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31.		E.O. Wilson on Becoming a Great Scientist (fs.blog)
		89 points by MrXOR on Jan 3, 2021 \| 27 comments
32.		Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000) (britneyspears.ac)
		168 points by doener on Jan 4, 2021 \| 112 comments
33.		MIT 6.172: Performance Engineering of Software Systems (ocw.mit.edu)
		177 points by roperzh on Jan 3, 2021 \| 41 comments
34.		The proliferation of disingenuous music marketing and playlisting services (distrokid.com)
		62 points by pud on Jan 4, 2021 \| 35 comments
35.		Bringing civic tech to Taiwan's coronavirus pandemic response [audio] (npr.org)
		144 points by timjones on Jan 4, 2021 \| 92 comments
36.		State of the Octoverse (octoverse.github.com)
		74 points by keyle on Jan 3, 2021 \| 27 comments
37.		Crush: Controlled, Scalable, Decentralized Placement of Replicated Data [pdf] (ceph.com)
		40 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 4, 2021 \| 11 comments
38.		Ask HN: Why aren't one-time sign in links more popular for authentication?
		150 points by phenkdo on Jan 4, 2021 \| 192 comments
39.		China: The Disappearing Millionaires (2019) [video] (arte.tv)
		240 points by amin on Jan 4, 2021 \| 179 comments
40.		Show HN: Organizedly – Linked notes, todo's, calendar and queries (organizedly.io)
		63 points by gabriel0r on Jan 3, 2021 \| 57 comments
41.		Looks vs. Results: My ugly ad got 150% more clicks than a professional design (gkogan.co)
		178 points by gk1 on Jan 2, 2021 \| 123 comments
42.		Letting Go of Nostalgia Urbanism (granolashotgun.com)
		118 points by oftenwrong on Jan 3, 2021 \| 55 comments
43.		Auction: David’s Personal KITT Knight Rider Car on Sale (liveauctioneers.com)
		88 points by baxtr on Jan 4, 2021 \| 55 comments
44.		Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 600M doses (reuters.com)
		201 points by KoftaBob on Jan 4, 2021 \| 238 comments
45.		[dupe] We’re Google Workers, and We Are Forming a Union (nytimes.com)
		261 points by ingve on Jan 4, 2021 \| 90 comments
46.		BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet (singlelunch.com)
		167 points by nikivi on Jan 4, 2021 \| 574 comments
47.		An automated pipeline for the discovery of conspiracy theories (plos.org)
		114 points by iNic on Jan 4, 2021 \| 109 comments
48.		Dogger Bank's giant turbines herald a wind of change in UK industry (theguardian.com)
		84 points by GordonS on Jan 4, 2021 \| 65 comments
49.		“Hello, World” in zero lines of code (codegolf.stackexchange.com)
		130 points by ashutoshgngwr on Jan 4, 2021 \| 51 comments
50.		Code Age vs. Time to Recall (notoriousbfg.com)
		30 points by trwhite on Jan 3, 2021 \| 19 comments
51.		Singapore says contact tracing data may be used for criminal investigations (channelnewsasia.com)
		146 points by acekingspade on Jan 4, 2021 \| 137 comments
52.		Brexit stops Brooks England sales of ‘Made in Britain’ saddles to UK shoppers (road.cc)
		98 points by DanBC on Jan 4, 2021 \| 127 comments
53.		[flagged] AMD's desktop CPU share passes Intel's for first time in 15 years (techspot.com)
		131 points by giuliomagnifico on Jan 4, 2021 \| 20 comments
54.		Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan End Health-Care Venture Haven (cnbc.com)
		97 points by jweir on Jan 4, 2021 \| 34 comments
55.		Quitting a New Job (yolken.net)
		191 points by fullung on Jan 4, 2021 \| 232 comments
56.		The thinking behind the 32GB Windows Format limit on FAT32 (theregister.com)
		86 points by samizdis on Jan 4, 2021 \| 74 comments
57.		Microsoft patent: Creating a conversational chat bot of a specific person (uspto.gov)
		78 points by deesep on Jan 4, 2021 \| 78 comments
58.		Ask HN: Is HN slow today?
		156 points by brundolf on Jan 4, 2021 \| 76 comments
59.		Gov.uk site broke Google realtime analytics during lockdown announcement (twitter.com/therealnooshu)
		101 points by whyleyc on Jan 4, 2021 \| 75 comments
60.		$1000 grant for individuals working on climate change, no strings attached (climategrants.earth)
		118 points by rahulyadav on Jan 3, 2021 \| 28 comments
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