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31.		Farther Away: “Robinson Crusoe,” David Foster Wallace, and Solitude (2011) (newyorker.com)
		55 points by Thevet on Oct 29, 2020 \| 4 comments
32.		Why I Prefer Functional Programming (haskellforall.com)
		202 points by quickthrower2 on Oct 31, 2020 \| 117 comments
33.		Intermittent fasting increases hippocampal neurogenesis in mice (nih.gov)
		211 points by voisin on Oct 31, 2020 \| 120 comments
34.		Is This the End of the Repairable iPhone? (ifixit.com)
		170 points by pabs3 on Oct 31, 2020 \| 135 comments
35.		LIL: Little Interpreted Language (runtimeterror.com)
		55 points by marttt on Oct 31, 2020 \| 5 comments
36.		Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design (vitsoe.com)
		134 points by part1of2 on Oct 31, 2020 \| 47 comments
37.		Mumbai’s Iconic Art Deco Buildings Were Made to Conquer Disease (bloomberg.com)
		45 points by pseudolus on Oct 30, 2020 \| 6 comments
38.		Homicide victim found in burnt-out SUV ID'd as man behind spam-email empire (cbc.ca)
		162 points by goodcanadian on Oct 31, 2020 \| 92 comments
39.		Art After the Plague: How painters through the ages have responded to contagion (theamericanscholar.org)
		27 points by prismatic on Oct 30, 2020 \| 2 comments
40.		What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We Still Don’t Know (2018) (coindesk.com)
		150 points by MrXOR on Oct 31, 2020 \| 210 comments
41.		Apple is warning Mac users that Amazon Music app and HP drivers are malware (appleinsider.com)
		102 points by fortran77 on Oct 31, 2020 \| 81 comments
42.		NASA WebGL of the Universe (nasa.gov)
		90 points by aronowb14 on Oct 31, 2020 \| 12 comments
43.		Drivers react to Tesla’s full self-driving beta release (arstechnica.com)
		129 points by elsewhen on Oct 31, 2020 \| 334 comments
44.		The invisible struggle of the Asian American small-business owner (vox.com)
		102 points by luu on Oct 29, 2020 \| 80 comments
45.		Catala: a programming language for socio-fiscal legislative literate programming (github.com/catalalang)
		98 points by computerlab on Oct 31, 2020 \| 37 comments
46.		Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest tech companies (npr.org)
		232 points by ALee on Oct 31, 2020 \| 322 comments
47.		China's Draft 'Personal Information Protection Law' (Full Translation) (newamerica.org)
		60 points by detaro on Oct 31, 2020 \| 26 comments
48.		Human-Centered Programming (codepunk.io)
		19 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 30, 2020 \| 1 comment
49.		First-ever footage of a ram's horn squid in its natural habitat 800m deep (sciencealert.com)
		81 points by bookofjoe on Oct 31, 2020 \| 9 comments
50.		FreeCAD BIM development news (uncreated.net)
		80 points by buovjaga on Oct 31, 2020 \| 23 comments
51.		Self-erecting pneumatic structures (2000) [pdf] (witpress.com)
		36 points by NoRagrets on Oct 30, 2020 \| 20 comments
52.		Starting a Telephone Company in 2019, or How I Built Fiber to My Neighbors (youtube.com)
		62 points by troydavis on Oct 31, 2020 \| 20 comments
53.		Specifications for the Interconnection of a Host and an IMP (1976) [pdf] (walden-family.com)
		19 points by tjalfi on Oct 31, 2020 \| 1 comment
54.		Preserving a Sense of Wonder in DNA (nautil.us)
		24 points by dnetesn on Oct 31, 2020 \| 1 comment
55.		Generating bingo cards with clojure.spec, Clojure/test.check, RDD and TDD (garajeando.blogspot.com)
		33 points by diggan on Oct 30, 2020
56.		Sean Connery has died (bbc.com)
		178 points by Anon84 on Oct 31, 2020 \| 34 comments
57.		How do you decaffeinate coffee? (bbc.com)
		46 points by 0DHm2CxO7Lb3 on Oct 30, 2020 \| 56 comments
58.		[flagged] Joe Rogan Experience #1556 – Glenn Greenwald (youtube.com)
		107 points by remarkEon on Oct 31, 2020 \| 112 comments
59.		Please Share Your Thoughts
		42 points by thisisnew on Oct 31, 2020 \| 26 comments
60.		[flagged] Turkish Ultranationalist Group on the “Hunt for Armenians” in France (vice.com)
		96 points by sebmellen on Oct 31, 2020 \| 126 comments
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