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August 2019 Archive
481.
150 Meter SpaceX Starhopper Test [video] (youtube.com)
217 points by themgt on Aug 27, 2019 | 69 comments
482.
A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (2017) (elpais.com)
216 points by JetSpiegel on Aug 22, 2019 | 139 comments
483.
Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest (bbc.com)
216 points by andreiursan on Aug 21, 2019 | 122 comments
484.
America’s elderly seem more screen-obsessed than the young (economist.com)
216 points by CPAhem on Aug 15, 2019 | 101 comments
485.
Chandrayaan-2 Update: Lunar Orbit Insertion (isro.gov.in)
216 points by signa11 on Aug 20, 2019 | 42 comments
486.
Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer (vice.com)
215 points by kccqzy on Aug 11, 2019 | 150 comments
487.
Levenshtein Distance (en.wikipedia.org)
215 points by tosh on Aug 22, 2019 | 126 comments
488.
Punpedia – The Online Encyclopedia of Puns (punpedia.org)
215 points by curtis on Aug 3, 2019 | 54 comments
489.
Open Startups List (open-startups.xyz)
215 points by ferminrp on Aug 11, 2019 | 35 comments
490.
The first solar road has turned out to be a disappointing failure (sciencealert.com)
214 points by prostoalex on Aug 17, 2019 | 337 comments
491.
Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to GDPR fine (bbc.com)
214 points by rbanffy on Aug 30, 2019 | 172 comments
492.
Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks (techcrunch.com)
214 points by cloud_thrasher on Aug 7, 2019 | 126 comments
493.
What has to happen with Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space (utcc.utoronto.ca)
214 points by stargrave on Aug 8, 2019 | 88 comments
494.
Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity (vanityfair.com)
213 points by AndrewBissell on Aug 25, 2019 | 266 comments
495.
Swap, swap, swap, and bad places to work (rachelbythebay.com)
213 points by r4um on Aug 9, 2019 | 119 comments
496.
Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B (techcrunch.com)
213 points by sgloutnikov on Aug 21, 2019 | 113 comments
497.
Video Game Preservation – An archive of commercial video game source code (github.com)
213 points by groundlogic on Aug 17, 2019 | 41 comments
498.
How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be (figma.com)
213 points by twog on Aug 8, 2019 | 37 comments
499.
Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing (sloanreview.mit.edu)
212 points by sarapeyton on Aug 27, 2019 | 257 comments
500.
Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens (taxwatchuk.org)
212 points by danso on Aug 4, 2019 | 204 comments
501.
WeWork IPO Shows It's the Most Magical Unicorn (bloomberg.com)
212 points by jpm_sd on Aug 14, 2019 | 168 comments
502.
Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn? (nytimes.com)
212 points by mmq on Aug 9, 2019 | 159 comments
503.
AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1 (status.aws.amazon.com)
212 points by jacobwg on Aug 31, 2019 | 146 comments
504.
Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored by Chinese students' (bbc.co.uk)
212 points by metaphysics on Aug 2, 2019 | 143 comments
505.
Amazon's Anti-Union Training Video [video] (youtube.com)
212 points by danielinoa on Aug 3, 2019 | 127 comments
506.
How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness (lesswrong.com)
212 points by astrofinch on Aug 31, 2019 | 114 comments
507.
Experimental USAF space plane breaks record for orbital spaceflight (techcrunch.com)
212 points by lil-scamp on Aug 26, 2019 | 108 comments
508.
Interviews with programming language creators (2010) [pdf] (math.bas.bg)
212 points by MrXOR on Aug 26, 2019 | 44 comments
509.
Seashells – Pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real time (seashells.io)
212 points by pcr910303 on Aug 6, 2019 | 42 comments
510.
Release of “13 Reasons Why” Associated with Increase in Youth Suicide Rates (nimh.nih.gov)
211 points by newsreview1 on Aug 30, 2019 | 253 comments