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31. Life expectancy in America has declined for two years in a row (economist.com)
175 points by doener on Jan 7, 2018 | 176 comments
32. From 200K lines of CoffeeScript to zero: making decaffeinate super-stable (benchling.engineering)
95 points by alangpierce on Jan 7, 2018 | 29 comments
33. Paper Scraps Recovered from Blackbeard's Cannon (gizmodo.com)
34 points by curtis on Jan 6, 2018 | 11 comments
34. Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
103 points by jseliger on Jan 7, 2018 | 170 comments
35. The Struggling Artist at 86 (nytimes.com)
81 points by wallflower on Jan 7, 2018 | 63 comments
36. Plonat Atek – Close Up on the Scope [video] (youtube.com)
21 points by geocar on Jan 6, 2018 | 1 comment
37. Ocean's Oxygen Starts Running Low (2016) (scientificamerican.com)
122 points by spaniard89277 on Jan 7, 2018 | 93 comments
38. Why Is 'Affordable' Housing So Expensive to Build? (citylab.com)
135 points by misnamed on Jan 7, 2018 | 168 comments
39. Ask HN: Delay buying new devices due to Meltdown/Spectre CPU bug?
114 points by m3nu on Jan 7, 2018 | 59 comments
40. How to Fix Facebook Before It Fixes Us (washingtonmonthly.com)
173 points by jf on Jan 7, 2018 | 114 comments
41. Momentum builds for open-source processors (2001) (eetimes.com)
56 points by ashitlerferad on Jan 5, 2018 | 11 comments
42. Report from Iron Mountain (2006) (philipcoppens.com)
67 points by nkurz on Jan 5, 2018 | 12 comments
43. Game Critic Uses Workaround for YouTube's Copyright (2016) (kotaku.com)
145 points by pavel_lishin on Jan 7, 2018 | 44 comments
44. Chladni Figures (1787) (publicdomainreview.org)
23 points by prismatic on Jan 6, 2018 | 6 comments
45. Does Lyft Alleviate City Traffic? Looking at the VMT Efficiency Metric (rmi.org)
29 points by Osiris30 on Jan 6, 2018 | 5 comments
46. Thinking big about the boundaries of science (washingtonpost.com)
36 points by Hooke on Jan 6, 2018 | 1 comment
47. Pigeons and Love (nautil.us)
25 points by dnetesn on Jan 5, 2018 | 4 comments
48. Indonesian scientists embrace preprint server (nature.com)
24 points by lainon on Jan 5, 2018 | 2 comments
49. Doctors' plan for war on sugar (theage.com.au)
85 points by okket on Jan 7, 2018 | 85 comments
50. For the Living, a Donated Face, For the Dead, a Lifelike Replacement (nytimes.com)
16 points by dr_ on Jan 6, 2018 | 7 comments
51. How Does Java Both Optimize Hot Loops and Allow Debugging (cliffc.org)
38 points by mpweiher on Jan 6, 2018 | 1 comment
52. The Rise of the State Machines (smashingmagazine.com)
57 points by mpweiher on Jan 7, 2018 | 15 comments
53. Genode – The microkernel approach (2008) (genode.org)
17 points by DyslexicAtheist on Jan 6, 2018 | 1 comment
54. How We Built Uber Engineering’s Highest Query per Second Service (2016) (uber.com)
91 points by dankohn1 on Jan 7, 2018 | 30 comments
55. Python 2.7 Countdown (pythonclock.org)
75 points by mkesper on Jan 7, 2018 | 68 comments
56. Ask HN: What are you doing for your mental health?
102 points by lainon on Jan 7, 2018 | 91 comments
57. The ‘untranslatable’ Japanese phrase that predicts love (bbc.com)
32 points by diminish on Jan 7, 2018 | 26 comments
58. [flagged] Show HN: CryptoRoulette how much is worth now $1,000 of cryptos from last year (github.com/ciocan)
53 points by ciocan42 on Jan 7, 2018 | 21 comments
59. Ask HN: How to get industry insights and meet people outside your bubble?
59 points by nielsole on Jan 7, 2018 | 31 comments
60. We can make primality machines that do not know anything about the factors of n (mathlesstraveled.com)
19 points by ColinWright on Jan 5, 2018 | 5 comments

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