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31. The word “mafia” is never heard in The Godfather (news.com.au)
154 points by networked on Jan 31, 2020 | 176 comments
32. The text adventure game of exiting a Telnet session (ma.ttias.be)
136 points by Mojah on Jan 31, 2020 | 128 comments
33. A Wave Function Collapse Overlapping Model Guide (42yeah.casa)
83 points by 42yeah1 on Jan 30, 2020 | 13 comments
34. Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth [pdf] (ethz.ch)
135 points by vector_spaces on Jan 30, 2020 | 59 comments
35. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Adds WireGuard Support (phoronix.com)
295 points by Bella-Xiang on Jan 31, 2020 | 90 comments
36. “Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous“ (telegra.ph)
381 points by elies on Jan 31, 2020 | 234 comments
37. An Opinionated Guide to Machine Learning Research (joschu.net)
165 points by hardmaru on Jan 31, 2020 | 7 comments
38. UN special rapporteur on torture on his investigation into the case of Assange (republik.ch)
258 points by rendall on Jan 31, 2020 | 126 comments
39. New Cryptographic Tools on Keybase (keybase.io)
134 points by tosh on Jan 31, 2020 | 19 comments
40. 3D printed hands are giving Syrian children a second chance (waya.media)
73 points by gamalhelmy on Jan 31, 2020 | 20 comments
41. News.gmane.org is now news.gmane.io (ingebrigtsen.no)
88 points by mariuz on Jan 31, 2020 | 42 comments
42. When to Overcommunicate (glowforge.com)
146 points by danshapiro on Jan 31, 2020 | 48 comments
43. Research UNIX: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer’s Manual, 1971-1986 [pdf] (archive.org)
79 points by kick on Jan 31, 2020 | 13 comments
44. Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds (acolyer.org)
60 points by godelmachine on Jan 31, 2020 | 19 comments
45. Vmap in Haskell (ezyang.com)
82 points by g0xA52A2A on Jan 30, 2020 | 13 comments
46. What to do when you don’t trust your data anymore (ucdavis.edu)
89 points by di4na on Jan 30, 2020 | 20 comments
47. The Bourne Shell Source Code (tuhs.org)
122 points by kick on Jan 30, 2020 | 39 comments
48. GDB Custom Commands: Dynamic Arrays (testfit.io)
55 points by alottabit on Jan 30, 2020 | 2 comments
49. GNU Typist (2017) (gnu.org)
72 points by butterthebuddha on Jan 31, 2020 | 40 comments
50. An Examination of Physics in Video Games (techspot.com)
43 points by atomlib on Jan 30, 2020 | 26 comments
51. Artificial intelligence will do what we ask, and that's a problem (quantamagazine.org)
92 points by vo2maxer on Jan 31, 2020 | 64 comments
52. AGPL License (wikipedia.org)
91 points by theawesomekhan on Jan 31, 2020 | 106 comments
53. A Pythonista's Review of Haskell (yingw787.com)
112 points by yingw787 on Jan 30, 2020 | 102 comments
54. Algorithmically-created medicine to be used on humans for first time (bbc.co.uk)
56 points by datashrimp on Jan 30, 2020 | 22 comments
55. Show HN: Minibatch – Python stream processing (github.com/omegaml)
50 points by miraculixx on Jan 31, 2020 | 26 comments
56. Plastic pollution: 'Hidden' chemicals build up in seabirds (bbc.com)
54 points by pseudolus on Jan 31, 2020 | 10 comments
57. High school starts at 3 p.m. for some Michigan students (npr.org)
47 points by ecliptik on Jan 28, 2020 | 18 comments
58. Some celebrities are ditching Twitter for Community (fastcompany.com)
43 points by altacc on Jan 30, 2020 | 30 comments
59. Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the 2019-nCov [pdf] (biorxiv.org)
287 points by ronalbarbaren on Jan 31, 2020 | 145 comments
60. The Struggle (2012) (a16z.com)
26 points by yarapavan on Jan 31, 2020 | 4 comments

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