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31. Fossilized Insect Discovered Not in Amber, but in Opal (entomologytoday.org)
52 points by sohkamyung on Jan 19, 2019 | 9 comments
32. How the Government Shutdown Warps Time Itself (typesandtimes.net)
70 points by psuter on Jan 18, 2019 | 69 comments
33. Show HN: Pipelines – Language for scripting parrallel pipelines with Python (github.com/calebwin)
69 points by calebwin on Jan 19, 2019 | 16 comments
34. Who is horse_js? (whoishorsejs.com)
206 points by juniusfree on Jan 19, 2019 | 80 comments
35. Perceptions of Randomness: Why Three Heads Are Better Than Four (2009) [pdf] (cf.ac.uk)
40 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Jan 18, 2019 | 13 comments
36. Iridium Completes Constellation Replacement (flyingmag.com)
81 points by lxm on Jan 18, 2019 | 45 comments
37. Open-sourcing bioinstruments (liorpachter.wordpress.com)
77 points by homarp on Jan 19, 2019 | 33 comments
38. Tularosa Study: Experimental Quantify the Effectiveness of Cyber Deception [pdf] (hawaii.edu)
35 points by adulau on Jan 19, 2019
39. Hacking of artificial intelligence is an emerging security crisis (wired.co.uk)
138 points by headalgorithm on Jan 19, 2019 | 52 comments
40. The Rhine waterway risks becoming impassable because of climate change (bloomberg.com)
142 points by adventured on Jan 19, 2019 | 65 comments
41. Prevent users registering with passwords from data breaches (jordanhall.co.uk)
80 points by DivineOmega on Jan 18, 2019 | 123 comments
42. To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet (nytimes.com)
65 points by dreamcompiler on Jan 18, 2019 | 48 comments
43. M.U.L.E. for MSX2 (carpeludum.com)
37 points by sohkamyung on Jan 19, 2019 | 6 comments
44. Hitman Runner Mark Fellows Convicted of Murder on GPS Watch Data (runnersworld.com)
58 points by danso on Jan 19, 2019 | 33 comments
45. NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moon Titan (space.com)
113 points by gyre007 on Jan 19, 2019 | 52 comments
46. People Renting Out Their Facebook Accounts for Cash and Free Laptops (buzzfeednews.com)
99 points by jbegley on Jan 19, 2019 | 58 comments
47. Experiment finds under 1 in 10 people can tell sponsored content from articles (bu.edu)
99 points by DocFeind on Jan 19, 2019 | 54 comments
48. Purism announces PureOS Store (puri.sm)
87 points by yepthatsreality on Jan 19, 2019 | 16 comments
49. Ethical bot-making (mewo2.com)
43 points by homarp on Jan 19, 2019 | 13 comments
50. Learn about Neural Networks and Backpropagation (towardsdatascience.com)
75 points by mediumpost on Jan 19, 2019 | 9 comments
51. Waves in Saturn's rings give precise measurement of planet's rotation rate (phys.org)
35 points by dnetesn on Jan 18, 2019 | 5 comments
52. Insurance market for football evaporating, causing major threat for NFL (espn.com)
74 points by Osiris30 on Jan 19, 2019 | 64 comments
53. Windows 10 refutes the idea that the Linux kernel is what defines GNU/Linux (twitter.com/swiftonsecurity)
91 points by homarp on Jan 19, 2019 | 63 comments
54. A Short Rebuttal to Searle (1984) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
30 points by headalgorithm on Jan 19, 2019 | 37 comments
55. Innovative robotics developments of the past year (techxplore.com)
31 points by dnetesn on Jan 19, 2019 | 10 comments
56. I was mistaken for a call girl (drugstoreculture.com)
121 points by dpaluy on Jan 19, 2019 | 101 comments
57. Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die (2015) (viva64.com)
71 points by ghosthamlet on Jan 19, 2019 | 61 comments
58. The Drunkard’s Progress: Alcohol in 19th Century America (medium.com/bunk)
19 points by benbreen on Jan 18, 2019 | 12 comments
59. Instrumenting HTTP requests in Node (medium.com/tlivings)
39 points by adamesque on Jan 19, 2019 | 3 comments
60. Ask HN: Improving the world as a software developer
88 points by pogotc on Jan 19, 2019 | 62 comments

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