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31. Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011) (michaeleisen.org)
168 points by ArneVogel on Oct 17, 2020 | 81 comments
32. Euclid – Scientific calculator for iOS/macOS (pr1mer.tech)
84 points by arguiot on Oct 17, 2020 | 39 comments
33. Does C++ still deserve a bad rap? (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
108 points by signa11 on Oct 16, 2020 | 301 comments
34. How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time (apoorvagovind.substack.com)
356 points by EvgeniyZh on Oct 17, 2020 | 212 comments
35. TSP Tour in 3D through 2,079,471 stars (uwaterloo.ca)
44 points by pyk on Oct 17, 2020 | 9 comments
36. Tesla cancels its ‘no questions asked’ 7-day return policy (electrek.co)
204 points by jennyyang on Oct 17, 2020 | 219 comments
37. Building a 10BASE5 “Thick Ethernet” Network (2012) (mattmillman.com)
66 points by RicardoLuis0 on Oct 17, 2020 | 23 comments
38. Cognition All the Way Down (aeon.co)
100 points by myth_drannon on Oct 16, 2020 | 25 comments
39. Ice age art in Indonesia reveals how spiritual life transformed (2017) (theguardian.com)
43 points by diodorus on Oct 15, 2020 | 5 comments
40. What they don’t tell you about demand paging in school (offlinemark.com)
71 points by luu on Oct 17, 2020 | 24 comments
41. Proton 5.13: A Massive Update (boilingsteam.com)
141 points by ekianjo on Oct 17, 2020 | 134 comments
42. High minds, low politics: The lives of four revolutionary thinkers (the-tls.co.uk)
53 points by lermontov on Oct 16, 2020 | 1 comment
43. Can Esperanto Make a Comeback? (2015) (npr.org)
88 points by Books on Oct 17, 2020 | 222 comments
44. A Scientist’s Reckoning with the Cruelty of Chance (newyorker.com)
42 points by Hooke on Oct 14, 2020 | 2 comments
45. Sweden's new car carrier is the world's largest wind-powered vessel (cnn.com)
137 points by krn on Oct 17, 2020 | 88 comments
46. Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 inferred from seroprevalence data [pdf] (who.int)
80 points by wsc981 on Oct 17, 2020 | 382 comments
47. He Married a Sociopath: Me (nytimes.com)
175 points by areoform on Oct 16, 2020 | 137 comments
48. The World Henry Ford Made (bostonreview.net)
30 points by meanie on Oct 17, 2020 | 1 comment
49. The Digital Divide Starts with a Laptop Shortage (nytimes.com)
51 points by lxm on Oct 15, 2020 | 49 comments
50. There’s a Hole in Your SoC: Glitching the MediaTek BootROM (nccgroup.com)
43 points by wglb on Oct 17, 2020 | 1 comment
51. An oil tanker with 60M gallons of oil aboard is currently sinking [video] (youtube.com)
245 points by Tipewryter on Oct 17, 2020 | 51 comments
52. Sneaky Sliders (beust.com)
34 points by chris_overseas on Oct 17, 2020 | 16 comments
53. Show HN: Static blog generator in about 1 KLOC (github.com/john-bokma)
44 points by jjjbokma on Oct 17, 2020 | 32 comments
54. Ask HN: How to Become a Consultant?
227 points by edem on Oct 17, 2020 | 62 comments
55. Microsoft just force restarted my Windows PC again to install more unwanted apps (theverge.com)
264 points by adrian_mrd on Oct 17, 2020 | 300 comments
56. Psychological Safety (iamevan.me)
39 points by thejokersthief on Oct 17, 2020 | 5 comments
57. Fighting for the right to repair your own stuff (cbsnews.com)
92 points by doener on Oct 17, 2020 | 72 comments
58. Facebook reportedly choked traffic for left-leaning news sites (theverge.com)
173 points by aaronbrethorst on Oct 17, 2020 | 91 comments
59. N.H. Announces It Will Sue Massachusetts over Cross-Border Income Tax Collection (nhpr.org)
107 points by iaw on Oct 16, 2020 | 136 comments
60. iOS 14 USB tethering broken on Linux: looking for docs and contact at Apple (corsac.net)
126 points by pabs3 on Oct 17, 2020 | 50 comments

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