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31.		Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011) (michaeleisen.org)
		168 points by ArneVogel on Oct 17, 2020 \| 81 comments
32.		Euclid – Scientific calculator for iOS/macOS (pr1mer.tech)
		84 points by arguiot on Oct 17, 2020 \| 39 comments
33.		Does C++ still deserve a bad rap? (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
		108 points by signa11 on Oct 16, 2020 \| 301 comments
34.		How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time (apoorvagovind.substack.com)
		356 points by EvgeniyZh on Oct 17, 2020 \| 212 comments
35.		TSP Tour in 3D through 2,079,471 stars (uwaterloo.ca)
		44 points by pyk on Oct 17, 2020 \| 9 comments
36.		Tesla cancels its ‘no questions asked’ 7-day return policy (electrek.co)
		204 points by jennyyang on Oct 17, 2020 \| 219 comments
37.		Building a 10BASE5 “Thick Ethernet” Network (2012) (mattmillman.com)
		66 points by RicardoLuis0 on Oct 17, 2020 \| 23 comments
38.		Cognition All the Way Down (aeon.co)
		100 points by myth_drannon on Oct 16, 2020 \| 25 comments
39.		Ice age art in Indonesia reveals how spiritual life transformed (2017) (theguardian.com)
		43 points by diodorus on Oct 15, 2020 \| 5 comments
40.		What they don’t tell you about demand paging in school (offlinemark.com)
		71 points by luu on Oct 17, 2020 \| 24 comments
41.		Proton 5.13: A Massive Update (boilingsteam.com)
		141 points by ekianjo on Oct 17, 2020 \| 134 comments
42.		High minds, low politics: The lives of four revolutionary thinkers (the-tls.co.uk)
		53 points by lermontov on Oct 16, 2020 \| 1 comment
43.		Can Esperanto Make a Comeback? (2015) (npr.org)
		88 points by Books on Oct 17, 2020 \| 222 comments
44.		A Scientist’s Reckoning with the Cruelty of Chance (newyorker.com)
		42 points by Hooke on Oct 14, 2020 \| 2 comments
45.		Sweden's new car carrier is the world's largest wind-powered vessel (cnn.com)
		137 points by krn on Oct 17, 2020 \| 88 comments
46.		Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 inferred from seroprevalence data [pdf] (who.int)
		80 points by wsc981 on Oct 17, 2020 \| 382 comments
47.		He Married a Sociopath: Me (nytimes.com)
		175 points by areoform on Oct 16, 2020 \| 137 comments
48.		The World Henry Ford Made (bostonreview.net)
		30 points by meanie on Oct 17, 2020 \| 1 comment
49.		The Digital Divide Starts with a Laptop Shortage (nytimes.com)
		51 points by lxm on Oct 15, 2020 \| 49 comments
50.		There’s a Hole in Your SoC: Glitching the MediaTek BootROM (nccgroup.com)
		43 points by wglb on Oct 17, 2020 \| 1 comment
51.		An oil tanker with 60M gallons of oil aboard is currently sinking [video] (youtube.com)
		245 points by Tipewryter on Oct 17, 2020 \| 51 comments
52.		Sneaky Sliders (beust.com)
		34 points by chris_overseas on Oct 17, 2020 \| 16 comments
53.		Show HN: Static blog generator in about 1 KLOC (github.com/john-bokma)
		44 points by jjjbokma on Oct 17, 2020 \| 32 comments
54.		Ask HN: How to Become a Consultant?
		227 points by edem on Oct 17, 2020 \| 62 comments
55.		Microsoft just force restarted my Windows PC again to install more unwanted apps (theverge.com)
		264 points by adrian_mrd on Oct 17, 2020 \| 300 comments
56.		Psychological Safety (iamevan.me)
		39 points by thejokersthief on Oct 17, 2020 \| 5 comments
57.		Fighting for the right to repair your own stuff (cbsnews.com)
		92 points by doener on Oct 17, 2020 \| 72 comments
58.		Facebook reportedly choked traffic for left-leaning news sites (theverge.com)
		173 points by aaronbrethorst on Oct 17, 2020 \| 91 comments
59.		N.H. Announces It Will Sue Massachusetts over Cross-Border Income Tax Collection (nhpr.org)
		107 points by iaw on Oct 16, 2020 \| 136 comments
60.		iOS 14 USB tethering broken on Linux: looking for docs and contact at Apple (corsac.net)
		126 points by pabs3 on Oct 17, 2020 \| 50 comments
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