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31.		How the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 lost control (nytimes.com)
		105 points by skilled on Dec 26, 2018 \| 135 comments
32.		Buttery smooth Emacs (2016) (facebook.com)
		122 points by tosh on Dec 26, 2018 \| 75 comments
33.		Resiliency with Queues: Building a System That Never Skips a Beat in a Billion (braze.com)
		97 points by brazeepd on Dec 26, 2018 \| 34 comments
34.		Online Tracking: A 1M-site Measurement and Analysis (2016) [pdf] (randomwalker.info)
		60 points by luu on Dec 27, 2018 \| 2 comments
35.		JMAP is on the home straight (fastmail.blog)
		193 points by ac29 on Dec 27, 2018 \| 50 comments
36.		Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise [audio] (libsyn.com)
		61 points by gmishuris on Dec 27, 2018 \| 10 comments
37.		Games Console (mitxela.com)
		134 points by laurentdc on Dec 26, 2018 \| 5 comments
38.		The Social Credit System in China [video] (ccc.de)
		195 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 27, 2018 \| 139 comments
39.		How to Block Stingray Devices (oaklandmofo.com)
		109 points by johnny313 on Dec 27, 2018 \| 57 comments
40.		Generative Practice: The State of the Art (2010) (digicult.it)
		59 points by bryanrasmussen on Dec 27, 2018 \| 1 comment
41.		The many ways to launch FreeBSD in EC2 (daemonology.net)
		84 points by cperciva on Dec 26, 2018 \| 17 comments
42.		Krita in 2018 and 2019 (krita.org)
		258 points by emilsedgh on Dec 27, 2018 \| 46 comments
43.		Show HN: QuadTree model for generating random road networks (github.com/arun1729)
		46 points by am3141 on Dec 27, 2018 \| 6 comments
44.		Making Bluetooth Work on Lenovo X1 Carbon 6th Gen with Linux (200ok.ch)
		60 points by preek on Dec 26, 2018 \| 48 comments
45.		Text Matching Using Cosine Similarity (kanoki.org)
		102 points by pplonski86 on Dec 27, 2018 \| 19 comments
46.		Users report losing Bitcoin in clever hack of Electrum wallets (zdnet.com)
		171 points by bubblehack3r on Dec 27, 2018 \| 204 comments
47.		35th Chaos Communication Congress Live Streams (ccc.de)
		231 points by sschueller on Dec 27, 2018 \| 22 comments
48.		Racklog: Prolog Style Logic Programming [pdf] (northwestern.edu)
		65 points by mindcrime on Dec 27, 2018 \| 9 comments
49.		White Hart Lane's movable football pitch in three pieces (ingenia.org.uk)
		33 points by fanf2 on Dec 26, 2018 \| 11 comments
50.		Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body (technologyreview.com)
		96 points by tomcam on Dec 27, 2018 \| 106 comments
51.		Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck (github.com/fabiospampinato)
		124 points by fabiospampinato on Dec 26, 2018 \| 108 comments
52.		Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (bbc.co.uk)
		207 points by kn8 on Dec 27, 2018 \| 233 comments
53.		Detroit News Vehicle of the Year is a Tesla (detroitnews.com)
		123 points by rmason on Dec 27, 2018 \| 139 comments
54.		Innovations of 2018 (popsci.com)
		38 points by zt on Dec 27, 2018 \| 12 comments
55.		Deep Beneath Your Feet, They Live in the Octillions (nytimes.com)
		74 points by dnetesn on Dec 25, 2018 \| 6 comments
56.		The Now Habit (2015) (2uo.de)
		109 points by Tomte on Dec 27, 2018 \| 30 comments
57.		Fast and accurate object detection in high resolution 4K and 8K video using GPUs (arxiv.org)
		61 points by _zhqs on Dec 27, 2018 \| 17 comments
58.		Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019?
		218 points by miguelrochefort on Dec 26, 2018 \| 183 comments
59.		IBM‘s Project Debater does debate club-style discussions with humans (theverge.com)
		96 points by rfreytag on Dec 27, 2018 \| 72 comments
60.		Differentiable Genetic Programming (2016) (arxiv.org)
		31 points by henning on Dec 26, 2018 \| 7 comments
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