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31.		Can optical illusions fool AI too? (ritsumei.ac.jp)
		105 points by DyslexicAtheist on Oct 25, 2018 \| 17 comments
32.		Incremental – Library for incremental computations (janestreet.com)
		66 points by erwan on Oct 25, 2018 \| 10 comments
33.		The Mathematician (1947) (st-and.ac.uk)
		81 points by jonnybgood on Oct 25, 2018 \| 15 comments
34.		How working memory gets you through the day (news.mit.edu)
		109 points by charlysl on Oct 25, 2018 \| 4 comments
35.		When Telecom Companies Search Your Home for Piracy (vice.com)
		221 points by Thorondor on Oct 26, 2018 \| 118 comments
36.		Perceptual Illusions (nautil.us)
		184 points by extraterra on Oct 26, 2018 \| 24 comments
37.		RobinHood: tail latency aware caching – dynamic reallocation (acolyer.org)
		96 points by godelmachine on Oct 26, 2018 \| 7 comments
38.		Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor (praguemonitor.com)
		246 points by yread on Oct 26, 2018 \| 100 comments
39.		Microsoft completes GitHub acquisition (blog.github.com)
		303 points by moritzplassnig on Oct 26, 2018 \| 170 comments
40.		Google’s Secret and Linear Algebra (2004) [pdf] (uam.es)
		146 points by espeed on Oct 25, 2018 \| 18 comments
41.		Google drops plans for Berlin campus after protests (bbc.com)
		195 points by cyphunk on Oct 26, 2018 \| 220 comments
42.		Show HN: I made a script to generate self-signed SSL certs for local development (github.com/kingkool68)
		107 points by kingkool68 on Oct 26, 2018 \| 46 comments
43.		The compute and data moats are dead (smerity.com)
		82 points by Smerity on Oct 25, 2018 \| 23 comments
44.		Tesla Faces Criminal Probe Over Whether It Misstated Production Figures (wsj.com)
		166 points by mudil on Oct 26, 2018 \| 150 comments
45.		Are Narcissists More Likely to Experience Impostor Syndrome? (scientificamerican.com)
		120 points by charlieirish on Oct 26, 2018 \| 89 comments
46.		HDR image to LDR using edge-preserving multiscale decompositions (mathworks.com)
		46 points by gprasanth on Oct 26, 2018 \| 27 comments
47.		The History and Concept of Computability (1996) [pdf] (uchicago.edu)
		38 points by mindcrime on Oct 25, 2018
48.		To Save Endangered Species, Should We Bring Them into Our Cities? (smithsonianmag.com)
		37 points by citywide-fondue on Oct 25, 2018 \| 62 comments
49.		LSTM Neural Network that tries to write piano melodies similar to Bach's (2016) (github.com/robbiebarrat)
		75 points by maxwell on Oct 26, 2018 \| 12 comments
50.		Quest for Glory III and IV (filfre.net)
		100 points by doppp on Oct 26, 2018 \| 36 comments
51.		Poutine Dynamics (2016) (erudit.org)
		47 points by arayh on Oct 25, 2018 \| 50 comments
52.		The life and death of a laptop battery (2015) (skolelinux.org)
		58 points by luu on Oct 25, 2018 \| 37 comments
53.		Oscar Wilde in America (spectator.us)
		16 points by howrude on Oct 24, 2018
54.		Telegraph operators were first to know news of the Civil War (laphamsquarterly.org)
		25 points by samclemens on Oct 26, 2018 \| 1 comment
55.		Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow situation (arstechnica.com)
		168 points by TekMol on Oct 26, 2018 \| 248 comments
56.		Why I switched sides: From bootstrapping to VC (medium.com/swlh)
		61 points by fredrivett on Oct 26, 2018 \| 44 comments
57.		China systematically hijacks internet traffic: researchers (itnews.com.au)
		119 points by maltalex on Oct 26, 2018 \| 51 comments
58.		Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science (nytimes.com)
		48 points by mistersquid on Oct 25, 2018 \| 32 comments
59.		Mathematics applied to dressmaking (1993) [pdf] (lms.ac.uk)
		34 points by jackpirate on Oct 25, 2018 \| 1 comment
60.		The Era of the Drone Swarm Is Coming (usma.edu)
		39 points by DyslexicAtheist on Oct 25, 2018 \| 47 comments
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