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31.		Somewhere Under My Left Ribs: A Nurse’s Story (2018) (longreads.com)
		130 points by blending on May 30, 2021 \| 26 comments
32.		Donating my time to grow a VC-funded company: why I quit mentoring at Plato (pragmaticengineer.com)
		215 points by yarapavan on May 31, 2021 \| 53 comments
33.		Drones may have attacked humans fully autonomously for the first time (nypost.com)
		219 points by alvis on May 30, 2021 \| 205 comments
34.		I Was Paralyzed by Severe Depression. Then Came Ketamine (nytimes.com)
		193 points by WarOnPrivacy on May 31, 2021 \| 163 comments
35.		After years of conflict and instability, Iraq is opening up to tourism (monocle.com)
		164 points by fortran77 on May 31, 2021 \| 84 comments
36.		Returns to Scale in Broken Windows (fantasticanachronism.com)
		60 points by apophatic on May 30, 2021 \| 46 comments
37.		Chip-8 in Common Lisp: The CPU (2016) (stevelosh.com)
		60 points by tosh on May 31, 2021 \| 4 comments
38.		[dupe] Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying (2020) (datacenterdynamics.com)
		411 points by giuliomagnifico on May 31, 2021 \| 159 comments
39.		China allows couples to have three children (bbc.com)
		217 points by jgilias on May 31, 2021 \| 322 comments
40.		iOS 14 tracking changes sees big ad spending drop, tumbling prices (imore.com)
		231 points by CharlesW on May 31, 2021 \| 210 comments
41.		SXS switching cutover to ESS, live at Glendale CA central office (1984) [video] (youtube.com)
		65 points by tosh on May 30, 2021 \| 26 comments
42.		The Myth of the Olympics (2004) (nybooks.com)
		32 points by hoffmannesque on May 30, 2021 \| 18 comments
43.		[dupe] Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996) (sfwriter.com)
		48 points by amadeuspagel on May 31, 2021 \| 1 comment
44.		File Permissions: A painful side of Docker (2019) (gougousis.net)
		110 points by zdw on May 28, 2021 \| 67 comments
45.		The Digital Wallet of the Future (1996) (buffalonews.com)
		58 points by Lammy on May 31, 2021 \| 50 comments
46.		Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey (lrb.co.uk)
		62 points by prismatic on May 27, 2021 \| 10 comments
47.		FOSS-north 2021 is now live, virtual and streamed for free online (foss-north.se)
		93 points by hnarn on May 31, 2021 \| 8 comments
48.		In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes (apnews.com)
		213 points by hbcondo714 on May 31, 2021 \| 231 comments
49.		Show HN: Notion API Go SDK (github.com/jomei)
		69 points by jomei on May 31, 2021 \| 7 comments
50.		Air France cancels flights as Russia withholds clearance (reuters.com)
		191 points by underscore_ku on May 31, 2021 \| 185 comments
51.		Avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods (2014) (outofyourrut.com)
		210 points by walterbell on May 31, 2021 \| 456 comments
52.		Creator of Rufus outlines the problems with Microsoft's UWP (github.com/pbatard)
		95 points by onlyforthat on May 30, 2021 \| 30 comments
53.		The New York Times uses the dark patterns it derides (nirandfar.com)
		200 points by nireyal on May 30, 2021 \| 81 comments
54.		One man’s journey to the center of the bowling ball (wired.com)
		61 points by voisin on May 29, 2021 \| 14 comments
55.		Known-plaintext attack (wikipedia.org)
		50 points by Hooke on May 29, 2021 \| 19 comments
56.		Alternate Instruction Set (wikipedia.org)
		76 points by lelf on May 30, 2021 \| 23 comments
57.		GCC Rust Monthly Report #6 May 2021 (thephilbert.io)
		106 points by ingve on May 31, 2021 \| 56 comments
58.		Uber charges driver for completing a 13-mile fare (twitter.com/thesofaaa)
		178 points by bbatsell on May 30, 2021 \| 132 comments
59.		The Gerrymandering game that puts the fun in undermining democracy (2019) (arstechnica.com)
		75 points by Tomte on May 31, 2021 \| 49 comments
60.		Japanese government is selling houses for $500 to populate rural areas (insider.com)
		130 points by protomyth on May 31, 2021 \| 111 comments
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