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31.		Mobile Home Skyscrapers: The Elusive Dream of Vertical Urban Trailer Parks (99percentinvisible.org)
		95 points by thread_id on Dec 21, 2020 \| 57 comments
32.		The Laws of Core Data (davedelong.com)
		72 points by Austin_Conlon on Dec 19, 2020 \| 38 comments
33.		How neutering dogs became the norm (moosenuggets.substack.com)
		97 points by evilsimon on Dec 22, 2020 \| 222 comments
34.		Dava Newman Named Director of MIT Media Lab (news.mit.edu)
		105 points by madars on Dec 22, 2020 \| 29 comments
35.		More Than 70 West Point Cadets Accused of Cheating in Academic Scandal (npr.org)
		196 points by KoftaBob on Dec 22, 2020 \| 247 comments
36.		Microplastics found in the placentas of human fetuses (theguardian.com)
		207 points by samizdis on Dec 22, 2020 \| 126 comments
37.		Ripple: A wireless token-passing protocol for multi-hop wireless mesh networks (researchgate.net)
		72 points by based2 on Dec 22, 2020 \| 24 comments
38.		Dyon – A Rusty dynamically typed scripting language (github.com/pistondevelopers)
		94 points by k__ on Dec 21, 2020 \| 12 comments
39.		Microsoft and Google join Facebook’s legal battle against NSO (venturebeat.com)
		180 points by KoftaBob on Dec 22, 2020 \| 70 comments
40.		The “Office Hours” Meetup (2014) (ideolalia.com)
		38 points by luu on Dec 21, 2020 \| 4 comments
41.		Common security issues with crypto websites and APIs (introvertmac.wordpress.com)
		90 points by introvertmac on Dec 22, 2020 \| 34 comments
42.		How the New Yorker Fell into the “Weird Japan” Trap (newrepublic.com)
		131 points by frxx on Dec 21, 2020 \| 158 comments
43.		Interfaces for Explaining Transformer Language Models (jalammar.github.io)
		41 points by Brajeshwar on Dec 22, 2020
44.		Filling the Void of a Physical Whiteboard (tawhidhannan.co.uk)
		51 points by verletx64 on Dec 21, 2020 \| 51 comments
45.		Mark Rober (former NASA) launches a 30 day Creative Engineering Class (monthly.com)
		134 points by O_H_E on Dec 22, 2020 \| 94 comments
46.		Plato in Sicily (aeon.co)
		51 points by drdee on Dec 22, 2020 \| 6 comments
47.		Thai baby elephant hit by motorcycle survives after receiving CPR (reuters.com)
		111 points by billyharris on Dec 22, 2020 \| 57 comments
48.		Generic Mitigations (oreilly.com)
		45 points by kiyanwang on Dec 21, 2020 \| 2 comments
49.		This Community is Available in the App (ruky.me)
		111 points by rukshn on Dec 22, 2020 \| 53 comments
50.		Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer (logicmag.io)
		125 points by who-knows on Dec 22, 2020 \| 67 comments
51.		Show HN: 02Books – An open source web app to teach kids to read
		63 points by Hulless_Barley on Dec 22, 2020 \| 17 comments
52.		Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020 (nytimes.com)
		99 points by laurex on Dec 22, 2020 \| 50 comments
53.		[flagged] Suspicions grow that nanoparticles in Pfizer vaccine trigger allergic reactions (sciencemag.org)
		105 points by longdefeat on Dec 22, 2020 \| 98 comments
54.		Scientists and philosopher team up, propose a new way to categorize minerals (phys.org)
		32 points by pseudolus on Dec 22, 2020 \| 9 comments
55.		Flower – A Friendly Federated Learning Framework (github.com/adap)
		51 points by tanto on Dec 21, 2020 \| 13 comments
56.		Probabilistic Flakiness: How do you test your tests? (fb.com)
		54 points by oedmarap on Dec 21, 2020 \| 35 comments
57.		Show HN: ZenML, extensible open-source MLOps framework for reproducible ML (github.com/maiot-io)
		37 points by benkoller on Dec 22, 2020 \| 13 comments
58.		Half-Precision Floating-Point, Visualized (observablehq.com)
		65 points by mariuz on Dec 21, 2020 \| 9 comments
59.		Build your own bamboo bike kit (bamboobicycleclub.org)
		39 points by Lio on Dec 21, 2020 \| 52 comments
60.		Time to get excited about the growing Windows on ARM Ecosystem (arm.com)
		71 points by pjmlp on Dec 22, 2020 \| 43 comments
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