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31.		Berkeley may get rid of single-family zoning (berkeleyside.com)
		243 points by jseliger on Feb 24, 2021 \| 419 comments
32.		Toshiba Unveils First FC-MAMR HDD: 18 TB, Helium Filled (anandtech.com)
		112 points by rbanffy on Feb 22, 2021 \| 83 comments
33.		RaSCSI: A virtual SCSI device emulator that runs on a Raspberry Pi (github.com/akuker)
		80 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 24, 2021 \| 56 comments
34.		An ancient Greek approach to risk and the lessons it can offer the modern world (theconversation.com)
		48 points by diodorus on Feb 22, 2021 \| 17 comments
35.		The largest library of historical European martial arts books and manuscripts (wiktenauer.com)
		108 points by Tomte on Feb 23, 2021 \| 45 comments
36.		American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday (viewfromthewing.com)
		332 points by miles on Feb 24, 2021 \| 283 comments
37.		Python for Lisp Programmers (2000) (norvig.com)
		78 points by optimalsolver on Feb 22, 2021 \| 65 comments
38.		Canada's parliament votes to label China's persecution of Uighurs as genocide (cbc.ca)
		326 points by lawrenceyan on Feb 24, 2021 \| 172 comments
39.		Fuzzy Name Matching in Postgres (crunchydata.com)
		144 points by polm23 on Feb 23, 2021 \| 20 comments
40.		Microsoft Sculpt Wired Conversion Mod (chadaustin.me)
		84 points by yuribro on Feb 22, 2021 \| 70 comments
41.		Show HN: Test your Gitlab CI Pipelines changes locally using Docker (github.com/mdubourg001)
		83 points by damnhotuser on Feb 23, 2021 \| 39 comments
42.		Show HN: I built a cute, little isometric block stacking editor in QML (kdab.com)
		100 points by wuschelhase on Feb 24, 2021 \| 17 comments
43.		Common asthma drug cuts Covid-19 hospitalization, recovery time – Oxford study (reuters.com)
		156 points by tempestn on Feb 24, 2021 \| 63 comments
44.		The trouble with Cassandra as an object storage metadata database (min.io)
		84 points by jasim on Feb 24, 2021 \| 77 comments
45.		Why trademark Open Source software (lightmeter.io)
		79 points by samtuke on Feb 24, 2021 \| 43 comments
46.		AArch64 Boards and Perception (juszkiewicz.com.pl)
		67 points by pabs3 on Feb 22, 2021 \| 31 comments
47.		On Writing More (ava.substack.com)
		125 points by riverlong on Feb 24, 2021 \| 49 comments
48.		The grisly trials that gave poison to prisoners (nature.com)
		37 points by Petiver on Feb 24, 2021 \| 25 comments
49.		Enabling Rich Statistical Analyses with Differential Privacy (nist.gov)
		56 points by oedmarap on Feb 24, 2021 \| 16 comments
50.		A Retrospective Look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard (morrick.me)
		137 points by NaOH on Feb 22, 2021 \| 111 comments
51.		Nim versions 1.4.4 and 1.2.10 (nim-lang.org)
		119 points by 0-_-0 on Feb 24, 2021 \| 41 comments
52.		Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration (japantimes.co.jp)
		165 points by biotekk on Feb 24, 2021 \| 229 comments
53.		How should economists think about biodiversity? (economist.com)
		73 points by lxm on Feb 22, 2021 \| 61 comments
54.		Student Surveillance Vendor Proctorio Files SLAPP Lawsuit to Silence a Critic (eff.org)
		163 points by glitcher on Feb 24, 2021 \| 40 comments
55.		An introduction to Programming with ECMA-55 Minimal BASIC [pdf] (buraphakit.sourceforge.io)
		45 points by ingve on Feb 23, 2021 \| 21 comments
56.		US central bank payment system down for 'hours' (bbc.com)
		128 points by alexrustic on Feb 24, 2021 \| 177 comments
57.		FAA Statement on Pratt and Whitney Engine Emergency Airworthiness Directive (faa.gov)
		44 points by infodocket on Feb 24, 2021 \| 46 comments
58.		GameStop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage (stephendiehl.com)
		160 points by Priem19 on Feb 23, 2021 \| 190 comments
59.		When did generic grocery brands get so good looking? (aiga.org)
		93 points by secondary on Feb 23, 2021 \| 144 comments
60.		Scholar Edward Said longed to write novels, yet never succeeded (theguardian.com)
		35 points by lermontov on Feb 22, 2021 \| 2 comments
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