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31.Depression (robertsapolskyrocks.com)
147 points by Tomte on Dec 15, 2018 | 83 comments
32.Algol 68: A Retrospective (accu.org)
43 points by ingve on Dec 15, 2018 | 25 comments
33.World's first fully electric bus fleet quietens Chinese megacity (theguardian.com)
113 points by pseudolus on Dec 16, 2018 | 60 comments
34.Orphan Drugs (99percentinvisible.org)
64 points by thread_id on Dec 15, 2018 | 40 comments
35.Let There Be Light, and Thus, Time (2015) [video] (youtube.com)
41 points by espeed on Dec 15, 2018 | 10 comments
36.A lesson on thinking and acting long term (threader.app)
116 points by seapunk on Dec 16, 2018 | 28 comments
37.USGS Announces Largest Continuous Oil Assessment in Texas and New Mexico (usgs.gov)
58 points by LopRabbit on Dec 15, 2018 | 82 comments
38.Can Foundational Physics Be Saved? (overcomingbias.com)
67 points by telotortium on Dec 13, 2018 | 65 comments
39.Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess (nytimes.com)
105 points by ingve on Dec 15, 2018 | 100 comments
40. [dupe] Johnson and Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder (reuters.com)
291 points by r_singh on Dec 16, 2018 | 82 comments
41.GE Powered the American Century, Then It Burned Out (wsj.com)
61 points by haaen on Dec 15, 2018 | 25 comments
42.Robinhood Will Retool Checking Product Following Scrutiny (bloomberg.com)
104 points by vthallam on Dec 15, 2018 | 97 comments
43.Computing is Everywhere: Bret Victor and Dynamicland [audio] (postlight.com)
61 points by mpweiher on Dec 16, 2018 | 17 comments
44.Headspace vs. Calm: A Meditation-App Battle That’s Anything but Zen (wsj.com)
125 points by yarapavan on Dec 16, 2018 | 103 comments
45.Glasgow's Riverside Museum (arthitectural.com)
27 points by curtis on Dec 15, 2018 | 1 comment
46.Refactoring Large Functions (muth.org)
72 points by muth02446 on Dec 16, 2018 | 38 comments
47.Overload Control for Scaling WeChat Microservices [pdf] (columbia.edu)
54 points by kawera on Dec 16, 2018 | 1 comment
48.How India's sex workers prevented an Aids epidemic (theguardian.com)
123 points by sonabinu on Dec 15, 2018 | 30 comments
49.There Are Now More Shows Streaming Than There Are on Broadcast or Cable (indiewire.com)
73 points by bookbinder on Dec 16, 2018 | 76 comments
50.The Accidental Room (99percentinvisible.org)
79 points by garycomtois on Dec 16, 2018 | 13 comments
51.Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide (arxiv.org)
47 points by mindcrime on Dec 16, 2018 | 4 comments
52.Encryption toolkit for media makers: A VeraCrypt guide (freedom.press)
42 points by gasull on Dec 15, 2018 | 15 comments
53.Machine learning proliferates in particle physics (symmetrymagazine.org)
44 points by qubitcoder on Dec 16, 2018 | 7 comments
54.Don't Touch Anything (unintendedconsequenc.es)
49 points by paulorlando on Dec 16, 2018 | 15 comments
55.Ask HN: Best Centralized Backup Solution
133 points by bkgh on Dec 16, 2018 | 67 comments
56.Human-Like Playtesting with Deep Learning [pdf] (researchgate.net)
30 points by henning on Dec 15, 2018
57.Busy Beavers, and the Quest for Big Numbers (2012) (jeremykun.com)
28 points by octosphere on Dec 15, 2018 | 3 comments
58.Scrapino – Self-sustainable robot from e-scrap using renewable energy [pdf] (sciencedirect.com)
18 points by watchdogtimer on Dec 15, 2018 | 2 comments
59.Mapping the Brain’s Genetic Landscape (nytimes.com)
19 points by rbanffy on Dec 16, 2018
60.Show HN: PuBilling – Embeddable billing portal for your SaaS app (pubilling.io)
59 points by raphaelcosta on Dec 16, 2018 | 52 comments

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