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61.		"Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers" (threadreaderapp.com)
		141 points by agluszak 8 months ago \| 4 comments
62.		Britain to use "AI" to answer taxpayer's letters (telegraph.co.uk)
		40 points by graemep 8 months ago \| 40 comments
63.		Box2D 3.0 Released (box2d.org)
		60 points by bun_terminator 8 months ago \| 16 comments
64.		New research on why Cahokia Mounds civilization left (scitechdaily.com)
		31 points by historynops 8 months ago \| 15 comments
65.		Analysis of unicorn startup founders (slimsaas.com)
		62 points by NoSEVDev 8 months ago \| 55 comments
66.		Takeaways from the Vision Pro after 6 months (matthewball.co)
		64 points by retskrad 8 months ago \| 79 comments
67.		Paris Agreement thresholds crossed (arctic-news.blogspot.com)
		86 points by doener 8 months ago \| 86 comments
68.		Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT love the word "eager" so much?
		30 points by piotrke 8 months ago \| 65 comments
69.		The Empathy Punishment (grubstreet.com)
		32 points by breathnow 8 months ago \| 42 comments
70.		A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar (2021) (jenson.org)
		73 points by occamschainsaw 8 months ago \| 95 comments
71.		San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is used to inflate rents (latimes.com)
		71 points by PaulHoule 8 months ago \| 185 comments
72.		Massachusetts 'Reviewing' Kei Car Ban After Uproar over Canceled Registrations (thedrive.com)
		42 points by PaulHoule 8 months ago \| 52 comments
73.		Samsung's New EV Battery Tech: 600-Mile Ranges, and 9-Minute Charges? (pcmag.com)
		32 points by m463 8 months ago \| 2 comments
74.		Working from home allowed him to be a more engaged dad. Now it's over (npr.org)
		78 points by rntn 8 months ago \| 93 comments
75.		How Bank of America Ignores Its Own Rules to Prevent Dangerous Workloads (wsj.com)
		41 points by nradov 8 months ago \| 28 comments
76.		Brutalist buildings should stay, even if people think they're ugly (npr.org)
		33 points by everybodyknows 8 months ago \| 66 comments
77.		National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (wikipedia.org)
		38 points by JumpCrisscross 8 months ago \| 63 comments
78.		NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation (arstechnica.com)
		46 points by rntn 8 months ago \| 64 comments
79.		Google is killing one of Chrome's biggest ad blockers (pcworld.com)
		101 points by axiomdata316 8 months ago \| 100 comments
80.		OnlyFans' porn juggernaut fueled by a deception (reuters.com)
		59 points by achow 8 months ago \| 104 comments
81.		Ask HN: What's Your Experience with eSIMs?
		41 points by zikohh 8 months ago \| 72 comments
82.		Ask HN: What code editors or IDEs are easily scriptable?
		38 points by ericb 8 months ago \| 64 comments
83.		I Quit Spotify (newyorker.com)
		82 points by yarapavan 8 months ago \| 124 comments
84.		DEFCON attendees having mandatory daily room searches by conference block hotels (twitter.com/d0rkph0enix)
		43 points by intunderflow 8 months ago \| 4 comments
85.		Sublime Text 4 Build 4180 (sublimetext.com)
		95 points by robenkleene 8 months ago \| 17 comments
86.		Spray-foam insulation makes homes unable to be mortgaged (theguardian.com)
		58 points by vasco 8 months ago \| 124 comments
87.		Pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a Ponzi scheme (theconversation.com)
		49 points by pseudolus 8 months ago \| 138 comments
88.		Julia Margaret Cameron (lrb.co.uk)
		7 points by prismatic 8 months ago
89.		SpaceX accused of dumping mercury into Texas waters for years (popsci.com)
		67 points by geox 8 months ago \| 52 comments
90.		X targeted with nine complaints after grabbing EU users’ data for training Grok (techcrunch.com)
		33 points by latexr 8 months ago \| 10 comments
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