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31.		The Lonely Future of Buying Stuff (bloomberg.com)
		88 points by mcone on Dec 27, 2017 \| 77 comments
32.		The scrypt parameters (filippo.io)
		123 points by FiloSottile on Dec 28, 2017 \| 76 comments
33.		Canadian open data portal (canada.ca)
		104 points by bryanrasmussen on Dec 27, 2017 \| 23 comments
34.		Musician Who Lost His Arm Plays Piano Again with AI Prosthesis (nvidia.com)
		88 points by bcaulfield on Dec 28, 2017 \| 24 comments
35.		Engineering Habitats for the Moon and Mars (structuremag.org)
		96 points by ggcdn on Dec 28, 2017 \| 49 comments
36.		A type of semi-transparent polymer that can be mended at room temperature (phys.org)
		73 points by mjohnre on Dec 28, 2017 \| 11 comments
37.		A reality show on the frontline of the German army's battle for public support (theguardian.com)
		50 points by rumcajz on Dec 27, 2017 \| 38 comments
38.		Neutrino experiment reveals inconsistency in how matter and antimatter behave (quantamagazine.org)
		127 points by okket on Dec 28, 2017 \| 67 comments
39.		Cracking Encrypted PDFs (didierstevens.com)
		140 points by rishabhd on Dec 28, 2017 \| 16 comments
40.		The UK’s sole refiner of gold and its biggest private vault (theguardian.com)
		58 points by kawera on Dec 27, 2017 \| 5 comments
41.		Show HN: Themer – a CLI for generating themes for all your tools (github.com/mjswensen)
		135 points by mjswensen on Dec 28, 2017 \| 26 comments
42.		New Zealand Study Provides More Support for Lead-Crime Hypothesis (motherjones.com)
		103 points by curtis on Dec 28, 2017 \| 36 comments
43.		SoftBank Succeeds in Tender Offer for Large Stake in Uber (wsj.com)
		144 points by coloneltcb on Dec 28, 2017 \| 138 comments
44.		Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (2012) (jeremykun.com)
		98 points by dsr12 on Dec 28, 2017 \| 44 comments
45.		WeWork is set to become the No. 1 tenant of London office space (bloomberg.com)
		81 points by allthebest on Dec 27, 2017 \| 80 comments
46.		Watson Personal Assistant Beta (watson-personal-assistant.github.io)
		69 points by tiff on Dec 27, 2017 \| 19 comments
47.		Google works with hotels to hurt travel competition (wsj.com)
		103 points by mudil on Dec 28, 2017 \| 64 comments
48.		The Growing Peril of Index Funds: Too Much Tech (wsj.com)
		93 points by clorenzo on Dec 28, 2017 \| 68 comments
49.		PostgreSQL Benchmark on FreeBSD, CentOS, Ubuntu Debian and OpenSUSE (redbyte.eu)
		132 points by glutamate on Dec 28, 2017 \| 57 comments
50.		Chef gives up a Michelin star, reflecting hardship of ‘the Other France’ (nytimes.com)
		126 points by SREinSF on Dec 27, 2017 \| 158 comments
51.		Rails, Development, and More with David Heinemeier Hansson [audio] (player.fm)
		92 points by yannski on Dec 28, 2017 \| 21 comments
52.		When Orson Welles Interviewed Andy Kaufman (1982) (openculture.com)
		53 points by tintinnabula on Dec 28, 2017 \| 12 comments
53.		Consciousness: Where Are Words? (nybooks.com)
		71 points by Hooke on Dec 28, 2017 \| 41 comments
54.		FaCT: A Flexible, Constant-Time Programming Language [pdf] (ucsd.edu)
		59 points by g0xA52A2A on Dec 28, 2017 \| 2 comments
55.		Elementary, Worldly Wisdom as It Relates to Investment and Business (1994) (old.ycombinator.com)
		41 points by febin on Dec 27, 2017 \| 2 comments
56.		The Door Problem (2014) (lizengland.com)
		140 points by nickjj on Dec 28, 2017 \| 27 comments
57.		Discretion still matters – don’t hurt your career by sharing too much (smashcompany.com)
		172 points by lkrubner on Dec 28, 2017 \| 144 comments
58.		Crystal 0.24.1 released (github.com/crystal-lang)
		87 points by wulfklaue on Dec 28, 2017 \| 22 comments
59.		Nearing the Babel 7.0 Release (babeljs.io)
		113 points by edmorley on Dec 28, 2017 \| 41 comments
60.		Engineers create plants that glow (news.mit.edu)
		74 points by jbuzbee on Dec 28, 2017 \| 32 comments
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