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31.		Fighting Like Taliban (scholars-stage.org)
		215 points by robertwiblin on Aug 23, 2021 \| 227 comments
32.		The Real-Life Inspiration Behind “Mr. Toad” (lithub.com)
		47 points by pausing on Aug 22, 2021 \| 8 comments
33.		Lambdas as values in Excel (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
		126 points by occamrazor on Aug 23, 2021 \| 60 comments
34.		It became common in the 18th century to speak of ‘English credulity’ (spectator.co.uk)
		54 points by pepys on Aug 22, 2021 \| 52 comments
35.		OCaml at Bloomberg (twitter.com/adolfont)
		175 points by yawaramin on Aug 23, 2021 \| 138 comments
36.		Protecting privacy is a losing game today (2018) (brookings.edu)
		84 points by dredmorbius on Aug 22, 2021 \| 42 comments
37.		Error stack traces in Go with x/xerror (brandur.org)
		100 points by sicromoft on Aug 23, 2021 \| 107 comments
38.		Image2Lego: Customized Lego Set Generation from Images (arxiv.org)
		98 points by hubraumhugo on Aug 23, 2021 \| 27 comments
39.		Dorothy Butler Gilliam: ‘I am not a maid, I am a reporter’ (bbc.com)
		169 points by imacerealkiller on Aug 23, 2021 \| 131 comments
40.		Plane damaged after being hit by York police drone at Buttonville Airport (ctvnews.ca)
		167 points by zdw on Aug 23, 2021 \| 126 comments
41.		Solar power in Australia outstrips coal-fired electricity for first time (theguardian.com)
		144 points by hiddencache on Aug 23, 2021 \| 103 comments
42.		Monkeys' cosy alliance with wolves looks like domestication (2015) (newscientist.com)
		82 points by CryptoPunk on Aug 23, 2021 \| 20 comments
43.		[flagged] Afghans Delete Social Media as Taliban Seizes US Surveillance Equipment (theepochtimes.com)
		160 points by RachelF on Aug 23, 2021 \| 96 comments
44.		Phones containing magnets inhibit implantable cardioverter defibrillators (bhrs.com)
		95 points by Tomte on Aug 23, 2021 \| 74 comments
45.		Apple already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, but not iCloud Photos (9to5mac.com)
		175 points by audhitya on Aug 23, 2021 \| 133 comments
46.		Hand gestures that last longer than spoken languages (bbc.com)
		63 points by Pikkie on Aug 23, 2021 \| 57 comments
47.		Self-powered diaper sensors that monitor urine sugar levels (tus.ac.jp)
		62 points by rustoo on Aug 23, 2021 \| 40 comments
48.		Aquaplus P/ECE (Vs Panic Playdate) (gingerbeardman.com)
		40 points by zdw on Aug 23, 2021 \| 3 comments
49.		Modern XMPP (modernxmpp.org)
		147 points by jrepinc on Aug 23, 2021 \| 117 comments
50.		Picking Co-Founders the Army Officer Way (sorryspeakup.substack.com)
		97 points by Chan_Yuk_Chi on Aug 23, 2021 \| 64 comments
51.		Launch HN: Zen (YC S21) – Posture-correcting software via webcam
		53 points by handheldmouse on Aug 23, 2021 \| 38 comments
52.		Node.js binding for libobs – OBS studio's internal library (github.com/stream-labs)
		58 points by selvan on Aug 23, 2021 \| 24 comments
53.		Ten Years of Bootstrap (getbootstrap.com)
		184 points by ingve on Aug 23, 2021 \| 90 comments
54.		Competitive programming is useless (kislayverma.com)
		158 points by pbrw on Aug 23, 2021 \| 150 comments
55.		John Carmack visits Starbase (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
		203 points by amrrs on Aug 23, 2021 \| 91 comments
56.		Online Publisher Dependent Upon Facebook Shuts Down, Blaming Algorithm Change (2018) (daringfireball.net)
		46 points by chalst on Aug 23, 2021 \| 30 comments
57.		BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite (learnbchs.org)
		92 points by cheezymoogle on Aug 22, 2021 \| 58 comments
58.		Nvidia's takeover of Arm raises serious concerns, says watchdog (bbc.com)
		81 points by walterbell on Aug 23, 2021 \| 20 comments
59.		A study on dishonesty was based on fraudulent data (economist.com)
		114 points by breitling on Aug 23, 2021 \| 42 comments
60.		Visa Buys CryptoPunk #7610 (twitter.com/visanews)
		132 points by superphil0 on Aug 23, 2021 \| 131 comments
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