1887.

Contract by Email (writing.kemitchell.com)

70 points by feross on Aug 12, 2021 | 67 comments

1888.

Adidas ends Reebok era with $2.5B sale to Authentic Brands (reuters.com)

70 points by keiferski on Aug 12, 2021 | 67 comments

1889.

Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites (bleepingcomputer.com)

70 points by Pick-A-Hill2019 on Aug 13, 2021 | 40 comments

1890.

When correlation is better than causation (narrator.ai)

70 points by mattjstar on Aug 27, 2021 | 37 comments