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31.
Unusual Maps (edwardtufte.com)
173 points by apsec112 on Aug 29, 2020 | 19 comments
32.
Effective testing for machine learning systems (jeremyjordan.me)
95 points by brzozowski on Aug 31, 2020 | 2 comments
33.
Is macOS Becoming Unmaintainable? (eclecticlight.co)
173 points by sylens on Aug 30, 2020 | 198 comments
34.
The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet (electrek.co)
291 points by evo_9 on Aug 27, 2020 | 183 comments
35.
Visualizing TSNE Maps with Three.js (douglasduhaime.com)
56 points by polm23 on Aug 31, 2020 | 15 comments
36.
We Replaced an SSD with Storage Class Memory (mongodb.com)
125 points by ssvss on Aug 30, 2020 | 68 comments
37.
An overview of the science on function length (softwarebyscience.com)
44 points by tziki on Aug 29, 2020 | 35 comments
38.
High-tech tracking reveals ‘secret world of birds’ (smithsonianmag.com)
44 points by pseudolus on Aug 29, 2020 | 7 comments
39.
As above, so below, part 2. Bare metal Rust generics (ecorax.net)
81 points by M2Ys4U on Aug 31, 2020 | 12 comments
40.
How Do You Decode a Hapax? Also, What’s a Hapax? (2017) (atlasobscura.com)
47 points by brudgers on Aug 31, 2020 | 20 comments
41.
Bits of History, Words of Advice (gbracha.blogspot.com)
110 points by miki123211 on Aug 31, 2020 | 132 comments
42.
The basic dramatic situations, according to 1919 manual for screenwriters (openculture.com)
89 points by sharjeelsayed on Aug 29, 2020 | 31 comments
43.
Self – Fun Through Simplicity (selflanguage.org)
65 points by rbanffy on Aug 31, 2020 | 9 comments
44.
Blender 2.90 (blender.org)
275 points by makepanic on Aug 31, 2020 | 90 comments
45.
Converting Boolean-Logic Decision Trees to Finite State Machines (medium.com/analytics-vidhya)
44 points by bkudria on Aug 29, 2020 | 8 comments
46.
Waiting for Gödel (2016) (newyorker.com)
28 points by keiferski on Aug 29, 2020 | 17 comments
47.
The Easy Ones – Three Bugs Hiding in the Open (randomascii.wordpress.com)
68 points by nikbackm on Aug 31, 2020 | 13 comments
48.
Significant sex differences in Covid-19 immune response (yale.edu)
142 points by tropdrop on Aug 31, 2020 | 84 comments
49.
Show HN: Friendly Fire – Open-source, Metroidvania-style game in the browser (friendlyfiregame.com)
71 points by headcr4sh on Aug 28, 2020 | 27 comments
50.
 [dupe] Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office lease (sfgate.com)
145 points by pseudolus on Aug 31, 2020 | 117 comments
51.
Ubuntu 20.04’s zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management (arstechnica.com)
76 points by mariuz on Aug 31, 2020 | 89 comments
52.
Don't Get Stuck (stitcher.io)
74 points by brendt_gd on Aug 31, 2020 | 65 comments
53.
Cracking Phobos UUID (purrfect.fr)
52 points by tux1968 on Aug 31, 2020 | 14 comments
54.
Sled Theoretical Performance Guide (sled.rs)
63 points by K2L8M11N2 on Aug 30, 2020 | 5 comments
55.
China again boosts R&D spending by more than 10% (sciencemag.org)
113 points by pseudolus on Aug 31, 2020 | 104 comments
56.
Writing a Lisp to x86-64 compiler
81 points by tekknolagi on Aug 31, 2020 | 22 comments
57.
Robotic Manipulation (Online Textbook) (csail.mit.edu)
58 points by krosaen on Aug 31, 2020 | 10 comments
58.
Tracing at Slack: Thinking in Causal Graphs (slack.engineering)
69 points by oedmarap on Aug 31, 2020 | 14 comments
59.
Don't Be a Sucker (archive.org)
148 points by fortran77 on Aug 31, 2020 | 132 comments
60.
Cloth masks do protect the wearer (theconversation.com)
172 points by bookofjoe on Aug 31, 2020 | 187 comments

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