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31. Pitch Drop Experiment (wikipedia.org)
97 points by Amorymeltzer on Feb 6, 2020 | 30 comments
32. Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care (thetoolsweneed.com)
337 points by kaxline on Feb 6, 2020 | 387 comments
33. SpaceX will now let you book a rocket launch online starting at $1M (techcrunch.com)
221 points by ajaviaad on Feb 6, 2020 | 152 comments
34. On Mind, Language and Machines (0x0f0f0f.github.io)
115 points by 0x0f0f0f on Feb 5, 2020 | 23 comments
35. Uber Announces Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019 (uber.com)
130 points by gok on Feb 6, 2020 | 140 comments
36. EGA Chapter 1: The Language of Schemes (utexas.edu)
51 points by chmaynard on Feb 6, 2020 | 27 comments
37. When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’ (krebsonsecurity.com)
99 points by LinuxBender on Feb 6, 2020 | 98 comments
38. Benchmarking Debian vs. Alpine as a base Docker image (2018) (nickjanetakis.com)
70 points by aloukissas on Feb 6, 2020 | 21 comments
39. Ancestry lays off 6% of staff (techcrunch.com)
107 points by lxm on Feb 6, 2020 | 62 comments
40. Lumière’s Train in 4K (thehistoryblog.com)
113 points by ecliptik on Feb 6, 2020 | 26 comments
41. Even with a $199 Laptop, Clear Linux Can Offer Superior Performance (phoronix.com)
172 points by kermatt on Feb 6, 2020 | 103 comments
42. Simple text editor has over 15k monthly users (mytextarea.com)
137 points by ent101 on Feb 6, 2020 | 90 comments
43. The Bootleg Files: Dance and Trance in Bali (2014) (filmthreat.com)
24 points by tintinnabula on Feb 5, 2020
44. What’s New in Swift 5.2 (hackingwithswift.com)
126 points by ingve on Feb 6, 2020 | 135 comments
45. Signs of cancer can appear long before diagnosis, study shows (theguardian.com)
132 points by rushi_agrawal on Feb 6, 2020 | 71 comments
46. Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM (snyk.io)
192 points by fulafel on Feb 6, 2020 | 255 comments
47. Artificial Mountains (atlasobscura.com)
40 points by Thevet on Feb 5, 2020 | 15 comments
48. The Plague Shawl: 1878 (thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com)
26 points by Petiver on Feb 5, 2020 | 6 comments
49. A proactive approach to e-scooter safety (onezero.medium.com)
59 points by deegles on Feb 6, 2020 | 129 comments
50. Opportunities and Challenges of Emerging Technologies for Refugees (2019) [pdf] (worldrefugeecouncil.org)
29 points by benbreen on Feb 5, 2020 | 6 comments
51. Bicycle Attacks: Quantifying the Damage of Widespread Password Length Leakage (arxiv.org)
30 points by adulau on Feb 6, 2020 | 50 comments
52. European parliament says it will not use facial recognition tech (theguardian.com)
95 points by dc352 on Feb 6, 2020 | 39 comments
53. Kava: Fiji’s psychoactive brew (theguardian.com)
46 points by Thevet on Feb 5, 2020 | 45 comments
54. Technology where one robot helps another robot (github.com/rdbox-intec)
29 points by fudekun on Feb 5, 2020 | 3 comments
55. Fun with Decorators, Protobuf and Apache Beam (enlyze.com)
33 points by denizs on Feb 6, 2020 | 1 comment
56. DHS plans urgently needed to address identified challenges before 2020 elections [pdf] (gao.gov)
64 points by infodocket on Feb 6, 2020 | 69 comments
57. Don’t pin the butterfly: not all hobbies need to become hustles (nesslabs.com)
114 points by anthilemoon on Feb 6, 2020 | 38 comments
58. Our critique of Behringer's proposed TD-3 variant with Devil Fish functions (firstpr.com.au)
45 points by pgreenwood on Feb 6, 2020 | 45 comments
59. Undercover Cops Hired 118 Handymen, Then Arrested Them for Not Having Licenses (reason.com)
103 points by seibelj on Feb 6, 2020 | 98 comments
60. Teaching honeybees to do arithmetic (quantamagazine.org)
19 points by lxm on Feb 5, 2020 | 1 comment

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