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31.
Tim Peake: UK astronaut heads for space station (bbc.co.uk)
103 points by jackgavigan on Dec 15, 2015 | 34 comments
32.
CSS3 proven to be Turing complete? (my-codeworks.com)
71 points by mmastrac on Dec 15, 2015 | 55 comments
33.
The Traveling Salesman with Simulated Annealing, R, and Shiny (toddwschneider.com)
74 points by sebg on Dec 15, 2015 | 12 comments
34.
Postmortem: Outage due to Elasticsearch’s flexibility and our carelessness (grofers.com)
78 points by vaidik on Dec 14, 2015 | 27 comments
35.
Why I no longer use MVC frameworks (ebpml.org)
116 points by jdubray on Dec 15, 2015 | 92 comments
36.
Defensive BASH programming (kfirlavi.com)
114 points by jdkanani on Dec 15, 2015 | 52 comments
37.
Firefox 43 released with 64-bit version for Windows, better Private Browsing (mozilla.org)
165 points by ingve on Dec 15, 2015 | 144 comments
38.
How a handful of geeks defied the USSR (2011) (owni.fr)
43 points by _l0bi on Dec 14, 2015 | 12 comments
39.
Building solar farms above the clouds (cnrs.fr)
66 points by rmason on Dec 15, 2015 | 37 comments
40.
It's a Trap: Emperor Palpatine's Poison Pill (arxiv.org)
116 points by musgravepeter on Dec 15, 2015 | 92 comments
41.
Old Book Illustrations (oldbookillustrations.com)
72 points by taivare on Dec 15, 2015 | 10 comments
42.
On sufficiently smart compilers (osa1.net)
50 points by YAFZ on Dec 14, 2015 | 16 comments
43.
LIL: The Little Interpreted Language (runtimelegend.com)
34 points by networked on Dec 14, 2015 | 4 comments
44.
Rumble: Twitter over sneakernet (disruptedsystems.org)
62 points by pranfaha on Dec 15, 2015 | 27 comments
45.
Scientists may have solved a mystery about sea-level rise (washingtonpost.com)
78 points by Mz on Dec 15, 2015 | 69 comments
46.
Real-time visualisation of orbiting satellites (agi.com)
76 points by JosephRedfern on Dec 15, 2015 | 26 comments
47.
A History of Punctuation for the Internet Age (newyorker.com)
25 points by samclemens on Dec 14, 2015 | 8 comments
48.
EMS: Shared Memory Parallelism for Node.js (github.com/syntheticsemantics)
59 points by lkgnmlkrewmgre on Dec 15, 2015 | 16 comments
49.
JSweet: A transpiler from Java to TypeScript/JavaScript (jsweet.org)
54 points by renaudpawlak on Dec 15, 2015 | 54 comments
50.
Taboo word fluency and knowledge of slurs and general pejoratives (sciencedirect.com)
27 points by snake117 on Dec 14, 2015 | 8 comments
51.
Counterexamples of Type Classes (functorial.com)
59 points by michaelsbradley on Dec 15, 2015 | 8 comments
52.
A domain move disaster (paulingraham.com)
143 points by lucabenazzi on Dec 14, 2015 | 91 comments
53.
Self-Control Saps Memory, Study Says (duke.edu)
44 points by nopinsight on Dec 15, 2015 | 5 comments
54.
Can we use Jenkins for that? (simondata.com)
58 points by brensudol on Dec 15, 2015 | 49 comments
55.
Calculating integer factorials in constant time, taking advantage of overflow (msdn.microsoft.com)
64 points by DmitryNovikov on Dec 15, 2015 | 45 comments
56.
Software from Disney Research Seamlessly Blends Faces from Different Takes (disneyresearch.com)
67 points by protomyth on Dec 14, 2015 | 26 comments
57.
Berlin community radio (berlincommunityradio.com)
45 points by myrrh on Dec 15, 2015 | 11 comments
58.
Google's meetings with UK Government over driverless cars revealed (telegraph.co.uk)
22 points by e15ctr0n on Dec 14, 2015 | 24 comments
59.
Electron lifetime is at least 66,000 yottayears (physicsworld.com)
83 points by jonbaer on Dec 14, 2015 | 25 comments
60.
Why Very Low Interest Rates May Stick Around (nytimes.com)
51 points by tysone on Dec 14, 2015 | 63 comments

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