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31.		Apple’s $13k operating system (2013) (cnet.com)
		140 points by jdblair on Nov 5, 2021 \| 29 comments
32.		Why SQLite does not use Git (2018) (sqlite.org)
		252 points by pezzana on Nov 5, 2021 \| 356 comments
33.		Apple’s New Screen Repair Trap (ifixit.com)
		248 points by fomine3 on Nov 6, 2021 \| 249 comments
34.		Why Tokyo Works (metropolisjapan.com)
		245 points by jseliger on Nov 6, 2021 \| 288 comments
35.		A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life (wikipedia.org)
		219 points by akolbe on Nov 6, 2021 \| 148 comments
36.		It‘s been 9 years since Valve rolled out the Steam Linux beta (phoronix.com)
		239 points by underscore_ku on Nov 6, 2021 \| 118 comments
37.		Microcontroller VGA Interface Projects (tinyvga.com)
		72 points by guerrilla on Nov 6, 2021 \| 20 comments
38.		What happens to used electric car batteries? (wired.com)
		101 points by liellesch on Nov 4, 2021 \| 81 comments
39.		Show HN: How does JAX allocate memory on a TPU? An interactive C++ walkthrough (gist.github.com)
		78 points by sillysaurusx on Nov 6, 2021 \| 28 comments
40.		Reflecting on the Shake Build System (neilmitchell.blogspot.com)
		74 points by g0xA52A2A on Nov 6, 2021 \| 19 comments
41.		FLENG, a concurrent logic programming language (call-with-current-continuation.org)
		68 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 6, 2021 \| 6 comments
42.		The Engineered Student: On B. F. Skinner’s Teaching Machine (mitpress.mit.edu)
		46 points by benbreen on Nov 4, 2021 \| 28 comments
43.		Against Discord Channels (becca.ooo)
		140 points by bb010g on Nov 6, 2021 \| 159 comments
44.		Why nuclear fusion yields more energy than fission (physlink.com)
		99 points by mahami on Nov 6, 2021 \| 47 comments
45.		American trains need more than railfan nostalgia (slowboring.com)
		136 points by aww_dang on Nov 6, 2021 \| 207 comments
46.		Ask HN: Connect to the Internet the old way during next Ethiopian lockdown?
		129 points by oriettaxx on Nov 6, 2021 \| 96 comments
47.		Why can DRM crash some games on 12th gen Intel core processors? (intel.com)
		105 points by octagons on Nov 6, 2021 \| 85 comments
48.		The Posthuman Dog (aeon.co)
		60 points by bryanrasmussen on Nov 4, 2021 \| 33 comments
49.		Windows 11 upgrade tool that bypasses Microsoft´s requirements (github.com/coofcookie)
		104 points by donutloop on Nov 6, 2021 \| 106 comments
50.		What collective narcissism does to society (theatlantic.com)
		120 points by defaultname on Nov 6, 2021 \| 42 comments
51.		Barbados’s long-drawn-out promise of a republic (constitutionnet.org)
		40 points by Archelaos on Nov 6, 2021 \| 79 comments
52.		Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust (reddit.com)
		182 points by tuananh on Nov 6, 2021 \| 143 comments
53.		Swedish government agencies say energy-intensive crypto mining should be banned (fi.se)
		197 points by imartin2k on Nov 6, 2021 \| 287 comments
54.		Some new BMWs won't have touchscreens thanks to chip shortage (theverge.com)
		128 points by elorant on Nov 6, 2021 \| 186 comments
55.		How I lost my fear of flying (2011) (fsgworkinprogress.com)
		31 points by pelt on Nov 4, 2021 \| 44 comments
56.		Spectrograms – audio signal processing for machine learning (medium.com/trismegistus13)
		50 points by sebg on Nov 5, 2021 \| 4 comments
57.		Interview with Charlie Munger on Controversial UCSB Dorm (architecturalrecord.com)
		84 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB on Nov 6, 2021 \| 293 comments
58.		How profitable was/is tobacco? (genehoots.substack.com)
		68 points by Amorymeltzer on Nov 6, 2021 \| 115 comments
59.		Ada and X Window System Integration (1992) [pdf] (dtic.mil)
		29 points by kickitover on Nov 5, 2021
60.		Const Generics in Rust (nora.codes)
		98 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 6, 2021 \| 39 comments
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