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31.		The history of Flash games in China (chaoyang.substack.com)
		93 points by minding on Nov 19, 2021 \| 32 comments
32.		Insurers run from ransomware cover as losses mount (reuters.com)
		171 points by arkadiyt on Nov 19, 2021 \| 174 comments
33.		Pablo is a small, open-source JavaScript library for SVG (pablojs.com)
		160 points by EntICOnc on Nov 20, 2021 \| 53 comments
34.		A smart collar for cows (thehustle.co)
		53 points by rmason on Nov 19, 2021 \| 71 comments
35.		Is Microsoft Stealing People’s Bookmarks? (schneier.com)
		202 points by thg on Nov 20, 2021 \| 81 comments
36.		Friend Groups (nayafia.substack.com)
		60 points by jger15 on Nov 18, 2021 \| 28 comments
37.		Overview of new features in Apache HTTP Server 2.6 (apache.org)
		79 points by based2 on Nov 20, 2021 \| 83 comments
38.		How Metro Agencies Design the Letter 'M' (bloomberg.com)
		64 points by quakeguy on Nov 19, 2021 \| 42 comments
39.		The Unfulfilled Promise of Serverless (lastweekinaws.com)
		140 points by mooreds on Nov 19, 2021 \| 88 comments
40.		Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application to Fight ISP Blocking (torrentfreak.com)
		167 points by gengear on Nov 20, 2021 \| 20 comments
41.		Facebook AI Similarity Search (Faiss) (pinecone.io)
		85 points by gk1 on Nov 20, 2021 \| 10 comments
42.		Lessons learned after 5 years of climate tech entrepreneurship (oliviercorradi.com)
		112 points by corradio on Nov 18, 2021 \| 35 comments
43.		Recreating Fortune Telling from Super Mario Bros. DX (the-null-log.org)
		46 points by polm23 on Nov 19, 2021 \| 3 comments
44.		The Origins of Raoul Duke (themillions.com)
		30 points by wawayanda on Nov 20, 2021 \| 8 comments
45.		Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record (carbuzz.com)
		141 points by CRConrad on Nov 20, 2021 \| 216 comments
46.		The Emperor's New Clothes: a story of motivated stupidity (wyclif.substack.com)
		77 points by dash2 on Nov 20, 2021 \| 61 comments
47.		The Age of AI by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher (economist.com)
		74 points by helsinkiandrew on Nov 20, 2021 \| 119 comments
48.		“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs (torrentfreak.com)
		132 points by curmudgeon22 on Nov 20, 2021 \| 181 comments
49.		An argument for the impossibility of machine intelligence [pdf] (arxiv.org)
		104 points by imaurer on Nov 20, 2021 \| 116 comments
50.		On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017) (arxiv.org)
		85 points by FBT on Nov 20, 2021 \| 95 comments
51.		Python – Writing large ZIP archives without memory inflation (github.com/buzonio)
		66 points by sandes on Nov 20, 2021 \| 17 comments
52.		The ER charged him $6,589.77 for 6 stitches, cost that led his wife to avoid ER (npr.org)
		209 points by pseudolus on Nov 20, 2021 \| 315 comments
53.		Ask HN: Why there are no Android mini phones?
		129 points by JamesAdir on Nov 20, 2021 \| 176 comments
54.		Decentralised finance is booming, but it has yet to find its purpose (economist.com)
		109 points by 1cvmask on Nov 20, 2021 \| 184 comments
55.		UC slams the door on standardized admissions tests, nixing any SAT alternative (latimes.com)
		134 points by djkivi on Nov 19, 2021 \| 215 comments
56.		Will World Government Rot? (overcomingbias.com)
		71 points by cinquemb on Nov 20, 2021 \| 109 comments
57.		Tabletop Chocolate Factory (ieee.org)
		51 points by mhb on Nov 19, 2021 \| 37 comments
58.		Autism affects the microbiome, not the other way around (arstechnica.com)
		93 points by wyrm on Nov 20, 2021 \| 77 comments
59.		Gay men earn undergraduate and graduate degrees at the highest rate in the US (phys.org)
		116 points by Bostonian on Nov 20, 2021 \| 119 comments
60.		MMFlow: OpenMMLab Optical Flow Toolbox and Benchmark (github.com/open-mmlab)
		27 points by openmmlab on Nov 20, 2021 \| 6 comments
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