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31.		The known unknowns of plastic pollution (economist.com)
		84 points by known on Dec 24, 2018 \| 19 comments
32.		State Machines and the Strange Case of Mutating API (250bpm.com)
		55 points by rumcajz on Dec 24, 2018 \| 16 comments
33.		DragonFly BSD 5.4 (dragonflybsd.org)
		114 points by stargrave on Dec 24, 2018 \| 86 comments
34.		The Link Between Inflammation and Depression? (medium.com/s)
		169 points by Elof on Dec 24, 2018 \| 89 comments
35.		Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism (techcrunch.com)
		184 points by dhirajd on Dec 24, 2018 \| 149 comments
36.		Using data to determine if Die Hard is a Christmas movie (stephenfollows.com)
		127 points by _xgw on Dec 24, 2018 \| 66 comments
37.		Open source software in quantum computing (plos.org)
		62 points by jonbaer on Dec 24, 2018 \| 14 comments
38.		The Cradle of Open Access: Rising Star digs for more than fossils with its work (arstechnica.com)
		19 points by rbanffy on Dec 20, 2018
39.		For some in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a ghost town is home (freep.com)
		42 points by rmason on Dec 24, 2018 \| 25 comments
40.		How a City Agency Stockpiled Arms to Fight White-Collar Crime (nytimes.com)
		49 points by danso on Dec 22, 2018 \| 11 comments
41.		If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much Toxic Waste? (forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger)
		172 points by vixen99 on Dec 24, 2018 \| 291 comments
42.		Solving murder with Prolog (xmonader.github.io)
		133 points by yarapavan on Dec 24, 2018 \| 18 comments
43.		Domain Registrar Can Be Held Liable for Pirate Site, German Court Rules (torrentfreak.com)
		118 points by thexa4 on Dec 24, 2018 \| 36 comments
44.		SpaceX launches first U.S. national security space mission (reuters.com)
		85 points by jonbaer on Dec 24, 2018 \| 66 comments
45.		The Lazy Susan Is Neither Classic nor Chinese (2014) (smithsonianmag.com)
		37 points by sohkamyung on Dec 24, 2018 \| 12 comments
46.		Build the Linux Kernel and Busybox for ARM and Run Them on QEMU (centennialsoftwaresolutions.com)
		46 points by pfefferz on Dec 24, 2018 \| 8 comments
47.		Evan Spiegel’s Imperious Style Made Snapchat a Success Until Users Fled (wsj.com)
		70 points by lxm on Dec 24, 2018 \| 77 comments
48.		Sqlite – Most Deployed Database in the World (sqlite.org)
		148 points by gitgud on Dec 24, 2018 \| 45 comments
49.		Re: [BREAKAGE] Since 4.18, kernel sets SB_I_NODEV implicitly on userns mounts (lkml.org)
		110 points by Valmar on Dec 24, 2018 \| 49 comments
50.		Python 3.7.2 and 3.6.8 are now available (pythoninsider.blogspot.com)
		90 points by webology on Dec 24, 2018 \| 39 comments
51.		Show HN: A particle-animation Christmas greeting card (9elements.com)
		29 points by Dahfab on Dec 24, 2018 \| 13 comments
52.		UK police release airport drone suspects, admit there may not have been drones (techcrunch.com)
		71 points by JackPoach on Dec 24, 2018 \| 84 comments
53.		[dupe] Intuition is wrong, unless these conditions are met (thinkadvisor.com)
		42 points by lxm on Dec 24, 2018 \| 17 comments
54.		On Switching from an iPad Pro and MacBook to a Pixelbook (speirs.org)
		66 points by plg on Dec 24, 2018 \| 114 comments
55.		Dcentralized url shortening service base on IPFS (bdaily.club)
		56 points by facert on Dec 24, 2018 \| 20 comments
56.		E-Cigarette Maker Juul Just Gave Its Employees an Average 1.3M Bonus (inc.com)
		91 points by ahakki on Dec 24, 2018 \| 143 comments
57.		[flagged] Why Most Software Engineers Lose Nothing by Unionizing (michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
		126 points by ern on Dec 24, 2018 \| 75 comments
58.		Do I Offend? (overcomingbias.com)
		97 points by jseliger on Dec 23, 2018 \| 112 comments
59.		A Comprehensive Guide on Public Key Cryptography (medium.com/blockwhat)
		48 points by Blockwhat on Dec 24, 2018 \| 4 comments
60.		I disagree with Linus Torvalds about C++ (2009) (johndcook.com)
		72 points by piyush_soni on Dec 24, 2018 \| 92 comments
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