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31.		System Design Primer: Learn how to design large-scale systems (github.com/donnemartin)
		170 points by jaboutboul on Dec 28, 2021 \| 29 comments
32.		You Can't Win (kylepoyar.substack.com)
		94 points by enigmatic02 on Dec 29, 2021 \| 46 comments
33.		Consider SQLite (wesleyac.com)
		362 points by wesleyac on Dec 29, 2021 \| 267 comments
34.		LaTeX Finite Automata and State Diagrams with Tikz (hayesall.com)
		108 points by bjourne on Dec 29, 2021 \| 35 comments
35.		First Dual-Channel IDE? (os2museum.com)
		77 points by kencausey on Dec 28, 2021 \| 29 comments
36.		An Algorithmic Solution to Insomnia (2017) (sukhar.com)
		109 points by akkartik on Dec 27, 2021 \| 33 comments
37.		Finding a Creature in Ethereum's Dark Forest (bertcmiller.com)
		185 points by tosh on Dec 28, 2021 \| 70 comments
38.		Louis Wain: An artist who changed how we think about cats (bbc.co.uk)
		66 points by zeristor on Dec 28, 2021 \| 12 comments
39.		The bizarre Monowheel seen through vintage photographs (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
		73 points by davesailer on Dec 29, 2021 \| 30 comments
40.		The world’s biggest offshore wind farm, Hornsea 2, generates first power (orsted.com)
		200 points by pmlnr on Dec 29, 2021 \| 159 comments
41.		[dupe] The software that flies SpaceX rockets and starships (stackoverflow.blog)
		206 points by jonashoechst on Dec 29, 2021 \| 106 comments
42.		Show HN: Tzintl.js – International Date-Time Conversion (masswerk.at)
		56 points by masswerk on Dec 28, 2021 \| 11 comments
43.		Swedes were fooled by one of the biggest scientific bluffs of our time (2020) (soccermatics.medium.com)
		252 points by thinkafterbef on Dec 29, 2021 \| 282 comments
44.		Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? (dlang.org)
		87 points by teleforce on Dec 28, 2021 \| 74 comments
45.		Tell HN: Canada Posts systems to be down for 6 hours of “unplanned maintenance” (canadapost.ca)
		87 points by neom on Dec 29, 2021 \| 75 comments
46.		Bass – Lisp dialect for scripting the infrastructure beneath your project (bass-lang.org)
		77 points by yjftsjthsd-h on Dec 29, 2021 \| 14 comments
47.		What the Russians thought of James Bond in the 1960s (spectator.co.uk)
		79 points by lermontov on Dec 27, 2021 \| 118 comments
48.		This Year in Embedded Rust (rust-embedded.org)
		144 points by eldruin on Dec 29, 2021 \| 63 comments
49.		John Madden has died (nbcsports.com)
		225 points by ncw96 on Dec 29, 2021 \| 83 comments
50.		Making sounds using SDL and visualizing them on a simulated oscilloscope (nicktasios.nl)
		54 points by Grieverheart on Dec 28, 2021 \| 3 comments
51.		Pre-scheme: A Scheme dialect for systems programming (1997) [pdf] (psu.edu)
		78 points by tosh on Dec 29, 2021 \| 12 comments
52.		Oldest family tree created using DNA (bbc.co.uk)
		65 points by zeristor on Dec 28, 2021 \| 34 comments
53.		Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will (thetyee.ca)
		174 points by gennarro on Dec 29, 2021 \| 230 comments
54.		Using GroupBy on an array of objects in JavaScript (wisdomgeek.com)
		83 points by saranshk on Dec 29, 2021 \| 31 comments
55.		NASA Says Webb’s Excess Fuel Likely to Extend Its Lifetime Expectations (nasa.gov)
		135 points by ahamez on Dec 29, 2021 \| 101 comments
56.		A Big Picture, Thesaurus, and Taxonomy of Modern JavaScript Web Development (github.com/dexteryy)
		50 points by a-bit-of-code on Dec 29, 2021 \| 3 comments
57.		Rules of Program Behavior (acm.org)
		31 points by azhenley on Dec 26, 2021 \| 2 comments
58.		Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016) (whoissatoshi.wordpress.com)
		183 points by sahil50 on Dec 29, 2021 \| 164 comments
59.		IRS: Stolen property must be reported as income on taxes (mcclatchydc.com)
		155 points by xojoc on Dec 29, 2021 \| 230 comments
60.		The Ambiguity of Real Work (surfingcomplexity.blog)
		103 points by azhenley on Dec 28, 2021 \| 9 comments
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