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31. Awk: The Power and Promise of a 40-Year-Old Language (fosslife.org)
251 points by jangid on Sept 7, 2021 | 118 comments
32. Commodore 64 Ads from the 1980s (lunduke.substack.com)
138 points by GuyNumberFive on Sept 7, 2021 | 79 comments
33. Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop (arstechnica.com)
281 points by hazzamanic on Sept 7, 2021 | 192 comments
34. Fans of a 2013 Japanese soccer game tracked down a bizarre floating point bug (dolphin-emu.org)
246 points by politelemon on Sept 7, 2021 | 47 comments
35. Netflix is not a tech company (2019) (ben-evans.com)
254 points by Brajeshwar on Sept 7, 2021 | 304 comments
36. Brainwashing, Italian-Style: The Birth of “Plagio” (bitterwinter.org)
66 points by aww_dang on Sept 6, 2021 | 23 comments
37. Swap on HDD: Does placement matter? (vidarholen.net)
92 points by ingve on Sept 7, 2021 | 92 comments
38. Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to an economic disaster (theprint.in)
262 points by mhb on Sept 7, 2021 | 221 comments
39. John Carmack on Hiring (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
235 points by tosh on Sept 7, 2021 | 172 comments
40. Art Gallery Datasets (artnome.com)
78 points by benleb on Sept 7, 2021 | 12 comments
41. Crafting “Crafting Interpreters” (2020) (stuffwithstuff.com)
180 points by all2 on Sept 7, 2021 | 17 comments
42. My phone case, the hidden state of an RNN (douglasorr.github.io)
71 points by douglasorr on Sept 6, 2021 | 36 comments
43. NRO Manned Orbiting Laboratory (archive.org)
61 points by pueblito on Sept 7, 2021 | 25 comments
44. Ford Hires Away Executive Leading Apple’s Car Project (bloomberg.com)
129 points by barredo on Sept 7, 2021 | 214 comments
45. Morashon (morashon.com)
26 points by sternmere on Sept 7, 2021 | 8 comments
46. Big Brothers Has Privatized (javani.substack.com)
109 points by Rayaneh11 on Sept 7, 2021 | 79 comments
47. Cache splash in Telum means seventh heaven for POWER11? (talospace.com)
46 points by classichasclass on Sept 5, 2021 | 16 comments
48. Fire Slow, Fire Fast, Fire Deep (2016) (longnow.org)
44 points by simonebrunozzi on Sept 6, 2021 | 19 comments
49. “It's open source! We’ll let our customers fix it.” (miles.land)
145 points by epoch_100 on Sept 7, 2021 | 49 comments
50. OpenSSL 3.0 (openssl.org)
150 points by yabones on Sept 7, 2021 | 54 comments
51. El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first country to do so (nbcnews.com)
222 points by TOMDM on Sept 7, 2021 | 369 comments
52. Building Fizzbuzz in Fractran from the Bottom Up (2016) (malisper.me)
44 points by ColinWright on Sept 7, 2021 | 5 comments
53. [dupe] Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates' (bbc.com)
169 points by lindenstark on Sept 7, 2021 | 252 comments
54. American Vernacular: Chicago and the Birth of the Comic (newyorker.com)
33 points by samclemens on Sept 6, 2021 | 2 comments
55. Firefox 92 (mozilla.org)
233 points by Dan_Red on Sept 7, 2021 | 121 comments
56. “You don't need this overengineered goo for your project.” (twitter.com/fransbouma)
134 points by TobiasA on Sept 7, 2021 | 101 comments
57. The gloves are off, the pants are on (cold-takes.com)
46 points by luu on Sept 6, 2021 | 24 comments
58. Nabokov in Time (1966) (newrepublic.com)
27 points by luu on Sept 6, 2021
59. Cannabis use and myocardial infarction in young adults: a cross-sectional study (cmaj.ca)
128 points by vixen99 on Sept 7, 2021 | 153 comments
60. Typical Gemini: On the “Selected Poetry” of Alexander Pushkin (lareviewofbooks.org)
19 points by Thevet on Sept 6, 2021 | 5 comments

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