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31.		What's Mavis Beacon Up to These Days? (2015) (vice.com)
		55 points by shdon on Dec 24, 2020 \| 58 comments
32.		Video taken by pilots of what could be the elusive Los Angeles jet pack guy (thedrive.com)
		142 points by pseudolus on Dec 24, 2020 \| 113 comments
33.		Show HN: Twitch controls Minecraft (github.com/braydo25)
		64 points by braydo25 on Dec 24, 2020 \| 14 comments
34.		BMW to shame out-of-warranty UK drivers with smart billboards (thedrive.com)
		267 points by samizdis on Dec 24, 2020 \| 336 comments
35.		Crowdsourcing dynamic illustrations for a new astronomy book (observablehq.com)
		43 points by jsomers on Dec 23, 2020 \| 4 comments
36.		NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (nist.gov)
		101 points by maxwelljoslyn on Dec 23, 2020 \| 17 comments
37.		A Great Prize, a Long-Suffering Inventor and the First Accurate Clock (1956) (google.com)
		28 points by jsomers on Dec 24, 2020 \| 7 comments
38.		What Privacy Is For (2012) (ssrn.com)
		53 points by freddyym on Dec 24, 2020 \| 16 comments
39.		FreeBSD src repository has transitioned from Subversion to Git (freebsd.org)
		123 points by cnst on Dec 24, 2020 \| 58 comments
40.		The Story of T (thestacksreader.com)
		32 points by boovic on Dec 23, 2020 \| 8 comments
41.		Covid: France rewards frontline immigrant workers with citizenship (bbc.com)
		125 points by williamsharris on Dec 24, 2020 \| 137 comments
42.		Grenfell Tower inquiry: key things we’ve learned this year (bbc.co.uk)
		86 points by vijayr02 on Dec 24, 2020 \| 71 comments
43.		The Parity of Zero (solipsys.co.uk)
		79 points by ColinWright on Dec 23, 2020 \| 91 comments
44.		TiddlyWiki 5.1.23 (tiddlywiki.com)
		125 points by BurningTreeC on Dec 24, 2020 \| 31 comments
45.		The Mystery of Deceased Hiker ‘Mostly Harmless’ Is at Long Last Solved (adventure-journal.com)
		180 points by rdegges on Dec 24, 2020 \| 37 comments
46.		Paleontologists are trying to understand why the fossil record is mostly males (atlasobscura.com)
		119 points by NoRagrets on Dec 24, 2020 \| 107 comments
47.		GoDaddy employees told they were getting a holiday bonus in a phishing test (coppercourier.com)
		199 points by arkadiyt on Dec 24, 2020 \| 251 comments
48.		Adobe Lightroom v6 is Falling Apart (petapixel.com)
		171 points by kawera on Dec 24, 2020 \| 129 comments
49.		Implementing Anonymous Posts on Gurlic (gurlic.com)
		21 points by SubGenius on Dec 24, 2020 \| 11 comments
50.		Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook (inc.com)
		172 points by evo_9 on Dec 24, 2020 \| 183 comments
51.		Fitting all human knowledge in a box (monadical.com)
		40 points by moj3 on Dec 24, 2020 \| 4 comments
52.		The Google Fitbit Deal: Hazardous to competition, privacy, and our health [pdf] (democraticmedia.org)
		110 points by lawrenceyan on Dec 24, 2020 \| 90 comments
53.		Developing in a Monorepo While Still Using Webpack (codeascraft.com)
		41 points by fagnerbrack on Dec 23, 2020 \| 15 comments
54.		Neurobiological foundations of neurologic music therapy (frontiersin.org)
		18 points by _zhqs on Dec 21, 2020 \| 1 comment
55.		Producer of Netflix Three body problem found poisoned (variety.com)
		54 points by Ahmedb on Dec 24, 2020 \| 56 comments
56.		Rethinking Connection Security Indicators (2016) [pdf] (usenix.org)
		10 points by jka on Dec 23, 2020 \| 2 comments
57.		SQISign (ellipticnews.wordpress.com)
		13 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 24, 2020 \| 2 comments
58.		The Coach in the Operating Room (2011) (newyorker.com)
		14 points by Tomte on Dec 23, 2020 \| 4 comments
59.		Korean artificial sun sets the new world record of 20sec at 100M degrees (phys.org)
		65 points by NiceWayToDoIT on Dec 24, 2020 \| 20 comments
60.		Repurposing Utopia: Two photobooks chart the afterlife of Soviet architecture (thebaffler.com)
		15 points by prismatic on Dec 24, 2020 \| 3 comments
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