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31.		“I will slaughter you” (haxx.se)
		567 points by ingve on Feb 19, 2021 \| 242 comments
32.		We are starting to operate our CNC machines remotely (1d.works)
		127 points by Sharapolas on Feb 19, 2021 \| 100 comments
33.		How I started believing in Cycle Time over Estimation (norberhuis.nl)
		86 points by snorberhuis on Feb 17, 2021 \| 34 comments
34.		How to be more productive without forcing yourself (deprocrastination.co)
		278 points by vitabenes on Feb 19, 2021 \| 128 comments
35.		Researchers explore how storms on Earth create extreme bursts of radiation (nature.com)
		74 points by pseudolus on Feb 19, 2021 \| 22 comments
36.		Variable tyre pressure wheelset is a mountain biking breakthrough (news24.com)
		71 points by mardiyah on Feb 19, 2021 \| 67 comments
37.		Decoding Mars 2020 (destevez.net)
		69 points by followben on Feb 17, 2021 \| 7 comments
38.		Mars Photo Booth (nasa.gov)
		113 points by lelf on Feb 19, 2021 \| 35 comments
39.		Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election (vitalik.ca)
		209 points by 0-_-0 on Feb 19, 2021 \| 183 comments
40.		Swiss File Knife – A Command Line Tools Collection (stahlworks.com)
		71 points by interfixus on Feb 18, 2021 \| 19 comments
41.		TLS certificates specifying hosts via the CommonName field is more or less gone (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		73 points by zdw on Feb 18, 2021 \| 22 comments
42.		Truncating Bar Graphs Persistently Misleads Viewers (sciencedirect.com)
		112 points by sebg on Feb 19, 2021 \| 20 comments
43.		Tagged Unions Are Overrated (buttondown.email/nelhage)
		44 points by mpweiher on Feb 19, 2021 \| 48 comments
44.		Maybe We Can Have Nice Things (noncombatant.org)
		67 points by ChrisSD on Feb 17, 2021 \| 39 comments
45.		Coding in Ada: Strings (IV) Unbounded to String (craftofcoding.wordpress.com)
		34 points by thindil on Feb 18, 2021 \| 17 comments
46.		The Stack Fallacy (2016) (techcrunch.com)
		66 points by tomasz_wro on Feb 18, 2021 \| 28 comments
47.		Phel: A language inspired by Clojure that compiles to PHP (phel-lang.org)
		81 points by yogthos on Feb 18, 2021 \| 34 comments
48.		Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative (restofworld.org)
		114 points by donohoe on Feb 19, 2021 \| 192 comments
49.		The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life (2020) (nytimes.com)
		57 points by Petiver on Feb 18, 2021 \| 10 comments
50.		Nyan Cat on the Blockchain (foundation.app)
		96 points by ajwaxman on Feb 19, 2021 \| 93 comments
51.		Attempting to quantify Keynes’ concept of “animal spirits” (elgaronline.com)
		32 points by cacher on Feb 18, 2021 \| 4 comments
52.		The Rules of Margin Collapse (joshwcomeau.com)
		58 points by bpierre on Feb 17, 2021 \| 5 comments
53.		Restoring Nominet’s Purpose (publicbenefit.uk)
		81 points by ohashi on Feb 19, 2021 \| 17 comments
54.		The trial of a child soldier who became a brutal rebel commander (narratively.com)
		48 points by whocansay on Feb 18, 2021 \| 50 comments
55.		Parched oystermen, farmers face off in Supreme Court water war (bloomberglaw.com)
		33 points by cwwc on Feb 18, 2021 \| 39 comments
56.		A Follow-Up to “Location-Based Pay” (blackshaw.substack.com)
		49 points by blackshaw on Feb 19, 2021 \| 50 comments
57.		Has Amazon Ruined the Name Alexa? (statista.com)
		97 points by giuliomagnifico on Feb 19, 2021 \| 143 comments
58.		Machines Already Took Our Jobs (computerhistory.org)
		61 points by tmfi on Feb 17, 2021 \| 99 comments
59.		I built ByteDance's censorship machine (protocol.com)
		153 points by jbegley on Feb 19, 2021 \| 98 comments
60.		CC Academy (Free Fellowship) opens its doors to the 3rd cohort of ML/FE/UX folks (notion.so)
		19 points by billnyetheai on Feb 19, 2021 \| 2 comments
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