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31. Using an old BlackBerry as a portable SSH or Telnet terminal (rqsall.com)
100 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 15, 2020 | 53 comments
32. Precise Higher-Order Meshing of Curved 2D Domains (uos.de)
65 points by wowsig on Aug 14, 2020 | 4 comments
33. A guide to Semantic Segmentation (nanonets.com)
58 points by Anil1331 on Aug 15, 2020 | 1 comment
34. Ghost.org deleted my website (postapathy.substack.com)
421 points by davidbarker on Aug 15, 2020 | 345 comments
35. Instagram faces $500B in fines alleging it harvested biometric data (businessinsider.com)
222 points by cyrksoft on Aug 15, 2020 | 104 comments
36. OpenVMS on x86 (vmssoftware.com)
93 points by gjvc on Aug 15, 2020 | 80 comments
37. Types as axioms, or: playing god with static types (lexi-lambda.github.io)
109 points by goranmoomin on Aug 15, 2020 | 25 comments
38. Ask HN: Anyone a social entrepreneur, i.e. placing social impact above profit?
229 points by peridotoak on Aug 15, 2020 | 255 comments
39. A review of Bel, Eve, and a silly VR rant (gist.github.com)
86 points by lemming on Aug 14, 2020 | 8 comments
40. BQN: An APL Variant from Marshall Lochbaum (mlochbaum.github.io)
60 points by chrispsn on Aug 15, 2020 | 29 comments
41. Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds (reuters.com)
233 points by InInteraction on Aug 15, 2020 | 236 comments
42. A flutter in time: Quantum mechanics is immune to the butterfly effect (economist.com)
81 points by helsinkiandrew on Aug 15, 2020 | 54 comments
43. Duality of Vector Spaces (2017) (solmaz.io)
49 points by hosolmaz on Aug 14, 2020 | 23 comments
44. A general ink formulation of 2D crystals for wafer-scale inkjet printing (advances.sciencemag.org)
30 points by bookofjoe on Aug 14, 2020
45. India announces plan to connect 600k villages with optical fiber in 1000 days (indianexpress.com)
186 points by ra7 on Aug 15, 2020 | 117 comments
46. Computerphile: From Algol 60 to Pascal [video] (youtube.com)
59 points by open-source-ux on Aug 15, 2020 | 18 comments
47. Psychedelic drugs reduce depressive symptoms by helping people accept emotions (psypost.org)
142 points by InInteraction on Aug 15, 2020 | 31 comments
48. Brain Oriented Programming (tobeva.com)
111 points by pbw on Aug 15, 2020 | 73 comments
49. US plans to produce ‘Iberian’ ham in Texas and Georgia (theguardian.com)
131 points by vijayr02 on Aug 15, 2020 | 133 comments
50. Study: Cheap gas, not renewables, caused nuclear woes (2018) (utilitydive.com)
90 points by throw0101a on Aug 15, 2020 | 104 comments
51. “The Edge of Chaos” (2017) (bactra.org)
23 points by meanie on Aug 14, 2020 | 24 comments
52. The First Sentence Is a Handshake (2014) (theatlantic.com)
31 points by Hooke on Aug 13, 2020 | 4 comments
53. California issues first rolling blackouts since 2001 (npr.org)
125 points by stx on Aug 15, 2020 | 237 comments
54. I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer (medium.com/dangoslen)
61 points by kiyanwang on Aug 15, 2020 | 70 comments
55. AdoptOpenJDK 8u265 Available (adoptopenjdk.net)
44 points by based2 on Aug 15, 2020 | 31 comments
56. It’s strange what people put up with in C# (gist.github.com)
95 points by dustinmoris on Aug 15, 2020 | 76 comments
57. Weaponizing disinformation can bring down a city’s power grid (plos.org)
77 points by mhb on Aug 15, 2020 | 46 comments
58. What's Going On with Intel? (twitter.com/chiakokhua)
81 points by diskmuncher on Aug 15, 2020 | 38 comments
59. Dashboard for tracking insider trading at S&P 500 companies (quiverquant.com)
151 points by greatwave1 on Aug 15, 2020 | 35 comments
60. The Mozilla Manifesto (mozilla.org)
88 points by flippant on Aug 15, 2020 | 66 comments

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