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31.		An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program (popularmechanics.com)
		138 points by weare138 on Feb 17, 2020 \| 149 comments
32.		Interview with Scott Aaronson about philosophy and quantum computing [video] (youtube.com)
		134 points by furcyd on Feb 18, 2020 \| 30 comments
33.		DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' Under Its New Gunslinger (thedrive.com)
		90 points by ycnews on Feb 18, 2020 \| 78 comments
34.		Ask HN: A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?
		442 points by plsdonthack on Feb 18, 2020 \| 318 comments
35.		Mining my mailbox for top email service providers (obem.be)
		154 points by kehers on Feb 18, 2020 \| 106 comments
36.		JWT is Awesome (thehftguy.com)
		259 points by hieudang9 on Feb 18, 2020 \| 166 comments
37.		MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on (2012) (cirw.in)
		267 points by goranmoomin on Feb 18, 2020 \| 178 comments
38.		Learning from Turing’s silver hoard (2016) (reuters.com)
		63 points by EndXA on Feb 17, 2020 \| 46 comments
39.		Perch: a really little CMS (grabaperch.com)
		87 points by Tomte on Feb 18, 2020 \| 88 comments
40.		The First Computers in East Africa and what became of them (2015) (owaahh.com)
		70 points by cobralibre on Feb 18, 2020 \| 9 comments
41.		Wallace Tree (wikipedia.org)
		61 points by eternalban on Feb 18, 2020 \| 12 comments
42.		How to Talk to Your Customers (howtomarketagame.com)
		81 points by Impossible on Feb 17, 2020 \| 7 comments
43.		Show HN: IRedis: CLI for Redis with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting (github.com/laixintao)
		97 points by laixintao on Feb 17, 2020 \| 10 comments
44.		MOV is Turing-complete (2013) [pdf] (virtadpt.net)
		66 points by susam on Feb 18, 2020 \| 26 comments
45.		Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for using VPN (techcrunch.com)
		329 points by jmsflknr on Feb 18, 2020 \| 232 comments
46.		Dead Ends: Investigating a murder without a body in an archive marked by absence (laphamsquarterly.org)
		17 points by lermontov on Feb 18, 2020 \| 1 comment
47.		Finite Element Method (wikipedia.org)
		75 points by tosh on Feb 17, 2020 \| 44 comments
48.		Interactive visualization of Kerr spherical photon orbits (2016) (duetosymmetry.com)
		37 points by DalekBaldwin on Feb 17, 2020 \| 3 comments
49.		Publicly available data under the GDPR (iapp.org)
		40 points by r_singh on Feb 18, 2020 \| 15 comments
50.		FreeCAD on Raspberry Pi 4 (scruss.com)
		91 points by app4soft on Feb 17, 2020 \| 36 comments
51.		A 1876 Map of the World’s Ecozones That Still Holds Up (jstor.org)
		34 points by orcul on Feb 17, 2020 \| 9 comments
52.		Show HN: An online drawing tool that lets you change colors via MIDI controller (h3nk.com)
		53 points by rhklein on Feb 17, 2020 \| 17 comments
53.		Ribbons (2007) (docs.microsoft.com)
		46 points by frosted-flakes on Feb 18, 2020 \| 99 comments
54.		The Gondwana Link: A plan to create a 1000km corridor of bushland (australiangeographic.com.au)
		72 points by sohkamyung on Feb 18, 2020 \| 25 comments
55.		Fan Fiction in the 1700s (theatlantic.com)
		40 points by benbreen on Feb 18, 2020 \| 14 comments
56.		New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan (japantimes.co.jp)
		148 points by fspeech on Feb 18, 2020 \| 206 comments
57.		Request Node lib used by 48k modules is now deprecated (github.com/request)
		150 points by lootsauce on Feb 18, 2020 \| 126 comments
58.		Why designing for open source can be difficult (gilli.is)
		96 points by gilli on Feb 18, 2020 \| 102 comments
59.		How to setup your own WKD server (shibumi.dev)
		26 points by stargrave on Feb 17, 2020 \| 14 comments
60.		[dupe] Kickstarter Workers Vote to Unionize (techcrunch.com)
		176 points by ajaviaad on Feb 18, 2020 \| 3 comments
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