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31.		Moral lessons from free software and GNU Emacs (protesilaos.com)
		155 points by rbanffy on Dec 21, 2021 \| 85 comments
32.		Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week (cdc.gov)
		292 points by jefftk on Dec 21, 2021 \| 377 comments
33.		Tor Snowflake Proxy (torproject.org)
		197 points by doomrobo on Dec 21, 2021 \| 84 comments
34.		Tor in 2022 (torproject.org)
		199 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Dec 21, 2021 \| 80 comments
35.		The science of visual data communication: what works (sagepub.com)
		110 points by sebg on Dec 20, 2021 \| 6 comments
36.		Death by Coconut (wikipedia.org)
		107 points by brudgers on Dec 21, 2021 \| 80 comments
37.		“It Started as a Joke”: On the Design of Idle Games (2019) (acm.org)
		105 points by shagie on Dec 21, 2021 \| 67 comments
38.		China issues new encryption import control (bakermckenzie.com)
		260 points by MarcellusDrum on Dec 21, 2021 \| 119 comments
39.		Inverting PhotoDNA (anishathalye.com)
		131 points by anishathalye on Dec 20, 2021 \| 25 comments
40.		Animated Drawings (metademolab.com)
		124 points by newswasboring on Dec 21, 2021 \| 16 comments
41.		PostgreSQL's Missing DateDiff Function (narrator.ai)
		78 points by cedricd on Dec 21, 2021 \| 57 comments
42.		Upgrading a motherboard’s BIOS/UEFI (the hard way) (downtowndougbrown.com)
		103 points by zdw on Dec 20, 2021 \| 31 comments
43.		Unloved by generations of soldiers, the MRE finds a fan base (nytimes.com)
		77 points by systemvoltage on Dec 21, 2021 \| 102 comments
44.		Pre-commit: framework for managing/maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks (pre-commit.com)
		84 points by ingve on Dec 21, 2021 \| 53 comments
45.		When Aldous Huxley opened the doors of perception (mitpress.mit.edu)
		103 points by benbreen on Dec 20, 2021 \| 39 comments
46.		Design Patterns in Googles Prediction Market on Google Cloud (cloud.google.com)
		64 points by aleyan on Dec 20, 2021 \| 7 comments
47.		The Great Offline (reallifemag.com)
		99 points by axiomdata316 on Dec 20, 2021 \| 45 comments
48.		[flagged] My career of treating patients has ended (reddit.com)
		221 points by sohkamyung on Dec 21, 2021 \| 246 comments
49.		The Fishback ramjet revisited (sciencedirect.com)
		68 points by programd on Dec 21, 2021 \| 21 comments
50.		The Politics of Wine in 18th-century England (historytoday.com)
		69 points by pepys on Dec 20, 2021 \| 16 comments
51.		Show HN: Glitch Image Generator (glitchyimage.com)
		94 points by adamfuhrer on Dec 21, 2021 \| 28 comments
52.		Diagon – Interactive ASCII art diagram generators (github.com/arthursonzogni)
		83 points by lervag on Dec 21, 2021 \| 10 comments
53.		Teletext Archive – open repository for teletext recoverers (teletextarchaeologist.org)
		67 points by zaiste on Dec 21, 2021 \| 17 comments
54.		Apple and NeXT, 25 Years Ago this week (hayman.net)
		114 points by ChrisArchitect on Dec 21, 2021 \| 120 comments
55.		Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019) (practicaltypography.com)
		157 points by susam on Dec 21, 2021 \| 195 comments
56.		An extinct millipede the length of a car once roamed northern England (npr.org)
		70 points by geox on Dec 21, 2021 \| 43 comments
57.		Dutch court of appeal decides Deliveroo should honor collective labour agreement (rechtspraak.nl)
		88 points by the-dude on Dec 21, 2021 \| 65 comments
58.		A few words about that ten-million-dollar serial comma (2017) (newyorker.com)
		69 points by hoffmannesque on Dec 21, 2021 \| 90 comments
59.		Faking a Positive Covid Test (f-secure.com)
		137 points by throwaway888abc on Dec 21, 2021 \| 147 comments
60.		Mantic Monday: Let Me Google That for You (astralcodexten.substack.com)
		63 points by aleyan on Dec 21, 2021 \| 8 comments
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