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31.
Zoom and Gloom (economist.com)
81 points by lxm on Oct 12, 2020 | 57 comments
32.
Abolish the Cash Bail System (arcdigital.media)
224 points by gautamdivgi on Oct 11, 2020 | 262 comments
33.
Why Read Boethius Today? (aeon.co)
57 points by diodorus on Oct 11, 2020 | 17 comments
34.
Johns Hopkins Poker Course (hopkinspokercourse.com)
227 points by MrXOR on Oct 11, 2020 | 60 comments
35.
Floating Point in the Browser, Part 2: Bad Epsilon (randomascii.wordpress.com)
75 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 12, 2020 | 12 comments
36.
Mechanical-Digital Steel Ball Clock (instructables.com)
96 points by fortran77 on Oct 11, 2020 | 25 comments
37.
Sale of amateur radio AMPRnet TCP/IP addresses raised $108M (southgatearc.org)
114 points by curiousfab on Oct 12, 2020 | 97 comments
38.
Orbital edge computing: nano satellite constellations as a computer system (acolyer.org)
91 points by zdw on Oct 12, 2020 | 48 comments
39.
Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux (boxofcables.dev)
251 points by sunbum on Oct 12, 2020 | 304 comments
40.
Overmind.js – Frictionless State Management (overmindjs.org)
77 points by modinfo on Oct 12, 2020 | 46 comments
41.
In Finland the average amount of data transferred per SIM card is 17.3GB/month (twitter.com/mikko)
187 points by caiobegotti on Oct 11, 2020 | 184 comments
42.
Overloading by Return Type in C++ (artificial-mind.net)
92 points by fanf2 on Oct 12, 2020 | 51 comments
43.
The Prize in Economic Sciences 2020 (nobelprize.org)
91 points by 0xedb on Oct 12, 2020 | 39 comments
44.
PyOxidizer 0.8 (gregoryszorc.com)
133 points by dochtman on Oct 12, 2020 | 27 comments
45.
The company that has a monopoly on ice cream truck music (thehustle.co)
75 points by pseudolus on Oct 11, 2020 | 52 comments
46.
Removing Holocaust Denial Content (fb.com)
283 points by coloneltcb on Oct 12, 2020 | 773 comments
47.
Birds respond to a half-century soundscape reversion during the COVID19 shutdown (science.sciencemag.org)
91 points by boulos on Oct 12, 2020 | 19 comments
48.
The Programmer's Price (2014) (newyorker.com)
50 points by pieterr on Oct 11, 2020 | 71 comments
49.
Symptoma – Digital health assistant and symptom checker (symptoma.com)
56 points by PersonalDay on Oct 12, 2020 | 32 comments
50.
New Geologic Map Reveals Portland's Deep History (usgs.gov)
36 points by bryanrasmussen on Oct 12, 2020 | 14 comments
51.
The Anti-Social Novelist (newrepublic.com)
27 points by samclemens on Oct 11, 2020 | 14 comments
52.
MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage too great (nu.nl)
204 points by jacquesm on Oct 12, 2020 | 121 comments
53.
Simple kitten placeholder (placekitten.com)
133 points by nanna on Oct 12, 2020 | 27 comments
54.
How Microsoft went from “Linux is a cancer” to “Microsoft loves Linux” (idginsiderpro.com)
150 points by CrankyBear on Oct 12, 2020 | 247 comments
55.
Kautilya Arthashastra and its relevance to Urban Planning Studies [pdf] (itpi.org.in)
56 points by NoRagrets on Oct 12, 2020 | 46 comments
56.
Why Look at Flying Saucers? (lareviewofbooks.org)
28 points by pseudolus on Oct 11, 2020 | 69 comments
57.
Harvard, Oxford, Stanford doctors among leaders of global anti-lockdown movement (mercurynews.com)
213 points by rllearneratwork on Oct 12, 2020 | 338 comments
58.
Platform Liquidity: Why Economic Incentives Matter (medium.com/breadcrumb)
32 points by sameer_singh17 on Oct 11, 2020
59.
Did You Write Mine? (mlb.com)
35 points by tosh on Oct 11, 2020 | 15 comments
60.
How to Interview Engineers (defmacro.substack.com)
156 points by tosh on Oct 12, 2020 | 178 comments

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