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31.		All About Cockatoos (2002) (mytoos.com)
		43 points by rex_lupi on May 15, 2021 \| 26 comments
32.		Apple Support: How to hear image descriptions in the Camera app (youtube.com)
		172 points by colinprince on May 14, 2021 \| 47 comments
33.		Faster web fonts (iainbean.com)
		132 points by adrian_mrd on May 15, 2021 \| 81 comments
34.		Peak non-creepy dating pool (flowingdata.com)
		178 points by bribri on May 16, 2021 \| 161 comments
35.		Disguised “AMD PCI Driver” enables executable-specific hacks (twitter.com/aionescu)
		147 points by aunali1 on May 16, 2021 \| 38 comments
36.		Caproni Ca.60 (wikipedia.org)
		55 points by m3at on May 15, 2021 \| 8 comments
37.		Playing Codenames with Language Graphs and Word Embeddings (semanticscholar.org)
		58 points by polm23 on May 15, 2021 \| 17 comments
38.		Gigabyte Brix Pro: A Compact PC for Basic Computing Needs (overclockers.com)
		95 points by walterbell on May 15, 2021 \| 82 comments
39.		Reasons some languages are harder to learn (economist.com)
		103 points by lxm on May 15, 2021 \| 208 comments
40.		The Memex Method (doctorow.medium.com)
		82 points by rbanffy on May 14, 2021 \| 17 comments
41.		Kaufmann's Posographe: a pocketable analog exposure calculator (nzeldes.com)
		58 points by polm23 on May 16, 2021 \| 12 comments
42.		Fullerton settles lawsuit against bloggers for publishing City Hall documents (voiceofoc.org)
		100 points by us0r on May 16, 2021 \| 18 comments
43.		There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the pandemic (economist.com)
		267 points by pranshum on May 16, 2021 \| 458 comments
44.		Introverts can make great leaders (2018) (thehustle.co)
		162 points by Anon84 on May 16, 2021 \| 114 comments
45.		CSS Container Queries in Web Components (mxb.dev)
		97 points by mxbck on May 16, 2021 \| 75 comments
46.		Audacity: Actions we propose to take on PR 835 (github.com/audacity)
		190 points by jraph on May 16, 2021 \| 175 comments
47.		Waymo AV Freaked Out by Traffic Cones, Blocks Traffic, Evades Support Vehicles (jalopnik.com)
		178 points by clouddrover on May 16, 2021 \| 150 comments
48.		Herdwicks: The 'smiley' sheep that shaped the Lake District (bbc.co.uk)
		39 points by bananapear on May 16, 2021 \| 13 comments
49.		The Suez Canal will be widened (businessinsider.com)
		149 points by pseudolus on May 16, 2021 \| 208 comments
50.		Starting in August, Google will require that they sign apps, not you (twitter.com/dbrgn)
		225 points by mritzmann on May 16, 2021 \| 182 comments
51.		How to setup a Handshake site with Caddy (webb.page)
		46 points by NetOpWibby on May 16, 2021 \| 28 comments
52.		Knitting a Road with Stones and String (economist.com)
		28 points by lxm on May 15, 2021 \| 10 comments
53.		Developing MLB’s Automated Ball/Strike System (mlblogs.com)
		88 points by ingve on May 15, 2021 \| 54 comments
54.		I just open sourced my music collaboration site (github.com/dezman)
		38 points by broooder on May 16, 2021 \| 21 comments
55.		GitHub Actions Down
		89 points by kakamiokatsu on May 16, 2021 \| 52 comments
56.		Absolute wealth, relative wealth, taxes, and staying rich (summation.net)
		83 points by colinprince on May 16, 2021 \| 149 comments
57.		Braess's Paradox (wikipedia.org)
		64 points by Tomte on May 16, 2021 \| 30 comments
58.		The Day the Sun Brought Darkness (2009) (nasa.gov)
		24 points by rmdashrfstar on May 15, 2021 \| 7 comments
59.		An observation on MetroCards, after a $1 fee (2013) (secondavenuesagas.com)
		44 points by nojito on May 16, 2021 \| 88 comments
60.		Snow science; 100 years later (accuweather.com)
		22 points by jrgd on May 15, 2021 \| 2 comments
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