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31.		Potemkin Data Science (2020) (mcorrell.medium.com)
		107 points by BerislavLopac on May 25, 2021 \| 62 comments
32.		Freenode ops take control of 700 channels (mastodon.sdf.org)
		604 points by LambdaComplex on May 26, 2021 \| 944 comments
33.		You can't have too many angels (waseem.substack.com)
		111 points by wdaher on May 26, 2021 \| 66 comments
34.		Our memory is better than experts thought (scientificamerican.com)
		113 points by pseudolus on May 26, 2021 \| 38 comments
35.		How Our Slack App Got to 200K Users with No Marketing Whatsoever (ae.studio)
		110 points by L-epstein on May 25, 2021 \| 36 comments
36.		The fastest and shortest algorithm for all well-defined problems (2002) (researchgate.net)
		119 points by pengstrom on May 25, 2021 \| 24 comments
37.		Stanford Bunny (wikipedia.org)
		121 points by dcminter on May 25, 2021 \| 42 comments
38.		Finally Understanding PNG (2017) (compress-or-die.com)
		125 points by Asdrubalini on May 26, 2021 \| 45 comments
39.		Understanding Multiple Neighbourhood Cellular Automata (slackermanz.com)
		105 points by nimbleal on May 26, 2021 \| 18 comments
40.		RPG-CLI – your filesystem as a dungeon (github.com/facundoolano)
		155 points by agluszak on May 26, 2021 \| 27 comments
41.		Privacy – A curated list of services and alternatives that respect privacy (github.com/pluja)
		199 points by sharjeelsayed on May 26, 2021 \| 51 comments
42.		The Cardiovascular Secrets of Giraffes (smithsonianmag.com)
		51 points by pseudolus on May 25, 2021 \| 3 comments
43.		Streetmix – A fun little urban design playground (streetmix.net)
		77 points by wilg on May 26, 2021 \| 19 comments
44.		Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC (arstechnica.com)
		190 points by signa11 on May 26, 2021 \| 143 comments
45.		Garamond is not a good font to use in web copy (2010) (designforhackers.com)
		71 points by susam on May 25, 2021 \| 89 comments
46.		SCP-055 (wikidot.com)
		134 points by rbanffy on May 25, 2021 \| 72 comments
47.		Greenland’s ice sheet is releasing huge amounts of mercury into rivers (newscientist.com)
		158 points by mef51 on May 26, 2021 \| 78 comments
48.		Shell ordered to cut CO2 emissions by 45% in landmark climate case (euronews.com)
		249 points by chefkoch on May 26, 2021 \| 282 comments
49.		Master List of Logical Fallacies (2018) (utep.edu)
		113 points by walterbell on May 26, 2021 \| 64 comments
50.		Edward Snowden Hails Court Ruling Acknowledging Devastation of Mass Surveillance (newsweek.com)
		171 points by danboarder on May 26, 2021 \| 18 comments
51.		The end of the pandemic is near (donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com)
		198 points by mpweiher on May 26, 2021 \| 365 comments
52.		American Solitude: Notes Toward a History of Isolation (historians.org)
		28 points by Thevet on May 25, 2021 \| 31 comments
53.		Should we rebrand REST? (kieranpotts.com)
		123 points by bshanks on May 26, 2021 \| 147 comments
54.		Benefits of 2D code layouts (2018) (twitter.com/mesh_ide)
		30 points by chrispsn on May 25, 2021 \| 16 comments
55.		When scientific orthodoxy resembles religious dogma (scientificamerican.com)
		116 points by version_five on May 26, 2021 \| 144 comments
56.		Official Elixir IRC channel moves to Libera (twitter.com/amnicd)
		145 points by wut42 on May 26, 2021 \| 6 comments
57.		Ulysses (mit.edu)
		54 points by graderjs on May 26, 2021 \| 10 comments
58.		Modern C for C++ Peeps (2019) (floooh.github.io)
		94 points by signa11 on May 26, 2021 \| 21 comments
59.		The First Rule of Bite Club? Talk About It (outsideonline.com)
		28 points by ColinWright on May 25, 2021 \| 8 comments
60.		E-Prime – English without the verb “to be” (wikipedia.org)
		108 points by isomorph on May 26, 2021 \| 66 comments
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