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31.
What Is an OLAP Cube? An Exhaustive Explainer (holistics.io)
86 points by chotmat on Sept 3, 2021 | 19 comments
32.
Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager (2018) (quantamagazine.org)
113 points by g42gregory on Sept 4, 2021 | 44 comments
33.
Vapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air (news.mit.edu)
62 points by x14km2d on Sept 4, 2021 | 24 comments
34.
The number of legal chess positions estimated at 4.5x10^44 – proof games wanted (github.com/tromp)
133 points by tromp on Sept 5, 2021 | 97 comments
35.
Object-Oriented Programming in C (2019) [pdf] (state-machine.com)
87 points by dankoncs on Sept 4, 2021 | 92 comments
36.
Financial literacy is a passport to financial freedom (ft.com)
154 points by JumpCrisscross on Sept 4, 2021 | 161 comments
37.
Using PostgreSQL’s JSONB for NoSQL (2019) [video] (youtube.com)
97 points by zdw on Sept 3, 2021 | 42 comments
38.
Linux block devices: hints for debugging and new developments (redhat.com)
71 points by globalc on Sept 3, 2021 | 4 comments
39.
Progress on C23 (thephd.dev)
98 points by ingve on Sept 5, 2021 | 56 comments
40.
Arc – A P2P CDN that runs in the browser (arc.io)
102 points by sansui12 on Sept 5, 2021 | 68 comments
41.
OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released (openwrt.org)
220 points by stock_toaster on Sept 5, 2021 | 91 comments
42.
Why is a Dollar like a Neanderthal (etymonline.com)
68 points by chana_masala on Sept 5, 2021 | 44 comments
43.
Your Phone Is Your Private Space (theatlantic.com)
199 points by fortran77 on Sept 5, 2021 | 89 comments
44.
Make a Joule Thief (2002) (bigclive.com)
69 points by bariumbitmap on Sept 5, 2021 | 39 comments
45.
Why Does the Sunlight Always Come from the North in Shaded Relief Maps? (ramblemaps.com)
131 points by slyall on Sept 5, 2021 | 25 comments
46.
A spy who helped to end apartheid (theguardian.com)
71 points by georgecmu on Sept 4, 2021 | 68 comments
47.
Constructive Journalism Pays Off (ellen-heinrichs.medium.com)
21 points by rapnie on Sept 4, 2021 | 8 comments
48.
Run GUI applications and desktops in Docker (github.com/mviereck)
90 points by majkinetor on Sept 5, 2021 | 18 comments
49.
How you can track your personal finances using Python (sgoel.dev)
140 points by siddhant on Sept 4, 2021 | 58 comments
50.
It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers rights shortage (thehill.com)
266 points by rectang on Sept 5, 2021 | 417 comments
51.
What the Heck Happened to Rollerblading? (2017) (howstuffworks.com)
110 points by type0 on Sept 3, 2021 | 201 comments
52.
On beaming solar power from low earth orbit (innovationfrontier.org)
68 points by Jeff_Brown on Sept 5, 2021 | 86 comments
53.
A Convivial Chap Led Easily Astray: On G. K. Chesterton (literaryreview.co.uk)
36 points by Thevet on Sept 2, 2021 | 37 comments
54.
A brief overview of IBM’s new 7 nm Telum mainframe CPU (arstechnica.com)
80 points by Tomte on Sept 3, 2021 | 28 comments
55.
Borax (wikipedia.org)
81 points by js2 on Sept 5, 2021 | 47 comments
56.
The strange race to track down a missing billion years (bbc.com)
90 points by divbzero on Sept 4, 2021 | 5 comments
57.
The moments that could have accidentally ended humanity (bbc.com)
80 points by hiddencache on Sept 5, 2021 | 74 comments
58.
Application of automotive alternators in small wind turbines (2012) (tudelft.nl)
27 points by rolph on Sept 5, 2021 | 17 comments
59.
Thomas Nagel: Thoughts Are Real (2013) (newyorker.com)
36 points by malloryerik on Sept 4, 2021 | 60 comments
60.
Mikrocodesimulator MikroSim 2010 – The Ultimate CPU-Simulation Program (mikrocodesimulator.de)
36 points by Tomte on Sept 5, 2021 | 3 comments

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