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31.Remix: On Rails (marbiano.dev)
95 points by goranmoomin on Dec 17, 2021 | 84 comments
32.Ask HN: Can web scraping be the basis of a viable business model?
171 points by fforflo on Dec 18, 2021 | 111 comments
33.Group of monkeys kill over 250 dogs for 'revenge' in Indian town (newsweek.com)
281 points by prmph on Dec 18, 2021 | 295 comments
34.Charles Babbage – Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (standardebooks.org)
70 points by robin_reala on Dec 18, 2021 | 30 comments
35.Firefox Profilemaker (ffprofile.com)
142 points by KubikPixel on Dec 18, 2021 | 50 comments
36.To opt out of Google Analytics you have to install a browser extension (tools.google.com)
250 points by asimpletune on Dec 18, 2021 | 186 comments
37.Log4j 2.16: Certain strings can cause infinite recursion (apache.org)
226 points by scblzn on Dec 18, 2021 | 173 comments
38.Opening a 50-year-old Christmas present from the Moon (esa.int)
74 points by TangerineDream on Dec 18, 2021 | 9 comments
39.Do large language models understand us? (medium.com/blaisea)
64 points by ofou on Dec 17, 2021 | 68 comments
40.UberEats took unauthorized amount (and not willing to pay it back) (twitter.com/tamasno1)
217 points by boros2me on Dec 18, 2021 | 161 comments
41.Perl Turns 34 Today (github.com/perl)
176 points by nixcraft on Dec 18, 2021 | 137 comments
42.What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code (2020) (biojulia.net)
109 points by spekcular on Dec 18, 2021 | 30 comments
43.A new cycle-stepped Z80 emulator (floooh.github.io)
77 points by stevekemp on Dec 18, 2021 | 6 comments
44.Libmobi: C library for handling eBook formats (github.com/bfabiszewski)
56 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Dec 18, 2021 | 52 comments
45.The Possibility of the Impossible (acm.org)
42 points by jimhefferon on Dec 18, 2021 | 6 comments
46.JPMorgan hit with $200M in fines for letting employees use WhatsApp (cnbc.com)
162 points by hassanahmad on Dec 18, 2021 | 94 comments
47.Vibration API (developer.mozilla.org)
56 points by tosh on Dec 17, 2021 | 58 comments
48.Ask HN: How do you get articles/papers/talks recommendations?
101 points by __all__ on Dec 18, 2021 | 32 comments
49.An NFT without a blockchain (shkspr.mobi)
185 points by Amorymeltzer on Dec 18, 2021 | 355 comments
50.Lead exposure from routine consumption of coffee and tea from ceramic mugs (biomedcentral.com)
181 points by spekcular on Dec 18, 2021 | 106 comments
51.Hidden Pentagon records reveal patterns of failure in deadly airstrikes (nytimes.com)
123 points by jbegley on Dec 18, 2021 | 71 comments
52.U.N. talks adjourn without deal to regulate 'killer robots' (reuters.com)
98 points by Tomte on Dec 18, 2021 | 110 comments
53.Ask HN: Life Changing Books?
246 points by rookie123 on Dec 18, 2021 | 223 comments
54.Gene discoveries give new hope to people who stutter (vumc.org)
45 points by ohjeez on Dec 18, 2021 | 26 comments
55.On commercial forks FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)
83 points by als0 on Dec 18, 2021 | 29 comments
56.Toba Catastrophe Theory (wikipedia.org)
49 points by benbreen on Dec 18, 2021 | 17 comments
57.Which programming language or compiler is faster (programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.a...)
70 points by wglb on Dec 18, 2021 | 86 comments
58.x86, X64 Instruction Latency, Memory Latency and Cpuid Dumps (atw.hu)
38 points by arunc on Dec 16, 2021 | 9 comments
59.Ask HN: 27, accidentally became wealthy, lost drive. What should I do?
171 points by prelifecrisis on Dec 18, 2021 | 253 comments
60.Signature Schemes: Theory and Practice [video] (youtube.com)
18 points by tosh on Dec 17, 2021 | 1 comment

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