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31.Artur Fischer, Inventor with More Patents Than Edison, Dies at 96 (nytimes.com)
73 points by raphar on Feb 9, 2016 | 5 comments
32.A California ghost town can have fiber to the doorstep, but it’s not easy (arstechnica.com)
59 points by nkurz on Feb 9, 2016 | 55 comments
33.Possible light-induced superconductivity in K3C60 at high temperature (nature.com)
42 points by jonbaer on Feb 9, 2016 | 11 comments
34.Show HN: BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar (getbitbar.com)
149 points by matryer on Feb 9, 2016 | 30 comments
35.How we got our first 100 paying customers (stackfield.com)
110 points by mattiemass on Feb 8, 2016 | 35 comments
36.Writing my own init with Go (mustafaak.in)
149 points by CSDude on Feb 9, 2016 | 76 comments
37.A medieval alchemical book reveals new secrets (britishmuseum.org)
95 points by benbreen on Feb 6, 2016 | 11 comments
38.How Modern Video Players Work (streamroot.io)
73 points by flavioribeiro on Feb 9, 2016 | 15 comments
39.Japan and the whale (bbc.com)
60 points by Perados on Feb 9, 2016 | 48 comments
40.Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift and Twitch for Games on AWS (amazon.com)
114 points by jeffbarr on Feb 9, 2016 | 42 comments
41.Saying 'no' to keep crap out of products (orangecaffeine.com)
102 points by samsolomon on Feb 7, 2016 | 31 comments
42.Introduction to the Zig Programming Language (andrewkelley.me)
98 points by AndyKelley on Feb 8, 2016 | 44 comments
43.Judge tosses proposed class action accusing Google of CAPTCHA fraud (arstechnica.com)
90 points by pavornyoh on Feb 9, 2016 | 59 comments
44.A Group of American Teens Are Excelling at Advanced Math (theatlantic.com)
145 points by selimthegrim on Feb 9, 2016 | 91 comments
45.Tips for building startups in Baltimore or anywhere (technical.ly)
51 points by ascertain on Feb 9, 2016 | 7 comments
46.Monad transformers, free monads, mtl, laws and a new approach (ocharles.org.uk)
95 points by stefans on Feb 8, 2016 | 4 comments
47.GameTrailers Is Closing Down After 13 Years (facebook.com)
55 points by doppp on Feb 9, 2016 | 17 comments
48.What Kind of Name Is That? How to Name Fictional Characters (theparisreview.org)
82 points by samclemens on Feb 8, 2016 | 53 comments
49.Currency Traders Are Left Out of New Wall Street (bloomberg.com)
50 points by T-A on Feb 8, 2016 | 13 comments
50.In Ecuador, the Frugal Traveler Tries Luxury (nytimes.com)
68 points by _abnl on Feb 9, 2016 | 29 comments
51.What Will It Mean If LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves? (theguardian.com)
49 points by oneworld on Feb 9, 2016 | 37 comments
52.The Surprising Subtleties of Zeroing a Register (2012) (randomascii.wordpress.com)
62 points by qznc on Feb 8, 2016 | 3 comments
53.Windows 10 Console Host Enhancements (nivot.org)
65 points by blinkingled on Feb 6, 2016 | 51 comments
54.Stock Market Prices Do Not Follow Random Walks (turingfinance.com)
77 points by QuantMash on Feb 9, 2016 | 24 comments
55.The Hunt for Algorithms That Drive Life on Earth (wired.com)
50 points by eljoujat on Feb 8, 2016 | 4 comments
56.What's holding back the world economy? (theguardian.com)
67 points by akg_67 on Feb 9, 2016 | 56 comments
57.Hardware and Software Architecture of the Machine [video] (youtube.com)
41 points by blinkingled on Feb 9, 2016 | 3 comments
58.SpaceX seeks to accelerate Falcon 9 production and launch rates this year (spacenews.com)
97 points by rfreytag on Feb 9, 2016 | 50 comments
59.Horrors of the Colosseum (livescience.com)
51 points by diodorus on Feb 9, 2016 | 15 comments
60.The Authors Guild Is Still Wrong About Google's Book Scanning (fortune.com)
55 points by walterbell on Feb 9, 2016 | 47 comments

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