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31.
Webfs: A Filesystem Built on Top of the Web (github.com/brendoncarroll)
118 points by FisherGuy44 on Jan 4, 2020 | 56 comments
32.
The Astonishing Prescience of Nam June Paik (zwischenzugs.com)
103 points by zwischenzug on Jan 4, 2020 | 31 comments
33.
Native Applications with Racket (defn.io)
83 points by Bogdanp on Jan 4, 2020 | 21 comments
34.
A History of Silicon Valley (scaruffi.com)
96 points by rl3 on Jan 5, 2020 | 16 comments
35.
Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020?
428 points by ghoshbishakh on Jan 5, 2020 | 433 comments
36.
Simple Proof to the Container with Most Water Problem (leimao.github.io)
56 points by keyboardman on Jan 5, 2020 | 24 comments
37.
Chime – A Go Editor for macOS (chimehq.com)
170 points by dsego on Jan 5, 2020 | 126 comments
38.
KeePassXC 2.5.2 (keepassxc.org)
153 points by varjolintu on Jan 5, 2020 | 75 comments
39.
Haute Baroque Capitalism (2017) (subpixel.space)
80 points by bryanrasmussen on Jan 5, 2020 | 33 comments
40.
The music moves us, but how? (2018) (knowablemagazine.org)
68 points by ohjeez on Jan 5, 2020 | 11 comments
41.
Brittle starfish are second known example of vision in an organism without eyes (cell.com)
72 points by bookofjoe on Jan 5, 2020 | 20 comments
42.
Ian Stewart's top popular mathematics books (2012) (theguardian.com)
83 points by ColinWright on Jan 4, 2020 | 12 comments
43.
Musings on the Current Status of High Energy Physics (arxiv.org)
46 points by ArtWomb on Jan 5, 2020 | 31 comments
44.
Papyrus, a Rust REPL (github.com/kurtlawrence)
139 points by phsilva on Jan 5, 2020 | 13 comments
45.
Bruce Perens: Invasion of the Ethical Licenses (2019) (perens.com)
125 points by kick on Jan 5, 2020 | 53 comments
46.
Clojure: `every-pred` and `some-fn` (lambdaisland.com)
117 points by tosh on Jan 5, 2020 | 43 comments
47.
Thick Description (1973) [pdf] (philpapers.org)
27 points by hownottowrite on Jan 4, 2020 | 2 comments
48.
Towards fungal computer (2018) (nih.gov)
67 points by filkatron on Jan 5, 2020 | 17 comments
49.
The world is not enough (the-tls.co.uk)
69 points by vo2maxer on Jan 4, 2020 | 29 comments
50.
Show HN: Self-taught neural network learns to shoot a target (github.com/victorqribeiro)
60 points by atum47 on Jan 5, 2020 | 21 comments
51.
Ask HN: What landing page do you love?
199 points by richardreeze on Jan 5, 2020 | 147 comments
52.
The Manhattan Eruv (atlasobscura.com)
62 points by napolux on Jan 5, 2020 | 141 comments
53.
Mathe Carlo (observablehq.com)
62 points by tosh on Jan 5, 2020 | 8 comments
54.
How an English Energy Crisis Helped Create Champagne (atlasobscura.com)
55 points by skibz on Jan 5, 2020 | 6 comments
55.
Bruce Perens quits Open Source Initiative amid row over new crypto license (theregister.co.uk)
76 points by jrepinc on Jan 4, 2020 | 35 comments
56.
Locks, Mutexes, and Semaphores: Types of Synchronization Objects (2014) (justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk)
96 points by peter_d_sherman on Jan 4, 2020 | 10 comments
57.
 Ships, Bananas, Logistics, Math and a Big Dose of Engineering (twitter.com/cybergibbons)
55 points by rahuldottech on Jan 5, 2020 | 2 comments
58.
Tuna sells for $1.8M in first Tokyo auction of 2020 (reuters.com)
74 points by hhs on Jan 5, 2020 | 46 comments
59.
NHS gets £40M to cut login times on its IT systems (theguardian.com)
81 points by GordonS on Jan 5, 2020 | 106 comments
60.
Fungal Architecture (arxiv.org)
53 points by lainon on Jan 5, 2020 | 5 comments

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