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31. What We Get Wrong About Dying (nautil.us)
155 points by dnetesn on Dec 29, 2017 | 79 comments
32. Legal Marijuana Isn’t the Boon Small Businesses Thought It Would Be (fivethirtyeight.com)
94 points by matt4077 on Dec 29, 2017 | 78 comments
33. ChromeOS: How VM and Containers will seem to run (reddit.com)
93 points by philips on Dec 29, 2017 | 11 comments
34. Taxation – Explaining What a Double Irish Sandwich Is (ccc.de)
88 points by sschueller on Dec 29, 2017 | 12 comments
35. Researchers have learned to create custom versions of cellular proteins (nytimes.com)
58 points by giacaglia on Dec 29, 2017 | 18 comments
36. A Very Old Man for a Wolf (outsideonline.com)
81 points by kawera on Dec 29, 2017 | 16 comments
37. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rocker (thebaffler.com)
98 points by kawera on Dec 29, 2017 | 57 comments
38. A circuit that helps the brain record memories of new locations (news.mit.edu)
45 points by dnetesn on Dec 28, 2017 | 1 comment
39. Fifteen Minutes of Unwanted Fame: Detecting and Characterizing Doxing [pdf] (uic.edu)
36 points by lainon on Dec 29, 2017 | 9 comments
40. A 19th-Century Illustrator Found Beauty in the Slimiest of Sea Creatures (smithsonianmag.com)
38 points by prismatic on Dec 29, 2017 | 5 comments
41. The Rendering of Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (elopezr.com)
96 points by noch on Dec 29, 2017 | 11 comments
42. Console Security – Nintendo Switch [video] (ccc.de)
162 points by moepstar on Dec 29, 2017 | 98 comments
43. Decline of Rural Lending Crimps Small-Town Business (msn.com)
78 points by rumcajz on Dec 29, 2017 | 64 comments
44. Classical Cryptography Will Survive Quantum Computers (nautil.us)
85 points by dnetesn on Dec 29, 2017 | 39 comments
45. Exercise is good for boosting memory and thinking skills, new guidelines say (latimes.com)
133 points by DoreenMichele on Dec 29, 2017 | 56 comments
46. Best of ArXiv.org for AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning – November 2017 (insidebigdata.com)
83 points by ghosthamlet on Dec 29, 2017 | 9 comments
47. Home in a Can: When Trailers Offered a Compact Version of the American Dream (collectorsweekly.com)
67 points by samclemens on Dec 29, 2017 | 48 comments
48. The proportion of medical procedures unsupported by evidence may be nearly half (vox.com)
126 points by lnguyen on Dec 29, 2017 | 42 comments
49. Skyrocketing Bitcoin Fees Hit Carders in Wallet (krebsonsecurity.com)
96 points by wglb on Dec 28, 2017 | 98 comments
50. Computing’s Fundamental Principle of No Learning (sicpers.info)
63 points by mpweiher on Dec 29, 2017 | 18 comments
51. Intel ME: Myths and Reality [pdf] (ccc.de)
74 points by zkms on Dec 29, 2017 | 16 comments
52. Firefighter Math (firefightermath.org)
94 points by miobrien on Dec 29, 2017 | 29 comments
53. Why didn't Denmark sell Greenland? (2011) (gwern.net)
68 points by ultrasaurus on Dec 29, 2017 | 53 comments
54. The great error: the Bolsheviks were not a party but an apocalyptic sect (the-tls.co.uk)
80 points by lermontov on Dec 29, 2017 | 114 comments
55. Unstacking the deck (seattlereviewofbooks.com)
52 points by fern12 on Dec 29, 2017 | 33 comments
56. Eruda: Console for Mobile Browsers (liriliri.io)
59 points by fiatjaf on Dec 28, 2017 | 9 comments
57. Cryptocurrency Analysis with Python – Log Returns (romanorac.github.io)
56 points by HIP_HOP on Dec 29, 2017 | 4 comments
58. Uber’s Financials: An Inside Look (wsj.com)
55 points by scop on Dec 29, 2017 | 51 comments
59. I went full nomad and it almost broke me (hackernoon.com)
79 points by NicoJuicy on Dec 29, 2017 | 98 comments
60. LatticeHacks – Fun with lattices in cryptography and cryptanalysis [video] (ccc.de)
47 points by fahrradflucht on Dec 29, 2017 | 1 comment

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