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31.		Booting the IBM 1401: How a 1959 punch-card computer loads a program (righto.com)
		107 points by CaliforniaKarl on Feb 23, 2021 \| 44 comments
32.		The Bombard Story (greatestadventurers.com)
		74 points by jbergstroem on Feb 23, 2021 \| 36 comments
33.		Facebook to restore news in Australia after last-minute deal with government (smh.com.au)
		138 points by wp381640 on Feb 23, 2021 \| 203 comments
34.		Add experimental fuzz test support for Go 1.17 (github.com/golang)
		121 points by typical182 on Feb 23, 2021 \| 30 comments
35.		Noise pollution hurts the heart (theatlantic.com)
		246 points by lxm on Feb 22, 2021 \| 276 comments
36.		Macamathehou in Lincolnshire and people named Muhammad in medieval England (caitlingreen.org)
		54 points by pepys on Feb 23, 2021 \| 41 comments
37.		The birth of Prolog (1992) [pdf] (colmerauer.free.fr)
		100 points by alokrai on Feb 22, 2021 \| 45 comments
38.		Show HN: Replace printf() with cool generic print, almost like Python/JS (github.com/exebook)
		96 points by exebook on Feb 23, 2021 \| 27 comments
39.		The Amateur Tramp – A Walk of Ten Thousand Miles Around Australia (greatestadventurers.com)
		132 points by corpmedia on Feb 23, 2021 \| 87 comments
40.		Seven Hundred Leagues Beneath Titan’s Methane Seas (nytimes.com)
		73 points by benbreen on Feb 22, 2021 \| 2 comments
41.		Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with in-game currency (arstechnica.com)
		236 points by pseudolus on Feb 23, 2021 \| 143 comments
42.		Samsung now updates Android for longer than Google does (arstechnica.com)
		197 points by samizdis on Feb 23, 2021 \| 102 comments
43.		Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones scrape for applicants (nytimes.com)
		127 points by smaslennikov on Feb 23, 2021 \| 398 comments
44.		Is soy a key driver of deforestation? (ourworldindata.org)
		110 points by sohkamyung on Feb 23, 2021 \| 141 comments
45.		Launch HN: Abacum (YC W21) – Easy collaboration and reporting for finance teams
		50 points by Juliomartinez on Feb 23, 2021 \| 24 comments
46.		Reddit: One of social media's oldest companies is also its most undervalued (latecheckout.substack.com)
		122 points by hubraumhugo on Feb 21, 2021 \| 164 comments
47.		The Pretty JSON Revolution (ohler.com)
		169 points by peterohler on Feb 23, 2021 \| 156 comments
48.		In the ’80s, she was a video game pioneer. Today, no one can find her (polygon.com)
		152 points by rbanffy on Feb 23, 2021 \| 111 comments
49.		Practical typewriting: By the all-finger method (1894) (hathitrust.org)
		69 points by jesperlang on Feb 23, 2021 \| 20 comments
50.		Show HN: Generate a 3D model that looks like you and apply AR animation effects (youtube.com)
		94 points by soorya696 on Feb 23, 2021 \| 44 comments
51.		Automatio – Visual Automated Extraction Tool (automatio.co)
		115 points by h1fra on Feb 23, 2021 \| 29 comments
52.		Experimental quantum homomorphic encryption [pdf] (nature.com)
		38 points by giuliomagnifico on Feb 22, 2021 \| 6 comments
53.		[dupe] I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine (protocol.com)
		199 points by hker on Feb 23, 2021 \| 120 comments
54.		Dairy Made from Grass in a Fermentor (thosevegancowboys.com)
		79 points by vincent_s on Feb 23, 2021 \| 45 comments
55.		Commodore History Part 1: The Commodore Pet (the8bitguy.com)
		59 points by SQL2219 on Feb 23, 2021 \| 23 comments
56.		[flagged] Is Google’s AI research about to implode? (soccermatics.medium.com)
		142 points by henrik_w on Feb 23, 2021 \| 171 comments
57.		Fructose reprogrammes glutamine-dependent oxidative metabolism to support LPS (nature.com)
		108 points by yawz on Feb 23, 2021 \| 106 comments
58.		See how 100 startups are running – MRR and Stats (openstartups.run)
		113 points by upen946 on Feb 23, 2021 \| 32 comments
59.		Lucid Motors agrees to go public with $24B valuation (autonews.com)
		51 points by rsj_hn on Feb 23, 2021 \| 115 comments
60.		Aya Neo: A New Challenger for Handheld PC Gaming (boilingsteam.com)
		69 points by ekianjo on Feb 23, 2021 \| 76 comments
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