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31. The First Credit Card Ever (2016) (saturdayeveningpost.com)
90 points by hhs on Dec 21, 2019 | 48 comments
32. Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books (2017) (atlasobscura.com)
138 points by dcminter on Dec 22, 2019 | 55 comments
33. Learning Morse code in the 21st century (airfactsjournal.com)
72 points by hggh on Dec 23, 2019 | 36 comments
34. Many Japanese children refuse to go to school (bbc.co.uk)
228 points by lnguyen on Dec 23, 2019 | 245 comments
35. New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 1: Digging the Trenches (filfre.net)
67 points by pmoriarty on Dec 21, 2019 | 3 comments
36. Learn Rust the Dangerous Way (cliffle.com)
239 points by generichuman on Dec 23, 2019 | 23 comments
37. Can monoculture survive the algorithm? (vox.com)
45 points by portobello on Dec 23, 2019 | 43 comments
38. Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space (qz.com)
254 points by bekman on Dec 20, 2019 | 139 comments
39. The Periodic Table of Videos (periodicvideos.com)
89 points by syllable_studio on Dec 23, 2019 | 6 comments
40. Bazel 2.0 (bazel.build)
160 points by the_alchemist on Dec 23, 2019 | 113 comments
41. ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race (nytimes.com)
165 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 23, 2019 | 140 comments
42. A Navy Seal's Semester at Yale, at Age 52 (gen.medium.com)
265 points by fortran77 on Dec 23, 2019 | 177 comments
43. Design APIs: The Evolution of Design Systems (matthewstrom.com)
84 points by anthilemoon on Dec 23, 2019 | 11 comments
44. Wolf 359 (wikipedia.org)
84 points by ag8 on Dec 23, 2019 | 49 comments
45. Misery in the Head (historytoday.com)
25 points by pelt on Dec 23, 2019 | 25 comments
46. Fact-check: Five claims about thorium made by Andrew Yang (thebulletin.org)
124 points by nabla9 on Dec 22, 2019 | 92 comments
47. Neural networks as non-leaky mathematical abstraction (cerebralab.com)
68 points by george3d6 on Dec 20, 2019 | 34 comments
48. Open letter concerning Facebook's proposals to apply end-to-end encryption (gov.uk)
136 points by Daviey on Dec 23, 2019 | 133 comments
49. To stop pancreatic cancer from spreading, cut out the chatter (massivesci.com)
85 points by dazosan on Dec 23, 2019 | 6 comments
50. Thoughts on the Lytro Camera (2013) (nerget.com)
35 points by luu on Dec 21, 2019 | 16 comments
51. Work Shorter Hours in Winter (wired.com)
106 points by nbrempel on Dec 23, 2019 | 35 comments
52. Second stage of open-access restoration of Van Eyck brothers’ masterpiece (theartnewspaper.com)
17 points by wholeness on Dec 23, 2019
53. New books mount aggressive but ultimately unpersuasive defenses of multiverses (scientificamerican.com)
43 points by fewi on Dec 23, 2019 | 64 comments
54. How to succeed or fail on a frontier (2006) (unenumerated.blogspot.com)
30 points by silt on Dec 22, 2019 | 5 comments
55. The Causal Theory of Views (edge.org)
32 points by nabla9 on Dec 22, 2019 | 1 comment
56. Mike Bloomberg is plowing millions of dollars into a secretive tech firm (cnbc.com)
114 points by hsnewman on Dec 23, 2019 | 82 comments
57. The weird criticism that Big Tech is too digital (theweek.com)
40 points by buboard on Dec 20, 2019 | 30 comments
58. HyperbolaBSD Roadmap: hard fork of the OpenBSD kernel and userspace (hyperbola.info)
83 points by beefhash on Dec 23, 2019 | 112 comments
59. Tesla's stock just hit a record $420 (cnn.com)
137 points by berbec on Dec 23, 2019 | 93 comments
60. Barnes and Noble’s Jekyll and Hyde (1999) (nymag.com)
10 points by hhs on Dec 21, 2019 | 2 comments

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