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31.		British Airways Flight 5390 (wikipedia.org)
		169 points by benbreen on Nov 14, 2020 \| 101 comments
32.		Application trust is hard, but Apple does it well (security-embedded.com)
		161 points by pvachon on Nov 14, 2020 \| 202 comments
33.		Butano: Modern C++ high level GameBoy Advance engine (github.com/gvaliente)
		86 points by ingve on Nov 14, 2020 \| 17 comments
34.		A court ruling in Austria could censor the internet worldwide (slate.com)
		153 points by pseudolus on Nov 14, 2020 \| 121 comments
35.		PokéWalker hacking: A complete device takeover and ROM dump using infrared (dmitry.gr)
		149 points by beefhash on Nov 14, 2020 \| 16 comments
36.		Tiny bubbles under a ship may help reduce fuel consumption (smithsonianmag.com)
		107 points by pseudolus on Nov 14, 2020 \| 81 comments
37.		Informational privacy: a precondition for democratic participation? (lse.ac.uk)
		48 points by _zhqs on Nov 14, 2020 \| 1 comment
38.		Play with Go (play-with-go.dev)
		121 points by philosopher1234 on Nov 13, 2020 \| 18 comments
39.		A Modest Proposal in the New Age of DMCA Takedown Aggression (sfconservancy.org)
		76 points by pabs3 on Nov 13, 2020 \| 41 comments
40.		NYC pilot tries mental health responders in place of police (bloomberg.com)
		182 points by pseudolus on Nov 14, 2020 \| 187 comments
41.		Chili pepper consumption associated with 25% reduction in death from any cause (scitechdaily.com)
		196 points by mhb on Nov 14, 2020 \| 204 comments
42.		Files Are Fraught with Peril (2019) (danluu.com)
		103 points by bshanks on Nov 14, 2020 \| 59 comments
43.		Vulnerable yet vital: Why childhood and old age are key to our human capacities (aeon.co)
		53 points by ohaikbai on Nov 13, 2020 \| 3 comments
44.		Empathy and perspective taking: How social skills are built (mpg.de)
		104 points by CapitalistCartr on Nov 14, 2020 \| 73 comments
45.		The Big Lessons from History (collaborativefund.com)
		72 points by yarapavan on Nov 13, 2020 \| 34 comments
46.		Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results (torrentfreak.com)
		231 points by ffpip on Nov 14, 2020 \| 120 comments
47.		TildeRadio is Internet radio streamed by/for users of the tildeverse (tilderadio.org)
		59 points by URfejk on Nov 13, 2020 \| 3 comments
48.		Smaller than ever–exploring the unusual properties of quantum-sized materials (titech.ac.jp)
		31 points by rustoo on Nov 14, 2020 \| 2 comments
49.		Everything Is an X (lukeplant.me.uk)
		109 points by polm23 on Nov 13, 2020 \| 36 comments
50.		We need less powerful languages (2015) (lukeplant.me.uk)
		84 points by bshanks on Nov 14, 2020 \| 82 comments
51.		Femtosecond laser writing of glass, including borosilicate, sulfide, and lead (patents.google.com)
		36 points by peter_d_sherman on Nov 14, 2020 \| 12 comments
52.		macOS 11 (Big Sur) Compatibility News (native-instruments.com)
		125 points by pier25 on Nov 14, 2020 \| 69 comments
53.		Brain DNA Refolds Itself to Aid Memory Recall (quantamagazine.org)
		62 points by scottlocklin on Nov 13, 2020 \| 12 comments
54.		Newton’s Daunting Masterpiece Had a Surprisingly Wide Audience, Historians Find (nytimes.com)
		45 points by pseudolus on Nov 14, 2020 \| 13 comments
55.		Fact or fantasy? Tales from the linguistic fringe (knowablemagazine.org)
		34 points by hoffmannesque on Nov 13, 2020 \| 1 comment
56.		GNUnet 0.14.0 (gnunet.org)
		105 points by jrepinc on Nov 14, 2020 \| 13 comments
57.		There are only three startup stages (medium.com/angularventures)
		41 points by tosh on Nov 13, 2020 \| 14 comments
58.		The Overnight Business Boom That Took a Century (wsj.com)
		25 points by lxm on Nov 13, 2020 \| 18 comments
59.		A visual comparison of macOS Catalina and Big Sur (andrewdenty.com)
		104 points by Kaibeezy on Nov 14, 2020 \| 135 comments
60.		Could a Rating System Help Weigh Claims Made in Popular Science Books? (2019) (undark.org)
		22 points by Hooke on Nov 13, 2020 \| 2 comments
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