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31.How Yevgeny Zamyatin shaped dystopian fiction (newstatesman.com)
96 points by rutenspitz on Feb 1, 2021 | 24 comments
32.Fastfloat – C++ library 4x faster than strtod (github.com/fastfloat)
109 points by dilawar on Jan 31, 2021 | 17 comments
33.I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit (drewdevault.com)
550 points by emersion on Feb 2, 2021 | 844 comments
34.Academic media censorship conference censored by YouTube? (mintpressnews.com)
218 points by killittosaveit on Feb 2, 2021 | 95 comments
35.Exploring FPGA Graphics (2020) (projectf.io)
136 points by rbanffy on Feb 2, 2021 | 38 comments
36.CompilerGym: A toolkit for reinforcement learning for compiler optimization (facebookresearch.github.io)
139 points by azhenley on Feb 2, 2021 | 16 comments
37.Ancient Jersey teeth find hints at Neanderthal mixing (bbc.com)
32 points by diodorus on Feb 1, 2021
38.Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
228 points by as89 on Feb 1, 2021 | 484 comments
39.Oxford vaccine shows sustained protection of 76% in 3-month gap til second dose (ox.ac.uk)
176 points by timthorn on Feb 2, 2021 | 176 comments
40.Why the Wingdings Font Exists (2015) (vox.com)
86 points by davidhariri on Feb 1, 2021 | 27 comments
41.How libraries decide which books to keep (2014) (medium.com/fsgbooks)
78 points by Tomte on Feb 1, 2021 | 23 comments
42.A curious observer’s guide to quantum mechanics, pt. 2: The particle melting pot (arstechnica.com)
42 points by sfifs on Feb 1, 2021 | 4 comments
43.On the dangers of seeing human minds as predictive machines (aeon.co)
82 points by dangerman on Feb 1, 2021 | 165 comments
44.Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions (graphika.com)
213 points by kbumsik on Feb 2, 2021 | 86 comments
45.GraalVM 21.0 Introduces a JVM Written in Java (infoq.com)
124 points by 0xedb on Feb 2, 2021 | 19 comments
46.Publishing Is Back to the Future (stratechery.com)
61 points by imheretolearn on Jan 31, 2021 | 7 comments
47.Launch HN: Routable (YC S17) – Scale payouts without building in-house tools
66 points by omrim on Feb 2, 2021 | 14 comments
48.Show HN: Time tracking with plain text files (github.com/jotaen)
94 points by jotaen on Feb 1, 2021 | 51 comments
49.Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet (gist.github.com)
195 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 2, 2021 | 411 comments
50.Ahead of the Ripple (XRP) SEC Court Date, Flare Network Declares Its Support (blockchain.news)
33 points by Ghafario on Feb 2, 2021 | 4 comments
51.2020 Q4 Alphabet Earnings Release [pdf] (abc.xyz)
103 points by lawrenceyan on Feb 2, 2021 | 89 comments
52.Building XNU for macOS 11.2 (Intel and Apple Silicon) (kernelshaman.blogspot.com)
67 points by mrpippy on Feb 2, 2021 | 30 comments
53.The Canary Chirps (hackerfactor.com)
149 points by pimterry on Feb 2, 2021 | 17 comments
54.Garuda Linux (garudalinux.org)
142 points by oriettaxx on Feb 2, 2021 | 92 comments
55.Penpot Alpha Release – Free and Open-Source Design Plattform (penpot.app)
133 points by stephdin on Feb 2, 2021 | 26 comments
56.The cosmological constant is physics’ most embarrassing problem (scientificamerican.com)
79 points by samizdis on Feb 1, 2021 | 97 comments
57.“WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge for the memes” (reddit.com)
220 points by throwaway5752 on Feb 2, 2021 | 334 comments
58.Tartar Relation (wikipedia.org)
45 points by Thevet on Jan 31, 2021 | 3 comments
59.Navy speaks up about its “UFO patent” experiments (thedrive.com)
96 points by samizdis on Feb 2, 2021 | 72 comments
60.The Radio-Carbon Dating of the Voynich MS (voynich.nu)
47 points by Hooke on Jan 31, 2021 | 27 comments

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