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31.		Quest for the Whistler Button (newscrewdriver.com)
		79 points by josecastillo on Oct 6, 2020 \| 21 comments
32.		Facebook widens ban on political ads as alarm rises over election (nytimes.com)
		124 points by coloneltcb on Oct 7, 2020 \| 247 comments
33.		Getting noticed as a remote engineer (triplebyte.com)
		107 points by danielwbean on Oct 6, 2020 \| 51 comments
34.		How tech workers at Kickstarter formed one of the only unions in the industry (kqed.org)
		190 points by abeppu on Oct 7, 2020 \| 367 comments
35.		How to play the piano: On Glenn Gould (lrb.co.uk)
		105 points by whatami on Oct 6, 2020 \| 43 comments
36.		Translation Units Considered Harmful? (cor3ntin.github.io)
		110 points by ingve on Oct 7, 2020 \| 61 comments
37.		The Origin of the VM/370 Time-Sharing System (1981) [pdf] (umass.edu)
		47 points by tjalfi on Oct 7, 2020 \| 13 comments
38.		The Absolute No-Frills Quite Ignorant Incomplete Beginner’s Guide to Smalltalk (deprogrammaticaipsum.com)
		102 points by zdw on Oct 5, 2020 \| 70 comments
39.		Rust and Raspberry Pi Tide Clock (thefuntastic.com)
		98 points by zdw on Oct 7, 2020 \| 14 comments
40.		An AI can simulate an economy millions of times to create fairer tax policy (technologyreview.com)
		159 points by asamant on Oct 7, 2020 \| 150 comments
41.		The Cat-and-Mouse Game of the Modern Penalty Kick (theringer.com)
		53 points by one-possibility on Oct 6, 2020 \| 46 comments
42.		Eliminating Task Processing Outages by Replacing RabbitMQ with Apache Kafka (doordash.engineering)
		98 points by sciurus on Oct 6, 2020 \| 64 comments
43.		Why Do Mirrors Flip Things Horizontally but Not Vertically? Here's the Physics (sciencealert.com)
		141 points by laktak on Oct 7, 2020 \| 163 comments
44.		DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort (spreadprivacy.com)
		143 points by tagawa on Oct 7, 2020 \| 62 comments
45.		Last Call for Gumshoes (altaonline.com)
		32 points by solvent on Oct 6, 2020 \| 4 comments
46.		The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners (dashbird.io)
		137 points by maridashbird on Oct 7, 2020 \| 35 comments
47.		Custom Bullets with CSS:Marker (web.dev)
		46 points by oedmarap on Oct 7, 2020 \| 23 comments
48.		Teaching our five year old to code by cheating (baugues.com)
		123 points by gregorymichael on Oct 6, 2020 \| 106 comments
49.		Developing with Squeak on a Cellphone (eighty-twenty.org)
		42 points by tonyg on Oct 7, 2020 \| 27 comments
50.		Charles Babbage’s Observations on Street Nuisances (1864) (publicdomainreview.org)
		34 points by Hooke on Oct 6, 2020 \| 18 comments
51.		Competition and Quarter-Life Crises (arvarik.com)
		86 points by arvarik on Oct 7, 2020 \| 89 comments
52.		The Basic Internet Fanzine (1995) (petesqbsite.com)
		29 points by tosh on Oct 6, 2020 \| 7 comments
53.		WSL2 – Installation Tutorial for Graphical Windows Subsystem on Linux (l-o-o-s-e-d.net)
		102 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 7, 2020 \| 98 comments
54.		Caravaggio Destroyed (and Saved) Painting (vulture.com)
		30 points by prismatic on Oct 6, 2020 \| 3 comments
55.		Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study (acolyer.org)
		37 points by zdw on Oct 5, 2020 \| 33 comments
56.		BitSyntax for Smalltalk (eighty-twenty.org)
		36 points by tonyg on Oct 7, 2020 \| 1 comment
57.		How the Starship Enterprise Almost Landed in Las Vegas (2016) (hollywoodreporter.com)
		40 points by DamnInteresting on Oct 6, 2020 \| 19 comments
58.		When the Long Tail Wags the Dog (2006) (bricklin.com)
		14 points by flreln on Oct 7, 2020
59.		Middle school student achieved nuclear fusion in his family playroom (guinnessworldrecords.com)
		49 points by austinprete on Oct 7, 2020 \| 82 comments
60.		How we use tennis rankings for fixing bugs (refactoring.substack.com)
		31 points by lucaronin on Oct 7, 2020 \| 44 comments
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