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31.		‘Magnetic graphene’ switches between insulator and conductor (cam.ac.uk)
		52 points by mangoleaf on Feb 1, 2019 \| 6 comments
32.		Canada's Bell Tried to Have VPNs Banned During NAFTA Negotiations (techdirt.com)
		235 points by benryon on Feb 1, 2019 \| 46 comments
33.		Pandas extension arrays (pandas-dev.github.io)
		95 points by ptype on Jan 31, 2019 \| 9 comments
34.		Dear web developers: set the font color, too (luu.io)
		180 points by luuio on Feb 1, 2019 \| 142 comments
35.		Counting solar panels in the U.S. with machine learning and satellite images (engineering.com)
		114 points by benryon on Feb 1, 2019 \| 17 comments
36.		A 500-Year-Long Science Experiment (theatlantic.com)
		94 points by longdefeat on Jan 31, 2019 \| 32 comments
37.		Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay (nasa.gov)
		215 points by howard941 on Feb 1, 2019 \| 48 comments
38.		Forget everything you know about 3D printing – the ‘replicator’ is here (nature.com)
		186 points by chriskanan on Feb 1, 2019 \| 55 comments
39.		Just because it’s falsifiable doesn’t mean it’s good science (backreaction.blogspot.com)
		69 points by _aleph2c_ on Feb 1, 2019 \| 53 comments
40.		Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park (ucsc.edu)
		170 points by yodon on Feb 1, 2019 \| 323 comments
41.		Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon? (space.com)
		128 points by wglb on Jan 31, 2019 \| 127 comments
42.		Revive a Cisco IDS into a Capable OpenBSD Computer (komlositech.wordpress.com)
		68 points by lelf on Feb 1, 2019 \| 33 comments
43.		The IPO of Virgin Trains U.S.A. (bloomberg.com)
		87 points by pseudolus on Feb 1, 2019 \| 87 comments
44.		My First Year as a Solo Developer (mtlynch.io)
		239 points by mtlynch on Feb 1, 2019 \| 136 comments
45.		The 'stuff' of the universe keeps changing (phys.org)
		76 points by dnetesn on Feb 1, 2019 \| 18 comments
46.		The impact of color palettes on the prices of paintings (2017) (springer.com)
		40 points by prismatic on Jan 30, 2019 \| 8 comments
47.		Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff (hollywoodreporter.com)
		111 points by rhayabusa on Feb 1, 2019 \| 78 comments
48.		GNOME Shell and Mutter (feaneron.com)
		79 points by anuragsoni on Feb 1, 2019 \| 70 comments
49.		A science lab in your pocket? (hackaday.com)
		47 points by tartoran on Feb 1, 2019 \| 3 comments
50.		Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook (poynter.org)
		115 points by pulisse on Feb 1, 2019 \| 90 comments
51.		How I negotiated a software-engineering job offer in Silicon Valley (usejournal.com)
		140 points by sanj on Feb 1, 2019 \| 127 comments
52.		To All the Introductions I’ve Loved Before (theparisreview.org)
		13 points by hoffmannesque on Feb 1, 2019 \| 4 comments
53.		Saudi Arabia runs online database of women to track them, stop them running away (businessinsider.com)
		175 points by benryon on Feb 1, 2019 \| 90 comments
54.		Phenylephrine Is No More Effective Than Placebo for Nasal Congestion (2015) (jwatch.org)
		91 points by DyslexicAtheist on Feb 1, 2019 \| 100 comments
55.		Created a fake account and Facebook still figured out who I am. How? (reddit.com)
		129 points by 99percentfound on Feb 1, 2019 \| 89 comments
56.		Show HN: Buckaroo – A decentralized C++ package manager (github.com/loopperfect)
		55 points by entelechy on Feb 1, 2019 \| 55 comments
57.		Canada’s ability to test China’s Huawei for security breaches questioned (2018) (theglobeandmail.com)
		39 points by colinprince on Feb 1, 2019 \| 26 comments
58.		A Debt to Education (plough.com)
		29 points by scott_s on Jan 31, 2019 \| 13 comments
59.		Jolly Bad Taste vs. feeble Good Taste (standpointmag.co.uk)
		13 points by wellokthen on Feb 1, 2019 \| 1 comment
60.		Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer (lrb.co.uk)
		10 points by pshaw on Feb 1, 2019
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