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31.		Slow map: Mapping Britain's intercity footpaths (bbc.com)
		129 points by mellosouls on Oct 16, 2020 \| 53 comments
32.		Proprietary Grapes Come with Draconian End User License Agreement (vice.com)
		131 points by DamnInteresting on Oct 15, 2020 \| 96 comments
33.		CZ-4C R/B passed over LeoLabs Kiwi Space Radar – with no signs of debris (twitter.com/leolabs_space)
		86 points by aaron695 on Oct 16, 2020 \| 21 comments
34.		Transmutations observed from pressure cycling palladium (sciencedirect.com)
		80 points by ogcricket on Oct 15, 2020 \| 71 comments
35.		A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science (npr.org)
		142 points by brundolf on Oct 16, 2020 \| 109 comments
36.		The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020 (nature.com)
		108 points by Ice_cream_suit on Oct 15, 2020 \| 19 comments
37.		The guy who discovered Jon Stewart and Bill Maher (twitter.com/stewfortier)
		186 points by BerislavLopac on Oct 15, 2020 \| 48 comments
38.		How We Institutionalized Incompetence (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)
		268 points by scottlocklin on Oct 15, 2020 \| 238 comments
39.		The UNIX Time-Sharing System (1974) (chsasank.github.io)
		90 points by chsasank on Oct 16, 2020 \| 35 comments
40.		Iron, How Did They Make It, Part IVb: Work Hardening, or Hardly Working? (acoup.blog)
		107 points by shalmanese on Oct 16, 2020 \| 23 comments
41.		Behind Cambridge Analytica lay a bigger threat to our democracy: Facebook (theguardian.com)
		210 points by elorant on Oct 16, 2020 \| 96 comments
42.		Slack outage: Degraded performance and connectivity issues (slack.com)
		108 points by oplav on Oct 16, 2020 \| 109 comments
43.		Section 230 Explained (arstechnica.com)
		183 points by gok on Oct 16, 2020 \| 264 comments
44.		Wim Hof breathing technique can modulate immune response to pathogens (2014) (pnas.org)
		203 points by alz on Oct 16, 2020 \| 95 comments
45.		Racket: Parsing propositional logic in 33 lines (micahcantor.xyz)
		78 points by tosh on Oct 13, 2020 \| 18 comments
46.		Organizations that lead their industries for cultural excellence (sloanreview.mit.edu)
		57 points by sarapeyton on Oct 16, 2020 \| 19 comments
47.		Army Dissects Black Hawk Helicopter, Scans Parts for 3D Printing (breakingdefense.com)
		69 points by dfsegoat on Oct 15, 2020 \| 66 comments
48.		NixCon Live (nixcon.org)
		148 points by FRidh on Oct 16, 2020 \| 48 comments
49.		The Abundance of Silicon Valley (moultano.wordpress.com)
		184 points by cyb_ on Oct 16, 2020 \| 238 comments
50.		Malloc as a Service (wingolog.org)
		84 points by pabs3 on Oct 15, 2020 \| 22 comments
51.		What Is Philosophy? A survey of some answers (1000wordphilosophy.com)
		42 points by furtively on Oct 15, 2020 \| 30 comments
52.		A parable about problem solving in software development (2013) (drmaciver.com)
		64 points by ColinWright on Oct 16, 2020 \| 5 comments
53.		Wifi Dabba (YC W17) – Own a Piece of the Internet in India (wifidabba.com)
		67 points by mildlyclassic on Oct 15, 2020 \| 65 comments
54.		Efficient Evenly Distributed Sampling of Time Series Records in PostgreSQL (joshsoftware.com)
		67 points by mooreds on Oct 14, 2020 \| 8 comments
55.		Polyform Licenses (polyformproject.org)
		62 points by GordonS on Oct 16, 2020 \| 20 comments
56.		Qt Support for State Charts (qt.io)
		67 points by barumi on Oct 15, 2020 \| 14 comments
57.		Central Asian Horse Riders Played Ball Games 3k Years Ago (uzh.ch)
		32 points by Thevet on Oct 16, 2020 \| 12 comments
58.		British Airways fined £20m over data breach (bbc.co.uk)
		53 points by loriverkutya on Oct 16, 2020 \| 23 comments
59.		The Singularity is Near: How Kurzweil's Predictions Are Faring (2017) (antropy.co.uk)
		69 points by segfaultbuserr on Oct 16, 2020 \| 120 comments
60.		Will SARS-CoV-2 become endemic? (science.sciencemag.org)
		75 points by HarryHirsch on Oct 16, 2020 \| 100 comments
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