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31. “I will slaughter you” (haxx.se)
567 points by ingve on Feb 19, 2021 | 242 comments
32. We are starting to operate our CNC machines remotely (1d.works)
127 points by Sharapolas on Feb 19, 2021 | 100 comments
33. How I started believing in Cycle Time over Estimation (norberhuis.nl)
86 points by snorberhuis on Feb 17, 2021 | 34 comments
34. How to be more productive without forcing yourself (deprocrastination.co)
278 points by vitabenes on Feb 19, 2021 | 128 comments
35. Researchers explore how storms on Earth create extreme bursts of radiation (nature.com)
74 points by pseudolus on Feb 19, 2021 | 22 comments
36. Variable tyre pressure wheelset is a mountain biking breakthrough (news24.com)
71 points by mardiyah on Feb 19, 2021 | 67 comments
37. Decoding Mars 2020 (destevez.net)
69 points by followben on Feb 17, 2021 | 7 comments
38. Mars Photo Booth (nasa.gov)
113 points by lelf on Feb 19, 2021 | 35 comments
39. Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election (vitalik.ca)
209 points by 0-_-0 on Feb 19, 2021 | 183 comments
40. Swiss File Knife – A Command Line Tools Collection (stahlworks.com)
71 points by interfixus on Feb 18, 2021 | 19 comments
41. TLS certificates specifying hosts via the CommonName field is more or less gone (utcc.utoronto.ca)
73 points by zdw on Feb 18, 2021 | 22 comments
42. Truncating Bar Graphs Persistently Misleads Viewers (sciencedirect.com)
112 points by sebg on Feb 19, 2021 | 20 comments
43. Tagged Unions Are Overrated (buttondown.email/nelhage)
44 points by mpweiher on Feb 19, 2021 | 48 comments
44. Maybe We Can Have Nice Things (noncombatant.org)
67 points by ChrisSD on Feb 17, 2021 | 39 comments
45. Coding in Ada: Strings (IV) Unbounded to String (craftofcoding.wordpress.com)
34 points by thindil on Feb 18, 2021 | 17 comments
46. The Stack Fallacy (2016) (techcrunch.com)
66 points by tomasz_wro on Feb 18, 2021 | 28 comments
47. Phel: A language inspired by Clojure that compiles to PHP (phel-lang.org)
81 points by yogthos on Feb 18, 2021 | 34 comments
48. Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative (restofworld.org)
114 points by donohoe on Feb 19, 2021 | 192 comments
49. The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life (2020) (nytimes.com)
57 points by Petiver on Feb 18, 2021 | 10 comments
50. Nyan Cat on the Blockchain (foundation.app)
96 points by awaxman11 on Feb 19, 2021 | 93 comments
51. Attempting to quantify Keynes’ concept of “animal spirits” (elgaronline.com)
32 points by cacher on Feb 18, 2021 | 4 comments
52. The Rules of Margin Collapse (joshwcomeau.com)
58 points by bpierre on Feb 17, 2021 | 5 comments
53. Restoring Nominet’s Purpose (publicbenefit.uk)
81 points by ohashi on Feb 19, 2021 | 17 comments
54. The trial of a child soldier who became a brutal rebel commander (narratively.com)
48 points by whocansay on Feb 18, 2021 | 50 comments
55. Parched oystermen, farmers face off in Supreme Court water war (bloomberglaw.com)
33 points by cwwc on Feb 18, 2021 | 39 comments
56. A Follow-Up to “Location-Based Pay” (blackshaw.substack.com)
49 points by blackshaw on Feb 19, 2021 | 50 comments
57. Has Amazon Ruined the Name Alexa? (statista.com)
97 points by giuliomagnifico on Feb 19, 2021 | 143 comments
58. Machines Already Took Our Jobs (computerhistory.org)
61 points by tmfi on Feb 17, 2021 | 99 comments
59. I built ByteDance's censorship machine (protocol.com)
153 points by jbegley on Feb 19, 2021 | 98 comments
60. CC Academy (Free Fellowship) opens its doors to the 3rd cohort of ML/FE/UX folks (notion.so)
19 points by billnyetheai on Feb 19, 2021 | 2 comments

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