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61.		US grid-battery costs dropped 70% over 3 years (arstechnica.com)
		125 points by toomuchtodo on Oct 28, 2020 \| 53 comments
62.		A CIA Officer Visits Moscow, Returns with Mysterious, Crippling Headaches (npr.org)
		148 points by iaw on Oct 28, 2020 \| 135 comments
63.		Tracing Kernel Functions: FBT stack() and arg (zinascii.com)
		26 points by moks on Oct 28, 2020
64.		Sharks Wash Up on Beaches, Stabbed by Swordfish (nytimes.com)
		36 points by pseudolus on Oct 28, 2020 \| 1 comment
65.		Draw on a PDF Online (goodannotations.com)
		47 points by perrys on Oct 28, 2020 \| 27 comments
66.		World’s First Ocean Hybrid Platform Converts Tidal Waves into Energy (ieee.org)
		40 points by headalgorithm on Oct 28, 2020 \| 27 comments
67.		Keep the nuclear launch codes in an innocent volunteer's chest-cavity (2015) (boingboing.net)
		72 points by notRobot on Oct 28, 2020 \| 61 comments
68.		The New York Times' first article about Hitler's rise is stunning (vox.com)
		101 points by haltingproblem on Oct 28, 2020 \| 124 comments
69.		How HN crushed David Walsh's blog (davidwalsh.name)
		91 points by headalgorithm on Oct 28, 2020 \| 99 comments
70.		Release Flow: How We Do Branching on the VSTS Team (2018) (msdn.microsoft.com)
		37 points by kdazzle on Oct 26, 2020 \| 3 comments
71.		Can lab-grown brains become conscious? (nature.com)
		107 points by pseudolus on Oct 28, 2020 \| 127 comments
72.		Pika parsing: reformulating packrat parsing as a dynamic programming algorithm (arxiv.org)
		40 points by danny00 on Oct 28, 2020 \| 6 comments
73.		Strict APIs vs. Forgiving APIs (publicobject.com)
		54 points by ajabhish on Oct 28, 2020 \| 47 comments
74.		[flagged] Show HN: You had a productive day, until now (theblocks.netlify.app)
		133 points by parisianka on Oct 28, 2020 \| 50 comments
75.		The Key Points of Working Effectively with Legacy Code (understandlegacycode.com)
		54 points by nicoespeon on Oct 27, 2020 \| 22 comments
76.		Dear Facebook: Withdraw Your Cease and Desist to NYU (foundation.mozilla.org)
		127 points by joeyespo on Oct 28, 2020 \| 28 comments
77.		Show HN: Uncover how your funds spend money in politics (yourstake.org)
		46 points by mushufasa on Oct 28, 2020 \| 14 comments
78.		Property List Parsing Bug(s): Crashing macOS via malformed binary plists (objective-see.com)
		15 points by zdw on Oct 26, 2020
79.		Qt 6 will provide additional libraries via Conan package manager (qt.io)
		42 points by alaenix on Oct 28, 2020 \| 35 comments
80.		D. H. Lawrence, Arch-Heretic (commonwealmagazine.org)
		13 points by apollinaire on Oct 27, 2020 \| 1 comment
81.		Two Paradigms of Personal Computing (jayriverlong.github.io)
		43 points by riverlong on Oct 28, 2020 \| 9 comments
82.		Learnings from Running a Longevity Startup (celinehh.com)
		41 points by sarthakjshetty on Oct 28, 2020 \| 4 comments
83.		Transhumanism and Augmented Reality – A brave new augmented world (qaautomation.dev)
		29 points by brna on Oct 28, 2020 \| 13 comments
84.		The Fall of Silicon Valley (robrhinehart.com)
		116 points by aquajet on Oct 28, 2020 \| 103 comments
85.		Ask HN: Best programmable robot for a child with SDK?
		62 points by itroot on Oct 28, 2020 \| 49 comments
86.		Chess Captcha (elioair.github.io)
		46 points by chadash on Oct 28, 2020 \| 30 comments
87.		What SOFIA’s discovery of water on the Moon is, and isn’t (jatan.space)
		20 points by uncertainquark on Oct 28, 2020
88.		Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support (support.google.com)
		47 points by bricestacey on Oct 28, 2020 \| 75 comments
89.		Warp Dissection: There's Hot Sauce in the Gears (2013) (mandible.net)
		7 points by luu on Oct 27, 2020 \| 3 comments
90.		BBC finds Facebook failed to remove child abuse (2017) (wired.co.uk)
		39 points by notRobot on Oct 28, 2020 \| 10 comments
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