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31.Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android (googleblog.com)
164 points by ingve on Feb 5, 2018 | 73 comments
32.Mass grave may belong to Viking Great Army (cnn.com)
69 points by curtis on Feb 4, 2018 | 18 comments
33.Show HN: I implemented seamless copy and paste of images, and wrote a tutorial (erkaman.github.io)
123 points by erkaman on Feb 4, 2018 | 11 comments
34.Google dedicates engineering team to accelerate development of WordPress (searchengineland.com)
188 points by ibdf on Feb 5, 2018 | 131 comments
35.Dabbling in the Cryptographic World (1999) (bell-labs.com)
52 points by timdierks on Feb 5, 2018 | 8 comments
36.The Littlehampton libels (lrb.co.uk)
36 points by tragic on Feb 4, 2018 | 1 comment
37.Where the wall once stood (tagesspiegel.de)
183 points by mpweiher on Feb 5, 2018 | 85 comments
38.Methods for Studying Coincidences (1989) [pdf] (uchicago.edu)
55 points by ingve on Feb 3, 2018
39.MIT 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence (agi.mit.edu)
174 points by cdl on Feb 4, 2018 | 3 comments
40.Slips of the Tongue (historytoday.com)
29 points by pepys on Feb 5, 2018 | 7 comments
41.London’s fatberg on show: ‘We thought of pickling it’ (theguardian.com)
76 points by camtarn on Feb 4, 2018 | 61 comments
42.You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time (aeon.co)
116 points by nikolasavic on Feb 5, 2018 | 49 comments
43.The Rise of the Social Media Fembot (nytimes.com)
80 points by IntronExon on Feb 4, 2018 | 19 comments
44.Port Automation: Robots Play Growing Role in Handling Ship Containers (fortune.com)
44 points by mpweiher on Feb 3, 2018 | 9 comments
45.Guide to Writing Dockerfiles for Go Web-Apps (hasura.io)
102 points by alberteinstein on Feb 5, 2018 | 47 comments
46.The Delimited Continuation Monad in JavaScript (2014) (mattbierner.com)
45 points by akkartik on Feb 5, 2018 | 14 comments
47.Global Latinists (newcriterion.com)
38 points by throwaway7645 on Feb 4, 2018 | 21 comments
48.A 3-Year-Old, $50k Bitcoin Puzzle Solved (vice.com)
108 points by dsr12 on Feb 4, 2018 | 11 comments
49.Pyrofex (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
47 points by mathgenius on Feb 4, 2018 | 8 comments
50.Government to borrow nearly $1 trillion this year 84 percent jump from last year (chicagotribune.com)
95 points by gscott on Feb 4, 2018 | 102 comments
51.Duolingo podcast: The kiddnapping of Luis von Ahn's aunt (duolingo.com)
49 points by imartin2k on Feb 1, 2018 | 36 comments
52.A Tale of Two Moons: Peter Lik’s Photographs Called Out by Science (fstoppers.com)
99 points by duck on Feb 5, 2018 | 77 comments
53.Show HN: Online web tools to get your work done faster (hreftools.com)
118 points by eashish93 on Feb 5, 2018 | 36 comments
54.The culprit behind snowmelt floods isn’t temperature, it’s dirt (sciencemag.org)
44 points by tim_sw on Feb 5, 2018 | 11 comments
55.What Is the Last Question? (edge.org)
35 points by Cwwm on Feb 4, 2018 | 15 comments
56.US Electric Car Sales Report (cleantechnica.com)
39 points by srameshc on Feb 4, 2018 | 76 comments
57.16 year old app developer: Plagiarist or Prodigy? (namc.in)
243 points by Dawny33 on Feb 5, 2018 | 148 comments
58.Sailors Die at Sea While USCG Drone Program Remains Hard Aground (gcaptain.com)
44 points by downvote_me on Feb 5, 2018 | 9 comments
59.Quantum computing in the NISQ era and beyond (acolyer.org)
15 points by gcd883 on Feb 5, 2018 | 1 comment
60.CFTC and SEC Testimony on Cryptocurrencies [pdf] (senate.gov)
73 points by sna1l on Feb 5, 2018 | 19 comments

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