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31.		The Impractical but Indisputable Rise of Retrocomputing (nytimes.com)
		125 points by doener on Jan 10, 2021 \| 134 comments
32.		The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen (buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches)
		268 points by iamd3vil on Jan 11, 2021 \| 208 comments
33.		Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems (foxhound.systems)
		269 points by charukiewicz on Jan 11, 2021 \| 291 comments
34.		TV Tuner History (maximus-randd.com)
		81 points by picture on Jan 10, 2021 \| 29 comments
35.		Rendering a Sphere on a Quad (bgolus.medium.com)
		78 points by juliendorra on Jan 10, 2021 \| 10 comments
36.		Log Pattern Recognition: LogMine (sayr.us)
		72 points by Sayrus on Jan 9, 2021 \| 7 comments
37.		The great bicycle boom of 2020 (bbc.com)
		189 points by dll on Jan 11, 2021 \| 152 comments
38.		Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram's MTProto 2.0 (arxiv.org)
		64 points by wyuenho on Jan 11, 2021 \| 53 comments
39.		Show HN: Thumbnail.ai – Just paste a blog post link and get a thumbnail (thumbnail.ai)
		121 points by justhw on Jan 11, 2021 \| 71 comments
40.		Blërg, a microblogging platform (blerg.cc)
		122 points by jimis on Jan 11, 2021 \| 67 comments
41.		Study: All non-violent criminals jailed on minor drug offence should be released (newkerala.com)
		327 points by rustoo on Jan 11, 2021 \| 184 comments
42.		Are Experts Real? (fantasticanachronism.com)
		187 points by tlb on Jan 11, 2021 \| 158 comments
43.		XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought (aduros.com)
		154 points by zdw on Jan 11, 2021 \| 152 comments
44.		Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data (nytimes.com)
		238 points by IvanSologub on Jan 11, 2021 \| 90 comments
45.		Poland Justice Minister announces online freedom of speech bill (polandin.com)
		295 points by andrenth on Jan 11, 2021 \| 362 comments
46.		Somerset cattle grid mistaken for wall by car sensors (bbc.co.uk)
		99 points by cnorthwood on Jan 11, 2021 \| 146 comments
47.		Natural language generation: The commercial state of the art in 2020 (cambridge.org)
		90 points by polm23 on Jan 10, 2021 \| 51 comments
48.		Is the Schrödinger Equation True? (scientificamerican.com)
		66 points by hatmatrix on Jan 9, 2021 \| 166 comments
49.		Facebook Says It Is Removing All Content Mentioning 'Stop the Steal' (wsj.com)
		270 points by admiralspoo on Jan 11, 2021 \| 412 comments
50.		Getting Started with Signal (justingarrison.com)
		276 points by JustinGarrison on Jan 11, 2021 \| 213 comments
51.		[dupe] Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B (ieee.org)
		275 points by mg on Jan 11, 2021 \| 121 comments
52.		Governments spurred the rise of solar power (economist.com)
		133 points by jakozaur on Jan 11, 2021 \| 162 comments
53.		FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week (seattletimes.com)
		309 points by alihm on Jan 11, 2021 \| 370 comments
54.		Citing 'Censorship' Concerns, North Idaho ISP Blocks Facebook, Twitter (kgw.com)
		299 points by thereare5lights on Jan 11, 2021 \| 242 comments
55.		Stanford pulls plug on the return of freshmen and sophomores to campus (mercurynews.com)
		111 points by beefman on Jan 11, 2021 \| 59 comments
56.		WhatsApp displays 404 not found when I send a link to Signal (dropbox.com)
		167 points by MKais on Jan 10, 2021 \| 41 comments
57.		Science and Technology of the Casimir Effect (scitation.org)
		43 points by yummypaint on Jan 11, 2021 \| 8 comments
58.		Parler LLC vs. Amazon Web Services Inc (courtlistener.com)
		253 points by vo2maxer on Jan 11, 2021 \| 450 comments
59.		CD Projekt Red is under investigation (mcvuk.com)
		131 points by pjmlp on Jan 11, 2021 \| 238 comments
60.		RDRAND on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is flakey (github.com/systemd)
		119 points by Avamander on Jan 11, 2021 \| 124 comments
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