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31.		Is the world's best butter worth 50 dollars a pound? (2017) (saveur.com)
		135 points by emptybits on April 19, 2020 \| 171 comments
32.		A Bemidji professor is on a quest to keep the Ojibwe language alive (startribune.com)
		74 points by allthings on April 19, 2020 \| 31 comments
33.		Kick the Shit Out of Procrastination (davidthorpe.dev)
		448 points by davzie on April 20, 2020 \| 157 comments
34.		Homelab: Intel NUC with the ESXi Hypervisor (henvic.dev)
		124 points by henvic on April 20, 2020 \| 109 comments
35.		In Pursuit of PPE (nejm.org)
		300 points by tectonic on April 20, 2020 \| 174 comments
36.		Buildings have their own microbiomes (theconversation.com)
		103 points by hhs on April 19, 2020 \| 5 comments
37.		Go Developer Survey 2019 Results (golang.org)
		171 points by ainar-g on April 20, 2020 \| 122 comments
38.		Elfeed with Tiny Tiny RSS (codingquark.com)
		87 points by ColinWright on April 19, 2020 \| 30 comments
39.		The Marvel of Mozart’s Letters (spectator.co.uk)
		79 points by tintinnabula on April 20, 2020 \| 16 comments
40.		50k-year-old three-ply cord fragment found at Neanderthal site (bbc.com)
		79 points by diodorus on April 20, 2020 \| 29 comments
41.		Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, but Kept the Party Going (bloomberg.com)
		216 points by pseudolus on April 20, 2020 \| 203 comments
42.		Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing (codinghorror.com)
		147 points by zdw on April 20, 2020 \| 103 comments
43.		Patterns for Managing Source Code Branches (martinfowler.com)
		98 points by caution on April 20, 2020 \| 11 comments
44.		ImageNet-trained CNNs are biased towards texture (2019) (openreview.net)
		60 points by zdw on April 19, 2020 \| 16 comments
45.		What happened to those GM spider goats with the silky milk? (2019) (agfundernews.com)
		119 points by Anon84 on April 20, 2020 \| 28 comments
46.		Causal Inference and Data-Fusion in Econometrics (2019) (arxiv.org)
		61 points by viburnum on April 20, 2020 \| 14 comments
47.		SwimOS: Distributed platform for building stateful, real-time streaming apps (github.com/swimos)
		83 points by yoquan on April 20, 2020 \| 15 comments
48.		Formal Verification Tool Competitions (alastairreid.github.io)
		67 points by matt_d on April 19, 2020 \| 12 comments
49.		Gas selling for under $1 per gallon in 13 US states (nydailynews.com)
		192 points by finphil on April 20, 2020 \| 182 comments
50.		Crimson Contagion (wikipedia.org)
		175 points by wyck on April 20, 2020 \| 91 comments
51.		The Mayflower Autonomous Ship Project (ibm.com)
		38 points by adamfeldman on April 20, 2020 \| 22 comments
52.		Why Do FM Frequencies End in an Odd Decimal? (2015) (fcc.gov)
		106 points by pizza on April 20, 2020 \| 118 comments
53.		Redox-Flow Cell Stores Renewable Energy as Hydrogen (ieee.org)
		36 points by jonbaer on April 19, 2020 \| 4 comments
54.		Facebook/CMU Covid-19 U.S. county-by-county symptom map (fb.com)
		93 points by bookofjoe on April 20, 2020 \| 54 comments
55.		Whole Foods is tracking and scoring stores it deems at risk of unionizing (businessinsider.com.au)
		216 points by smacktoward on April 20, 2020 \| 131 comments
56.		In South Korea, a Protester’s Lone Fight Against Samsung (nytimes.com)
		67 points by adrian_mrd on April 19, 2020 \| 40 comments
57.		A New Exoplanet and a Martian Helicopter (planetary.org)
		50 points by uncertainquark on April 20, 2020 \| 10 comments
58.		Tauthon: Fork of Python 2.7 with new syntax, builtins, libraries from Python 3 (github.com/naftaliharris)
		121 points by albertzeyer on April 20, 2020 \| 130 comments
59.		SecureDNS will shutdown on 30th of April 2020 (securedns.eu)
		76 points by post-factum on April 20, 2020 \| 25 comments
60.		The Mountains of Pi (1992) (newyorker.com)
		34 points by pgtan on April 19, 2020 \| 9 comments
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