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31.		Geoffrey Hinton spent 30 years on an idea many other scientists dismissed (torontolife.com)
		193 points by varunagrawal on Feb 3, 2018 \| 69 comments
32.		The Breakneck Rise of China’s Colossus of Electric-Car Batteries (bloomberg.com)
		60 points by neya on Feb 3, 2018 \| 19 comments
33.		A collisionless scenario for Uranus tilting (2009) (arxiv.org)
		34 points by networked on Feb 3, 2018 \| 1 comment
34.		Luge Yourself (washingtonpost.com)
		41 points by kawera on Feb 3, 2018 \| 10 comments
35.		Ask HN: How to understand the large codebase of an open-source project?
		188 points by maqbool on Feb 3, 2018 \| 47 comments
36.		CloudKit: Structured Storage for Mobile Applications [pdf] (vldb.org)
		48 points by mpweiher on Feb 1, 2018 \| 8 comments
37.		Cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off an autonomous car (arstechnica.com)
		113 points by privong on Feb 3, 2018 \| 107 comments
38.		Switch to Windows 95 (krnl386.com)
		131 points by beefhash on Feb 3, 2018 \| 105 comments
39.		Show HN: Golang automation for mining cryptocurrencies on the Spot Market (github.com/alexellis)
		64 points by alexellisuk on Feb 3, 2018 \| 17 comments
40.		Virtex UltraScale+ FPGA Augmented with Co-Packaged – Community Forums (xilinx.com)
		23 points by rbanffy on Feb 2, 2018 \| 27 comments
41.		FOSDEM 2018 – Live Streaming (fosdem.org)
		82 points by andygrunwald on Feb 3, 2018 \| 12 comments
42.		Etcd 3.3 – Improvements to stability, performance, and more (coreos.com)
		59 points by philips on Feb 3, 2018 \| 9 comments
43.		Mazda hopes to achieve 56% thermal efficiency with gasoline engine (popularmechanics.com)
		80 points by hliyan on Feb 3, 2018 \| 58 comments
44.		Catalog of Missing Devices: Gadgets that could exist if not for copyright laws (eff.org)
		69 points by DiabloD3 on Feb 3, 2018 \| 30 comments
45.		Amazon Aurora Postgres: First Thoughts (linkedin.com)
		100 points by brandur on Feb 3, 2018 \| 17 comments
46.		PIC, PIE and Sanitizers (mropert.github.io)
		25 points by ingve on Feb 3, 2018 \| 6 comments
47.		Why it's hard to quit Amazon Prime, even if maybe you should (washingtonpost.com)
		98 points by yarapavan on Feb 1, 2018 \| 115 comments
48.		What Is Going to Happen With Whois? (vice.com)
		55 points by danso on Feb 2, 2018 \| 55 comments
49.		Standard SQL features where PostgreSQL beats its competitors (slideshare.net)
		96 points by MarkusWinand on Feb 3, 2018 \| 16 comments
50.		Hiring Developers: look for the ability to abstract and not for experience (rinatussenov.com)
		68 points by rinchik on Feb 3, 2018 \| 97 comments
51.		The Largest Number of Scientists in Modern U.S. Is Running for Office in 2018 (huffingtonpost.com.mx)
		114 points by ericdanielski on Feb 3, 2018 \| 97 comments
52.		Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read earlier in life?
		177 points by arikr on Feb 3, 2018 \| 136 comments
53.		Chrome canary (66) blocks symantec issued SSL certificates (twitter.com/vvoyer)
		58 points by vvoyer on Feb 3, 2018 \| 12 comments
54.		Ask HN: Are there any good online communities for macOS devs?
		64 points by pier25 on Feb 3, 2018 \| 22 comments
55.		Show HN: Freework – Time tracking for freelancers (freework.com)
		31 points by BenBach on Feb 3, 2018 \| 12 comments
56.		Saferwall – A hackable malware sandbox (saferwall.com)
		22 points by madrafi on Feb 3, 2018 \| 4 comments
57.		Transfer Learning Will Radically Change Machine Learning for Engineers (medium.com/modeldepot)
		35 points by hsikka on Feb 3, 2018 \| 5 comments
58.		How One Jira Ticket Made My Employer $1MM/Month: 7 Metrics That Actually Matter (medium.com/javascript-scene)
		66 points by stickhandle on Feb 3, 2018 \| 29 comments
59.		AMD's Hidden Strategy (seekingalpha.com)
		30 points by x0054 on Feb 3, 2018 \| 32 comments
60.		Memory Safety in Rust: A Case Study with C (willcrichton.net)
		65 points by wcrichton on Feb 3, 2018 \| 89 comments
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