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31.		“Pain Is the Only School-Teacher” (gwern.net)
		81 points by telotortium on June 8, 2020 \| 59 comments
32.		Recovering the Lost Apollo 10 LM Software [video] (youtube.com)
		83 points by mkarr on June 7, 2020 \| 11 comments
33.		Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009) (raphkoster.com)
		168 points by mpweiher on June 6, 2020 \| 172 comments
34.		Old Code Gets Younger Every Year (medium.com/bellmar)
		240 points by mbellotti on June 8, 2020 \| 188 comments
35.		We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat depression (theguardian.com)
		343 points by throwaway888abc on June 8, 2020 \| 232 comments
36.		A deeper introduction to Unix DC (ben165.github.io)
		72 points by ben165 on June 7, 2020 \| 19 comments
37.		Prime After Prime (2016) (bit-player.org)
		90 points by ricardomcgowan on June 8, 2020 \| 13 comments
38.		Strapi – Open-source Node.js Headless CMS (strapi.io)
		106 points by jhabdas on June 8, 2020 \| 68 comments
39.		The Mystery of Charles Dickens (theguardian.com)
		32 points by samclemens on June 7, 2020 \| 31 comments
40.		Gamow’s cyclist: a new look at relativistic measurements for binocular observer (royalsocietypublishing.org)
		34 points by sohkamyung on June 8, 2020 \| 3 comments
41.		Toto’s “Africa” Played on Tesla Coils (nerdist.com)
		197 points by datashrimp on June 8, 2020 \| 78 comments
42.		Britain gave Palantir access to sensitive COVID-19 patient records in £1 deal (cnbc.com)
		246 points by AndrewBissell on June 8, 2020 \| 74 comments
43.		A Raspberry Pi as a decent residential proxy (wiringbits.net)
		98 points by AlexITC on June 8, 2020 \| 46 comments
44.		Show HN: Neuropod – Uber ATG's open source deep learning inference engine (github.com/uber)
		80 points by vpanyam on June 8, 2020 \| 25 comments
45.		Chardetng: A More Compact Character Encoding Detector for the Legacy Web (hsivonen.fi)
		63 points by hsivonen on June 8, 2020 \| 4 comments
46.		Mysterious deep-space flashes repeat every 157 days (space.com)
		134 points by hhs on June 8, 2020 \| 86 comments
47.		John Hunter’s World Peace Game, Roger Ebert, and the PLATO System (medium.com/brianstorms)
		37 points by brianstorms on June 8, 2020 \| 9 comments
48.		Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities? (2018) (acm.org)
		59 points by Anon84 on June 6, 2020 \| 39 comments
49.		How the Black Death changed art (theguardian.com)
		40 points by diodorus on June 8, 2020 \| 2 comments
50.		The Return of the Milkman (modernfarmer.com)
		52 points by RickJWagner on June 8, 2020 \| 45 comments
51.		For experts who study coronaviruses, a grim vindication (undark.org)
		114 points by sohkamyung on June 8, 2020 \| 101 comments
52.		Western Digital’s SMR disks won’t work for ZFS, but they’re okay for most NASes (arstechnica.com)
		90 points by rbanffy on June 8, 2020 \| 48 comments
53.		Japanese rules for writing your ABCs are surprisingly strict (soranews24.com)
		90 points by bemmu on June 8, 2020 \| 165 comments
54.		The Lives of Others: When does imagination become appropriation? (harpers.org)
		41 points by apollinaire on June 7, 2020 \| 53 comments
55.		Running Linux on My MacBook (djhworld.github.io)
		111 points by signa11 on June 8, 2020 \| 172 comments
56.		Maillard reaction (seriouseats.com)
		82 points by firloop on June 8, 2020 \| 100 comments
57.		To Save the Climate, Look to the Oceans (scientificamerican.com)
		91 points by Bender on June 8, 2020 \| 42 comments
58.		86-DOS (wikipedia.org)
		38 points by rolph on June 8, 2020 \| 7 comments
59.		In Great Silence there is Great Hope (2007) [pdf] (nickbostrom.com)
		28 points by arethuza on June 8, 2020 \| 34 comments
60.		Tribalism comes for pandemic science (thenewatlantis.com)
		120 points by seinundzeit on June 8, 2020 \| 206 comments
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