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31.		Depression (robertsapolskyrocks.com)
		147 points by Tomte on Dec 15, 2018 \| 83 comments
32.		Algol 68: A Retrospective (accu.org)
		43 points by ingve on Dec 15, 2018 \| 25 comments
33.		World's first fully electric bus fleet quietens Chinese megacity (theguardian.com)
		113 points by pseudolus on Dec 16, 2018 \| 60 comments
34.		Orphan Drugs (99percentinvisible.org)
		64 points by thread_id on Dec 15, 2018 \| 40 comments
35.		Let There Be Light, and Thus, Time (2015) [video] (youtube.com)
		41 points by espeed on Dec 15, 2018 \| 10 comments
36.		A lesson on thinking and acting long term (threader.app)
		116 points by seapunk on Dec 16, 2018 \| 28 comments
37.		USGS Announces Largest Continuous Oil Assessment in Texas and New Mexico (usgs.gov)
		58 points by LopRabbit on Dec 15, 2018 \| 82 comments
38.		Can Foundational Physics Be Saved? (overcomingbias.com)
		67 points by telotortium on Dec 13, 2018 \| 65 comments
39.		Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess (nytimes.com)
		105 points by ingve on Dec 15, 2018 \| 100 comments
40.		[dupe] Johnson and Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder (reuters.com)
		291 points by r_singh on Dec 16, 2018 \| 82 comments
41.		GE Powered the American Century, Then It Burned Out (wsj.com)
		61 points by haaen on Dec 15, 2018 \| 25 comments
42.		Robinhood Will Retool Checking Product Following Scrutiny (bloomberg.com)
		104 points by vthallam on Dec 15, 2018 \| 97 comments
43.		Computing is Everywhere: Bret Victor and Dynamicland [audio] (postlight.com)
		61 points by mpweiher on Dec 16, 2018 \| 17 comments
44.		Headspace vs. Calm: A Meditation-App Battle That’s Anything but Zen (wsj.com)
		125 points by yarapavan on Dec 16, 2018 \| 103 comments
45.		Glasgow's Riverside Museum (arthitectural.com)
		27 points by curtis on Dec 15, 2018 \| 1 comment
46.		Refactoring Large Functions (muth.org)
		72 points by muth02446 on Dec 16, 2018 \| 38 comments
47.		Overload Control for Scaling WeChat Microservices [pdf] (columbia.edu)
		54 points by kawera on Dec 16, 2018 \| 1 comment
48.		How India's sex workers prevented an Aids epidemic (theguardian.com)
		123 points by sonabinu on Dec 15, 2018 \| 30 comments
49.		There Are Now More Shows Streaming Than There Are on Broadcast or Cable (indiewire.com)
		73 points by bookbinder on Dec 16, 2018 \| 76 comments
50.		The Accidental Room (99percentinvisible.org)
		79 points by garycomtois on Dec 16, 2018 \| 13 comments
51.		Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide (arxiv.org)
		47 points by mindcrime on Dec 16, 2018 \| 4 comments
52.		Encryption toolkit for media makers: A VeraCrypt guide (freedom.press)
		42 points by gasull on Dec 15, 2018 \| 15 comments
53.		Machine learning proliferates in particle physics (symmetrymagazine.org)
		44 points by qubitcoder on Dec 16, 2018 \| 7 comments
54.		Don't Touch Anything (unintendedconsequenc.es)
		49 points by paulorlando on Dec 16, 2018 \| 15 comments
55.		Ask HN: Best Centralized Backup Solution
		133 points by bkgh on Dec 16, 2018 \| 67 comments
56.		Human-Like Playtesting with Deep Learning [pdf] (researchgate.net)
		30 points by henning on Dec 15, 2018
57.		Busy Beavers, and the Quest for Big Numbers (2012) (jeremykun.com)
		28 points by octosphere on Dec 15, 2018 \| 3 comments
58.		Scrapino – Self-sustainable robot from e-scrap using renewable energy [pdf] (sciencedirect.com)
		18 points by watchdogtimer on Dec 15, 2018 \| 2 comments
59.		Mapping the Brain’s Genetic Landscape (nytimes.com)
		19 points by rbanffy on Dec 16, 2018
60.		Show HN: PuBilling – Embeddable billing portal for your SaaS app (pubilling.io)
		59 points by raphaelcosta on Dec 16, 2018 \| 52 comments
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