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31. A Quarter of Cow DNA Came from Reptiles (theatlantic.com)
98 points by sohkamyung on Oct 16, 2017 | 40 comments
32. Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional programming principles? (profsjt.blogspot.com)
174 points by ingve on Oct 16, 2017 | 219 comments
33. Show HN: Node.js port of WhisperSystem's libsignal (github.com/forstalabs)
88 points by tooker on Oct 16, 2017 | 16 comments
34. Ophelia became a major hurricane where no storm had before (arstechnica.com)
141 points by sndean on Oct 16, 2017 | 31 comments
35. Tesla’s New Car Smell (mondaynote.com)
214 points by okket on Oct 16, 2017 | 198 comments
36. Introducing PayPal’s open-source cross-domain JavaScript suite (medium.com/bluepnume)
133 points by bluepnume on Oct 15, 2017 | 18 comments
37. Self-driving car accidents: Robot drivers are ‘odd, and that’s why they get hit’ (seattletimes.com)
107 points by mji on Oct 16, 2017 | 362 comments
38. Transit and Peering: How your requests reach GitHub (githubengineering.com)
71 points by smudgymcscmudge on Oct 12, 2017 | 4 comments
39. The Rock Solid History of Concrete (popularmechanics.com)
79 points by davesailer on Oct 16, 2017 | 12 comments
40. Fast Python Serialization with Ray and Apache Arrow (ray-project.github.io)
76 points by rshin on Oct 16, 2017 | 16 comments
41. The great thaw of America’s north is coming (bbc.com)
138 points by fmihaila on Oct 16, 2017 | 95 comments
42. Seymour: Live Programming for the Classroom (harc.github.io)
88 points by indescions_2017 on Oct 14, 2017 | 8 comments
43. Training crows to pick up cigarette butts for food (crowdedcities.com)
156 points by jfren on Oct 16, 2017 | 132 comments
44. Tiangong-1: Chinese space station will crash to Earth within months (theguardian.com)
63 points by yitosda on Oct 15, 2017 | 22 comments
45. Discord Postmortem from Friday (discordapp.com)
96 points by b1naryth1ef on Oct 16, 2017 | 42 comments
46. A Look at Eyeglass Lens Materials (2012) (eyecarebusiness.com)
31 points by walterbell on Oct 15, 2017 | 11 comments
47. Festo's Fantastical Flying Robots (2016) [video] (ieee.org)
57 points by billconan on Oct 15, 2017 | 7 comments
48. You fired your top talent. I hope you’re happy (medium.com/deusexmachina667)
460 points by ech on Oct 16, 2017 | 172 comments
49. What Sewing Samplers Tell Us About Women’s Lives from the 17th to 19th Centuries (hyperallergic.com)
57 points by Petiver on Oct 16, 2017 | 12 comments
50. Oil Firms Learn to Move an Ancient Product with New-Age Tech (nytimes.com)
45 points by redcastle on Oct 15, 2017 | 11 comments
51. De Quincey: So Original, So Truly Weird (2016) (nybooks.com)
15 points by lermontov on Oct 15, 2017
52. Skinner Marketing: We're the Rats, and Facebook Likes Are the Reward (2013) (theatlantic.com)
129 points by nwrk on Oct 16, 2017 | 77 comments
53. Return of Coppersmith’s Attack: Vulnerable RSA Generation (muni.cz)
142 points by 0x0 on Oct 16, 2017 | 22 comments
54. North Korea's 6000-man army of hackers come into their own (nytimes.com)
108 points by malloryerik on Oct 16, 2017 | 64 comments
55. My Dinners with Harold (californiasunday.com)
40 points by hbosch on Oct 16, 2017 | 2 comments
56. Other People’s Lives: What makes biography good? (bostonreview.net)
25 points by diodorus on Oct 16, 2017 | 1 comment
57. Cali Police, Civil Liberties Groups Agreed on Transparency, Gov Brown Vetoed It (eff.org)
96 points by DiabloD3 on Oct 16, 2017 | 8 comments
58. When fourth-party collection becomes attribution hell [pdf] (securelist.com)
22 points by nkurz on Oct 16, 2017 | 2 comments
59. Polhems Prize awarded to Daniel Stenberg for the creation of cURL (polhemspriset.se)
101 points by reimertz on Oct 16, 2017 | 11 comments
60. Six agricultural giants on the verge of merging into three companies (2016) (qz.com)
88 points by walterbell on Oct 16, 2017 | 12 comments

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