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31.		A Recap of the Mars Terraforming Debate (nautil.us)
		104 points by rbanffy on May 13, 2021 \| 300 comments
32.		Open source mechanical Swiss watch movement (openmovement.org)
		122 points by habi on May 12, 2021 \| 44 comments
33.		JWT should not be your default for sessions (evertpot.com)
		335 points by mfbx9da4 on May 12, 2021 \| 230 comments
34.		A pair of memory-allocation improvements in Linux 5.13 (lwn.net)
		114 points by chmaynard on May 13, 2021 \| 11 comments
35.		Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service (zdnet.com)
		274 points by Clewza313 on May 13, 2021 \| 251 comments
36.		Study finds alarming levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in US mothers’ breast milk (theguardian.com)
		252 points by asymmetric on May 13, 2021 \| 107 comments
37.		Getting High-Speed Rail Wrong (pedestrianobservations.com)
		146 points by luu on May 12, 2021 \| 219 comments
38.		Fuck the Bread. The Bread Is Over (2020) (theparisreview.org)
		360 points by mitchbob on May 13, 2021 \| 141 comments
39.		Privacy Update: Third-party Tracking (backblaze.com)
		175 points by busymom0 on May 13, 2021 \| 25 comments
40.		Multicore OCaml: April 2021 (ocaml.org)
		145 points by sadiq on May 13, 2021 \| 89 comments
41.		Show HN: We wrote a book about building business applications in Go (threedots.tech)
		269 points by roblaszczak on May 13, 2021 \| 168 comments
42.		Three things to never build yourself: auth, notifications, payments (courier.com)
		213 points by troygoode on May 13, 2021 \| 185 comments
43.		A new era of personalised medicine: or how I got myself sequenced for free (mookerj.ee)
		90 points by souradip on May 13, 2021 \| 72 comments
44.		Lets Lisp like it's 1959 (2019) [video] (youtube.com)
		74 points by tosh on May 13, 2021 \| 3 comments
45.		Giant sea lizard fossil shows diversity of life before asteroid hit (bath.ac.uk)
		54 points by hhs on May 13, 2021 \| 9 comments
46.		One person's war on junk mail (1996) (langston.com)
		80 points by _wldu on May 12, 2021 \| 89 comments
47.		Building an efficient and portable programming language with Zig (fastly.com)
		143 points by DyslexicAtheist on May 13, 2021 \| 113 comments
48.		Nikon is slowly discontinuing more Nikkor reflex F-mount lenses (nikonrumors.com)
		83 points by giuliomagnifico on May 13, 2021 \| 65 comments
49.		Scientists Catch Jumping Genes Rewiring Genomes (quantamagazine.org)
		73 points by nsoonhui on May 13, 2021 \| 8 comments
50.		NumWorks – An open source Graphing Calculator (numworks.com)
		129 points by ivolimmen on May 12, 2021 \| 72 comments
51.		The Pin-Pen Merger (2020) (acelinguist.com)
		54 points by polm23 on May 13, 2021 \| 63 comments
52.		Things I wish someone told me about getting a promotion (radhika.dev)
		128 points by _ttg on May 13, 2021 \| 139 comments
53.		Network Realism: William Gibson and new forms of fiction (2010) (booktwo.org)
		36 points by prismatic on May 12, 2021
54.		[dupe] Tesla no longer accepts Bitcoin due to climate impact (dw.com)
		260 points by pistoriusp on May 13, 2021 \| 265 comments
55.		[dupe] Framework’s repairable laptop is up for preorder, starting at $999 (techcrunch.com)
		176 points by testfoobar on May 13, 2021 \| 1 comment
56.		How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century? (lowtechmagazine.com)
		85 points by rudenoise on May 12, 2021 \| 63 comments
57.		Hello, OpenPGP CA (sequoia-pgp.org)
		77 points by nwalfield on May 12, 2021 \| 11 comments
58.		Neural Rendering: How Low Can You Go in Terms of Input? (unite.ai)
		66 points by Hard_Space on May 13, 2021 \| 10 comments
59.		Letter reveals Einstein's thinking on bees, birds and physics (phys.org)
		42 points by samizdis on May 13, 2021 \| 3 comments
60.		Random Walks (2009) (cornell.edu)
		32 points by lawrenceyan on May 12, 2021
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