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31.		Show HN: A simple, plain, minimal, classless CSS for simple, plain HTML pages (github.com/susam)
		128 points by susam on Dec 6, 2020 \| 58 comments
32.		How does Brown University know where you are? (wrenn.fyi)
		205 points by jswrenn on Dec 5, 2020 \| 138 comments
33.		High-Throughput Game Message Server with Python WebSockets (mortoray.com)
		68 points by ingve on Dec 5, 2020 \| 56 comments
34.		Lessons for Early Stage Founders (calv.info)
		129 points by sarathyweb on Dec 6, 2020 \| 24 comments
35.		Modifying and running a binary by recompiling a reverse engineered disassembly (devever.net)
		74 points by hlandau on Dec 5, 2020 \| 4 comments
36.		Microdosing: Improving performance enhancement in intelligence analysis (2019) [pdf] (mca-marines.org)
		137 points by SQL2219 on Dec 6, 2020 \| 142 comments
37.		Gustave – Embedded OS kernel fuzzer (github.com/airbus-seclab)
		57 points by aburan28 on Dec 6, 2020 \| 4 comments
38.		Choose Boring Technology (panelbear.com)
		205 points by m1245 on Dec 6, 2020 \| 204 comments
39.		Researchers Who Exposed VW Gain Little Reward from Success (nytimes.com)
		145 points by lifeisstillgood on Dec 6, 2020 \| 60 comments
40.		BBC Micro Bot – Creative Retro Coding (bbcmicrobot.com)
		118 points by rbanffy on Dec 4, 2020 \| 16 comments
41.		VisiData in 60 Seconds (jsvine.github.io)
		112 points by luu on Dec 6, 2020 \| 15 comments
42.		Photonic Quantum Advantage? (gilkalai.wordpress.com)
		43 points by nsoonhui on Dec 6, 2020 \| 30 comments
43.		USB drives with no phantom load (2018) (joeyh.name)
		58 points by pabs3 on Dec 6, 2020 \| 25 comments
44.		A light-weight JIT compiler based on MIR (Medium Internal Representation) (github.com/vnmakarov)
		62 points by bshanks on Dec 4, 2020 \| 14 comments
45.		A mathematical formalisation challenge by Peter Scholze (xenaproject.wordpress.com)
		75 points by alimw on Dec 6, 2020 \| 24 comments
46.		Kazakhstan government is intercepting HTTPS traffic in its capital (again) (zdnet.com)
		179 points by ricc on Dec 6, 2020 \| 66 comments
47.		The Asian flu epidemic of 1957 was a turning point for antibiotics (2007) (historytoday.com)
		43 points by Hooke on Dec 5, 2020 \| 49 comments
48.		Show HN: DotComAgain – Find free dropped .com domains (dotcomagain.com)
		86 points by adminu on Dec 6, 2020 \| 65 comments
49.		A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (1970) [pdf] (upenn.edu)
		45 points by taffer on Dec 5, 2020 \| 20 comments
50.		Semantic segmentation algorithms do not generalize to off-road datasets (unmannedlab.github.io)
		28 points by srik901 on Dec 6, 2020 \| 4 comments
51.		Vanishing zeroes for geometric algebra in Rust (fanf.dreamwidth.org)
		57 points by fanf2 on Dec 6, 2020 \| 29 comments
52.		How Microsoft crushed Slack (theverge.com)
		135 points by atarian on Dec 5, 2020 \| 257 comments
53.		Show HN: Visualizing Deep Features from Podcasts (lexfridman.faith)
		49 points by kierangill on Dec 6, 2020 \| 17 comments
54.		Cloudflare working on Cloudflare Pages, for deploying and hosting JAMstack (twitter.com/wongmjane)
		158 points by nilsandrey on Dec 6, 2020 \| 36 comments
55.		The Perils of File Typing (invisibleup.com)
		60 points by panic on Dec 6, 2020 \| 39 comments
56.		Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise (2009) [pdf] (pnas.org)
		116 points by gregwebs on Dec 6, 2020 \| 39 comments
57.		Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess (slack.engineering)
		99 points by talonx on Dec 6, 2020 \| 34 comments
58.		The Raspberry Pi 4 has a fan now – the Case Fan (jeffgeerling.com)
		106 points by geerlingguy on Dec 6, 2020 \| 126 comments
59.		Infamous Assassins of the Middle Ages (laphamsquarterly.org)
		54 points by diodorus on Dec 5, 2020 \| 4 comments
60.		A Compendium of SIMD Boolean Array Algorithms in APL (2016) [video] (youtube.com)
		31 points by tjalfi on Dec 4, 2020 \| 2 comments
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