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31. Exquisite Corpse: The Winter of 1947 in Europe (granta.com)
61 points by lermontov on Feb 15, 2018 | 35 comments
32. On Being the Right Size (1928) (ucla.edu)
81 points by Rexxar on Feb 16, 2018 | 10 comments
33. Yes, code is data, but that's not what makes Lisp cool (rongarret.info)
154 points by lisper on Feb 16, 2018 | 46 comments
34. How Isaac Asimov shaped robotics and space exploration and predicted the Internet (rossdawson.com)
158 points by imartin2k on Feb 16, 2018 | 73 comments
35. Accurate Genomic Prediction of Human Height (biorxiv.org)
86 points by gwern on Feb 16, 2018 | 45 comments
36. A man who got away with $242M using ‘black magic’ (bbc.com)
240 points by goodcanadian on Feb 16, 2018 | 91 comments
37. Twitter Killing Its Mac App (512pixels.net)
131 points by ttepasse on Feb 16, 2018 | 109 comments
38. Sum Types Are Coming (2015) (chadaustin.me)
113 points by signa11 on Feb 16, 2018 | 113 comments
39. The Jim Roskind C/C++ Grammar (robertelder.org)
93 points by signa11 on Feb 16, 2018 | 9 comments
40. Ketamine blocks bursting in the lateral habenula to rapidly relieve depression (nature.com)
148 points by beefman on Feb 16, 2018 | 77 comments
41. Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement (eff.org)
131 points by ad_hominem on Feb 16, 2018 | 72 comments
42. OpenSCHUFA – Reverse-engineering the algorithm of the German credit score agency (okfn.de)
160 points by orless on Feb 16, 2018 | 82 comments
43. Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio (washington.edu)
50 points by taytus on Feb 15, 2018 | 25 comments
44. The Breakup Museum: Archiving the Way We Were (vqronline.org)
59 points by lermontov on Feb 16, 2018 | 2 comments
45. Instagram submits to Russia censor's demands (bbc.com)
101 points by uptown on Feb 16, 2018 | 19 comments
46. The Tyranny of Convenience (nytimes.com)
125 points by johnny313 on Feb 16, 2018 | 83 comments
47. Direction for ISO C++ [pdf] (open-std.org)
54 points by tobiasrenger on Feb 16, 2018 | 2 comments
48. Just what does “code as data” mean anyway? (2014) (adambard.com)
149 points by jxub on Feb 16, 2018 | 171 comments
49. U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering with Election (bloomberg.com)
246 points by uptown on Feb 16, 2018 | 324 comments
50. Brooklyn Bitcoin Mine Causes Static for T-Mobile Users (bloomberg.com)
110 points by aaronjg on Feb 15, 2018 | 48 comments
51. The Risks of Knowing Your Risk (datasociety.net)
35 points by imartin2k on Feb 16, 2018 | 12 comments
52. Real-time SFO plane location (airportviewer.com)
89 points by mooreds on Feb 16, 2018 | 43 comments
53. UK government should give £10K to every citizen under 55, a report suggests (bbc.co.uk)
109 points by edward on Feb 16, 2018 | 114 comments
54. [dupe] Go 1.10 is released (golang.org)
171 points by dsr12 on Feb 16, 2018 | 2 comments
55. McCLIM 0.9.7 "Imbolc" release (common-lisp.net)
67 points by jackdaniel on Feb 16, 2018 | 14 comments
56. Atari Is Jumping on the Crypto Bandwagon (bloomberg.com)
67 points by mido22 on Feb 16, 2018 | 51 comments
57. Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men [pdf] (princeton.edu)
84 points by gwern on Feb 16, 2018 | 116 comments
58. Problems at Singularity University (bloomberg.com)
52 points by meri_dian on Feb 15, 2018 | 15 comments
59. History of Combinatorial Generation (2004) [pdf] (antiquark.com)
28 points by gwern on Feb 16, 2018
60. Murders in US very concentrated (2017) (crimeresearch.org)
57 points by ComputerGuru on Feb 16, 2018 | 56 comments

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