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31.
Machines for thinking: Computers will get smarter, but with humans in charge (economist.com)
61 points by cryptoz on Oct 3, 2015 | 38 comments
32.
The Benefits of Slower Traffic, Measured in Money and Lives (citylab.com)
51 points by DarkContinent on Oct 3, 2015 | 34 comments
33.
Fossils help to reveal the true colours of extinct mammals for the first time (theconversation.com)
40 points by gnocchi on Oct 3, 2015
34.
Hurricane Joaquin Forecast: Why U.S. Weather Model Has Fallen Behind (nytimes.com)
78 points by jsm386 on Oct 3, 2015 | 46 comments
35.
The white-man effect: How foreigner presence affects behavior in experiments (sciencedirect.com)
53 points by randomwalker on Oct 3, 2015 | 36 comments
36.
Island boulders reveal ancient mega-tsunami (nature.com)
38 points by curtis on Oct 3, 2015
37.
Why Red M&M's Disappeared for a Decade (2014) (priceonomics.com)
47 points by vilda on Oct 3, 2015 | 10 comments
38.
CloudSight – Image Recognition API and Visual Search Results (cloudsightapi.com)
24 points by monort on Oct 2, 2015 | 5 comments
39.
Hexagonal Langton's Ant 2 – Colors, Gliders and Highways (brtmr.de)
37 points by brtmr on Oct 3, 2015 | 13 comments
40.
The model minority is losing patience (economist.com)
131 points by stared on Oct 3, 2015 | 164 comments
41.
Credit Scores and Committed Relationships (brookings.edu)
30 points by T-A on Oct 3, 2015 | 40 comments
42.
Show HN: Codetainer – A Docker container in your browser (github.com/codetainerapp)
42 points by jenandre on Oct 3, 2015 | 9 comments
43.
Nabokov in Utah (theamericanscholar.org)
31 points by drjohnson on Oct 3, 2015 | 5 comments
44.
Visualizing the Similarity of Human and Chimp DNA (ucr.edu)
19 points by tomkat0789 on Oct 3, 2015 | 9 comments
45.
LinkedIn's Add Connection settlement (addconnectionssettlement.com)
39 points by illuminated on Oct 2, 2015 | 25 comments
46.
European data protection ruling could impact Facebook and Google (theguardian.com)
20 points by fahimulhaq on Oct 3, 2015 | 8 comments
47.
The Future of the Internet Is Flow (wsj.com)
36 points by T-A on Oct 3, 2015 | 10 comments
48.
More flexible machine learning improves image classification (news.mit.edu)
22 points by gruez on Oct 3, 2015 | 6 comments
49.
Evernote is in deep trouble (businessinsider.com)
128 points by coloneltcb on Oct 3, 2015 | 94 comments
50.
The Zappos holacracy, Edward Tufte’s sparklines, and an 11×17 printer (law.harvard.edu)
31 points by jessaustin on Oct 3, 2015 | 25 comments
51.
Lessons learned with 3D Touch (engineering.instagram.com)
44 points by mikeyk on Oct 3, 2015 | 31 comments
52.
Is This Journalist Guilty of Low-Level Vandalism, or High-Damage Hacking? (vice.com)
31 points by danso on Oct 3, 2015 | 10 comments
53.
The Evolution of Operating Systems (2000) [pdf] (brinch-hansen.net)
33 points by vezzy-fnord on Oct 3, 2015 | 9 comments
54.
The Zombie Preacher of Somerset (2009) (lesswrong.com)
19 points by gwern on Oct 2, 2015 | 8 comments
55.
Predicting and controlling NetHack's randomness (2009) (taeb-nethack.blogspot.com)
22 points by epsylon on Oct 3, 2015 | 10 comments
56.
90% of People Don't Know How to Use Ctrl+F (2011) (theatlantic.com)
69 points by csense on Oct 2, 2015 | 78 comments
57.
Bastet – Bastard Tetris (2009) (res0l.net)
15 points by IIAOPSW on Oct 3, 2015 | 2 comments
58.
BRU-3, the Logo Generator (brutalism.rs)
26 points by pttrn on Oct 3, 2015 | 3 comments
59.
Is the Network Turing-Complete? [pdf] (epfl.ch)
21 points by jsbg on Oct 3, 2015
60.
OCLC prints last library catalog cards (oclc.org)
12 points by tanglesome on Oct 3, 2015 | 1 comment

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