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4261.

Thousands of Patients Were Implanted with Defective Heart Pumps (propublica.org)

13 points by IfOnlyYouKnew on Aug 9, 2021 | 2 comments

4262.

Facebook Does Kill People (publicseminar.org)

13 points by cratermoon on Aug 13, 2021 | 2 comments

4263.

Tracking a Woolly Mammoth (biostat.washington.edu)

13 points by sohkamyung on Aug 13, 2021 | 2 comments

4264.

Afghanistan’s military collapse: Illicit deals and mass desertions (msn.com)

13 points by MilnerRoute on Aug 15, 2021 | 2 comments

4265.

Brownian Ratchet (en.wikipedia.org)

13 points by max_ on Aug 16, 2021 | 2 comments

4266.

We are no longer a serious people (thepullrequest.com)

13 points by Overton-Window on Aug 16, 2021 | 2 comments

4267.

Atlassian built a $50B+ acquisition-led growth engine (blog.toplyne.io)

13 points by arjuntoplyne on Aug 18, 2021 | 2 comments

4268.

The Beauty of Bézier Curves (youtube.com)

13 points by henning on Aug 19, 2021 | 2 comments

4269.

Google considered locking down sideloading on Android during Fortnite feud (9to5google.com)

13 points by vezycash on Aug 20, 2021 | 2 comments

4270.

Improving the Trust-On-First-Use authentication scheme with transparency (dlorenc.medium.com)

13 points by dlor on Aug 22, 2021 | 2 comments

4271.

It’s always DNS. A kubectl story (medium.com)

13 points by kiyanwang on Aug 22, 2021 | 2 comments

4272.

Solar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air (news.mit.edu)

13 points by rbanffy on Aug 22, 2021 | 2 comments

4273.

Periodic Table of Realtime: a compendium for all things event-driven (ably.com)

13 points by kiyanwang on Aug 22, 2021 | 2 comments

4274.

New .NET 6 APIs driven by the developer community (devblogs.microsoft.com)

13 points by pjmlp on Aug 23, 2021 | 2 comments

4275.

The Beauty of Bezier Curves [video] (youtube.com)

13 points by netgusto on Aug 29, 2021 | 2 comments

4276.

Arizona launches a bold new experiment to limit racist convictions (vox.com)

13 points by pseudolus on Aug 31, 2021 | 2 comments

4277.

It Was His Day Off. Then the Space Station Went for a Spin (nytimes.com)

13 points by belter on Aug 2, 2021 | 1 comments

4278.

New York Times Quashed Covid Origins Inquiry – The Spectator World (spectatorworld.com)

13 points by mrfusion on Aug 3, 2021 | 1 comments

4279.

Coming-out party for Universal Databases (tiledb.com)

13 points by john_kerl on Aug 5, 2021 | 1 comments

4280.

How Detroit residents are building their own internet (thehill.com)

13 points by rmason on Aug 8, 2021 | 1 comments

4281.

High-level overview of 3GPP IMS, VoLTE, VoWiFi [video] (people.osmocom.org)

13 points by pabs3 on Aug 14, 2021 | 1 comments

4282.

US investigates Autopilot after 11 Teslas crashed into emergency vehicles (arstechnica.com)

13 points by jaytaylor on Aug 16, 2021 | 1 comments

4283.

Positively Critical: WebPositive and Haiku (haiku-os.org)

13 points by bitigchi on Aug 16, 2021 | 1 comments

4284.

A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof–and Nobody Notices (wired.com)

13 points by rustoo on Aug 17, 2021 | 1 comments

4285.

How was the Soviet STRELA computer designed to function during a nuclear winter? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

13 points by freediver on Aug 17, 2021 | 1 comments

4286.

Veritasium: Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective [video] (youtube.com)

13 points by evanb on Aug 18, 2021 | 1 comments

4287.

Clean needles depend on the blue blood of horseshoe crabs (apnews.com)

13 points by geox on Aug 20, 2021 | 1 comments

4288.

Post-Vax Myocarditis Also Mild in Teens, Early Cases Suggest. Follow-Up Urged (medpagetoday.com)

13 points by walterbell on Aug 23, 2021 | 1 comments

4289.

A MySQL Alternative, Scale-Out Database Helps Xiaomi's Hyper Growth (en.pingcap.com)

13 points by jinqueeny on Aug 27, 2021 | 1 comments

4290.

China restricts kids’ online gaming to three hours a week (techcrunch.com)

13 points by tosh on Aug 30, 2021 | 1 comments