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31.
Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food (infino.me)
202 points by subcosmos on May 17, 2016 | 127 comments
32.
Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much (bloomberg.com)
145 points by mtviewdave on May 17, 2016 | 222 comments
33.
Theories on the etymology of 'strawberry' (oup.com)
67 points by trueduke on May 17, 2016 | 64 comments
34.
The End of the End of the World (newyorker.com)
58 points by jonbaer on May 17, 2016 | 34 comments
35.
A Node.js bridge for COBOL (github.com/ionicabizau)
73 points by reimertz on May 17, 2016 | 52 comments
36.
First Friendly Contact with the Sentinelese (probashionline.com)
115 points by nekopa on May 17, 2016 | 60 comments
37.
Is Hyperloop the future of travel? (bbc.co.uk)
95 points by Elvie on May 17, 2016 | 169 comments
38.
Things I Learned Writing a Fibonacci Generator in JavaScript (medium.com/javascript-scene)
48 points by ingve on May 16, 2016 | 21 comments
39.
How “Pet Sounds” Invented the Modern Pop Album (theatlantic.com)
52 points by tintinnabula on May 17, 2016 | 19 comments
40.
Linguistic purism in English (wikipedia.org)
43 points by colinprince on May 17, 2016 | 55 comments
41.
EFF Fights for Answers About Massive Government Phone Database (eff.org)
92 points by DiabloD3 on May 17, 2016 | 28 comments
42.
IBM scientists achieve storage memory breakthrough (phys.org)
121 points by interconnector on May 17, 2016 | 28 comments
43.
Signed overflow in C (imperialviolet.org)
46 points by ingve on May 16, 2016 | 49 comments
44.
Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity (theguardian.com)
132 points by mr_sturd on May 17, 2016 | 96 comments
45.
New Evidence About the Dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup (theintercept.com)
164 points by uptown on May 17, 2016 | 185 comments
46.
ReactOS 0.4.1 Released – Activation Context, USB, UniATA, BTRFS (reactos.org)
80 points by jeditobe on May 17, 2016 | 25 comments
47.
The Sigmoid Function in Logistic Regression (karlrosaen.com)
97 points by krosaen on May 17, 2016 | 57 comments
48.
Covariance and Contravariance: a fresh look at an old issue [pdf] (univ-paris-diderot.fr)
62 points by bassislife on May 17, 2016 | 26 comments
49.
Europa's Ocean May Have an Earthlike Chemical Balance (nasa.gov)
47 points by wrongc0ntinent on May 17, 2016 | 13 comments
50.
 [dupe] Magic Mushroom Drug Lifts Depression in Human Trial (scientificamerican.com)
223 points by brahmwg on May 17, 2016 | 1 comment
51.
You're Gonna Need a License for That (bloomberg.com)
131 points by jseliger on May 17, 2016 | 106 comments
52.
Show HN: Neural Network Visualizer Classifying Handwriting – D3/Redux (sennabaum.com)
64 points by CSenn on May 17, 2016 | 19 comments
53.
HTML5 by Default – Draft Proposal (docs.google.com)
66 points by synthmeat on May 17, 2016 | 69 comments
54.
Applications of NLP at Quora (quora.com)
62 points by samber on May 17, 2016 | 5 comments
55.
From Node.js to Go (scaledrone.com)
168 points by kiyanwang on May 17, 2016 | 83 comments
56.
Supergiant.io – Container Platform for Stateful Applications (infoq.com)
61 points by elsalgo on May 17, 2016 | 8 comments
57.
I Run a GMO Company and Support GMO Labeling (nytimes.com)
58 points by myw01 on May 16, 2016 | 65 comments
58.
Understanding caching in Postgres (madusudanan.com)
85 points by craigkerstiens on May 17, 2016 | 12 comments
59.
Into the Bewilderness (damninteresting.com)
30 points by ca98am79 on May 14, 2016 | 1 comment
60.
Introducing the HP Jet Fusion 3D Printing Solution (hp.com)
44 points by protomyth on May 17, 2016 | 36 comments

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