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31.
Practical File System Design: The Be File System (1999) [pdf] (nobius.org)
101 points by e-sushi on Aug 18, 2016 | 23 comments
32.
Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain (2008) [pdf] (rifters.com)
62 points by jimothyhalpert7 on Aug 18, 2016 | 25 comments
33.
Entropy Loss and Output Predictability in the Libgcrypt PRNG [pdf] (kit.edu)
44 points by tshtf on Aug 18, 2016 | 22 comments
34.
Why Do Some Sports Vanish and Some Sports Survive? (nautil.us)
40 points by lxm on Aug 18, 2016 | 40 comments
35.
All Olympic gold medal winners in the 100m sprint compared in one race (tagesanzeiger.ch)
183 points by andrewfromx on Aug 18, 2016 | 95 comments
36.
Nabokov and Epilepsy (the-tls.co.uk)
41 points by diodorus on Aug 14, 2016
37.
Bus1: a new Linux interprocess communication proposal (lwn.net)
106 points by broodbucket on Aug 18, 2016 | 133 comments
38.
How Imperfections Could Bring Down Michelangelo’s David (nytimes.com)
55 points by rmason on Aug 17, 2016 | 13 comments
39.
Coursera’s co-founder Daphne Koller set to start anew at Calico (techcrunch.com)
80 points by doppp on Aug 18, 2016 | 58 comments
40.
Bringing Nixie tubes back to life (daliborfarny.com)
108 points by RubyMyDear on Aug 17, 2016 | 23 comments
41.
The House Where You Live Forever: The Reversible Destiny of Madeline Gins (longreads.com)
27 points by tintinnabula on Aug 18, 2016 | 6 comments
42.
Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference (arxiv.org)
91 points by levbrie on Aug 18, 2016 | 22 comments
43.
SF YIMBY Platform (sfyimby.org)
162 points by jseliger on Aug 18, 2016 | 69 comments
44.
When Parks Were Radical (theatlantic.com)
41 points by pepys on Aug 18, 2016 | 3 comments
45.
The Public Suffix List (publicsuffix.org)
79 points by dan1234 on Aug 18, 2016 | 40 comments
46.
Show HN: Make notes, mindmaps, diagrams online – for studying or brainstorming (breakdown-notes.com)
83 points by cher14 on Aug 18, 2016 | 28 comments
47.
Researchers Develop Safer Opioid Painkiller (ucsf.edu)
39 points by Someone on Aug 17, 2016 | 19 comments
48.
Helsinki Tries Self-Driving Buses in Real Traffic (ieee.org)
97 points by tchalla on Aug 18, 2016 | 26 comments
49.
Programming principles from the early days of id Software (gamasutra.com)
129 points by Impossible on Aug 18, 2016 | 26 comments
50.
Saving Science (thenewatlantis.com)
37 points by Hooke on Aug 18, 2016 | 21 comments
51.
The BeagleBone's I/O pins: inside the software stack that makes them work (righto.com)
63 points by dwaxe on Aug 18, 2016 | 23 comments
52.
Show HN: Ball falls on the teapot in WebGL (whitestormjs.xyz)
49 points by alex2401 on Aug 18, 2016 | 30 comments
53.
Introducing the Qt Lite project – Qt for any platform, any thing, any size (qt.io)
102 points by aurhum on Aug 18, 2016 | 36 comments
54.
Git bisect (2006) (yarchive.net)
45 points by 99_00 on Aug 18, 2016 | 11 comments
55.
The Secret Lives of Cadavers (nationalgeographic.com)
24 points by shawndumas on Aug 18, 2016 | 4 comments
56.
Tutorial: Zero to Sixty in Racket (neu.edu)
91 points by Learn2win on Aug 18, 2016 | 10 comments
57.
How natural are nature documentaries? (theverge.com)
47 points by galaktor on Aug 17, 2016 | 4 comments
58.
Cross-Language Compiler Benchmarking (stefan-marr.de)
34 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2016 | 4 comments
59.
I'm bullish on hedge funds (krzana.com)
41 points by gearhart on Aug 18, 2016 | 51 comments
60.
Twitter Suspends 235,000 More Accounts Over Extremism (nytimes.com)
76 points by uptown on Aug 18, 2016 | 119 comments

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