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31. Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock his phone at airport (arstechnica.com)
339 points by blahedo on Dec 19, 2018 | 237 comments
32. Why are amplitudes complex? (scottaaronson.com)
103 points by beefman on Dec 19, 2018 | 35 comments
33. Open-sourcing DeepFocus, an AI-powered system for more realistic VR images (fb.com)
92 points by lainon on Dec 19, 2018 | 11 comments
34. Amazon driver arrested after taking GPS 'bait' package off Washington Co. porch (kcby.com)
196 points by MagicPropmaker on Dec 19, 2018 | 163 comments
35. Envoy Proxy at Reddit (redditblog.com)
136 points by runesoerensen on Dec 18, 2018 | 46 comments
36. 'Disneyland for adults': John Portman's dizzying interior legacy (theguardian.com)
68 points by crunchiebones on Dec 19, 2018 | 4 comments
37. Path Tracing vs. Ray Tracing (2016) (dusterwald.com)
112 points by colinprince on Dec 18, 2018 | 33 comments
38. K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system (cbc.ca)
243 points by camtarn on Dec 19, 2018 | 339 comments
39. [dupe] Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ private messages (theverge.com)
297 points by staz on Dec 19, 2018 | 81 comments
40. Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months from launching (recode.net)
226 points by turadg on Dec 19, 2018 | 49 comments
41. Improving compression at scale with Zstandard (fb.com)
139 points by felixhandte on Dec 19, 2018 | 87 comments
42. [dupe] Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to (arstechnica.com)
206 points by sbuk on Dec 18, 2018 | 108 comments
43. JavaScript Getter-Setter Pyramid (staltz.com)
142 points by adgasf on Dec 19, 2018 | 50 comments
44. OpsMop – Config management and app deployment from the creator of Ansible (github.com/opsmop)
128 points by yankcrime on Dec 19, 2018 | 58 comments
45. Program Verification with F* (2017) (inria.fr)
95 points by adgasf on Dec 18, 2018 | 3 comments
46. With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals (techcrunch.com)
308 points by ihsoj on Dec 19, 2018 | 153 comments
47. Go Modules in 2019 (golang.org)
238 points by baijum on Dec 19, 2018 | 175 comments
48. Hello, JIT World: The Joy of Simple JITs (2012) (reverberate.org)
66 points by codezero on Dec 18, 2018 | 10 comments
49. The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu (1007-1010) (upenn.edu)
64 points by lermontov on Dec 18, 2018 | 6 comments
50. Show HN: CoolQLCool – Turn Websites into GraphQL Accessible APIs (coolql.cool)
124 points by gavino on Dec 19, 2018 | 22 comments
51. Show HN: A new annotation tool for information extraction with Mechanical Turk (github.com/varal7)
72 points by varal7 on Dec 19, 2018 | 10 comments
52. A Chinese electric car is coming to the US (qz.com)
74 points by lxm on Dec 18, 2018 | 89 comments
53. Elon Musk Unveils Boring Co's First Tunnel (latimes.com)
151 points by gamblor956 on Dec 19, 2018 | 224 comments
54. Download all of your GitHub data (blog.github.com)
151 points by TimWolla on Dec 19, 2018 | 38 comments
55. Neural Networks and Graph Algorithms with Next-Generation Processors [pdf] (osti.gov)
57 points by espeed on Dec 18, 2018 | 1 comment
56. T.M. Landry and the Myth of Meritocracy in Education (theatlantic.com)
66 points by IfOnlyYouKnew on Dec 19, 2018 | 43 comments
57. An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands of Coal Miners (npr.org)
118 points by rozap on Dec 19, 2018 | 66 comments
58. Days of the Dolphin: Cetaceans in Cold War Science and Science Fiction (wearethemutants.com)
19 points by benbreen on Dec 18, 2018 | 2 comments
59. Der Spiegel published around 60 stories from a fraudster (spiegel.de)
171 points by doener on Dec 19, 2018 | 106 comments
60. Let Google do the patching with new managed base images (cloud.google.com)
120 points by cimnine on Dec 19, 2018 | 70 comments

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