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31. Farther Away: “Robinson Crusoe,” David Foster Wallace, and Solitude (2011) (newyorker.com)
55 points by Thevet on Oct 29, 2020 | 4 comments
32. Why I Prefer Functional Programming (haskellforall.com)
202 points by quickthrower2 on Oct 31, 2020 | 117 comments
33. Intermittent fasting increases hippocampal neurogenesis in mice (nih.gov)
211 points by voisin on Oct 31, 2020 | 120 comments
34. Is This the End of the Repairable iPhone? (ifixit.com)
170 points by pabs3 on Oct 31, 2020 | 135 comments
35. LIL: Little Interpreted Language (runtimeterror.com)
55 points by marttt on Oct 31, 2020 | 5 comments
36. Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design (vitsoe.com)
134 points by part1of2 on Oct 31, 2020 | 47 comments
37. Mumbai’s Iconic Art Deco Buildings Were Made to Conquer Disease (bloomberg.com)
45 points by pseudolus on Oct 30, 2020 | 6 comments
38. Homicide victim found in burnt-out SUV ID'd as man behind spam-email empire (cbc.ca)
162 points by goodcanadian on Oct 31, 2020 | 92 comments
39. Art After the Plague: How painters through the ages have responded to contagion (theamericanscholar.org)
27 points by prismatic on Oct 30, 2020 | 2 comments
40. What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We Still Don’t Know (2018) (coindesk.com)
150 points by MrXOR on Oct 31, 2020 | 210 comments
41. Apple is warning Mac users that Amazon Music app and HP drivers are malware (appleinsider.com)
102 points by fortran77 on Oct 31, 2020 | 81 comments
42. NASA WebGL of the Universe (nasa.gov)
90 points by aronowb14 on Oct 31, 2020 | 12 comments
43. Drivers react to Tesla’s full self-driving beta release (arstechnica.com)
129 points by elsewhen on Oct 31, 2020 | 334 comments
44. The invisible struggle of the Asian American small-business owner (vox.com)
102 points by luu on Oct 29, 2020 | 80 comments
45. Catala: a programming language for socio-fiscal legislative literate programming (github.com/catalalang)
98 points by computerlab on Oct 31, 2020 | 37 comments
46. Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest tech companies (npr.org)
232 points by ALee on Oct 31, 2020 | 322 comments
47. China's Draft 'Personal Information Protection Law' (Full Translation) (newamerica.org)
60 points by detaro on Oct 31, 2020 | 26 comments
48. Human-Centered Programming (codepunk.io)
19 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 30, 2020 | 1 comment
49. First-ever footage of a ram's horn squid in its natural habitat 800m deep (sciencealert.com)
81 points by bookofjoe on Oct 31, 2020 | 9 comments
50. FreeCAD BIM development news (uncreated.net)
80 points by buovjaga on Oct 31, 2020 | 23 comments
51. Self-erecting pneumatic structures (2000) [pdf] (witpress.com)
36 points by NoRagrets on Oct 30, 2020 | 20 comments
52. Starting a Telephone Company in 2019, or How I Built Fiber to My Neighbors (youtube.com)
62 points by troydavis on Oct 31, 2020 | 20 comments
53. Specifications for the Interconnection of a Host and an IMP (1976) [pdf] (walden-family.com)
19 points by tjalfi on Oct 31, 2020 | 1 comment
54. Preserving a Sense of Wonder in DNA (nautil.us)
24 points by dnetesn on Oct 31, 2020 | 1 comment
55. Generating bingo cards with clojure.spec, Clojure/test.check, RDD and TDD (garajeando.blogspot.com)
33 points by diggan on Oct 30, 2020
56. Sean Connery has died (bbc.com)
178 points by Anon84 on Oct 31, 2020 | 34 comments
57. How do you decaffeinate coffee? (bbc.com)
46 points by 0DHm2CxO7Lb3 on Oct 30, 2020 | 56 comments
58. [flagged] Joe Rogan Experience #1556 – Glenn Greenwald (youtube.com)
107 points by remarkEon on Oct 31, 2020 | 112 comments
59. Please Share Your Thoughts
42 points by thisisnew on Oct 31, 2020 | 26 comments
60. [flagged] Turkish Ultranationalist Group on the “Hunt for Armenians” in France (vice.com)
96 points by sebmellen on Oct 31, 2020 | 126 comments

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