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31. Predicting Hard Drive Failure with Machine Learning (datto.engineering)
237 points by binwiederhier on Jan 21, 2021 | 62 comments
32. Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018) (lithub.com)
94 points by Jaruzel on Jan 19, 2021 | 121 comments
33. The Wisdom of Surrender: Samuel Beckett and Quietism (aeon.co)
52 points by vo2maxer on Jan 18, 2021 | 19 comments
34. Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
217 points by fossislife on Jan 21, 2021 | 52 comments
35. The Apgar Score helped decrease the infant mortality rate (massivesci.com)
172 points by allthebest on Jan 20, 2021 | 50 comments
36. USN AN-1 Submarine Aircraft Carrier (2018) (hisutton.com)
120 points by luu on Jan 19, 2021 | 90 comments
37. DDoS-Guard to forfeit internet space occupied by Parler (krebsonsecurity.com)
183 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 21, 2021 | 300 comments
38. Finding the Words to Say: Hidden State Visualizations for Language Models (jalammar.github.io)
55 points by jalammar on Jan 19, 2021 | 4 comments
39. Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer – The case of the extra 40 ms (netflixtechblog.com)
172 points by saranshk on Jan 21, 2021 | 29 comments
40. The value of science (1955) [pdf] (caltech.edu)
97 points by mutor on Jan 21, 2021 | 21 comments
41. VSCode, Dev Containers and Docker (feabhas.com)
178 points by ingve on Jan 21, 2021 | 228 comments
42. What my retraction taught me (nature.com)
128 points by mellosouls on Jan 21, 2021 | 52 comments
43. Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi's whitepaper from website after threats from CSW (bitcoin.org)
282 points by wildrice on Jan 21, 2021 | 276 comments
44. How to Start a Biotech Company on a Budget (blog.ycombinator.com)
145 points by flipchart on Jan 21, 2021 | 45 comments
45. Prostate cancer can be precisely diagnosed using a urine test with AI (phys.org)
213 points by samizdis on Jan 21, 2021 | 53 comments
46. Frankie Manning's dancing skills made him famous twice (2016) (vox.com)
68 points by Tomte on Jan 19, 2021 | 36 comments
47. How to Build an Escrow Product (moderntreasury.com)
125 points by qin on Jan 21, 2021 | 29 comments
48. Why cats are crazy for catnip (sciencemag.org)
187 points by pseudolus on Jan 21, 2021 | 121 comments
49. Another eleventh-century medieval Chinese coin found in England (caitlingreen.org)
91 points by benbreen on Jan 19, 2021 | 25 comments
50. The Left-NIMBY Canon (noahpinion.substack.com)
237 points by coryfklein on Jan 20, 2021 | 298 comments
51. Trader Joe's, Dollar General And Others Are Paying Workers To Get Vaccines (npr.org)
144 points by pseudolus on Jan 21, 2021 | 184 comments
52. Solar2D Game Engine (solar2d.com)
80 points by justin66 on Jan 19, 2021 | 50 comments
53. DECO – Using cell phones to detect cosmic rays and other energetic particles (wisc.edu)
51 points by agmm on Jan 19, 2021 | 9 comments
54. Why do we assume extraterrestrials might want to visit us? (scientificamerican.com)
125 points by laybak on Jan 21, 2021 | 286 comments
55. RAM is the new disk – and how to measure its performance (2015) (tanelpoder.com)
75 points by tanelpoder on Jan 21, 2021 | 62 comments
56. Paradox-free time travel is theoretically possible (npr.org)
84 points by agnosticmantis on Jan 21, 2021 | 206 comments
57. Golang's network stack attempts to parse HTTP headers as UTF-8 (twitter.com/albinowax)
140 points by DyslexicAtheist on Jan 21, 2021 | 73 comments
58. Hiding messages in images: steganography with Python and Repl.it (repl.it)
65 points by sixhobbits on Jan 21, 2021 | 1 comment
59. How far does sound travel in the ocean? (noaa.gov)
57 points by panabee on Jan 21, 2021 | 47 comments
60. Advertisements have emerged on Substack's 'ad-free' newsletter platform (businessinsider.com)
75 points by krm01 on Jan 21, 2021 | 52 comments

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