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31. A Simple Scheme Compiler (1997) (utexas.edu)
91 points by azhenley on Aug 24, 2020 | 17 comments
32. Ann Syrdal, Who Helped Give Computers a Female Voice, Dies at 74 (nytimes.com)
58 points by furcyd on Aug 23, 2020 | 6 comments
33. Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering (amazon.com)
100 points by Garbage on Aug 24, 2020 | 100 comments
34. Emacs xwidget-webkit enhancement suite (github.com/blueflo0d)
149 points by signa11 on Aug 24, 2020 | 40 comments
35. Increasing wind turbine rotor blade visibility reduces avian fatalities (wiley.com)
206 points by seigando on Aug 24, 2020 | 69 comments
36. June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller Tried to Redesign Harlem (newyorker.com)
38 points by mitchbob on Aug 23, 2020 | 35 comments
37. Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK (nocsdegree.com)
295 points by Pete-Codes on Aug 24, 2020 | 143 comments
38. Height Modernization: Recalibrating where the U.S. physically sits on the planet (nytimes.com)
56 points by wglb on Aug 23, 2020 | 31 comments
39. Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie (smithsonianmag.com)
104 points by omarchowdhury on Aug 24, 2020 | 38 comments
40. UberEats could be underpaying delivery drivers on 21% of trips (businessinsider.com)
224 points by artoonie on Aug 24, 2020 | 141 comments
41. Remains of 17th century bishop support Neolithic emergence of tuberculosis (mpg.de)
65 points by benbreen on Aug 24, 2020 | 12 comments
42. Jaron Lanier on social media (gq.com)
113 points by fortran77 on Aug 24, 2020 | 41 comments
43. Dnjs: A pure subset of JavaScript that wants to replace configuration languages (github.com/leontrolski)
54 points by tudorizer on Aug 24, 2020 | 48 comments
44. Solaris 10 Zones on Illumos Tribblix (ptribble.blogspot.com)
74 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 24, 2020 | 27 comments
45. Why facial recognition has led to false arrests (nautil.us)
121 points by dnetesn on Aug 23, 2020 | 103 comments
46. Journal 2.0: Mental Space for What Matters (usejournal.com)
130 points by samiur1204 on Aug 24, 2020 | 40 comments
47. Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33 (fedoramagazine.org)
107 points by caution on Aug 24, 2020 | 137 comments
48. A Do-It-Yourself paper digital computer (1959) (longstreet.typepad.com)
59 points by ColinWright on Aug 23, 2020 | 8 comments
49. Zoom Partial Outages (zoom.us)
228 points by surfingninjas on Aug 24, 2020 | 172 comments
50. Ubuntu Philosophy (wikipedia.org)
95 points by llambda on Aug 24, 2020 | 48 comments
51. Remembering what you Read: Zettelkasten vs. P.A.R.A (zainrizvi.io)
118 points by stanulilic on Aug 23, 2020 | 62 comments
52. Show HN: InstaNote – notes in a simple chat interface (instanote.io)
89 points by aj2 on Aug 24, 2020 | 50 comments
53. JavaScript Generators, Meet XPath (wrenn.fyi)
101 points by fanf2 on Aug 24, 2020 | 20 comments
54. TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce (courtlistener.com)
163 points by tempsy on Aug 24, 2020 | 172 comments
55. The Computer Chronicles (1983 – 2002) (archive.org)
61 points by Merem on Aug 24, 2020 | 27 comments
56. Staking Claims with Scheduled Tweets (shkspr.mobi)
36 points by edent on Aug 23, 2020 | 30 comments
57. Apparatus with Magnets (notion.so)
47 points by jiriro on Aug 24, 2020 | 7 comments
58. Head of Danish intelligence suspended after whistleblowers hand over information (bbc.com)
143 points by Hasknewbie on Aug 24, 2020 | 116 comments
59. A Clean Start for the Web (macwright.com)
117 points by tannhaeuser on Aug 23, 2020 | 90 comments
60. Don't ask to ask, just ask (dontasktoask.com)
187 points by chynkm on Aug 24, 2020 | 101 comments

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