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31.A Twist on Schrödinger's Cat Paradox (scientificamerican.com)
114 points by mathgenius on Aug 17, 2020 | 87 comments
32.Rolling blackouts in California have power experts stumped (nytimes.com)
189 points by jqcoffey on Aug 17, 2020 | 342 comments
33.A Brief History of ClarisWorks (2003) (csail.mit.edu)
86 points by WoodenChair on Aug 17, 2020 | 40 comments
34.Using a Yubikey as a touchless, magic unlock key for Linux (kliu.io)
165 points by Pneumaticat on Aug 17, 2020 | 70 comments
35.Show HN: Dungeon Map Doodler – Free online map drawing tool (dungeonmapdoodler.com)
155 points by toddr123 on Aug 17, 2020 | 43 comments
36.Are CRDTs suitable for shared editing? (kevinjahns.de)
170 points by signa11 on Aug 16, 2020 | 43 comments
37.Show HN: Use React to build G Suite dialogs and add-ons (github.com/enuchi)
108 points by enuchi on Aug 16, 2020 | 15 comments
38.Show HN: Structopt for C++ – Parse command line arguments by defining a struct (github.com/p-ranav)
85 points by p-ranav on Aug 17, 2020 | 56 comments
39.A CRISPR first produces squid as clear as glass (nature.com)
150 points by apsec112 on Aug 16, 2020 | 63 comments
40.Reversing Mental Age with Psychedelics (science.blog)
162 points by apsec112 on Aug 16, 2020 | 58 comments
41.Handmade: A Community for Self-Rolled Performant Software (2016) (handmade.network)
177 points by TheUndead96 on Aug 17, 2020 | 88 comments
42.Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep: new research (time.com)
195 points by laurex on Aug 15, 2020 | 177 comments
43.The Strange Costumes of the Plague Doctors (openculture.com)
85 points by BerislavLopac on Aug 16, 2020 | 23 comments
44.An Introduction to OpenBSD [video] (lambda.cx)
201 points by asicsp on Aug 17, 2020 | 94 comments
45.Idris 2 version 0.2.1 (idris-lang.org)
129 points by thomasdziedzic on Aug 17, 2020 | 16 comments
46.The Market for Discontinued Photographic Film (leejo.github.io)
79 points by leejo on Aug 16, 2020 | 57 comments
47.A-Levels: The Model is not the Student (thaines.com)
120 points by tosh on Aug 17, 2020 | 128 comments
48.Hello “Hello World” (jfo.click)
60 points by hermanradtke on Aug 16, 2020 | 9 comments
49.To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data (2012) (theatlantic.com)
60 points by reedwolf on Aug 16, 2020 | 18 comments
50.Alaska that never was: Seward's Success (2011) (historicalaska.blogspot.com)
30 points by zeristor on Aug 14, 2020 | 16 comments
51.How China’s Expanding Fishing Fleet Is Depleting the World’s Oceans (yale.edu)
231 points by chmaynard on Aug 17, 2020 | 180 comments
52.Strange times: The sui generis Dave Brubeck (the-tls.co.uk)
39 points by apollinaire on Aug 17, 2020 | 8 comments
53.Connecting the Atari ST to the Internet with an ESP8266 (2017) (chzsoft.de)
49 points by nynyny7 on Aug 16, 2020 | 14 comments
54.Ask HN: How do you overcome decision fatigue in software development?
158 points by jb1991 on Aug 16, 2020 | 120 comments
55.How long since Google said a Google Drive Linux client is coming? (abevoelker.github.io)
150 points by zdw on Aug 17, 2020 | 109 comments
56.How to Build an Iconic Company – Keith Rabois [audio] (nugget.fm)
69 points by craigcannon on Aug 17, 2020 | 42 comments
57.Buckingham Palace art collection to go on gallery display for the first time (theguardian.com)
32 points by wholeness on Aug 17, 2020 | 42 comments
58.Jobseekers face exploitation as online recruitment is riddled with fake news (newstatesman.com)
87 points by elsewhen on Aug 17, 2020 | 42 comments
59.Named Tensors (seas.harvard.edu)
70 points by tosh on Aug 17, 2020 | 25 comments
60.“Time of the Magicians” – philosophy's great decade? (theguardian.com)
34 points by samclemens on Aug 16, 2020 | 41 comments

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