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31.John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician (2015) (theguardian.com)
118 points by benbreen on Nov 19, 2016 | 19 comments
32.Frequentists should more often consider using Bayesian methods (thestatsgeek.com)
58 points by jwb133 on Nov 18, 2016 | 35 comments
33.The defunct language of nautical flags (theparisreview.org)
51 points by prismatic on Nov 19, 2016 | 20 comments
34.How we switched our template rendering engine to React (pinterest.com)
122 points by eldude on Nov 18, 2016 | 39 comments
35.Measurement of Impulsive Thrust from a Closed Radio-Frequency Cavity in Vacuum (aiaa.org)
138 points by davesque on Nov 19, 2016 | 1 comment
36.ServiceWorker's Link leads to botnet-like persistent JavaScript worker (chromium.org)
101 points by omphalos on Nov 19, 2016 | 7 comments
37.The Rise and Fall of the Open Source Mobile (2014) (metatron.ai)
52 points by cheiVia0 on Nov 19, 2016 | 25 comments
38.Obama bans new oil drilling in Arctic Ocean (bbc.com)
169 points by jonbaer on Nov 19, 2016 | 83 comments
39.Structure-Based ASCII Art Generation [pdf] (cuhk.edu.hk)
56 points by networked on Nov 19, 2016 | 6 comments
40.Show HN: Tensorflow implementation of Conditional PixelCNN (github.com/anantzoid)
56 points by anantzoid on Nov 19, 2016
41.NASA C Style Guide [pdf] (ed.ac.uk)
99 points by walterkobayashi on Nov 19, 2016 | 29 comments
42.An experiment in fighting racism on Twitter (washingtonpost.com)
91 points by bootload on Nov 19, 2016 | 110 comments
43.A Painless Guide to CRC Error Detections Algorithms (1993) (zlib.net)
26 points by Tomte on Nov 19, 2016 | 2 comments
44.Making the Switch from Node.js to Golang (digg.com)
91 points by activatedgeek on Nov 19, 2016 | 62 comments
45.Introduction to Swift Intermediate Language [video] (youtube.com)
46 points by adamnemecek on Nov 19, 2016 | 8 comments
46.How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? (gnu.org)
171 points by itit on Nov 19, 2016 | 112 comments
47.Antarcticans Database Project (coolantarctica.com)
38 points by antarctica on Nov 19, 2016 | 12 comments
48.Cohort – A New Professional Social Graph (medium.com/eamonleonard)
58 points by pandemicsyn on Nov 19, 2016 | 14 comments
49.Drilling into the Chicxulub Crater, Ground Zero of the Dinosaur Extinction (nytimes.com)
30 points by hvo on Nov 18, 2016 | 1 comment
50.Go 1.8 toolchain improvements (cheney.net)
88 points by spacey on Nov 19, 2016 | 16 comments
51.DeepLearningKit: Open source framework for Apple platforms using Swift (deeplearningkit.org)
55 points by markwhiting on Nov 19, 2016 | 5 comments
52.Why Don't Computer Scientists Learn Math? (research.microsoft.com)
135 points by nkurz on Nov 19, 2016 | 193 comments
53. [dupe] Extreme surveillance' becomes UK law with barely a whimper (theguardian.com)
97 points by chunkyslink on Nov 19, 2016 | 26 comments
54.On vagueness, or, when is a heap of sand not a heap of sand? (aeon.co)
23 points by Vigier on Nov 17, 2016 | 9 comments
55.A Working-Class Hero, Part 1 (filfre.net)
31 points by douche on Nov 18, 2016 | 4 comments
56.The Intrusion Artist: Robert Bresson (publicbooks.org)
20 points by tintinnabula on Nov 18, 2016 | 1 comment
57.Switching to Ubuntu (system76.com)
94 points by reddotX on Nov 19, 2016 | 108 comments
58.How a tectonic plate sank (qubitsnews.com)
13 points by zxer197 on Nov 19, 2016
59.Enquire: Everything you wanted to know about your C Compiler and Machine (1993) (cwi.nl)
28 points by Tomte on Nov 18, 2016
60.Facebook Must Really Suck At Machine Learning (eladgil.com)
122 points by ktamiola on Nov 18, 2016 | 148 comments

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