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31.		Writer Liu Cixin on How His Visions of the Future Collide with Reality (wsj.com)
		117 points by gumby on Oct 18, 2021 \| 221 comments
32.		Verilog Simulation with Verilator and SDL (projectf.io)
		76 points by WillFlux on Oct 20, 2021 \| 34 comments
33.		Carbon-neutrality is a tale: the race for renewables is burning Europe's forests (theguardian.com)
		171 points by ericdanielski on Oct 20, 2021 \| 94 comments
34.		Tesla Q3 2021 Earnings (thron.com)
		136 points by marc__1 on Oct 20, 2021 \| 599 comments
35.		FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh (freebsd.org)
		157 points by 0mp on Oct 20, 2021 \| 148 comments
36.		Avoid all links to kicad-pcb.org – Use kicad.org (kicad.info)
		177 points by 1MachineElf on Oct 20, 2021 \| 55 comments
37.		List of IEEE Milestones (ethw.org)
		59 points by agomez314 on Oct 20, 2021 \| 11 comments
38.		California ports among world’s least efficient, ranking shows (reuters.com)
		217 points by hhs on Oct 20, 2021 \| 218 comments
39.		When Americans picnicked in cemeteries (atlasobscura.com)
		52 points by samclemens on Oct 19, 2021 \| 57 comments
40.		What is the unit of a text column number? (foonathan.net)
		59 points by amar-laksh on Oct 19, 2021 \| 43 comments
41.		Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favored foreign applicants (npr.org)
		125 points by koolba on Oct 20, 2021 \| 100 comments
42.		Show HN: Combining UTC and local times (time zones) in one new clock (thehtime.com)
		101 points by hhebbo on Oct 20, 2021 \| 197 comments
43.		Who reads digitised Malay manuscripts? (blogs.bl.uk)
		56 points by diodorus on Oct 19, 2021 \| 28 comments
44.		APL in its modern state (2020) (sacrideo.us)
		95 points by akbarnama on Oct 20, 2021 \| 90 comments
45.		Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work (gloswielkopolski.pl)
		274 points by nathell on Oct 20, 2021 \| 206 comments
46.		Conservation should be allowed to pay its own way on public lands (legal-planet.org)
		131 points by Amorymeltzer on Oct 20, 2021 \| 85 comments
47.		Why can't we build nice neighborhoods anymore? (bloomberg.com)
		121 points by cyunker on Oct 19, 2021 \| 302 comments
48.		Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Congress (reuters.com)
		124 points by rrix2 on Oct 20, 2021 \| 107 comments
49.		UserTesting S-1 (sec.report)
		59 points by mushufasa on Oct 20, 2021 \| 2 comments
50.		The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated (phoenixtrap.com)
		105 points by zdw on Oct 19, 2021 \| 132 comments
51.		A seventeenth century Jesuit who constructed his own monument (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		51 points by benbreen on Oct 20, 2021 \| 10 comments
52.		WHO asks South African startup to replicate Moderna's mRNA vaccine (npr.org)
		211 points by rolph on Oct 20, 2021 \| 219 comments
53.		Show HN: Python library to overload functions based on interpreter version (github.com/ttymck)
		45 points by ttymck on Oct 19, 2021 \| 36 comments
54.		Theranos devices ran “null protocol” to skip actual demo for investors (arstechnica.com)
		115 points by intunderflow on Oct 20, 2021 \| 65 comments
55.		Tom’s Essay (2008) (nytimes.com)
		50 points by Tomte on Oct 20, 2021 \| 14 comments
56.		Adventures in Category Theory – The algebra of types (2018) (miklos-martin.github.io)
		66 points by mathematically on Oct 20, 2021 \| 12 comments
57.		Hazel Scott: The Gorgeous Face of Jazz at the Mid-Century (loc.gov)
		49 points by tintinnabula on Oct 19, 2021 \| 5 comments
58.		Facebook fined £50.5m for breaching order in Giphy takeover investigation (theguardian.com)
		104 points by ljf on Oct 20, 2021 \| 35 comments
59.		A River Reawakened (orionmagazine.org)
		46 points by swarmy on Oct 20, 2021 \| 6 comments
60.		A peer-to-peer and Node.js cloud (atek.cloud)
		56 points by janandonly on Oct 19, 2021 \| 12 comments
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