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31.		Clearing price for supplying power to Texas grid –$31.65 (ercot.com)
		102 points by asmithmd1 on Feb 20, 2021 \| 254 comments
32.		In the 90s part of Germany's air traffic control software ran on Emacs (reddit.com)
		241 points by omaranto on Feb 20, 2021 \| 80 comments
33.		Cinnamon: Of early modern medicinal monopolies (jstor.org)
		41 points by Thevet on Feb 19, 2021 \| 14 comments
34.		Photos from the Surface of Venus (1982) (twitter.com/barry)
		139 points by uptown on Feb 19, 2021 \| 60 comments
35.		What is the fuss over central-bank digital currencies? (economist.com)
		85 points by known on Feb 20, 2021 \| 139 comments
36.		Machine Learning for Computer Architecture (googleblog.com)
		97 points by tmfi on Feb 20, 2021 \| 21 comments
37.		How to have better arguments online (theguardian.com)
		108 points by samizdis on Feb 20, 2021 \| 95 comments
38.		Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's auction (theregister.com)
		77 points by rbanffy on Feb 19, 2021 \| 25 comments
39.		My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) (yosefk.com)
		95 points by panic on Feb 20, 2021 \| 25 comments
40.		Memory Techniques from Vedic Learning [pdf] (artofmemory.com)
		111 points by keiferski on Feb 20, 2021 \| 37 comments
41.		Native Type Theory (utexas.edu)
		116 points by g0xA52A2A on Feb 20, 2021 \| 71 comments
42.		Coinbase valued above $100B, ahead of direct listing (axios.com)
		206 points by DLay on Feb 19, 2021 \| 288 comments
43.		Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn (quantamagazine.org)
		105 points by giorgiop on Feb 20, 2021 \| 38 comments
44.		How Swift achieved dynamic linking where Rust couldn't (2019) (gankra.github.io)
		162 points by zdw on Feb 20, 2021 \| 83 comments
45.		Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media (github.com/tribler)
		64 points by curmudgeon22 on Feb 20, 2021 \| 13 comments
46.		Ask HN: How do solo SaaS founders handle monitoring/PagerDuty?
		149 points by exctaticraz on Feb 20, 2021 \| 113 comments
47.		Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication with Lucid Dreamers in Breakthrough (vice.com)
		126 points by elsewhen on Feb 20, 2021 \| 60 comments
48.		Researchers observe stationary Hawking radiation in an analog black hole (phys.org)
		40 points by dnetesn on Feb 20, 2021 \| 17 comments
49.		Embracing Functional Programming in Ruby (2017) (kellysutton.com)
		34 points by mooreds on Feb 20, 2021 \| 11 comments
50.		Metallica's BlizzCon Performance Ruined by Twitch (gamespot.com)
		161 points by croes on Feb 20, 2021 \| 120 comments
51.		Diablo II: Resurrected (blizzard.com)
		186 points by eswat on Feb 19, 2021 \| 190 comments
52.		Elizabeth Ann, the First Cloned Black-Footed Ferret (nytimes.com)
		40 points by chetangoti on Feb 19, 2021 \| 6 comments
53.		Show HN: Sabre – Bullshit-free (c) programming language (github.com/garritfra)
		37 points by garritfra on Feb 20, 2021 \| 47 comments
54.		Immortality vs. Society (2016) (grishka.me)
		30 points by notpushkin on Feb 20, 2021 \| 94 comments
55.		The Process Is Not the Product. The New Agile Anti-Manifesto (medium.com/mkarliner)
		64 points by mkarliner on Feb 20, 2021 \| 70 comments
56.		Sequoia Capital says it was hacked (axios.com)
		89 points by taytus on Feb 20, 2021 \| 28 comments
57.		Unofficial Clubhouse app for Android (github.com/grishka)
		62 points by amima on Feb 20, 2021 \| 71 comments
58.		Phthalates damage babies' brains and must be banned immediately, say experts (cnn.com)
		120 points by daegloe on Feb 20, 2021 \| 49 comments
59.		How We ”Email” Hardware to Space (2014) (medium.com/backchannel)
		18 points by lelf on Feb 18, 2021 \| 3 comments
60.		Twitch censors live Metallica concert with dorkiest music imaginable (avclub.com)
		80 points by Borlands on Feb 20, 2021 \| 12 comments
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